The ‘Death Of Moses’ in the Literature of the Falashas

1961 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Ullendorff
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Peculiar Form ◽  
Long Time

For a long time now the Falashas have, with questionable justification, been dubbed the ‘Jews of Abyssinia’. A good deal of legendary information about the Falashas appears already in such medieval writings as Sefer Eldad and in an account given by Benjamin of Tudela who gathered some news on the Falashas while on his way from the Yemen to Egypt. The great seventeenth-century scholar Job Ludolf included some notes and questions in his monumental work on Ethiopian history—based, to a large extent, on information supplied by Abba Gregory who thought that the Falashas dialecto Talmudica corrupta inter se utuntur (no doubt a reference to their Agaw vernacular which Gregory did not understand). Thus misled, Ludolf is understandably curious to know quando vel qua occasione Judaei isti primum in Aethiopiam venerint? Karraeorumne vel aliorum Judaeorum sectae sint addicti? James Bruce of Kinnaird provides a fairly detailed, though not necessarily accurate, picture of Falasha life which became the stimulus of subsequent interest in this peculiar form of ‘Judaism’.

All Hail to the Archpriest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lake ◽  
Michael Questier
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The Core ◽  
Public Argument ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Politics

This volume revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England as the ‘Archpriest Controversy’. We argue that this was an extraordinary instance of the conduct of contemporary public politics and that, in its apparent strangeness, it is in fact a guide to the ways in which contemporaries negotiated the unstable later Reformation settlement in England. The published texts which form the core of the arguments involved in this debate survive, as do several caches of manuscript material generated by the dispute. Together they tell us a good deal about the aspirations of the writers and the networks that they inhabited. They also allow us to retell the progress of the dispute both as a narrative and as an instance of contemporary public argument about topics such as the increasingly imminent royal succession, late Elizabethan puritanism, and the function of episcopacy. Our contention is that, if one takes this material seriously, it is very hard to sustain standard accounts of the accession of James VI in England as part of an almost seamless continuity of royal government, contextualized by a virtually untroubled and consensus-based Protestant account of the relationship between Church and State. Nor is it possible to maintain that by the end of Elizabeth’s reign the fraction of the national Church, separatist and otherwise, which regarded itself or was regarded by others as Catholic had been driven into irrelevance.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial financing–alternatives for raising capital

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Paul D. Broude ◽  
Joseph E. Levangie
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Dry Powder ◽  
Country House ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Long Time

Most entrepreneurs are continually concerned about their finances. Their companies perhaps not yet profitable, they may have a fear of “running out of dry powder.” These entrepreneurs often have fallen in love with their company's technologies, products, and potential markets, but they require more resources. Invariably these emerging ventures shroud their fear of the grueling capital raising marathon by presenting voluminous business plans to potential investors. They often flaunt their “optimized business models.”” Investors, however, typically want to know why the potential investment is such a good deal. The entrepreneur often wants guidance regarding what to say to whom in a changing financing environment. In this article, our “Practitioner's Corner” associate editor Joe Levangie collaborates with a long-time colleague Paul Broude to address how businesses should “make their capital-raising initiatives happen.” Levangie, a venture advisor and entrepreneur, first worked with Broude, a business and securities attorney, in 1985 when they went to London to pursue financing for an American startup. They successfully survived all-night drafting sessions, late-night clubbing by the company founder, and even skeet shooting and barbequing at the investment banker's country house to achieve the first “Greenfield” flotation by an American company on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange. To ascertain how the entrepreneur can determine what financing options exist in today's investing climate, read on.

scholarly journals Address By Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal of England

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 152-153
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Union ◽  
Long Time

If I may say a word as a professional astronomer who has attended many international conferences, in that way I may give you an idea of the value which arises from these conferences. The International Union which is now meeting is, of course, a successor of two Unions which were broken up by the war: the Solar Union, and the Union which had to do with the photography of the heavens. Both of these Unions, I think, led to a good deal of service to astronomy. It has been my privilege to attend six conferences; in Paris, one in the United States which began in Massachusetts and finished in California; one in Oxford, one at Bonn, one in Brussels,and one in Rome. If one puts together what has been done in these conferences, it would really take a long time; but I may mention one or two things. The whole scheme for the photography of the heavens was developed and arranged among the different countries at various meetings in Paris.

