The social function of Roman painting - ELEANOR WINSOR LEACH, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAINTING IN ANCIENT ROME AND ON THE BAY OF NAPLES (Cambridge University Press 2004). Pp. xvi + 345, colour pls. 12, figs. 212. ISBN 0-521-82600-4. $95.

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 599-603
Author(s):  
Zahra Newby
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roman Painting

Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. xii, 329.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 370-372
Author(s):  
Bernard S. Bachrach
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Plain Text ◽  
The Social

In 1988 Walter Goffart demonstrated conclusively that the authors of early medieval narrative texts had to be taken seriously as people of intellectual substance capable of sustaining sophisticated arguments. Their works, Goffart warns us, were not to be treated, as previously had been the case, as mere naive receptecals of fact and fantasy to be plundered by historians in search of accurate information. In the wake of Goffart’s work, it has become a cliché that text must be treated as text before it is treated as evidence if, in fact, it ever is to be used for the latter purpose. In the generation that has passed since Goffart’s paradigm has taken hold it is rare to find anyone who will read early medieval narrative works, such as those of Gregory of Tours (d. 594), as plain text.

Self-Deception in Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
Philippe Rochat
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Social Affiliation ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Social Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Family Bonding

The social life of children in their development is made up of novel attachments, intimacy, and self-defining social affiliation, beyond the first family bonding or attachment to primary caretaker(s). But it is also a life made of conflicts, prejudices, and fears, particularly the fear of being rejected and not recognized by others. In this context, self-assertion, or the need to affirm and make room for self in relation to others, plays a central role in shaping and driving self-concept development. It is also the source, from an early age, of budding self-deception. Self-conceptualizing is primarily the process by which we situate ourselves in relation to others: how close or how estranged we are in relation to them and what impact and power we have on others. In this respect, children show us that conceiving ourselves might serve a primary social function: the function of asserting who we are in relation to others, an important process by which we capture identifiable characteristics that shape our behaviors, intentions, and social decisions.

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