Search results for " 19th century."

Classrooms, Salons, Academies, and Courts: Mateu Orfila (1787–1853) and Nineteenth-Century French Toxicology

2014

AbstractThis paper analyses the connections between nineteenth-century courtrooms, academies, and laboratories by focusing on the life and works of Mateu Orfila (1787–1853), one of the most famous nineteenth-century toxicologists. At the apex of his career, Orfila moved regularly between his laboratory and his chair at the Paris Faculty of Medicine to meetings of the Academy of Medicine, and the courtrooms in which he was frequently called upon as an expert witness in murder trials. Tracing Orfila's biographical path, this paper deals with four main sites of nineteenth-century toxicology: classrooms, salons, academies, and courtrooms. These sites are understood as both tangible places, whos…

Carnaval y música: una breve semblanza de la Tuna Compostelana de 1888

2021

At the end of the 19th century, Spanish carnivals have been marked by the participation of the different tunas or also known as, estudiantinas. These groups achieved significant relevance in Galicia, especially in the city of Compostela, which, year after year, encouraged and supported the formation of groups of this nature to liven up the carnivals in the different Spanish cities. Although, different from its predecessors, the Santiago Tuna of 1888 ventured and made its mark in history, thanks to its intrepidity in having been the first Galician group that crossed the borders and enlivened the carnivals in the cities of the neighboring country, Portugal. This research, approached from a hi…

Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

2023

Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...

« Symons: The French Experience »

2017

International audience; Thi paper discusses the discovery of French literature by Arthur Symons and the impact this discovery had on his early career.

Difusión agronómica y protagonismo de las élites en los orígenes de la agricultura contemporánea : Valencia, 1840-60

1999

Se analizan aquí algunos mecanismos de difusión de conocimientos agronómicos en una zona agraria de la periferia europea caracterizada por los elevados rendimientos del suelo. Se estudia también el papel de las élites rurales en este proceso, destacando la función de legitimación social que ese papel tenia en la sociedad liberal del siglo XIX. Los resultados muestran que la innovación técnica no tuvo una única procedencia: se recibió información desde la Europa más avanzada pero también desde otros continentes, y se sistematizaron y difundieron técnicas empíricas ya conocidas en el propio país. This paper analyses some of the processes to spread agricultural knowledge in an agricultural are…

A Bayesian Reconstruction of a Historical Population in Finland, 1647–1850

2020

This article provides a novel method for estimating historical population development. We review the previous literature on historical population time-series estimates and propose a general outline to address the well-known methodological problems. We use a Bayesian hierarchical time-series model that allows us to integrate the parish-level data set and prior population information in a coherent manner. The procedure provides us with model-based posterior intervals for the final population estimates. We demonstrate its applicability by estimating the long-term development of Finlands population from 1647 onward and simultaneously place the country among the very few to have an annual popula…

Obraz schyłku epoki w powieści Ladislava Fuksa "Vévodkyně a kuchařka"

2016

The subject of the article entitled ‘‘Portrait of the end of an epoch in Ladislav Fuks’ novel Vévodkyně a kuchařka” is the reflection on the last work of the novelist published in 1983. Apart from old age, which is the conference key matter and is considered mainly on the level of literary character (in this case such strategy may be related to arepresentative of an aristocracy prince Leuchtenberg-Aulendorf), the author dedicates majority of attention to metaphorical understanding of this issue. For old age can refer to the decline of the ‘long’ 19th century, and the argumentation for such biological consideration of historic time is provided in the views of an American historian Hayden Whi…

Obrazy brudu - brud w obrazowaniu górnośląskich krytyków kultury

2012

Il terremoto del 1823 in Sicilia settentrionale: danni e ricostruzioni

2016

Il 5 marzo 1823 si verificò un terremoto che investì gran parte della Sicilia settentrionale. Numerosi danni si verificarono a Palermo, nelle aree limitrofe a sud e ovest della capitale, in alcuni centri delle Madonie e nelle zone situate lungo il litorale e l’immediato entroterra tirrenico da Palermo a Patti (in particolare a Naso). Il contributo intende indagare, attraverso lo studio delle opere degli autori coevi al sisma e soprattutto di una copiosa documentazione archivistica, le modalità attraverso le quali ci si raffrontò con i problemi determinati dal terremoto, dalla gestione dell'emergenza, all'analisi dei danni e delle successive ricostruzioni. Dal quadro tracciato emerge in part…

Erfahrungstransfer aus der Schweiz an das nationalsozialistische Deutschland. Ricarda Huchs Frühling in der Schweiz

2020

The article presents Ricarda Huchs attitude towards the dictatorship of natio- nal socialism in Germany, from which the writer officially disbanded herself in 1933 by resigning from the membership of the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts and concluding at the same time that the Germanness in her opinion does not mean centralization of power, brutal methods and diffusion of people who think differently. This attitude is reflected in the autobiographical text of 1938, Friihling in der Schweiz [Spring in Switzerland] which refers to the experiences and observations of the writer during her stay in Switzerland in 1887-1896. Those memoirs serve as a kind of political message which simultaneously sho…