Search results for "Forming"

Nachruf Joachim Kramer (15. 5.1936–11. 9. 2018)

2020

Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe. Anu Lahtinen and Mia Korpiola, eds. The Northern World 82: North Europe and the Baltic c…

2019

The last century of the Chora Monastery: a new look at the tomb monuments

2021

Abstract The present article re-examines the tomb monuments in the parekklesion and the outer narthex of the main church of the Chora monastery, which are generally thought to date from the early Palaiologan period. Based on the analysis of the iconography and style of the frescoes adorning the tombs, it is suggested that some of the burials should be re-dated at least a few decades later. The frescoes in the lunette of the Tomb of Michael Tornikes (Tomb D) appear to have been executed shortly after 1350 and the decoration of Tombs C and E must date from around the same time. The portraits in Tombs F and G date from the 15th century. The epigraphic evidence and the images illustrate the con…

Vlastimil Drbal. Pilgerfahrt im spätantiken Nahen Osten (3./4.–8. Jahrhundert), bespr.

2020

Editorial: What is Royal Studies?

2015

This article is both and attempt to define our emerging field and discussion of current research in the area of royal studies. This editorial feature argues that we should define the 'boundaries' of the field as broadly as possible in order to make the most of the rich interdisciplinary aspects of this area of study.

Sexual Spectacles Theatricality and the Performance of Sex in Early Encounters in the Pacific

2000

When Europeans first arrived in Tahiti in the mid-18th century, they were sometimes greeted by performances that were aesthetic, ludic, and sexual. These performances of sex constitute another pole to a colonial history otherwise characterized by antagonism and violence.

Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. By Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 271…

2007

García & Cernadas (eds.), Reginae Iberia: El Poder Regio Femenino en Los Reinos Medievales Peninsulares (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2015)

2017

The volume "Reginae Iberia" is a compilation of some of the papers presented at the International Congress on Queens and Infantas in Medieval Iberian Kingdoms, held in Santiago de Compostela from the 21 st to 23 rd May 2014. The editors of this volume, Miguel Garcia and Silvia Cernadas, selected a total of 12 articles, which despite focussing on very different topics, all served to emphasise a shared central idea. With these articles, the editors aimed to present a range of new and complementary readings on the Iberian monarchy, whilst highlighting the leading role of women at the heart of these houses and challenging the perception that they served purely for decorative or reproductive pur…

Women cross borders: economic migration in contemporary Italian and Polish graphic novels

2014

This article provides a comparative analysis of two European graphic novels of the past decade that focus on the theme of female economic migration, namely Sara Colaone’s Ciao ciao bambina (2010) and Agata Wawryniuk’s Rozmowki polsko-angielskie (2012). By exploring these two distinctive immigrant stories, which depict the Italian migration to Switzerland in the 1950s and the contemporary Polish migration to Britain, respectively, this article illustrates the shifting experiences of mobility in Europe across decades. While the Italian narrative presents the stay abroad as a chance to achieve independence and personal fulfilment, the Polish comic views it as a mere financial opportunity. This…

NATURE AND DELIBERATION IN BESSARION'S DE NATURA ET ARTE

2015

AbstractThe present contribution will concentrate on the central issue discussed by Bessarion in one of his major works, the De natura et arte (written in 1458 and published in 1469 as the sixth book of Bessarion’s In calumniatorem Platonis), i. e. the concept of deliberation and the relationship between nature, purposiveness and deliberation. In De natura et arte Bessarion responds to an attack by George of Trebizond, who had demonstrated, against Bessarion, not only that nature does not deliberate, but also that deliberation cannot be attributed to God who guides nature either, since deliberation implies doubt and ignorance. In this contribution I will examine the strategies Bessarion use…