scholarly journals Urban politics and material culture at the end of the Middle Ages: the Coventry tapestry in St Mary's Hall

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Middle Ages

ABSTRACT:This article uses the evidence of the internal decoration and spatial hierarchy of an English town hall to explore the construction of urban oligarchy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Urban historians have regarded this period as one of fundamental importance in the political history of pre-modern English towns. It is associated with the emergence of the ‘close corporation’, an oligarchic form of government which remained largely in place until the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. The article examines the iconography and historical context of a tapestry, custom-made for the town hall of Coventry around 1500, to present a different view of the character of urban political culture at the end of the Middle Ages.

A brief history of suicidal behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Navneet Kapur ◽  
Robert Goldney
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter places suicide and suicidal behaviour in a European historical context. Although suicide has been documented throughout history, its meaning and functions have varied over time. In the Middle Ages, suicide was regarded as sinful but, subsequently, was conceptualized in terms of social influences or mental illness. Systematic research into suicidal behaviour has been undertaken for more than two centuries. The contributions of Morselli, using statistical and epidemiological techniques, were particularly notable. Many of the accepted social and psychiatric antecedents of suicide we talk about today were well described by the nineteenth century.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Middle Ages

This volume covers the vast field of memory, commemoration and the art of memory in the Middle Ages. Memory was not only a religious, social and historical phenomenon but also a driving factor in cultural life and in the production of art. It played an important role in medieval intellectual, visual and material culture, touching on almost all spheres of personal and social life. Yet the perception of memory did not remain static. The period covered by this volume, 500-1450, was one of enormous change in the way memory was understood, expressed, and valued. The authors of the essays trace the changes in the understanding of memory in its diverse forms and social fields, analysing everyday life as well as politics, philosophy and theology. As can be demonstrated, functions and perceptions evolved over the medieval millennium and laid the foundations for the modern understanding of individual and social memory.

scholarly journals Universities' Engagement with Vocationalism: Historical Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pericles Rospigliosi ◽  
Tom Bourner ◽  
Linda Heath
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
University Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
Vocational Aspirations ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

The aim of this article is to explore the historical context of vocationalism in universities. It is based on an analysis of the history of the university from a vocational perspective. It looks for evidence of vocational engagement in the activities of universities over time, taking a long view from the birth of the Western University in the Middle Ages to the 1980s with the emergence of current issues of vocationalism in university education. It adopts a chronological perspective initially and then a thematic one. The main findings are: (1) vocationalism in university education is as old as the Western University itself, (2) there is evidence from the start of the Western University of vocational engagement in terms of the provision of vocationally relevant subjects, vocationally relevant skills and the development of vocationally relevant attitudes, (3) whereas most graduate employers used to be concerned with the vocationally relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes students acquired on their degree courses, most are now more concerned with graduate capacity and disposition to learn within their employment after graduation and (4) subject-centred education is compatible with university education that supports the vocational aspirations of students.

scholarly journals About the history of conflicts over urban forestry in Estonian towns

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Heldur Sander ◽  
Toivo Meikar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Public ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract The article explores conflicts related to forests and parks of Estonian towns from the Middle Ages to the 1940s. A brief overview is first given of the development of urban forestry in Estonia. There are also cases where the loss of urban forests and the related problems that arose could have led to conflicts, but for certain reasons they did not emerge. The main focus of the research is on Tallinn and its nearby island of Naissaare and, to a lesser extent, on the town of Haapsalu. The cases with the probability of conflict are described on the example of Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. It is apparent that conflicts or preconditions for their emergence were caused by various reasons, both at the state and town level where local authorities and ownership relations played their role. But the causes of the conflicts can also be traced to the wider clash between military and political causes, economic development and the general public.

scholarly journals FINDS OF THE ITEMS DATING TO I MILL. AD AT THE SUVOROTSKOYE 8 SETTLEMENT: THE COLLECTION STRUCTURE AND THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-251
Author(s):  
А. Н. Федорина ◽  
А. С. Морозов ◽  
Н. Д. Угулава
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Middle Ages

Статья посвящена публикации отдельных находок, датирующихся второй половиной I тыс. н. э., собранных в ходе обследования древнерусского поселения в нижнем течении р. Нерль Клязьменская. Изучение хронологических горизонтов, предшествующих русской колонизации региона, имеет ряд трудностей, связанных как с особенностью материальной культуры этой эпохи (малонасыщенность культурных слоев артефактами), так и плотностью средневекового расселения. В этих условиях публикация отдельных находок не только пополняет базу данных предметов-хроноиндикаторов, но и необходима для более полного представления об освоенности волго-клязьменского междуречья в I тыс. н. э. The paper publishes specific finds dating to the second half of 1000 collected during a survey of the Medieval Russia settlement in the Nerl Klyazmenskaya downstream. The examination of the chronological horizons preceding Russian colonization of the region is facing some difficulties related both to specific traits of the material culture dating to this period (a small number of artifacts in the occupation layers) and the density of settlement patterns during the Middle Ages. In these conditions the publication of specific finds is not only important to enlarge the database of artifacts used as chronological indicators but is also necessary to gain better insight in settlement patterns in the Volga-Klyazma interfluve in 1000.

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Making of the Medieval Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Tannous
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. This book argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, the book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. The book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.

HAJJ AND THE RULERS OF

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
D.X. Sangirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

Revered since ancient times, the concept of "sacred place" in the middle ages rose to a new level. The article analyzes one of the important issues of this time - Hajj (pilgriamge associated with visiting Mecca and its surroundings at a certain time), which is one of pillars of Islam and history of rulers who went on pilgrimage

Forma Dat Esse

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446
Author(s):  
Sylvain Roudaut
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract This paper offers an overview of the history of the axiom forma dat esse, which was commonly quoted during the Middle Ages to describe formal causality. The first part of the paper studies the origin of this principle, and recalls how the ambiguity of Boethius’s first formulation of it in the De Trinitate was variously interpreted by the members of the School of Chartres. Then, the paper examines the various declensions of the axiom that existed in the late Middle Ages, and shows how its evolution significantly follows the progressive decline of the Aristotelian model of formal causality.

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