Theatrical time and historical time: the temporality of the past in The Famous Victories of Henry V

2010 ◽  
pp. 48-73
Author(s):  
Brian Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Time ◽  
Henry V ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals THE TIME CAPSULE IN THE POST-SOVIET SOVKHOZ

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 84-110
Author(s):  
Elena Malaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
State Farm ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to ideas about the Soviet era, widespread in а village in the north-east of Crimea. The paper offers an analysis of how the community, formed around a partially preserved state farm, builds its own picture of historical time, expands the imaginary boundaries of the Soviet period, and also thinks of it not so much as the past, but as the past future. Particular attention is paid to the object that organizes its temporality — а time capsule, which was laid twice in the studied village (in 1967 and in 2017), as well as its connection with the teleology of modernism. The article compares letters to descendants, sealed in two time capsules, as well as additional documents sent to the future. The text of the 1967 letter is based on a progressive narrative and contains a list of economic indicators of the success of the Soviet economy. By contrast, the 2017 text creates a picture of an unstable time of change, in which the focus is not on the predictable future, but on the vague past and present. The author of the article explains the nostalgia for the Soviet era in the studied community by the reaction to the changes and crises of the post-Soviet period, and suggests using temporal logic in the research of post-socialism.

For an “Ambitious History”: A Reply to Our Critics

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (02) ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
David Armitage ◽  
Jo Guldi
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

Abstract This article responds to a variety of criticisms of our thesis that the longue durée is returning after a period of retreat, and that this return provides a necessary means to revive the discipline of history as a critical human science. We argue that the longue durée has different meanings in distinct historical traditions and that its importance for non-academic audiences will not be the same as for an academic readership. We also suggest that the longue durée should be combined with other historical time-scales (including those covered by microhistory), and that this combination can help us all to better understand the present in light of the past and then orient ourselves toward the future. In sum, we argue that the revenant longue durée can be one means, among others, to address the widespread “crisis of the humanities” that has been discerned by scholars around the world.

The Long Seventeenth Century in Latin America

Itinerario ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Antonio Annino
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Times ◽  
Conceptual Revolution ◽  
Fernand Braudel

During the last thirty years, the nature of historical chronology has changed drastically. Fernand Braudel was among the first to show that historical time is neither uniform nor linear, but rather multiple, irregular and socially determined. However, Braudel and his followers have merely carried to an extreme a conceptual revolution already initiated by Marc Bloch in the 1920s. In his studies on the Middle Ages, Bloch identified several time scales: the linear time of Christian history, the circular time of nature and liturgy, the times of the peasant, the townsman and the merchant, and so on. In short, historical time has been transformed in such a way as to prompt a new search for direction and order in historical studies. The new concept of different and irregular time scales forces us to continually redefine the duration of certain phenomena in order to understand them. Chronologies no longer have the same enduring character that provides a definite and reassuring order for the past, as positivism and historicism had claimed to do. In order to be useful at all, chronologies have to be diverse and indicate dates demarcating durations, if only because it is now a generally accepted fact that the time scales of collective mentalities are not the same as those of the economy, politics, or demography.

Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Kurchin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
North Africa ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

In situations of displacement, disruption, and difference, humans adapt by actively creating, re-creating, and adjusting their identities using the material world. This book employs the discipline of historical archaeology to study this process as it occurs in new and challenging environments. The case studies furnish varied instances of people wresting control from others who wish to define them and of adaptive transformation by people who find themselves in new and strange worlds. The authors consider multiple aspects of identity, such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity, and look for ways to understand its fluid and intersecting nature. The book seeks to make the study of the past relevant to our globalized, postcolonized, and capitalized world. Questions of identity formation are critical in understanding the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu. This book tackles these questions not only in multiple dimensions of earthly space but also in a panorama of historical time. Moving from the ancient past to the unknowable future and through numerous temporal stops in between, the reader travels from New York to the Great Lakes, Britain to North Africa, and the North Atlantic to the West Indies.

scholarly journals Historical Notices of the Cradle of Henry V.

