Rædan, areccan smeagan: how the Anglo-Saxons read

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Manuscript Transmission ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of reading which embraced the four functions of grammatical studies (grammaticae officia): lectio, emendatio, enarratio and iudicium. Lectio was the process whereby a reader had to identify elements of the text — letters, syllables, words and sentences (discretio) — in order to read it aloud according to the accentuation required by the sense (pronuntiatio). Emendatio, a process entailed by the realities of manuscript transmission, required a reader (or his teacher) to correct the text in his copy, and sometimes tempted him to ‘improve’ it. Enarratio was the process of examining features of vocabulary, rhetorical and literary form, and above all of interpreting the subject matter of the text (explanatio). ludicium was the process of exercising judgement of the aesthetic qualities or the moral and philosophical value of the text (bene dictorum conprobatio).

Matthew X. Vernon, The Black Middle Ages: Race and Construction of the Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xiii, 266 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Major Portion ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages

When I agreed to review this book, I had not paid enough attention to the subtitle, which reveals that the author is primarily concerned with the issue of Medievalism. In essence, Vernon is examining how Black or African American medievalists and writers have viewed the Middle Ages and what the study of the medieval world might mean for the struggle of Black Americans against racism and colonialism today. He argues that the examination of the Middle Ages mattered deeply for those intellectuals because many issues in that past are still mirrored in the present. This could be of relevance especially for those who are interested in the history of scholarship and the particular approach to that period from a specific ethnic perspective. Of course, then we would also need books about Asian American medievalists, Hispanic American medievalists, etc., which seems to be valid in political terms, but does not really do justice to the subject matter. At any rate, I cannot examine and evaluate the major portion of this book because it falls into the category of modern Medievalism.

scholarly journals „Obecność” średniowiecza w kształceniu studentów wydziałów prawa

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-282
Author(s):  
Karol Dąbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Polish Law ◽  
The Middle Ages

The subject matter of the Middle Ages is permanently present in the education of law students in Poland. It appears during the following classes: the history of Polish law, the general history of law, the history of political and legal doctrines. The medieval tradition can be inspiring for logicians and methodologists of science. The students of administration and internal security also better understand contemporary legal institutions if they are compared with examples from the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Jakub z Paradyża – protoreformator? Introdukcja do badań na kanwie traktatu O trzech rodzajach ludzi – zwierzchnikach, aktywnych i kontemplatykach

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-258
Author(s):  
Przemysław Słowiński
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Comprehensive Introduction ◽  
The Middle Ages

The main considerations related to the subject matter of the article were preceded by a comprehensive introduction, in which the figure of Jakub from Paradyż, who is the greatest thinkers, not only Polish, but European of his time, was presented. He was a scholar who had a significant influence on the development of science in the Middle Ages. Because of its timelessness, it’s thought can still be a model for future generations. Jakub from Paradyż devoted his life to science. He perceived the value of these teachings that teach proper life and directed his writings to a wide range of recipients. The intellectual values that characterized this outstanding philosopher were recorded in about 150 treaties, sermons and lectures. Some of his views are presented in the article below, presenting theses taken from the title treaty.

Gelehrte Autorität und die Ordnung der Dinge. Über Wissen, Macht und die Vermessung der Wirklichkeit im Mittelalter

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Marcel Bubert
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Organizing Principles ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractAlthough the medieval period was not part of Michel Foucault’s seminal study on ‘The Order of Things’, there are good reasons to believe that the learned cultures of the Middle Ages were to a certain degree based on specific epistemic orders, general organizing principles which were unconsciously presupposed in concepts of reality. Nevertheless, the extent as to which these concepts are in fact committed to the assumption of a metaphysically determined measuring of reality, is not altogether clear. This article aims to discuss this question in general, based on recent views of the role of the ‘subject’ in epistemic orders.

scholarly journals Lokacje miast w dobrach prywatnych na Krajnie w średniowieczu (do końca XV wieku)

