Art. XIII.—The Origin and Early History of Chess

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-141
Author(s):  
A. A. Macdonell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
New World ◽  
Early History ◽  
European Languages ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

No game occupies so important a position in the history of the world as that of chess. It is not only at the present day, but has been for many centuries, the most cosmopolitan of pastimes; and though one of the oldest known to civilization, it is yet undoubtedly the most intellectual. Long familiar to all the countries of the East, it has also been played for hundreds of years throughout Europe, whence it has spread to the New World, and wherever else European culture has found a footing. A map indicating the diffusion of chess over the habitable globe would therefore show hardly any blanks. Probably no other pastime of any kind can claim so many periodicals devoted exclusively to its discussion; certainly no other has given rise to so extensive a literature. The influence of chess may be traced in the poetry of the Middle Ages, in the idioms of most modern European languages, in the science of arithmetic, and even in the art of heraldry. An investigation as to its origin, development, and early diffusion therefore forms a not unimportant chapter in the history of civilization.

scholarly journals SEJARAH DAKWAH PADA MASA BANI UMAYYAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Hatmansyah Hatmansyah
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Umayyah dynasty became a major force in the development of propaganda spread throughout the world as well as being one of the first centers of political, cultural and scientific studies in the world since the Middle Ages. At the height of its greatness, its success in expanding Islamic power was far greater than that of the Roman empire. The history of Islamic preaching in the Umayyah Dynasty can be divided into two periods in the dynasty era in Damascus and in Cordoba. Islamic da'wah at this time was carried out in three stages, first the expansion of the da'wah area, the second was the development of science and the third was economic thought.

Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence with Special Reference to Adam of St. Victor

Traditio ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 149-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Benton
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

The vast number and variety of sequences, those liturgical interpolations which in the middle ages commonly followed the repetition of the Alleluia in the Mass, and the freedom of their development, show that they were an outlet for the creative talents of musicians and poets. A sample of sequences from successive periods allows the literary historian to trace the development of rhyme and accentual meter, and a musicologist has described the sequence ‘as the parent of oratorio and the grandparent of modern drama.’ But while a view which encompasses centuries reveals to us variety and change, the compositions of any given time were largely shaped by inherited traditions. Not the least value of studies on the early history of the sequence is their demonstration of the close connection between various Alleluia melodies and their sequences and the way in which appropriate texts were fitted to melodies for specific feasts.

scholarly journals Culture forming characteristics of the Middle ages: Britain vs Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Sklizkova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forming Characteristics ◽  
Sociocultural Characteristics ◽  
The One ◽  
The Middle Ages

Any historico-cultural type creates its own model of the world which is formed by universal for the society ideas and thoughts. The Middle ages are one of the most complicated, very many-sided and contradictory epochs. It was built by several large and active strata. Such subdivision was manifested in mosaicism of cultural heritage, where different phenomena can be viewed as a pattern of separate culture, though coherent in sociocultural characteristics. The dualism of the epoch reflects on the one hand in cultural globalism for whole Europe, one the other hand in variations within. Aesthetic views were mostly manifested at court, accumulated and shown as a signs. Aristocracy partly artificially synthesized its culture, shaping in the most attractive form. It was structuralized in common European context, having absorbed local cultures, primary so called Anglo-Saxon. Though any 3–5 centuries the territory of the British Isles was being marched through by a new wave of invaders, changed the culture. So it is possible to examine the unique cultures of these peoples and their impact to British one. Although the history of Russia exists in another context, it is the history of not consequent main cultures but the history of one nation. Certainly, as the multiethnic state Russia includes many cultures of many peoples but the central and cementing one, made the country as it stands, is Russian.

scholarly journals Chińska medycyna sądowa – od starożytności do wieków średnich. Rys historyczno-prawny

