Search results for "Genea"

Family Assets and Financial Misfortunes of the Castellví Family during the 17th Century

2014

La rama del linaje valenciano de los Castellví iniciada a principios del quinientos por el señor de Puchol protagonizó durante el siglo XVII un significativo proceso de acumulación patrimonial. En el origen del mismo se sitúan las adquisiciones realizadas por los sucesivos miembros que lo encabezaron, pero tan importante como ello resultó la estrategia matrimonial de los titulares del linaje, el reducido número de hijos y la reversión a la línea principal de legados de los miembros de la familia que no contrajeron matrimonio o fallecieron sin descendencia. En contrapartida, diversos factores se conjugaron para provocar un endeudamiento progresivo, especialmente acusado desde la década de 16…

Entangled into Histories or the Narrative Grounds of Multiple Realities

2013

What is the relation between the imaginary and the real constituting our paramount reality? The article approaches the cleavage between fiction and facts by interrogating the genesis of meaning as this genesis is brought about by fictitious works of memory and commemoration. Narrative structures prove to be the intersubjective ground for comprehensive action insofar narration mediates between past and future, and thus gives way to appresent the non-present in collective actions. Further on, narratively we are bound to life world and are indebted to it with an ethical strain of our Self as we gain our identity exactly by narration.

Not Race, but Grace: Presbyterian Missionaries and American Indians, 1837-1893

1980

Race, writes George W. Stocking, Jr., was "a characteristically nineteenthcentury phenomenon." Historians of articulate racial thought in America generally believe that the optimism of the eighteenth century gave way in the nineteenth to pessimism in matters of race. Growing numbers of scientists, and perhaps nonscientists too, came to believe that certain races were innately inferior, retarded by inherited qualities that were unchangeable or changeable only over long periods of time, and that cultural manifestations were the product primarily of biological endowment. By late in the century, according to Stocking, "race and culture were linked in a single evolutionary hierarchy extending fr…

The Holocaust and the birth of Israel in British, Swedish and Finnish press discourse, 1947–1948

2009

This article examines the way in which the Holocaust was linked to the process of the birth of Israel between 1947 and 1948 in the mainstream British, Swedish and Finnish press. By utilising a framework of comparative cultural history, this essay seeks to understand why different countries responded to the suffering of the Jews during the Second World War in such diverse ways. This essay also seeks to question the popular belief that the two events were intimately linked, and that the link was recognised in a straightforward manner. Hence, the study argues that although the press coverage sometimes managed to establish the connection between the two events, more typically the news was domes…

Orphaned siblings and noble families in baroque Rome

2010

The essay investigates the impact of the premature death of the father on brother and sister groups in noble Roman families of the seventeenth century. More specifically, it explores how this loss reflected on the biographical itineraries of individual members of the sibling unit; how adelphic relations between the orphans were reformulated according to order of birth and first born or cadet status, age, and sex; and what forms of solidarity and competition were engendered by the loss of a father. Since demographic historians have shown that orphanage at an early age is an important variable, the author argues that it cannot be overlooked – as historians have done so far – in studies on fam…

Notions of a Finnish national identity during the period of Swedish rule

1981

A Unique Case and Opportunity: In Favor of a Study on the UTC Label

2004

I want to concentrate on three broad themes in responding to the papers by Arlt and Collins. The first one is about archives and collecting and what I call the dilemmas of discography. Connected to these dilemmas is the question of the place of popular music within academia and the implications thereof for the distribution of funds. The second one is more concerned with concepts and ideas. And the third one relates to the position of Christianity in the African cultures and history we study and with its position in our academic field. Starting with the first theme, I want to direct our attention to the UTC record collection. For the study of popular African music the UTC series of over 700 …

The Rise and Fall of the Aizjomi Landscape†

2012

Jurmalciems, an ancient fishing-farming village on the Baltic Sea coast in southwestern Latvia, provides the setting for this article. In this setting I focus on the notion of dwelling in a landscape that comes to reflect the residents' lifeworld. The holistic notion of "dwelling" incorporates the complex and multiple dimensions of human life spent in the physical landscape, where time and space, nature and culture, are bound together and where local and macrolevel historical and social circumstances determine them both. This study is my attempt to understand a visible reality: the aizjonii landscape that is etched into the topography in the form of fields carved and embosomed into sandbank…

La mer et Saint-Malo à la fin du Moyen-Age. L’appareillage de la pérennité

2018

Saint-Malo est baptisé le “Nid des Corsaires”. C’est le port le plus étincelant du royaume de France sous le règne de Louis XIV (Lespagnol, 1995). Comment ne pas retenir les grands noms dont accouche Saint-Malo, avec un navigateur tel que Jacques Cartier ou des corsaires comme René Duguay-Trouin et Robert Surcouf? La prospérité de Saint Malo à l’époque Moderne et la postérité de ses grands noms, ne peuvent se lire qu’en perspective de ferments accomplis par d’autres malouins, dont la petite histoire a été refoulée dans l’ombre d’une plus grande. Comprendre Saint Malo au XIVe siècle nécessite une lecture dichotomique. D’une part, la ville s’inscrit dans la continuité vis-à-vis de son passé, …

Reflexiones sobre el pintor Jacomart: un nuevo retablo de la Visitación (1455)

2017

espanolpresente texto da a conocer la noticia de un encargo por parte del mercader valenciano Pere de Llorach al prestigioso pintor Jacobus Baco, Jacomart, en 1455. Se analiza la importancia de este ret ablo con el tema de la Visitacion en el marco de los estudios sobre la figura de este controvertido pintor. Esta noticia inedita permite plantear una reflexion sobre el artista, que sigue presentando numerosas incognitas EnglishThis text provides new documentary evidence about a retable commissioned by the Valencian merchant Pere de Llorach to the prestigious painter Jacobus Baco, Jacomart, in 1455. The i mportance of this retable depicting the Visitation is taken into account in the perspec…