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PMLA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Keyword(s):  
Rhode Island ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
German Language ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Individual Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Germanic Languages

VIGNETTE LXXIV. William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, Executive Council member, 1960-63, is a native of Sheffield, England. His B.A. degree (1935) is from Sheffield University with First Class honors in the classics. His M.A. (1938) is from the same university. He was a Captain, Royal Artillery, General Staff, in the British Army 1940-46, and emigrated to the United States in 1948. He taught German at the Univ. of Washington, 1948-50, where he took his Ph.D. in Germanics in 1951. He taught for two years at Coe College, then came to Columbia in 1952, where he has been Chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages since 1961. There he has also been chairman of the University Seminar in Medieval Studies, 1955-62, editor of the Germanic Review since 1954, and editor of the Columbia Records of Civilization since 1962. We first met him dining a Conference of Editors of Learned Journals in 1956 and were impressed with his ability to share his editorial experience with his compeers, yet maintain his individual point of view. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow (1958–59), a recipient of of an ACLS grant (1958), and has been tapped as visiting professor at Chicago, Princeton, and Rutgers. His teaching fields are Comparative Literature of the Middle Ages (for the Columbia English Department), Medieval Latin, Paleography, and the History of the German Language. He drives an English car (surprise, surprise) and is fond of horseback-riding, sailing, and boxing. He relaxes over fine wines (of which he is a connoisseur) and fine cheeses. His summer habitat is his place at Quonochontaug, Rhode Island, perched upon a sandbar between a salt pond and the ocean.

scholarly journals Medieval flower of primrose: museum of Yakov Rubin in Dnipropetrovsk university in 1940−1950s.

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Altbert Hryhorovych Venger ◽  
Tetiana Volodymyrivna Portnova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jewish Schools ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

The article describes life and professional activity of Yakov Rubin, Soviet historian and pedagogue, specialist in medieval history. Special attention is given to the description of the university museum, created by Rubin in Dnipropetrovsk university in the end of 1940 – at the beginning of 1950s. Rubin is a vivid example of the intellectual of Jewish original, who started a successful pedagogical and scientific carrier in early Soviet times. He was born in Dolginovo (Vilens'ka gubernia), raised in traditional Jewish familyand presumably studied in yeshivah, but after 1917 radically casted aside the life of shtetl. He finished Kharkiv teaching seminary, and later the Minsk university, and gained the diploma of the historian. In the end of 1920s Rubin became the active participant of the korenizatsiaya campaign in Belarussian Soviet Republic, writing numerous textbooks in Yiddish for Jewish schools. He also became of research worker of the Jewish sector in Belarus Academy of sciences. The majority of his works then were devoted to the history of class struggle and promotion of antireligious propaganda. After korenizatsiya was stopped, Ya. Rubin, alongside with many other his colleagues, was criticized for "nationalistic distortions". He was forced to leave his position, though managed to avoid direct repressions and continued scientific carrier as museum worker and lecturer. In 1944 Ya. Rubin, after evacuation from occupied Belarus, arrived to Dnipropetrovsk and headed the department of world history here. He tried to support medieval studies here. One of the main steps in this direction was the creation of special didactical museum. The museum emerged from Rubin's passion for visual methods of teaching – it was expected to make middle ages more visible and vital for history students. Though the museum emerged spontaneously (from the materials, gathered by Ya. Rubin as illustrations for his lectures) and existed by bare enthusiasm of the historian and his students, by the middle of 1950s it had an integral exposition. The ideological message of the museum totally corresponded with the official Soviet historiography: the exposition focused on the glorification of the Russian military victories in the past, anti-church and anti-clergy propaganda and history of class-struggle in Middle Ages. After Rubin's retirement in 1962 the museum declined, but hadn't perished. It changed its specialization and turned into museum of Dnipropetrovsk university, which exists till now.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Irby C. Nichols ◽  
Harry E. Wade ◽  
Robert O. Lindsay ◽  
Gerald H. Davis ◽  
Eckard V. Toy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Montana ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Peter C. Rollins, Editor. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. x, 276. Paper, $10.00; Cloth, $26.00. Review by Richard Robertson of the Alabama Humanities Resource Center. M. A. Fitzsimmons. The Past Recaptured: Great Historians and the History of History. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 230. Cloth, $16.95. Review by Dana Greene of St. Mary's College of Maryland. Peter Loewenberg. Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1983. Pp. 300. Cloth, $20.00. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College. John Anthony Scott. The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story. Second edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 439. Paper, $12.95. Review by George W. Geib of Butler University. Stanley Coben and Lorman Ratner, eds. The Development of an American Culture. Second edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 371. Cloth, $15.95; Paper, $8.95. Review by Peter Gregg Slater of Mercy College. Jerome R. Reich. Colonial America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984. Pp. x, 307. Paper, $15.95. Review by Raymond C. Bailey of Northern Virginia Community College. Vivian C. Fox and Martin H. Quitt, eds. Loving, Parenting, and Dying: The Family Cycle in England and America., Past and Present. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 488. Cloth, $38.50; paper, $11.95. Review by Ross W. Beales, Jr. of the College of the Holy Cross. Arthur S. Link and William A. Link. The Twentieth Century: An American History. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1983. Pp. x, 374. Cloth, $27.50; Paper, $16.95. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays State University. Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 209. Paper, $8.95. Review by Eckard V. Toy, Jr. of Oregon State University. Brian Catchpole. A Map History of Our Own Times from the 1950s to the Present Day. London and Exeter: Heinemann Books, 1983. Pp. vii, 148. Paper, $7.00. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Edward Peters. Europe and the Middle Ages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. 319. Paper, $14.95. Review by Robert O. Lindsay of the University of Montana. P. M. Harman. The Scientific Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. J. H. Shennan; France Before the Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. Woodruff D. Smith. European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Chicago: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1982. Pp. vii, 273. Cloth, $20.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Irby C. Nichols Jr., North Texas State University.