1876 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 231-259
Author(s):  
William Watkins Old
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Henry V ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Town

The venerable relic which is the subject of this paper is a wooden cot (or cradle, as it has been called) of unquestionable antiquity, traditionally said to have been the cradle of the hero of Agincourt, the glory of Monmouth, Henry V.Lambarde, in his “Topographical Dictionary,” speaking of the destruction of Monmouth Castle in the thirteenth century, writes: “Thus the glorie of Monmouth had cleane perished, ne had it pleased God longe after in that place to give life to the noble King Hen. V.” (“Alphabetical Description of the Chief Places in England and Wales,” by William Lambarde, first published in 1730). It may befit me, therefore, as an inhabitant of this town, to use my endeavour to preserve from perishing the memory of an object which tradition has associated with him who has given undying fame to my place of residence, and which for a period of many years has been lost to us. Tradition, of course, is not evidence. But where direct testimony is not to be obtained, and in the absence of authoritative contradiction, it must be accepted as of a certain weight and worth. It will generally be found to be built upon a substratum of fact, and although, in process of time, the groundwork is almost invariably distorted, it is rarely destroyed. Should there be nothing, then, but tradition to link this rare example of mediaeval furniture with the House of Plantagenet and the town of Monmouth, it would not, I opine, be beneath the notice of those whose professed aim is to classify the stores of the past and to preserve everything connected with those of our forefathers whose history is an honour to our land.

scholarly journals El problema del tiempo histórico, el rol del historiador y la escritura de la historia. Convergencias y divergencias filosóficas en las obras de Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière y Reinhart Koselleck

2018 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Carlos Pérez López
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Knowl Edge ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
Pure Knowledge

Resumen:En el estado actual de las relaciones interdisciplinarias de los saberes científicos, la historia, como disciplina científica, plantearía una situación particular. No se trata de un saber puro que se cierra sobre sí mismo en la especificidad de una lengua de especialistas, sino de una composición de conocimientos sobre múltiples temporalidades heterogéneas que convergen en la materia misma de su ejercicio científico, esto es, la mirada al pasado. Así, posiciones teóricas tan distanciadas sobre el conocimiento histórico, como las de Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière y Reinhart Ko- selleck, dan cuenta de esta apertura disciplinaria de la historia hacia los saberes y tiempos que la componen. Un estudio sobre el concepto de “tiempo histórico” y sobre la figura del historiador en estos pensadores es la tarea que nos hemos propuesto para demostrarlo.Palabras clave: Walter Benjamin - Jacques Rancière - Reinhart Koselleck – tiempo histórico – historiografíaAbstract:In the current state of interdisciplinary relations among scientific knowl- edge, history – as a scientific discipline –would pose a particular situation. It is not a pure knowledge closed in the specificity of a specialist language, but a composition of knowledge about multiple heterogeneous temporali- ties converging in the very subject of its scientific exercise, that is, looking into the past. Thus, theoretical positions about historical knowledge, such Walter Benjamin’s, Jacques Rancière’s and Reinhart Koselleck’s, account for this disciplinary opening of history towards knowledge and times comprising it. A study about the concept of “historical time” and the figure of the historian in these thinkers is the task we have proposed to demonstrate it.Keywords: Walter Benjamin - Jacques Rancière - Reinhart Koselleck – historical time – historiographyResumo:No estado atual das relações interdisciplinares dos saberes científicos, a história, como disciplina científica, proporia uma situação particular. Não se trata de um saber puro que fica fechado em si mesmo, na especificidade de uma língua de especialistas, mas de uma composição de conhecimen- tos sobre múltiplas temporalidades heterogêneas que convergem na matéria mesma do seu exercício científico, isto é, o olhar para o passado. Assim, posições teóricas tão distanciadas sobre o conhecimento histórico, como as de Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière e Reinhart Koselleck, dão conta desta abertura disciplinar da história perante os diversos saberes e tempos que a compõem. Um estudo sobre o conceito do “tempo his- tórico” e sobre a figura do historiador nestes pensadores é a tarefa que nos temos proposto para demonstrá-lo.Palavras-chave: Walter Benjamin - Jacques Rancière - Reinhart Koselleck – tempo histórico – historiografia

scholarly journals Transformation of historical discourse and the problem of time

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Oleg V. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of historical discourse in modern writing of history and its relationship with the problem of historical time. The author shows that since the second half of the 20th century, the representation of the past has been gradually shifting from scientific historiography, as it was formed in the 19th century, to the memory studies. Unlike distancing from the past inherent in historical science, historical memory is characterized by emotional and existential tension, the involvement of the past in the present. This became possible not only as a result of the tragic events of the 20th century, but also due to changes in the temporal regime of modern society. The linear perception of time, peculiar to a modern man, is giving way to post-historical time characterized by non-linearity and reversibility, which makes it possible to actualize the past with the help of memorial policy. A change in the historical time perception gives rise to changes in the perception of the past and, as a result, leads to a transformation of historical discourse.

