A New Age of Projects

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-228
Author(s):  
Owen Stanwood
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Age ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment

The final chapter examines a new push to create Huguenot colonies in the era of the Seven Years’ War. The drama began back in France, where Protestants and others started a campaign for religious toleration. One plank in this campaign was for Huguenots to threaten to leave, and they began to negotiate with the British to do just that, envisioning colonies in places like Nova Scotia, Florida, and Minorca. The realization of the plan came through the efforts of Jean-Louis Gibert, a Protestant minister who became the founder of New Bordeaux in South Carolina. This colonial vision represented a renewal of themes from the first years of the Refuge. It was driven by desires to make silk and wine as well as the push for religious toleration in France. Thus the Huguenots adapted their old program to an age of Enlightenment.

Offshore continuation of Meguma Terrane, southwestern Nova Scotia

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Pe-Piper ◽  
Bosko D. Loncarevic
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Rock Formation ◽  
South Mountain Batholith ◽  
Granitoid Rocks ◽  
Meguma Terrane

Eight short drill cores have been examined from the continental shelf southwest of Nova Scotia. Four cores recovered granitoid rocks of two types. Ilmenite-bearing granitoid rocks petrographically and geochemically resemble granodiorites of the South Mountain Batholith and granites of the Seal Island Pluton. Magnetite-bearing granitoid rocks are also peraluminous but have no exact analogues onshore in Nova Scotia. Two cores recovered metamorphic rocks in a small area 50 km south of Seal Island. One consits of chlorite–muscovite–quartz schist, geochemically similar to rocks of the Halifax Formation. The second sampled epidote–chlorite–quartz schist similar to metavolcanic rocks of the White Rock Formation. One further core sampled quartzite, and another sampled a metavolcanic rock (possibly erratic).The regional extent of these lithotypes can be inferred from gravity and aeromagnetic data. Regional gravity data suggest the presence of a large granite body off southwestern Nova Scotia. In this area, magnetic anomalies are irregular, apparently reflecting the presence of magnetite-bearing granites. The layer-stripping method of analyzing the magnetic field shows that the area is underlain at depth by high magnetic anomalies. Large near-surface linear magnetic anomalies are used to map the extent of the volcanic rocks of the White Rock Formation. The area is cut by several northwest-trending faults that postdate Acadian folding but predate the earliest Jurassic magmatism of the Shelburne Dyke and North Mountain basalt. The unusual magnetic signature of the area off southwestern Nova Scotia may reflect a different basement; it is possible that Meguma rocks are thrust over the Avalon Terrane. Alternatively, it may be solely the result of magnetite-bearing granites. These granites may be related to a Permian thermal event in southwest Nova Scotia, and they have some petrographic similarity to young granites of the Piedmont Zone of South Carolina.

A new sea-level curve from Nova Scotia: evidence for a rapid acceleration of sea-level rise in the late mid-Holocene

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 2071-2080 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Scott ◽  
K. Brown ◽  
E. S. Collins ◽  
F. S. Medioli
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Level Curve ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Level Curves ◽  
Ice Melt ◽  
Vertical Extent

A new late Holocene sea-level curve is presented from the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. Contrary to earlier data from the same area, this curve starts at 4400 sidereal years before present (BP) and shows a rapid acceleration between 4400 and 3800 BP, which coincides with a similar acceleration already reported from the Northumberland Strait (Nova Scotia) and an oscillation observed in South Carolina. Comparing the two Nova Scotia curves suggests that the acceleration lasts just over 1000 years and has a vertical extent of 10 m. One puzzling fact is that the 10 m vertical extent in Nova Scotia is 8 m more than the same event measured in South Carolina and it cannot be accounted for simply by postglacial isostatic depression, since that occurs on a much longer time scale. A closer examination of most of the sea-level curves from northeastern North America reveals that either the record is missing from this interval or it is inconsistent. We suggest that this acceleration is part of a global response that coincides with the end of the mid-Holocene warming period, possibly indicating a lag response between warming and ice melt.

A New Age of Enlightenment?