scholarly journals Historische formelhafte Sprache als "harte Nuss" der Korpus- und Computerlinguistik. Ihre Annotation und Analyse im HiFoS-Projekt

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Filatkina
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
German Language ◽  
Formulaic Language ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Computer Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
The University

The following article tackles not so much the corpus and computer linguistic questions in a narrow sense. It rather focuses on such linguistic phenomena as formulaic patterns in the history of German language and describes them from a corpus and computer linguistic perspective. Since July 2007, historical formulaic language has been a subject of investigation in the research group "Historical Formulaic Language and Traditions of Communication" at the University of Trier. Corpus and computer linguistic methods are not in the middle of the research interest in this project but they constitute its important methodological part. After a short introduction (Chapter 1), Chapter 2 gives a brief outline about the state of the art in the field of formulaic language within the framework of corpus and computer linguistics. Chapter 3 analyzes some problems in this area with regard to modern languages. The issues tackled here turn to be even more problematic from an historical point of view, as shown in the following Chapter 4. Finally, Chapter 5 suggests a possible solution that was developed and implemented in the HiFoS-group.

scholarly journals Proper Names as Evidence in the History of the Slavs in Eastern Germany. Review of the book: Wenzel W. Die slawische Besiedlung des Landes zwischen Elbe und Saale. Namenkundliche Studien / Hrsg. von A. Brendler & S. Brendler. Hamburg : Baar, 2019. 333 S.

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Karlheinz Hengst ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Early History ◽  
German Language ◽  
The Core ◽  
Exact Evaluation ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig

This book is an important contribution to the study of the early history of the Slavs in southern East Germany. As a professor at the University of Leipzig, the author spent more than 60 years at the core of the Leipzig Onomastic School which is internationally recognised for the works of its founders, Ernst Eichler and Hans Walter. As a language historian and Slavist, Walter Wenzel has authored numerous works on Slavic personal and place names in the area of distribution of Sorbian in the Middle Ages. For several years he has been the senior and the most influential figure in Slavic onomastic research in Leipzig. His endeavour is always directed towards an in-depth and exact evaluation of the sources of genuinely Slavic language forms, the historical works, and documents written in Latin from the 7th to the 14th century. The findings on Slavic-German language contact accumulated over many years of research allow to revisit and refine the results of the earlier publications of the Leipzig school, as well as to introduce new etymologies. With the new book, a further supplement to previously existing reference works is now available. A register of names also reveals the author’s new linguistic historical findings and their significance in understanding immigration and settlement history of the Slavs between the rivers Elbe and Saale in Central Germany.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Prospects for the Development of Source Studies in Modern Medieval Studies