OTHER SHUKSHIN: NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY STUDIES OF SHUKSHIN’S WORKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
A.I. Kulyapin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Synthetic Approach ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
90Th Anniversary ◽  
Scientific Significance ◽  
Political Essays ◽  
Film Making ◽  
First Time

The article is devoted to the review of monographs on the work of V.M. Shukshin, published over the past five years. Researchers of the creative heritage of the writer and film director managed to offer new prospects in the study of his works. In the monograph by D.V. Maryin, “The non-artistic work of V.M. Shukshin,” for the first time, letters, documentary autobiographies, draft notes, and social and political essays of the writer were systematically studied. The scientific significance of the research by Altai philologists “Semiotics of the artistic space of V.M. Shukshin” and “Geopoetics of V.M. Shukshin” consists in attempts to describe a holistic model of the writer’s artistic world. A book by I.V. Shestakova, “The artistic and visual principles of cinema by V.M. Shukshin,” is distinguished by a synthetic approach to Shukshin’s creativity. According to the author of this work, Shukshin’s film making is a single space for the interaction of literary, pictorial, and musical forms of arts. In addition to film critics, historians, philosophers and sociologists actively joined in the work on Shukshin’s works. The textbook by Prof. S.I. Grigoriev, (Post-Doctoral degree in Sociology) has run through several editions. S.V. Tsyb, Barnaul historian, had published his book entitled “V.M. Shukshin and historical time” by the 90th anniversary of Shukshin.

‘A Fine Pate Full of Fine Dirt’: Hamlet Among the Atomists

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-190
Author(s):  
Christopher Crosbie
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Material World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This chapter situates Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a late sixteenth century atomism increasingly shorn of its atheist metaphysics and Epicurean ethics. Making available new ways of thinking about matter as theoretically compatible with theistic ideas, early modern atomism provides a set of ontological assumptions that governs the playworld and shapes the course of Hamlet’s revenge. Paying special attention to two strands of atomist thought – namely, the body as particularized and the functions of perception, memory, and time as material imprints – this chapter reads Hamlet’s understanding of the dissolvable body and his attempt to remold the court's collective memory, the most proximate record of historical time, as of a piece. Hamlet's revenge, consonant with his prior ways of conceptualizing embodied existence, functions as a kind of material accretion to the past. In his brooding and revenge, Hamlet seeks comfort, then, in the prospect of a reassuringly enduring materiality but a comfort that remains theoretical and contingent. The most intense poignancy of his tragic demise emerges from Hamlet’s surprisingly persistent refusal to abandon the tantalizing, if elusive, consolations proffered by the material world itself.

Game historiosophy of A. Ivanov: the violence of form and the rehabilitation of meaning (based on the novels “Psoglavtsy” and “Pishcheblok”)

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
M. L. Shtukkert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Game ◽  
State Power ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
National History ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Issues

The paper analyzes the specificity of Ivanov’s historiosophy in two novels, “Psoglavtsy” and “Pishcheblok,” which are particularly interesting in this sense since in terms of genre, they do not correspond to the scale of historical issues as much as possible. These novels use the Gothic genre model, preserving the specifics of artistic space and type of hero. However, the generic Gothic time is replaced by historical time, experienced personally and subjectively. Meanwhile, a specific feature of Gothic time is retained, such as repetition, replaying a crisis moment of the past until the balance is restored. The author refuses a vector image of national history, forcing historical time to repeat itself in a cycle that resembles not only literary Gothic but also a computer game. It is not a question of bad infinity, but a game repetition, eventually leading to the “passage” of a crisis section of history. Thus, the struggle against genre form rehabilitates the content of national history. This principle also defines the history concept as a whole: A. Ivanov tends to see the historical process as including both the aggression of “form” (empire, state power, fate) and the defense of “content” (humanity revealed in individual choice), which, being opposed, are equally necessary for each other. Not only does the method based on the struggle and mutual necessity of form and content shape historiosophy in A. Ivanov’s novels, but it also organizes their artistic world. Ivanov’s game historiosophy is thus opposed to a postmodern game tending to destruct form and meaning.

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