scholarly journals HOANG XUAN HAN AND GIROLAMO MAIORICA’S NOM WORKS IN NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FRANCE IN PARIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (42) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Phuong Thi Phuong Tran
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
National Library ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Long Time

Girolamo Maiorica was an Italian priest of Society of Jesus (Latin name: Societas  Iesu). He came to Viet Nam at the beginning of the seventeenth century, he lived and preached in Tonkin at the same time as Alexandre deRhodes did, from 1631 until his death in Thang Long. His legacy was a large number of works in various genres of Catholic literature written in Nom script, which for a long time had been considered lost, until Vietnamese scholar Hoang Xuan Han found some in the National Library of France in 1951. Hoang Xuan Han wroteabout his discovery in an article published in the Archivum Historicum Soietatis Iesu journal in 1953. Although this article was short, it was of great significance for the study of Catholic literature in Nom script of the seventeenth century. This paper aims to introduce Hoang Xuan Han’s article and some related information

Schooled by Wren, or a School by Wren? The Conception and Design of Christ’s Hospital Writing School, London

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 87-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Foxall
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
School Building ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
School Movement

On 2 March 1692, Sir Christopher Wren visited the governors of Christ’s Hospital in London, bringing with him a design for a new writing school to be erected on the Hospital’s Newgate Street site. Seven drawings for the school building survive in the Wren collection at All Souls College, Oxford. However, rather than suggesting Wren’s authorship, these drawings are customarily attributed to his pupil and long-time assistant, Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is generally accepted that Hawksmoor received delegated commissions from Wren by at least the early 1690s, but, although the draughtsmanship and stylistic evidence of the Writing School drawings suggest consistency with this interpretation, the surviving documentary evidence by no means proves Hawksmoor’s involvement. In fact, Wren’s name appears no less than thirteen times in the surviving Hospital minutes of 1691 to 1696, while Hawksmoor is never mentioned.The Writing School designs are briefly described in most architectural histories of the period, although they are considered remarkable more for heralding a shift in architectural taste than for the building shown in the drawings or for the social and ideological impulses that impelled its creation. This article considers the Writing School in the context of contemporary debates and anxieties concerning the provision of education for the poor, and within the wider sphere of late seventeenth-century charity-school building. Wren’s involvement is considered in relation to his philanthropic interest in the charity-school movement. The article concludes with an analysis of the designs and building history of the Writing School, and, on the basis of previously unpublished eighteenth- and nineteenth-century graphic sources, discounts Giles Worsley’s suggestion that Hawksmoor added a pediment to the final design. Wren and Hawksmoor’s specific responsibilities for the conception, design and execution of the building are considered, and it is argued that, although Hawksmoor was responsible for most of the surviving drawings relating to the project, Wren directed the process, taking responsibility for all designs produced in his office and claiming authorship for the drawings produced.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Christian Paravas: A ‘Client Community’ in Seventeenth-Century Southeast India

Itinerario ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus P.M. Vink
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Southeast India

[T] he Paravas [are] a maritime people, seated on this Pearle Coast, whose greatest livelihood is Natures bounty, which she in that kind annually bestowes and which art qualifies them in like manner to receive… This nation about one hundred and thirty yeares agoe was a limb of heathenisme, out of which roughquarry it was hewen by papall industry and so became a Jewell of the Triple Crown. The Jesuites, who at first converted them, for a long time after govern'd them in a way both ecclestiasticall andcivill. This latter yoake weares of and delivers up civill concernments into the hands of the civill power, the corruption of one kindof government being the generation of the other. In this state matters rested when, about five yeares agoe (the Portugall greatnesse being then far declin'd from its zenith) the Dutch possesse[d] themselves of this coast, which ever since, they have govern'd by way of judicature and awed by their power. This gave occasion for the persons above mentioned [certaine persons of quality, natives of Tutticorrim and heads of their nation] to recede [into the interior]… This [loss of Cochin in early 1663] involves them in fresh cares, and those send them in great quest of other props to stay themselves upon… Their desires therefore are that themselves, together with their adherents, may be taken into the protection of the English; that they with their padre (who is the hinge whereon they turne) may have their dwellings at Cale Velha [Palaiyakkayal], the seate of our factorie, free from violence; and their boates, by virtue of our passeports, to navigate the seas void of all disturbances.

