7 sentences with 'backdrop'

Example sentences and phrases with the word backdrop and other words derived from it.

« It was against the backdrop of this descent into what Europeans and Americans often called "barbarism" - the old antithesis of the "true" civilisation that began with the Greeks - that the history of Western civilisation first emerged as a textbook subject and, soon, as a mainstay of university curricula. »
« These dynasties fought and traded with each other for some 300 years before being conquered by the Romans (the rise of Rome was set against the backdrop of the Hellenistic kingdoms). »
« By the 1620s and against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the monarchy was bankrupt and Spain itself was divided between numerous small but mostly independent kingdoms and territories. »
« Interestingly, Kepler did his work while holding a post as official imperial mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who overlooked the fact that Kepler was a Protestant because he (Rudolf) was so interested in science - and this was against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, no less! »
« Much of the explanation for this persecution can be found in the fact that his work was published against the backdrop of the religious war then raging in Europe; the Catholic Church was not a tolerant institution in the 17th century. »
« Moreover, despite the inherent difficulty of publishing against the backdrop of censorship, philosophers did much to see that organised religion itself was undermined. »
« It was against this backdrop of violence and insecurity that, in October 1795, a young and accomplished general named Napoleon Bonaparte put down a royalist insurrection in Paris and drew the attention of the ambitious politicians of the Directory. »
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