Search results for "mentalities"

The Treatment of Old Age at Court. The Kings of Sicily from Roger II to Martin II (11th–15th Century)

2023

Nella concezione galenica, la vecchiaia perde la sua connotazione di ineluttabile processo degenerativo per soggiacere alle stesse regole terapeutiche messe in atto per mantenere la salute e prolungare la vita. L'aspirazione a ritardare i malanni della vecchiaia, richiamando e riproponendo il mito della prolongatio vite, anima il pensiero e l'operato di quanti (filosofi, medici) diventarono figure di riferimento per i sovrani siciliani. Analizzando i contesti culturali che videro l'isola attraversare varie dominazioni (normanna, sveva, angioina, aragonese), il contributo si propone di mettere a fuoco le strategie seguite dai re di Sicilia vissuti più a lungo - in tal senso il concetto di ve…

Hederns och ärans språk. De karolinska officerarnas retorik i samband med tjänsteplaceringarna efter det stora nordiska kriget 1700 - 1721

2009

Using the concept of onomastic literacy as an analytical tool : A methodological examination of the names of European royal families

2022

Onomastic literacy (the skills needed to interpret the cultural and social phenomena and meanings related to name-giving) are part of a person’s cultural capital. I use this concept, which I have developed, to study personal names in family networks and in royal families in particular. This research combines the approaches and methodologies of collective biography, microhistory and the history of mentalities. The concept of onomastic literacy helps us to contextualize the lives of the research objects more closely as part of the cultures and local communities of their times, thereby revealing the deep-rooted motives behind name choices and the slow change in mentalities affecting naming. pe…

Namngivningspraxis och attityder: val av kungliga och kejserliga förnamn hos den finskspråkiga allmogen efter år 1809.

2009