The Problem of a New Testament Theology

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Käsemann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Church

In the Protestant tradition the Bible has long been regarded as the sole norm for the Church. It was from this root that, in the seventeenth century, there sprang first of all ‘biblical theology’, from which New Testament theology later branched off at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Radical historical criticism too kept closely to this tradition, and F. C. Baur made such a theology the goal of all his efforts in the study of the New Testament. Since that time the question how the problem thus posed is to be tackled and solved has remained a living issue in Germany. On the other hand, the problem for a long time held no interest for other church traditions, although here too the position has changed within the last two decades. In 1950 Meinertz wrote the first Catholic exposition, while the theme was taken up in France by Bonsirven in 1951, and by Richardson in England in 1958. Popular developments along these lines were to follow.

‘Most rare workmen’: optical practitioners in early seventeenth-century Delft

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUIB J. ZUIDERVAART ◽  
MARLISE RIJKS
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Microscopic Investigations ◽  
Dutch City

AbstractA special interest in optics among various seventeenth-century painters living in the Dutch city of Delft has intrigued historians, including art historians, for a long time. Equally, the impressive career of the Delft microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek has been studied by many historians of science. However, it has never been investigated who, at that time, had access to the mathematical and optical knowledge necessary for the impressive achievements of these Delft practitioners. We have tried to gain insight into Delft as a ‘node’ of optical knowledge by following the careers of three minor local figures in early seventeenth-century Delft. We argue that through their work, products, discussions in the vernacular and exchange of skills, rather than via learned publications, these practitioners constituted a foundation on which the later scientific and artistic achievements of other Delft citizens were built. Our Delft case demonstrates that these practitioners were not simple and isolated craftsmen; rather they were crucial components in a network of scholars, savants, painters and rich virtuosi. Decades before Vermeer made his masterworks, or Van Leeuwenhoek started his famous microscopic investigations, the intellectual atmosphere and artisanal knowledge in this city centred on optical topics.

scholarly journals Da Galileo Galilei a Cosimo Noferi: verso una nuova scienza.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonino Pellicanò
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Salient Features

La Travagliata Architettura (1656-1660) written by the Florentine Cosimo Noferi - an edition of which is published in the book - is one of the most singular manifestations of the scientific influence and the work of the master of Galileo Galilei in the fields of architecture and town planning. Effectively, Noferi's work not only sketches an accurate picture of the evolution of techniques in the seventeenth century but, within a context of profound cultural change, appears as a milestone from which the salient features of modern architecture have evolved.

Snow

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre David
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time

In 1949, Pamela and Snow travelled to Venice for an international meeting of PEN. In the course of a magical week, they admitted their love for each other and Pamela returned to London determined to ask Neil for a divorce, whereupon Neil confessed that he was having an affair. After a tumultuous few months in which Snow wavered in committing himself exclusively to Pamela, they married in July 1950. Pamela had no knowledge of his complicated involvement with several other women, particularly Anne Seagrim, his long-time secretary. Pamela continued writing and published Catherine Carter, the narrative of a romance between a theatre manager modelled on Henry Irving and an actress who resembles Pamela. After the birth of her second son, Philip Snow, in 1952, the family moved to Nethergate, a seventeenth-century house in Suffolk where Pamela became increasingly lonely and unhappy due to Snow’s absence in London during the week.

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