Jules Cheret and Eugene Grasset, two graphic artists working in Paris, played an important role in this transition. ... Grasset was influenced with medieval and oriental art. ... Ethel Reed, was the first American woman to achieve fame as a national designer and illustrator. ...
In 1788 she published a pamphlet expressing the hope that women would play a key role in the forthcoming work of national regeneration, and invited women to make financial sacrifices to help bring about political reformation. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Woman was Gouges's most important contribution to advancing woman's rights in the Revolution. ... The cahiers des doleances also demonstrated how a woman's social class determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight. ... The market women demanded protection of their professional rights through the reestablishmen...
Starting with the medieval Islamic kingdoms of Africa some of these oral chronicles were recorded in Arabic, and sub-Saharan Africa developed its own written histories. ... Tacitus followed more or less the pattern of Thucydides but with a brooding moral interest in the decay of Roman society. 6 Medieval Historiography The concern with separating fact from fiction and legend often disappeared in medieval historiography. Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Among the better medieval histories was Bede's Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a bran...