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malwina Dębicka
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Forensic Medicine ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Medical Opinion ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Chinese forensic medicine – from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Historical and legal outline The article shows the beginnings of forensic medical opinions in China in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The issues of the participation of experts – experts in matters related to the assessment of health and life were discussed. In addition, the length and tradition of Chinese forensic medicine that has developed since the dawn of time is highlighted. For hundreds of years, inspections and forensic examinations were carried out by government officials – not by doctors. Significant changes in this matter were introduced by Song Ci – a doctor and a judge who is considered to be the “father” of forensics around the world. His work, The Washing Away of Wrongs, changed the fate of forensic and medical opinion in the history of China.

scholarly journals Astronomy, geodesy and map-drawing in Moldova since the Middle Ages till the World War I

2000 ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gaina
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Middle Ages

A short outline of the history of astronomy, astronomical navigation, geodesy and map-drawing in Moldova since the Middle Ages till the World War I is presented. The contribution of Rudjer Boskovic to the determination of geographical coordinates of Galati and Iasi and the triangulation of Montenegro in 1879-1880 by Russian military geodesists has been discussed as well.

scholarly journals НАЗВАНИЯ ЗА ЖИЛИЩЕ В БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЕЗИКОВА КАРТИНА ПРЕЗ СРЕДНОВЕКОВИЕТО / NAMES FOR LIVING PLACES IN THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2022 ◽  
Vol 68 (68.04) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Vanya Micheva
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

This study presents the linguistic and semantic realizations of the concept of living places in the Old Bulgarian classical and original works from the 9th – 11th centuries and in the works of Patriarch Euthymius. A system of words and collocations and their use in different contexts are analyzed in view of their relation to Christian culture and the medieval picture of the world. The author traces the process of enrichment of the names for living places and the changes in the conceptual content of the studied words and collocations. Keywords: names for living places, medieval conceptosphere, history of the Bulgarian literary language

Die Fragilität von Ordnungen als Preis der Freiheit

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Armin G. Wildfeuer
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract The Fragility of Orders as the Price of Freedom. From the Ordo Thought of the Middle Ages to the Modern Order Concepts The basic tension between order and freedom, which still lies behind today’s talk of the fundamental fragility of all orders, results from the superficial immediacy of medieval order thinking and modern freedom thinking. In close connection to the concept of reason and its instances of attribution, God (›absolute reason‹), the world (›objective reason‹) and man (›subjective finite reason‹), the epochal transitions in the history of the dialectic of freedom and order can be interpreted as a coherent problem connection up to modernity. In modernity, the recognized legitimacy of orders presupposes their constitution by freedom. The price that must be accepted if concrete political, economic and social orders are to be called ›orders of freedom‹ is the fragility of all finite orders.

Juanita Feros Ruys, Demons in the Middle Ages. Past Imperfect. Kalamazoo, MI, and Bradford: ARC Humanities Press, 2017, ix, 121 pp., 5 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-259
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

This little booklet, which costs only $14.95, could serve well for an academic classroom on this and related topics, including the history of medieval religion, history of mentality, folklore, and the like. Demons have always, so it seems, occupied human minds, and this already in antiquity, and we find countless references to demons in non-European cultures as well. They represent, so it seems, the world of dark, evil forces threatening people’s spiritual well-being. Little wonder then that demons were almost of central concern throughout the Middle Ages, as Juanita Feros Ruys outlines in this short study. It is divided into chronologically arranged chapters, each followed by the apparatus. At the end there is a list of further readings for each chapter. (There is a total of 94 notes.)

The Merchant Adventurers of Bristol in the Fifteenth Century

1928 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
E. M. Carus-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
New World ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
At Home

Ashrewd Italian visitor, writing of England more than four hundred years ago, remarked:—“There are scarcely any towns of importance in the kingdom excepting these two: Bristol, a seaport to the West, and Boraco, otherwise York, which is on the borders of Scotland; besides London to the South.” Now York was not a port, though it traded far afield through Hull; London was a port, but it was so much else that its story is confusingly complex; moreover it was not by the Thames but by the Severn that Englishmen first found a pathway to the New World at the end of the Middle Ages. Hence Bristol, then the second port in England, is of peculiar interest to the student of the still unwritten history of English commerce in the fifteenth century—a history unchronicled, but not unrecorded, and quite as significant as the wars abroad and the strifes at home which have too often earned for the century a character of futility.

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