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6 (104)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kirillova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Study ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Middle Ages

Source study is the foundation of the research work of professional historians. It became the subject of the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Source Studies in Contemporary Medieval Studies”, which was held from 28 to 29 June 2021 at the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference, conceived as a platform for regular communication of specialists in the history of the Middle Ages, allowed the participants and numerous listeners to get acquainted with the latest research on the source study of the history of Russia, Europe, the East and America. It included reports summarizing the experience of research and outlining the prospects for further work on key problems of source study of the history of the Middle Ages.

Our Rightful Place

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry L. Birdwhistell ◽  
Deirdre A. Scaggs
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Since women first entered the University of Kentucky (UK) in 1880 they have sought, demanded, and struggled for equality within the university. The period between 1880 and 1945 at UK witnessed women’s suffrage, two world wars, and an economic depression. It was during this time that women at UK worked to take their rightful place in the university’s life prior to the modern women’s movement of the 1960s and beyond. The history of women at UK is not about women triumphant, and it remains an untidy story. After pushing for admission into a male-centric campus environment, women created women’s spaces, women’s organizations, and a women’s culture often patterned on those of men. At times, it seemed that a goal was to create a woman’s college within the larger university. However, coeducation meant that women, by necessity, competed with men academically while still navigating the evolving social norms of relationships between the sexes. Both of those paths created opportunities, challenges, and problems for women students and faculty. By taking a more women-centric view of the campus, this study shows more clearly the impact that women had over time on the culture and environment. It also allows a comparison, and perhaps a contrast, of the experiences of UK women with other public universities across the United States.

Review of: Рикёр П. Genesis, essence and substance in Plato and Aristotle. Course taught at the University of Strasbourg in 1953-1954 / transl. from french G. V. Vdovina. Moscow: Publishing house of humanitarian literature, 2019. 286 p. ISBN 978-5-87121-051-2

2019 ◽  
pp. 279-287
Author(s):  
Алексей Михайлович Гагинский
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Formal Point

Курс лекций П. Рикёра, прочитанный более полувека назад, интересен по ряду причин. Во-первых, потому что он посвящён крайне важной теме — античной онтологии; во-вторых, потому что он был прочитан одним из ведущих философов XX в.; в-третьих, потому что этот философ был крупнейшим представителем герменевтического направления, вследствие чего особенно любопытно проследить, как он читает тексты, без преувеличения, самых важных философов в истории человечества. Впрочем, с формальной точки зрения есть некоторые сомнения в возожности исполнения замысла работы: П. Рикёр всё-таки не антиковед, его знание греческого языка, что видно из текста, весьма скромного уровня; кроме того, изданный текст представляет собой курс лекций, автор которых, как кажется, не столько хочет донести до слушателей результаты кропотливых исследований и продуманных идей, сколько разобраться вместе со студентами в античной онтологии. P. Ricoeur's course of lectures, delivered more than half a century ago, is interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, because it is devoted to an extremely important topic - ancient ontology; secondly, because it was read by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century; thirdly, because this philosopher was the biggest representative of the hermeneutic direction, so it is especially interesting to trace how he reads texts of, without exaggeration, the most important philosophers in the history of mankind. However, from the formal point of view, there are some doubts about the feasibility of the idea of the work: Ricoeur is not an antiquarian and his knowledge of Greek, as the text shows, is rather modest; besides, the published text is a course of lectures, the author of which seems to want not so much to convey the results of laborious research and elaborated ideas to his students, as to understand ancient ontology together with the students.

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