Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Tylus, J.,
Allgemein.
This article addresses the role of two late fifteenth-century Florentine writers, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici and Antonia Pulci, in articulating what was at stake for women who sought to engage in meaningful ways in their city’s charitable economy. The emerging role of female tertiaries or those who belonged to the so-called terzo stato, troubled the medieval distinctions between active and contemplative lives. Tornabuoni, Pulci, and their contemporaries found ways to contribute to the public sphere by combining features of active and contemplative lives into a form of vita mista, a mixed life that valued both public acts of charity and vernacular religious writing. Probing the intersection between religious and secular vocabularies in Renaissance humanism, the article argues that lay piety had a significant influence on fifteenth-century thought. Women in the early modern period, despite various limitations imposed on them, nevertheless created spaces for their expression and personal activity. This focus on women’s interest in lay organizations and the third orders in the Trecento and Quattrocento contributes to recent scholarship that challenges the notion of a thoroughly secular Renaissance.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/345?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Lerner, R. B.,
Allgemein.
This essay explores the nuances of annihilation across John Donne’s oeuvre to bring into view his sophisticated representation and analysis of unexemplary martyrdom. Donne discovered that poetic making itself may prepare for but ultimately marks the lack of the self-annihilation required for martyrdom. A new reading of "Batter my heart" reveals that Donne, typically thought of as vigorously dismissive of martyrdom, developed a sophisticated theory of a passive martyrdom. This martyrdom is free from any human willing and cannot be imitated; it is, as Donne calls it, "passive action." In Pseudo-Martyr, Biathanatos, and his sermons, this theory underwrites Donne’s analysis of Samson and violent actions undertaken against a state as well as Christ’s ultimate sacrifice.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/407?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Sokolov, D.,
Allgemein.
This essay investigates the rhetoric of royal imprisonment in Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes (1571), one of the most famous contemporary texts associated with the Marian controversy. This Anglo-Scots pamphlet not only invokes Mary’s actual incarceration but also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic of interlocking discourses are analyzed: the imagery of a ruler imprisoned by passions found in Boethius’s Consolatio; a courtly love allegory in which royal eros submits to the bondage of legal constraint in The Kingis Quair; and the figurations of limited monarchy as royal incarceration in the Anglo-Scots political philosophy of John Fortescue and George Buchanan. Much more than a broadly gendered metaphor for queenly submission, this language of royal imprisonment derives its legitimacy from discourses that touch upon the very ideological foundations of English and Scottish monarchy.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/321?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Walsham, A.,
Allgemein.
This reflective essay focuses upon the theoretical problem of explaining religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating inherited paradigms of progress and modernization. First, it assesses and challenges prevailing models of periodization through an analytical overview of recent historiographical interpretations of four interconnected processes: conversion and Christianization, reform and reformation, "disenchantment" and desacralization, and religious persecution and pluralization. Secondly, it examines the consequences of the range of methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks adopted by scholars of these topics, together with the impact of interdisciplinary tendencies and influences. Thirdly, it explores the strengths and weaknesses of thinking less in terms of linear historical development than in terms of a series of cycles of religious change. A critical theme underpinning the discussion is the insight that the epistemological conventions that shape our understanding of the past are the product of the very religious and intellectual movements that are the subject of our study.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/241?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Hutterer, M.,
Allgemein.
Appearing in the mid-twelfth century in and around the Paris basin, flying buttresses fundamentally transformed churches, representing a radical break with architectural tradition. While flying buttresses were visually unprecedented forms, they quickly became standard components of church design. But how was such a new form incorporated into traditional architectural language? This article examines one formal aspect in the design of flying buttresses: the column, an iconographically potent form that communicated the idea of support through its several-millennia-long history of use. We can better understand the visual character of the flying buttress by exploring lingering references to the classical column within the innovative features of the flying buttress form. A survey of French examples from the twelfth to the sixteenth century shows that some medieval builders strategically employed classical-looking features, especially during periods of intense experimentation. The incorporation of the column into the new buttressing configuration served as one strategy for mediating the buttress’s deviant character. Tracing various ways in which flying buttresses articulate historicizing syntax over their long history illuminates their aesthetic role as part of an architectural language that may help us understand better the ambiguity and contingency of architectural meaning.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/281?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Herring, A.,
Allgemein.
This article examines vision and cultural authority among the leadership of the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In Inca political society, seeing was cultural being. The essay addresses the spaces in which Inca acts of perception took place, as well as the architectural frameworks that defined the wider mise-en-scène of visual experience there. On 15 November 1532, the occasion of the first meeting between Europeans and the royal Inca leadership, the Inca ruler Atawallpa received a group of about twenty Spanish soldiers at a residential complex outside Cajamarca, Perú. When he first saw the Inca king, one soldier recalled, the native ruler was seated "behind a sheet which completely covered him." Raising a thin veil before the Europeans’ eyes, the Inca marked the sensory faculty of vision, giving it a cultural mode. The Inca ruler’s European antagonists were woven into the fabric of the Inca cultural order, caught looking.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/44/2/373?rss=1
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Mai 27, 2014, 8:29 p.m.,
Cornett, M.,
Allgemein.
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Mai 27, 2014, 6:13 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: Paedagogica Historica: Table of Contents,
article.
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Mai 27, 2014, 6:13 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: Paedagogica Historica: Table of Contents,
article.
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Mai 27, 2014, 6:13 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: Paedagogica Historica: Table of Contents,
article.
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