scholarly journals A palace for astronomy in Buenos Aires

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S260) ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
Alejandro Gangui
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Western History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractIn no other epoch of Western history like in the Middle Ages, cosmology was so key an element of culture and, one way or another, the motion of the heavens ended up impregnating the literature of that time. Among the most noteworthy poets we find Dante Alighieri, who became famous for his Commedia, a monumental poem written roughly between 1307 and his death in 1321, and which the critics from 16th century onwards dubbed Divina. In this and other works, Dante pictures the cosmic image for the world, summing up the current trends of Neoplatonic and Islamic traditions. The Barolo Palace in the city of Buenos Aires is a singular combination of both astronomy and the worldview displayed in Dante's poetic masterpiece. Some links of the Palace's main architectural structure with the three realms of the Comedy have been studied in the past. In this note we consider its unique astronomical flavor, an issue which has not been sufficiently emphasized yet.

Clothing and Female Reclusion in The Life of Mary of Egypt and The Life of Christina of Markyate

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Anna McKay
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Mary Of Egypt ◽  
The Middle Ages

Over the past two decades, medieval feminist scholarship has increasingly turned to the literary representation of textiles as a means of exploring the oftensilenced experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This article uses fabric as a lens through which to consider the world of the female recluse, exploring the ways in which clothing operates as a tether to patriarchal, secular values in Paul the Deacon’s eighthcentury Life of Mary of Egypt and the twelfth-century Life of Christina of Markyate. In rejecting worldly garb as recluses, these holy women seek out and achieve lives of spiritual autonomy and independence.

scholarly journals Para o estudo das aves em Portugal (séculos XIII-XVI): conflitos e proteção, segundo o testemunho das fontes jurídicas e os livros de viagensPara el estudio de las aves en Portugal (siglos XIII-XVI): conflictos y protección, según el testigo de las fuentes jurídicas y los libros de viajesA contribution to the study of birds in Portugal (13th-16th Centuries): conflicts and protection, according to the testimony of the legal documents and travel books

2017 ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Da Silveira Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The People ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

Este texto tem o objetivo de estudar as aves em Portugal, na Idade Média (séculos XIIIXV) e nos primórdios do século XVI, a partir de documentação jurídica, régia e local (costumes e foros, posturas, atas de vereação...) e dos livros de viagens, as Saudades da Terra, de Gaspar Frutuoso, sobre os arquipélagos portugueses, Açores e Madeira. Pretende-se, por um lado, dar a conhecer as aves que faziam parte da paisagem portuguesa; os conflitos e os delitos resultantes das relações quotidianas entre as pessoas e estes animais. Na segunda parte, analisaremos as penas, os mecanismos de controlo e as medidas “proteção” para a preservação das aves.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Portugal, aves, séculos XIII-XVI, conflitos, proteção.RESUMENEste texto tiene el objetivo de estudiar las aves en Portugal, en la Edad Media (siglos XIII-XV) y a principios del siglo XVI, a partir de la documentación jurídica, regia y local (fueros extensos, ordenanzas, actas municipales...) y de los libros de viajes, las Saudades da Terra, de Gaspar Frutuoso, sobre los archipiélagos portugueses, Azores y Madeira. Se pretende, por un lado, dar a conocer las aves que formaban parte del paisaje portugués; los conflictos y los delitos resultantes de las relaciones cotidianas entre las personas y estos animales. En la segunda parte, analizaremos las penas, los mecanismos de control y las medidas de “protección” para la preservación de lasaves.PALABRAS CLAVE: Portugal, aves, siglos XIII-XVI, conflictos, protección.ABSTRACTThis text describes the study of birds in the Middle Ages (13th-15th centuries) and atthe beginning of the 16th Century in Portugal through both royal and local legal documents (customs and laws, municipal by-laws, minutes of the city councils, etc.) and Saudades da Terra, a series of travel books on the Azores and Madeira Islands by Gaspar Frutuoso. The study seeks to present the birds that were part of the Portuguese landscape as well as the conflicts and the crimes generated from daily relations between the people and these animals. In the second part, it will examine the punishment, control mechanisms and the “protection” measures for the bird’s preservation.KEY WORDS: Portugal, birds, 13th-16th centuries, conflicts, protection.

scholarly journals THE VISION OF THE CHILDHOOD IN THE CODES OF THE URBAN LAW IN THE RZECZPOSPOLITA IN XVI - EARLY XVII CENTURY

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Tetiana Hoshko
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Middle Ages

