Explorations in Augustine's Anthropology
Fabio Dalpra;Anders-Christian Jacobsen;Fabio Dalpra;Anders-Christian Jacobs...
What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? This question has occupied a gr...
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Explorations in Augustine's Anthropology
2021; Vol. 00023
What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo ? This question has occupied a group of researchers from Brazil and Europe and has been explored at two workshops during which the contributors to this volume have discussed anthropological themes in Augustine's vast corpus. In this volume, the reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine's anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts, while others focus on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine's anthropology. The authors of the articles in this volume are convinced that Augustine's anthropology is of major importance for how human beings have been understood in Western civilization for better or for worse. The topic is therefore highly relevant to present times in which humanity is under pressure from various sides.
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Theological anthropology--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600Content provider:
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Sophia Moesch;Sophia Moesch
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2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351116022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351116022 Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This volume is an investigation of how Augustine was received in the Carolingian period, and the elements of his thought which had an impact on Carolingian ideas of ‘state', rulership and ethics. It focuses on Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims, authors and political advisers to Charlemagne and to Charles the Bald, respectively. It examines how they used Augustinian political thought and ethics, as manifested in the De civitate Dei, to give more weight to their advice. A comparative approach sheds light on the differences between Charlemagne's reign and that of his grandson. It scrutinizes Alcuin's and Hincmar's discussions of empire, rulership and the moral conduct of political agents during which both drew on the De civitate Dei, although each came away with a different understanding. By means of a philological–historical approach, the book offers a deeper reading and treats the Latin texts as political discourses defined by content and language.
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Jews in East Norse Literature : A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden
Jonathan Adams;Jonathan Adams
What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism?...
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Jews in East Norse Literature : A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden
2023; Vol. 00001
What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manuscripts and incunabula as well as runic inscriptions and religious art (c. 1200–1515) to answer this question. There were no resident Jews in Scandinavia before the modern period, yet as this book shows ideas and fantasies about them appear to have been widespread and an integral part of life and culture in the medieval North. Volume 1 investigates the possibility of encounters between Scandinavians and Jews, the terminology used to write about Jews, Judaism, and Hebrew, and how Christian writers imagined the Jewish body. The (mis)use of Jews in different texts, especially miracle tales, exempla, sermons, and Passion treaties, is examined to show how writers employed the figure of the Jew to address doubts concerning doctrine and heresy, fears of violence and mass death, and questions of emotions and sexuality. Volume 2 contains diplomatic editions of 54 texts in Old Danish and Swedish together with translations into English that make these sources available to an international audience for the first time and demonstrate how the image of the Jew was created in medieval Scandinavia.
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Inscriptions, Runic--Sweden - Danish literature--To 1500--Translations into English - Swedish literature--To 1550--Translations into English - Inscriptions, Runic--Denmark - Danish literature--To 1500--History and criticism - Swedish literature--To 1550--History and criticism - Jews in literatureContent provider:
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Some Thoughts on Christianity.
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Edmondson, Nelson;Edmondson, Jingjing Z.
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Some Thoughts on Christianity.
China Media Research. Jul2023, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p86-104. 19p.
This article, as a section of our book Some Thoughts on Total Being and the Limits of Human Comprehension, contrasts two representative religions, Eastern Hinduism, and Western Christianity in various aspects such as the origin of the universe, time and space, life, and the meaning of human existence...It argues that Christianity, like Hinduism and science, has yet to provide a completely satisfactory and comprehensive explanation of overall existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Christianity - Hinduism - Human beings - Religions - Old Testament - New Testament - Bible - Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274Content provider:
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Creating Through Mind and Emotions
Mário S. Ming Kong;Maria do Rosário Monteiro;Maria João Pereira Neto;Mário ...
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind...
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Creating Through Mind and Emotions
2022
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Creating Through Mind and Emotions has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
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Art--Psychology--Congresses - Art--Psychological aspects--CongressesContent provider:
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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR COMPARATIVE THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR COMPARATIVE THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
Cuestiones Teológicas; jul-dic2022, Vol. 49 Issue 112, p1-17, 17p
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AUGUSTINE, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430 - BIBLE. John - COMPARATIVE method - ESCHATOLOGY - BIBLICAL criticism - BIBLICAL commentaries - BISHOPS - EMOTIONS - HUMAN experimentationContent provider:
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Nostis qui in schola Christi eruditi estis, Iacob ipsum esse Israel: Sermo 122, In Iohannis euangelium tractatus 7 and the Donatist and Pelagian Controversies.
