scholarly journals Banking History in Photos: a Photo Album of the Oryol Commercial Bank of 1899

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-340
Author(s):  
Sofya А. Salomatina ◽  
Dmitrii S. Parfirev
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
High Status ◽  
Banking History ◽  
Photo Album ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Work Area ◽  
Historical Photographs ◽  
Source Of Information

Introduction. This article focuses on the photo album of the Oryol Commercial Bank, prepared just after completion of the bank’s new building in 1899. The photographs show the interiors of the building as well as the bank’s top managers and employees at their desks. Materials and Methods. In this article, historical photography is used as a source of information about the Oryol Commercial Bank in the context of nineteenth-century banking history. Results. The bank commissioned the new building when the idea of an operational hall for its customers was finally accepted by bank building planners. For the Oryol Commercial Bank, the hall not only functioned as a place of business, but also was a symbol of the bank’s high status and public importance – although not all of its operations were mass in this period. An open work area (with a lack both of offices for employees and separate rooms for departments) indicates a simple management structure and a small number of employees. Discussion and Conclusions. This study shows that visual sources provide us images of the objects under investigation, which can be understood only taking into account the historical context – the reconstruction of which requires a bulk of written sources. However, there often are insufficient visual data for exact attribution of historical photographs. In this sense, visual sources are important for historical research not merely on their own, but rather as part of a broader corpus of available relevant materials.

Nationalism and Siberian Archeology of the 19th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 187936652110663
Author(s):  
Dmitry Mikhailov ◽  
Nikolay Ternov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
National Environment ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article provides a comparative characteristic of the nationally motivated ethnocultural concepts of the 19th century, based on the interpretation of Siberian peoples` history. Finnish nationalism was looking for the ancestral home of the Finns in Altai and tried to connect them with the Turkic-Mongol states of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Under the influence of the cultural and historical theories of regional experts, the Siberian national discourse itself began to form, which was especially clearly manifested in the example of the genesis of Altai nationalism. Russian great-power nationalism sought to make Slavic history more ancient and connected it with the prestigious Scythian culture. If we rely on the well-known periodization of the development of the national movement of M. Khrokh, then in the theory of the Finns` Altai origin, we can distinguish features characteristic of phase “B,” when the cultural capital of nationalism gradually turns into political. In turn, the historical research of the regional specialists illustrates the earliest stage in the emergence of the national movement, the period of nationalism not only without a nation but also without national intellectuals. The oblasts are forming the very national environment, which does not yet have the means for its own expression, but it obviously contains separatist potential. At the same time, both the Finnish and Siberian patriots, with their scientific research, solved the same ideological task—to include the objects of their research in the world cultural and historical context, to achieve recognition of their right to a place among European nations. However, Florinsky’s theory, performing the function of the official propaganda, is an example of the manifestation of state unifying nationalism, with imperial connotations characteristics of Russia.

More than ‘skimble-skamble stuff’: the Medieval Welsh Poetry Associated with Owain Glyndŵr

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gruffydd Aled Williams
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Group ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
High Status ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Henry Iv ◽  
First Time

In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Hotspur refers to the partiality of Owain Glyndŵr (Glendower) for prophecies, which he characterises dismissively as ‘skimble-skamble stuff’. Whilst there is a virtual scholarly consensus that Glyndŵr inspired prophecies and utilised them, no verse prophecies certainly dateable to the revolt have survived, and the poetry surveyed in the lecture consists of eulogies by high-status poets, all but one of them composed before the outbreak of the revolt in 1400. Though used as a source by the historians J. E. Lloyd and R. R. Davies in their volumes on Glyndŵr, this corpus of poems is for the first time examined in detail in English as a discrete group, one that now includes a unique poem – a hybrid displaying elements of eulogy and of vaticination – composed during the revolt and restored to the canon of Glyndŵr poems since the two historians wrote. The poems, some of which are of Scottish interest – they reflect Glyndŵr's participation in Richard II's invasion of Scotland in 1385 – are examined in historical context and in relation to medieval Welsh poetic convention. Drawing on R. R. Davies' perception of post-Conquest Wales as an English colony, insights derived from modern postcolonial criticism are applied to the depiction of Owain in some of the poems, revealing their value in charting his evolution from a seemingly conformist ‘colonial mimic’ to the leader of a national revolt.

scholarly journals Surface Fire to Crown Fire: Fire History in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, USA

Fire ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Lane Johnson ◽  
Ellis Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Populus Tremuloides ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Quaking Aspen ◽  
Conifer Forests ◽  
High Severity ◽  
Historical Photographs

Tree-ring fire scars, tree ages, historical photographs, and historical surveys indicate that, for centuries, fire played different ecological roles across gradients of elevation, forest, and fire regimes in the Taos Valley Watersheds. Historical fire regimes collapsed across the three watersheds by 1899, leaving all sites without fire for at least 119 years. Historical photographs and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ages indicate that a high-severity fire historically burned at multiple high-elevation subalpine plots in today’s Village of Taos Ski Valley, with large high-severity patches (>640 ha). Low-severity, frequent (9–29-year median interval) surface fires burned on the south aspects in nearby lower elevation dry conifer forests in all watersheds. Fires were associated with drought during the fire year. Widespread fires commonly burned synchronously in multiple watersheds during more severe drought years, preceded by wet years, including fire in all three watersheds in 1664, 1715, and 1842. In contrast, recent local “large” wildfires have only burned within single watersheds and may not be considered large in a historical context. Management to promote repeated low-severity fires and the associated open stand structures is within the historical range of variability in the dry conifer forests of these watersheds. In the high-elevation, subalpine forests, different management approaches are needed, which balance ecological and socioeconomic values while providing public safety.

