Public sculpture of Britain series 
            National Recording Project, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000- - 
            Volume 4: Public sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland 
            Terry Cavanagh 
            Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000. 420 p.: ill. ISBN 0853236453 (hard cover); ISBN 0853236550 (paper). £55.00/$95.00 (hard cover); £25.00/$45.00 (paper) - 
            Volume 5: Public sculpture of Glasgow 
            Ray McKenzie with contributions by Gary Nisbet 
            Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. 538 p.: ill. ISBN 0853239274 (hard cover); ISBN 0853239371 (paper). £60.00/$105.00 (hard cover); £25.00/$45.00 (paper) - 
            Volume 6: Public sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull, George T. Noszlopy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. 301 p.: ill. ISBN 0853238375 (hard cover); ISBN 0853238474 (paper). £55.00/$95.00 (hard cover); £25.00/$45.00 (paper) - 
            Volume 7: Public sculpture of the City of London 
            Philip Ward-Jackson 
            Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. 520 p.: ill. ISBN 0853239673 (hard cover); ISBN 0853239770 (paper). £65.00/$105.00 (hard cover); £30.00/$52.50 (paper)

The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule. The book probes such topics as the appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed growing dominance in the Mediterranean world. The book explores a problem faced by generations of Romans—how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the course of building an empire.

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Jozef Duysans gevecht met den engel. Schermutselingen rond het graf van Paul Van Ostaijen

WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging ◽

10.21825/wt.v71i4.12221 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 299-328

Author(s):

Armand Van Nimmen

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Nineteen Thirties ◽

Public Monuments ◽

Deep Waters ◽

Original Idea ◽

The City ◽

Second World

Deze bijdrage handelt over de perikelen in de jaren dertig rond het plan om het lichamelijk overschot van de Vlaamse dichter Paul Van Ostaijen over te brengen uit het klein Waals dorp waar hij in vergetelheid begraven lag onder een houten kruis naar zijn geboortestad Antwerpen. Daar zou hij herbegraven worden op de stedelijke begraafplaats Schoonselhof onder een gepaste denksteen. Zoals meermaals het geval is bij het oprichten van publieke monumenten, verliepen – wegens onderling gekibbel en gebrek aan financiële middelen – meer dan zes jaren vooraleer de oorspronkelijke idee kon verwezenlijkt worden.Aandacht in dit artikel gaat naar Jozef Duysan, bewonderaar van de dichter en uitgesproken flamingant, die een cruciale rol speelde in de conceptie en uitvoering van het initiatief. Ten slotte beschrijft het artikel hoe deze nu bijna totaal vergeten man tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het vaarwater geraakte van de collaboratie, fungeerde als directeur van het Arbeidsamt in Antwerpen, na de oorlog veroordeeld werd en jaren lang ondergedoken leefde in die stad.________Jozef Duysan’s battle with the angel: Skirmishes around the tomb of Paul Van OstaijenThis contribution reports the vicissitudes concerning the plan dating from the nineteen thirties to transfer the mortal remains of the Flemish poet Paul Van Ostaijen from the small Walloon village where he was buried in oblivion under a wooden cross to Antwerp, the city of his birth. He was to be reburied there on the municipal cemetery Schoonselhof under a fitting memorial headstone. As frequently happens on the occasion of creating public monuments, more than six years passed before the original idea could be carried out – because of internal bickering and lack of financial means. This article focuses on Jozef Duysan, an admirer of the poet and an explicit Flemish militant, who played a crucial role in the concept and realisation of the initiative. In conclusion the article recounts how this man who has been practically completely forgotten now, ventured into the deep waters of the collaboration during the Second World War, how he acted as director of the Arbeidsamt in Antwerp and how he was convicted after the war and lived for many years in hiding in that city.

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Francis Woodleke’s Window

10.1093/oso/9780198798149.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Shannon McSheffrey

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Drainage Channels ◽

City Of London ◽

The City

A royal enquiry was commissioned in the mid-1530s to investigate the boundaries of the sanctuary of St Martin le Grand. This enquiry was precipitated not by a problem with felonious sanctuary seekers, but instead by a conflict between the City of London and Dutch-born shoemakers making and selling their wares in St Martin’s precinct despite prohibitions against immigrant labour. The testimony in the enquiry uncovers the complexity of jurisdictional rights woven into the idea of sanctuary: battles over labour, trade, and immigration were conflated with asylum for accused felons in both attacks and defences of sanctuary privilege. The witnesses’ statements also reveal how the boundaries of the sanctuary—often marked only by convention or by drainage channels in the street—functioned in the urban environment.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198804116.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Aled Davies

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

The Political ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Financial Centre ◽

Conservative Government ◽

The Social ◽

Post War ◽

City Of London ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....

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