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Joanna Danuta Karczewska
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article discusses the issue of noble towns in the area of Nakielski poviat in the Middle Ages. The elaboration presents urbanization of this area and the related issues concerning the process of embedment of towns within private goods, difining the variants of town rights and formulating and functioning of the local self -government .Attention was also paid to town as one of the components of a noble property and the subject of transactions and family divisions. Artykuł dotyczy zagadnienia miast szlacheckich na obszarze powiatu nakielskiego w średniowieczu. Opracowanie przedstawia urbanizację tego terytorium  i związane z tym kwestie dotyczące procesu osadzania miast w dobrach prywatnych, okreslenia odmiany prawa miejskiego oraz formowania i funkcjonowania samorządu. Zwrócono też uwagę na miasto jako część składową majątku szlacheckiego oraz przedmiot transakcji i działów rodzinnych.

scholarly journals Glagoljaška djelatnost na zapadnoj periferiji

2021 ◽  
pp. 371-397
Author(s):  
Sanja Zubčić
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Glagolitic space refers to the area where in the Middle Ages or the Early Modern Period the Glagolitic script was used in texts of different genres and on different surfaces, and/or where the liturgy was held in Croatian Church Slavonic, adopting a positive and affirmative attitude towards Glagolitism. In line with known historical and social circumstances, Glagolitism developed on Croatian soil, more intensely on its southern, especially south-western part (Istria, Northern Croatian Littoral, Lika, northern Dalmatia and adjacent islands). Glagolitism was also thriving in the western periphery of that space, in today’s Slovenia and Italy, leading to the discovery and description of different Glagolitic works. It is the latter, their structure and language, that will be the subject of this paper. Starting from the thesis that innovations in language develop radially, i.e. starting from the center and spreading towards the periphery, it is possible to assume that in the western Glagolitic periphery some more archaic dialectal features will be confirmed among the elements of the vernacular. It is important that these monuments were created and used in an area where the majority language is not Croatian, so the influence of foreign language elements or other ways of expressing multilingualism can be expected. The paper will outline the Glagolitic activity in the abovementioned space and the works preserved therein. In order to determine the differences between Glagolitic works originating from the peripheral and central Glagolitic space, the type and structure of Glagolitic inscriptions and manuscripts from Slovenia and Italy will also be analysed, especially with respect to potential periphery-specific linguistic features. Special attention is paid to the analysis of selected isoglosses in the Notebook or Register of the Brotherhood of St. Anthony the Abbot from San Dorligo della Valle.

Stanisław Kowalczyk. Elementy filozofii i teologii sportu [The elements of philosophy and theology of sport]

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Stanisław Kowalczyk ◽  
Jan Kłos
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic

Sport plays today an eminent role in man's life and in societies. Various sciences have made it the subject-matter of their reflection, i.e. psychology, sociology, the natural and humanistic sciences, art, philosophy, and theology. The present work seeks to answer some fundamental questions connected with the phenomenon of sport: what is it for man (part one)? whether and when does it serve the social integration of a community (part two)? what are the premises and principles of the ethics of sportive activity (part three)? what is the aesthetic dimension of sport (part four)? what are the relations between sport and religious faith (part five)? The philosophical profile is dominant in the book, taking into consideration various aspects of sport: anthropological, social, axiological, and theological.

Dylematy poznawcze Krzysztofa Kolumba

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Wojciech Iwańczak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages

The text analyses the inner life of Christopher Columbus based mainly on his writings and the literature on the subject. It is an attempt to reconstruct the mentality of the great explorer against the background of his turbulent biography and the historical context of the turn of the Middle Ages and modern times.

Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance

Mapping Lives ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
The Subject ◽  
De Viris Illustribus ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Middle Ages

During the period of 1300–1600, autobiography and biography flourished in Italy despite the controversial thesis of the ‘rise of the individual’ during the Italian Renaissance. In the same period, a typology of biographical works emerged distinguishing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy. These three strands of biography are: collection of lives, a De viris illustribus tradition, revived in Petrarch's work of the same name and inspired by Classical lives of famous rulers, by medieval Viri illustres, and by famous writers and artists; individual biographies, again either of a single ruler or of an individual, and once more derived from Classical models, such as Boccaccio's De vita et moribus Francisci Petrarcchi and Trattatello in laude di Dante; and autobiography, which was pioneered by Petrarch through his Secretum, a purportedly secret dialogue in which St. Augustine was the subject. This chapter discusses distinctive examples of the three strands of biography, with emphasis on the biographies and autobiographies of the writers. It charts the rise and principal developments of these genres during 1350 to 1550.

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