Object Oriented Databases and their Application to Historical Data

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwyn Price ◽  
Alec Gray
Keyword(s):  
Database Management ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Relational Database Systems ◽  
Analytical Power ◽  
Object Oriented Databases

Relational Database Systems currently dominate the marketplace and thus the use of Database Management Systems by historians. This technology can constrain the thinking ofits users and limit the representational and analytical power of the applications built using it. This has led to research into other models of Database Management which are less restricting. An introduction toone ofthese approaches, Object OrientedDatabase Systems, ispresentedhere in a historical context with the purpose ofillustrating its power for historical research. An example of this power is given with a description of the authors research into the development of a workbench system utilising Object Orientedprinciples for Nominal Record Linkage.

scholarly journals Sloboda indiferentnosti Ockhamov pojam slobode i iz njega proizlazeći moralni sustav prema Servaisu Pinckaersu

2017 ◽  
Vol 72. (3.) ◽  
pp. 316-316
Author(s):  
Tadija Milikić
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Core ◽  
Moral Reality ◽  
Moral System ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Insight Into

The article strives to contribute to our grasp of Ockham’s concept of free will, notably from the perspective of the Belgian moral theologian Servais Pinckaers and his historical research in the field of Catholic morality. The first section of the article gives a brief insight into the historical context of Ockham’s moral–theological thought, while the remaining two sections which comprise the central part of the article, highlight the dismantling of the classic and the construction of a new moral system. Explained therein is the way in which Ockham’s voluntaristic concept of free will enables us to grasp moral obligation as the core and most crucial of moral issues, which determines the very essence of morality, and provides us with an understanding of moral reality in its entirety, that is, as a whole and also in its integral elements.

Mortuary Display and Status in a Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Cemetery in Manassas, Virginia

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Little ◽  
Kim M. Lanphear ◽  
Douglas W. Owsley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
High Status ◽  
Enamel Hypoplasia ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Anglo American

In this study of an Anglo-American cemetery used between the 1830s and 1907, contemporary mortuary trends and cultural attitudes toward death provide the historical context necessary to interpret variation in mortuary display. Analysis of skeletal remains provides information on dental caries, dental care, and enamel hypoplasia and allows comparison of the relatively high-status Weir family"s health with that of other population samples. Analysis of artifacts reveals four styles of grave decoration attributed not to intrasite status variability but to the appearance, peak, and decline of Victorian era cultural expressions of the "beautification" of death. Within this wider cultural trend, intersite comparisons may be made of status display. The rise and decline of the nineteenth-century ideal of the beautification of death adds vital cultural content for understanding the material expression of an observed process that is a cycle of display.

THE GOLD AND GARNET CHAIN FROM ISENBÜTTEL, GERMANY: A POSSIBLE PIN SUITE WITH ANGLO-SAXON PARALLELS

2016 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hilgner
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Lower Saxony ◽  
State Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Loop Chain ◽  
And Function

The ‘Isenbüttel gold necklace’, now in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, was found almost a century ago in Lower Saxony, an area with no history of early medieval gold finds or richly furnished burials. As no parallels are known for the object, scholars have long debated the dating, provenance and function of this unique loop-in-loop chain, with its animal-head terminals and garnet cloisonné. Recent excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the seventh century have, however, added new finds to the small corpus of objects known as ‘pin suites’, consisting of comparatively short pins perhaps designed to fix a veil or a light shawl in the collar area, with ornate pinheads, linked by chains. This paper focuses on Anglo-Saxon pin suites from high-status burials of the second half of the seventh century and seeks to set the finds group in its wider social and historical context, revealing the far-reaching relationships that existed between early medieval elites.

Sex, Gender, and Status: Human Images from the Classic Mimbres

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marit K. Munson
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
High Status ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Source Of Information

AbstractPrehistoric imagery is a valuable source of information on relations between people of different social identities. Analysis of a large sample of human figures depicted on Classic period Mimbres ceramics illustrates facets of that society's gender system, including the traits individuals used to indicate their gender and the possible presence of third or fourth genders. The imagery indicates that hunting large game and participating in ceremonies were considered men's activities. Men also are portrayed in a wide range of activities and in active postures. This suggests that men had the potential for achieving high status through their activities. Images of women are more static and show fewer activities than men. Women are associated with activities that are low in prestige cross-culturally: child care and carrying burdens. At the same time, women are depicted more often with valuables, such as jewelry, and constitute the majority of people handling parrots, which were used in ritual. This, combined with other evidence, suggests that some women may have achieved relatively high status through their membership in certain families, their association with ritually important parrots, and their possession of esoteric knowledge.

The Burial of A Princess? The Later Seventh-Century Cemetery At Westfield Farm, Ely

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 81-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Lucy ◽  
Richard Newman ◽  
Natasha Dodwell ◽  
Catherine Hills ◽  
Michiel Dekker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Isotopic Analysis ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Anglo Saxon

AbstractThis paper reports on the excavation of a small, but high-status, later seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Ely. Of fifteen graves, two were particularly well furnished, one of which was buried with a gold and silver necklace that included a cross pendant, as well as two complete glass palm cups and a composite comb, placed within a wooden padlocked casket. The paper reports on the skeletal and artefactual material (including isotopic analysis of the burials), and seeks to set the site in its wider social and historical context, arguing that this cemetery may well have been associated with the first monastery in Ely, founded by Etheldreda in ad 673.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document