As the people of the Middle Ages thought in symbolic categories, this symbolism was imposed on the notion of human life. In Europe, it had a distinct Christian colouration and was associated with the symbolism of numbers. This was reflected as well in the idea of the stages of human life, the number of which ranged from three to seven. Childhood, which was the first in this scheme, lasted from birth to adolescence, that is until reaching puberty. For the medieval people who thought concretely, just tangible things were important. It is not surprising, therefore, that the notion of attaining adulthood was not so much based on the formal number of years as on the real external physiological features. However, over time, such a ‘visual’ determination of the age of the personrecedes into the background.Childhood has been linked to a guardianship that has received much attention in the city law codes of the early modern period. Anyone who could not manage their lives and property could count on it.In the Middle Ages, childhood had no place, and until the 12th century, children were hardly depicted. The appearance of the post-mortem images of children in the 16th century was evidence of a change in the emotional attitude to them. This change was reflected in the city law codes of the late 16th century. They protected the right of a child to life and property, even of the unborn or born but not survived child. The born and baptized child was already a complete person with soul and likeness of God.The German town law protected children from too severe punishment, first of all from execution. It was believed that before reaching a certain age the children were unconscious creatures, so they could not deliberately commit crimes. And punishment to death was unacceptable for unconscious wrongdoing. The city law codes in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of 16th and early 17th centuries reflected the evolution of ideas about childhood from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era. Although they refer to the legal norms of previous epochs, they contain many provisions which appeared under the influence of Humanism and the Reformation. As a result of deeper Christianization of morality at the turn of the Middle Ages and modern era, a new attitude to childhood appears, as to a special and important stage in human life. Therefore, as of the 16th century, there were special articles about children in legal codes. The city law begins to protect the interests of children by considering various aspects, in particular, the rights of the unborn but conceived child, of the children of ‘righteous bed’, orphans, etc., the children’s property interests, their lives and future.

scholarly journals The Barolo Palace: Medieval Astronomy in the Streets of Buenos Aires

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-56
Author(s):  
Alejandro Gangui
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Western World ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Cultural heritage relating to the sky in the form of sundials, old observatories and the like, are commonly found in many cities in the Old World, but rarely in the New. This paper examines astronomical heritage embodied in the Barolo Palace in Buenos Aires. While references to Dante Alighieri and his poetry are scattered in streets, buildings and monuments around the Western world, in the city of Buenos Aires, the only street carrying Dante’s name is less than three blocks long and, appropriately, is a continuation of Virgilio street. A couple of Italian immigrants—a wealthy businessman, Luis Barolo, and an imaginative architect, Mario Palanti—foresaw this situation nearly a century ago, and did not save any efforts or money with the aim of getting Dante and his cosmology an appropriate monumental recognition, in reinforced concrete. The Barolo Palace is a unique combination of both astronomy and the worldview displayed in the Divine Comedy, Dante’s poetic masterpiece. It is known that the Palace’s design was inspired by the great poet, but the details are not recorded; this paper relies on Dante’s text to consider whether it may add to our understanding of the building. Although the links of the Palace’s main architectural structure with the three realms of the Comedy have been studied in the past, its unique astronomical flavor has not been sufficiently emphasized. The word of God, as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church in Sacred Scripture, Aristotle’s physics and Ptolemy’s astronomy, all beautifully converge in Dante’s verses, and the Barolo Palace reflects this.

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

scholarly journals The zooarchaeological identification of a ‘Morisco’ community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and economic innovations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos García-García ◽  
Guillermo García-Contreras ◽  
Michelle M. Alexander ◽  
Rowena Y. Banerjea ◽  
Aleks Pluskowski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractThis article presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of an assemblage dating to the second quarter of the 16th century that was discovered on the current university campus of Cartuja, on the outskirts of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). During the Middle Ages, this area was largely used for agricultural purposes, including as estates owned by high officials of the Nasrid dynasty, the last Islamicate polity in the Iberian Peninsula. The Castilian conquest of Granada in 1492 brought significant changes to the area, with the construction of a Carthusian monastery and the transformation of the surrounding landscape, including changes in property structures, different agrarian regimes and the demolition of pre-existing structures. Among these transformations was the filling up of a well with construction materials, and its further use as a rubbish dump. This fill yielded an interesting and unique zooarchaeological assemblage, the study of which is presented here. The results advance our understanding of changing patterns in animal consumption during the formative transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period at the heart of the former Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, and indicate the continuity of some Andalusi consumption patterns along with specialised production and distribution systems of meat products that have no archaeological precedent in the region, suggesting that the bones were dumped by a possible ‘Morisco’ community (autochthonous Muslims forced to convert to Christianity in 1502).

Time and the Testator, 1370–1540

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Judith Middleton-Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Limited Duration ◽  
At Will

There were many ways in which the late medieval testator could acknowledge time. Behind each testator lay a lifetime of memories and experiences on which he or she drew, recalling the names of those ‘they had fared the better for’, those they wished to remember and by whom they wished to be remembered. Their present time was of limited duration, for at will making they had to assemble their thoughts and their intentions, make decisions and appoint stewards, as they prepared for their time ahead; but as they spent present time arranging the past, so they spent present time laying plans for the future. Some testators had more to bequeath, more time to spare: others had less to leave, less time to plan. Were they aware of time? How did they control the future? In an intriguing essay, A. G. Rigg asserts that ‘one of the greatest revolutions in man’s perception of the world around him was caused by the invention, sometime in the late thirteenth century, of the mechanical weight-driven clock.’ It is the intention of this paper to see how men’s (and women’s) perception of time in the late Middle Ages was reflected in their wills, the most personal papers left by ordinary men and women of the period.

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