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Wisse, Maarten;Dupont, Anthony
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Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity. Nov2014, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p302-325. 24p.
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The Summa Halensis : Doctrines and Debates
Lydia Schumacher;Lydia Schumacher
For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a me...
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The Summa Halensis : Doctrines and Debates
2020; Vol. 00066
For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This volume brings together leading scholars in the field to undertake a major study of the major doctrines and debates of the so-called Summa Halensis (1236-45), which was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris, above all, Alexander of Hales, and John of La Rochelle, in an effort to lay down the Franciscan intellectual tradition or the first time. The contributions will highlight that this tradition, far from unoriginal, laid the groundwork for later Franciscan thought, which is often regarded as formative for modern thought. Furthermore, the volume shows the role this Summa played in the development of the burgeoning field of systematic theology, which has its origins in the young university of Paris. This is a crucial and groundbreaking study for those with interests in the history of western thought and theology specifically.
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Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--CongressesContent provider:
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From Augustine of Hippo's Memory Systems to Our Modern Taxonomy in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience of Memory: A 16-Century Nap of Intuition before Light of Evidence.
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Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X). Mar2013, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p21-41. 21p.
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Cassel, Jean-Christophe;Cassel, Daniel;Manning, Lilianne
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关于基督教的几点思考.
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关于基督教的几点思考.
China Media Report Overseas. Jul2023, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p99-114. 16p.
This article, as a section of our book Some Thoughts on Total Being and the Limits of Human Comprehension, contrasts two representative religions, Eastern Hinduism, and Western Christianity in various aspects such as the origin of the universe, time and space, life, and the meaning of human existence...It argues that Christianity, like Hinduism and science, has yet to provide a completely satisfactory and comprehensive explanation of overall existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Sprachen der Wachsamkeit
Magdalena Butz;Felix Grollmann;Florian Mehltretter;Magdalena Butz;Felix Gro...
Der Band thematisiert die sprachliche und allgemein semiotische Dimension von Vigilanz...
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Sprachen der Wachsamkeit
2023
Der Band thematisiert die sprachliche und allgemein semiotische Dimension von Vigilanz, verstanden als Setzung von Wachsamkeitspflichten im Individuum und Koppelung zwischen individueller Aufmerksamkeit mit kulturell vermittelten, überindividuellen Zielsetzungen einerseits, mit konkreten Handlungs- und Kommunikationsoptionen andererseits. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet dabei die Überlegung, dass Zeichensysteme, indem sie soziale Funktionen ausüben, eine entscheidende Rolle in Prozessen und Kulturen der Vigilanz spielen. Wie die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen, können Sprachen der Wachsamkeit die Relationen zwischen den Akteuren verändern, normative Funktionen und regulative Effekte haben, der Markierung von Gefahren sowie der Orientierung von Aufmerksamkeit dienen, aber auch deren Intensität skalieren. Hier erweist sich, dass Sprachen der Wachsamkeit nicht nur Sprachen im linguistischen Sinne bezeichnen, sondern auch Symbolsprachen, Ton-, Bild-, und Körpersprachen, narrative Muster, Rhetoriken und Mythologien bis hin zur Gestik, Mimik und deren Kombinationen, Erprobungen und Erweiterungen etwa in Film und Theater. Dabei können diese vielfältigen Zeichensysteme sowohl Gegenstand von Wachsamkeit sein als auch als Instrument von Wachsamkeit fungieren und schließlich selbst zum Reflexionsmedium von Wachsamkeit werden. Der Band versammelt Beträge aus den Literatur-, Rechts-, Geschichts- und Theaterwissenschaften sowie aus der Theologie und Theologiegeschichte, in denen Phänomene der Sprachen der Wachsamkeit in unterschiedlichen Räumen, Epochen und Diskursen auf innovative Weise untersucht werden.
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Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
Robin Norris;Rebecca Stephenson;Renee Trilling;Robin Norris;Rebecca Stephen...
Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly wo...
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Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
2023; Vol. 00012
Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations about the state of the field, shifting from #MeToo to #WhiteFeminism to the purposeful rethinking of the label “Anglo-Saxonist.” This volume takes a step toward decentering the traditional scholarly conversation with thirteen new essays by American, Canadian, European, and UK professors, along with independent scholars and early career researchers from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Topics range from virginity, women's literacy, and medical discourse to affect, medievalism, and masculinity. The theoretical and political commitments of this volume comprise one strand of a multivalent effort to rethink the parameters of the discipline and to create a scholarly community that is innovative, inclusive, and diverse.