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Bernard Edwin Galitz
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment

Inquiry and Inquisition: Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Courtenay
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Church History ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
American Society ◽  
Medieval Universities

The year 1988 marks not only the centennial of the American Society of Church History, it is also the anniversary of two important works dealing with the theme of religious toleration and freedom of ideas. One is the fiftieth anniversary of G. G. Coulton's Inquisition and Liberty. The other is Henry Charles Lea's History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, published in three volumes early in 1888. Coulton's work became a model for many that followed: a highly readable, consciously engaging narrative outlining the main features of one of the darker chapters of medieval church history. It covered the development of religious nonconformity, the church's response, especially through the creation and operation of the Inquistion, and the principal victims of the Inquisition: the Albigensians, Waldensians, Spiritual Franciscans, and those accused of witchcraft. Lea's earlier treatment covered those themes in a far more extensive way, and he also included, unlike Coulton, a final chapter on the problem of religious orthodoxy in the schools as viewed from the standpoint of the Inquisition. Lea, in fact, is one of the few authors writing on heresy and inquisition who attempted to place the cases of questioned orthodoxy and freedom of thought in medieval schools and universities in this larger context. Although he did not pursue the topic in any depth, Lea was aware that the character of theological study and the proper training of an educated priesthood were linked to the issue of religious orthodoxy in the schools and the threat of heresy among those charged with the preservation and dissemination of truth.

Learning grammar in eighteenth-century Russia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kislova ◽  
Tatiana Kostina ◽  
Vladislav Rjéoutski
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
New Age ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Grammar Teaching ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
Main Language

In eighteenth-century Russia, Latin was the main language of tuition in Church seminaries and the grammatical approach played a very important role. In schools for nobility, the word ‘grammar’ was hardly used for living languages. Early grammar teaching was combined with translation, dialogue memorization, reading, etc. The shift in focus towards more grammar in French and German classes had likely begun by the middle of the century, and was related to the general proliferation of the grammatical approach. A greater emphasis was placed on analysing grammatical form. These changes mark a shift away from the syncretic language learning approach of the Age of Enlightenment towards a new age characterised by the increasing separation of the aspects of language learning and the erosion of the links between them.

The dead of winter: size-dependent variation and genetic differences in seasonal mortality among Atlantic silverside (Atherinidae: Menidia menidia) from different latitudes

1998 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric T Schultz ◽  
David O Conover ◽  
Amir Ehtisham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Winter Mortality ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
Energy Reserves ◽  
Menidia Menidia ◽  
Atlantic Silverside ◽  
Varied Size

Genetic differences among populations of Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia) are hypothesized to be evolutionary responses to intense, size-selective winter mortality at high latitudes. Three experiments were conducted to test features of winter mortality. In the first experiment, we varied size and whether food was provided or withheld; temperatures were permitted to follow ambient (New York) wintertime fluctuations. Mortality and depletion of energy reserves were more rapid in the units receiving no food. Small fish died before larger fish in these units, but not in the units receiving food. Energy depletion of fish in the no-food treatment resembled that of fish in the wild. In the second experiment, we varied size and population of origin, representing high-latitude (Nova Scotia), midlatitude (New York), and low-latitude (South Carolina) populations. These fish were provided food and showed minimal depletion of energy reserves, but mortality rates were high when water temperatures were low. Mortality did not vary with size in New York and South Carolina fish, but was highest in intermediate-size fish from Nova Scotia. There was a pronounced population difference in survival rate (Nova Scotia > New York > South Carolina). In the third experiment, food was withheld and extreme low temperatures were moderated. Energy depletion was rapid and small fish died before large fish. We conclude that populations in seasonal environments are likely to be subject to size-selective winter mortality when energy reserves are depleted and that juvenile growth rates have evolved in response to this selection pressure. In addition, high-latitude populations have evolved greater tolerance to other winter stresses associated with low temperatures.

The Significance of Mediaeval Intellectual Culture

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-462
Author(s):  
Alois Dempf
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
New Age ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
General Influence

Nicholas Berdyaev, the noted religious philosopher and sociologist, wrote a book more than a decade ago entitled, in the French, The New Middle Ages. In this work he naturally did not imply that history is repeating itself. Nor did he imply diat, by reason of a cyclical recurrence of identical periods in history, following our age of enlightenment, there would dawn a new age of predominantly religious authority concurrently with which State authority would almost disappear—a new age wherein philosophy and science would exercise a far greater general influence upon life than they do today. History, indeed, does not repeat itself. If it did, its story would be a poor carmen universitatis, a poor drama of world progress, unworthy of the Lord of history and of human freedom.

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