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Women and literature--England--History--To 1500 - Feminist literary criticism - English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticismContent provider:
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architectureContent provider:
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Thomas Galoppin;Elodie Guillon;Max Luaces;Asuman Lätzer-Lasar;Sylvain Lebre...
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understandi...
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
2022
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
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Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame : Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
Jan M. Ziolkowski;Jan M. Ziolkowski
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlie...
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Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame : Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
2022
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady's Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and Hungarian cultures. Part two scrutinizes the reception and impact of the poem with reference to modern European and American literature, including works by the Nobel prize-winner Anatole France, professor-poet Katharine Lee Bates, philosopher-historian Henry Adams and poet W.H. Auden. This innovative collection of sources introduces readers to many previously untranslated texts, and invites them to explore the journey of Our Lady's Tumbler across both sides of the Atlantic. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings will benefit scholars and students alike. The short introductions and numerous annotations shed light on unusual beliefs and practices of the past, making the readings accessible to anyone with an interest in the arts and an openness to the Middle Ages.
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Performing arts--United States--History--20th century - Tombeor Nostre Dame--Influence - Civilization, Medieval--InfluenceContent provider:
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Science and Faith in Dialogue
Frederik van Niekerk;Nico Vorster;Frederik van Niekerk;Nico Vorster
Science and Faith in Dialogue presents a cogent, compelling case for concordance betwe...
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Science and Faith in Dialogue
2022; Vol. 00010
Science and Faith in Dialogue presents a cogent, compelling case for concordance between science and theism. The term theism refers, in this book, to the belief in God's existence. Within theology, the term theism is often used to convey a range of presuppositions about the nature and attributes of God. Based on scientific and natural theological perspectives, two pillars of natural theology are revisited: the Cosmological Argument and the Argument from Design. The book argues that modern science provides undeniable evidence and a scientific basis for these classical arguments to infer a rationally justifiable endorsement of theism as being concordant with reason and science – nature is seen as operating orderly on comprehensible, rational, consistent laws, in line with the conviction that God is Creator.
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Religion and science - TheologyContent provider:
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
William St Clair;David St Clair;Lucy Barnes;William St Clair;David St Clair...
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throug...
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
2022
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer;Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze trav...
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
2022; Vol. 00036
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of'otherness', the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
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Reader in Trinitarian Theology
Henco van der Westhuizen;Henco van der Westhuizen
“Speaking God today … signifies assuming the task constitutive of the discipline of sy...
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Reader in Trinitarian Theology
2022
“Speaking God today … signifies assuming the task constitutive of the discipline of systematic theology. … A relational God who lives in ex-static self-giving, creates Christian communities of hospitality and generosity, and offers a healing vision of truth, goodness, and beauty. Speaking the Triune God extends the promise of the benediction, May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Spirit be with you all.” Rian Venter In this first volume on doing Theology in South Africa, Henco van der Westhuizen assembled an array of articles by South African theologians on Trinitarian Theology from 1976 to today.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Liber Uricrisiarum : A Reading Edition
Henry Daniel;E.Ruth Harvey;M. Teresa Tavormina;Sarah Star;Henry Daniel;E.Ru...
Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine writ...
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Liber Uricrisiarum : A Reading Edition
2020
Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete edition. Working in the late 1370s, Daniel combined authoritative medicine from written sources with his own personal experience, creating a text that stands out for its linguistic originality, intellectual scope, and wide circulation. Extant in over three dozen manuscript witnesses and two early modern print copies, Liber Uricrisiarum describes medieval humoral theory, anatomy, physiology, disease, medical astronomy, reproductive processes, and more, all within the broader context of uroscopic diagnosis. The introduction situates the text and its author in their medical, intellectual, linguistic, and bibliographic contexts, outlining the uroscopic tradition to which Daniel contributes, and describing the relationships among the many manuscripts containing the Liber Uricrisiarum. This edition presents the Middle English text, with a general glossary, glossary of proper names, and explanatory notes that explain obscure words and phrases and identify Daniel's sources. It also includes the complete set of diagrams contained in the Royal manuscript; appendices providing the Latin and English versions of the prologue and epilogue; an extensive translation from one of Daniel's important sources, Isaac Israeli's De urinis; tables relevant to Daniel's astronomical measurements; and an analysis of the Royal manuscript's dialect. Cumulatively, the edition and apparatus introduce readers to an important yet understudied text, the details of which will have significant impact on studies of medieval medicine and science, intellectual history, and Middle English language and literature.
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Medicine, MedievalContent provider:
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Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia
Michael French Smith;Theodore Schwartz;Michael French Smith;Theodore Schwar...
Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea fro...
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Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia
2021
Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement's history, Paliau's transformation from secular reformer and politician to Melanesian Jesus, and the development of the current incarnation of the movement as Wind Nation, a fully millenarian endeavour. Their analysis casts doubt on common ways of understanding a characteristically Melanesian form of millenarianism, the cargo cult, and questions widely accepted ways of interpreting millenarianism in general. They show that to understand the human proclivity for millenarianism we must scrutinise more closely two near-universal human tendencies: difficulty accepting the role of chance or impersonal forces in shaping events (that is, the tendency to personify causation), and a tendency to imagine that one or one's group is the focus of the malign or benign attention of purposeful entities, from the local to the cosmic. Schwartz and Smith discuss the prevalence of millenarianism and warn against romanticising it, because the millenarian mind can subvert rationality and nourish rage and fear even as it seeks transcendence.
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Nativistic movements--Melanesia - Political culture--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province - Cargo cults--Melanesia - Millennialism--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province - Millennialism--Melanesia - Christianity--Papua New Guinea--Manus Province - Cargo cults--Papua New Guinea--Manus ProvinceContent provider:
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Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
Lydia Schumacher;Lydia Schumacher
The thirteenth century was a dynamic period in intellectual history which witnessed th...
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Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
2021; Vol. 00068
The thirteenth century was a dynamic period in intellectual history which witnessed the establishment of the first universities, most famously at Paris and Oxford. At these and other major European centres of learning, English-born Franciscans came to hold prominent roles both in the university faculties of the arts and theology and in the local studia across Europe that were primarily responsible for training Franciscans. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some of the leading English Franciscans or Franciscan associates from this period, including Roger Bacon, Adam Marsh, John Pecham, Thomas of Yorke, Roger Marston, Robert Grosseteste, Adam of Exeter, Richard Rufus of Cornwall, and Bartholomew of England. Through focussed studies of these figures'signature ideas, contributions will provide a basis for drawing comparisons between the English Franciscan school and others that existed at the time, most famously at Paris.
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Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism - Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500 - Education--England--History--13th centuryContent provider:
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What Makes a Church Sacred? : Legal and Ritual Perspectives From Late Antiquity
Mary K. Farag;Mary K. Farag
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What Makes a Church Sacred? : Legal and Ritual Perspectives From Late Antiquity
2021; Vol. 00063
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What is the purpose of a church? Who owns a church? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three groups in late antiquity were concerned with these questions: Christian leaders, wealthy laypersons, and lawmakers. Conflicting answers usually coexisted, but from time to time they clashed and caused significant tension. In these disputes, juridical regulations and opinions mattered more than has been traditionally recognized. Considering familiar Christian controversies in novel ways, Farag's investigation shows that scholarship has misunderstood well-known religious figures by ignoring the legal issues they faced. This seminal text nuances vital aspects of scholarly conversations on sacred space, gift giving, wealth, and poverty in the late antique Mediterranean world, making use not only of Latin and Greek sources but also Coptic and Arabic evidence.
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Church property--Law and legislation--Rome - Christianity and culture--Rome - Church property--Law and legislation--History - Church property (Canon law) - Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600Content provider:
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Creative Selection Between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
Sebastian Scholz;Gerald Schwedler;Sebastian Scholz;Gerald Schwedler
Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen w...
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Creative Selection Between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
2021; Vol. 00096
Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Fächerspektrum: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie historische, theologische und philosophische, und die Millennium-Studien bieten gleichermaßen Raum für Arbeiten zu den lateinischen und griechischen wie zu den orientalischen Kulturen. In die Studien finden einschlägige Monographien und Sammelwerke aus dem gesamten Themenspektrum Aufnahme, zudem Kommentare und Editionen. Publikationssprachen sind vornehmlich Deutsch und Englisch; die Aufnahme französischer, italienischer und spanischer Arbeiten ist möglich. Falls Sie ein Manuskript für die Studien einreichen möchten, bitte wir Sie, sich an den fachnächsten Herausgeber zu wenden: Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt (Byzantinistik und Frühes Mittelalter): brandes@rg.mpg.de Peter von Möllendorff, Gießen (Gräzistik): peter.v.moellendorff@klassphil.uni-giessen.de Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latinistik): dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg (Alte Geschichte): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de Karla Pollmann, Bristol (Frühes Christentum und Patristik): K.F.L.Pollmann@bristol.ac.uk Alle Manuskripte werden von dem jeweiligen Herausgeber und von einem externen Gutachter beurteilt. Dabei gilt das Single-blind peer review-Verfahren.
