Praeterita

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ruskin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
The Alps

‘For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.’ John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin’s incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquent analysis of the guiding powers of his life, both public and private. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin’s intense childhood, his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and, most of all, his journeys across France, the Alps, and northern Italy. Attentive to the human or divine meaning of everything around him, Praeterita is an astonishing account of revelation.

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.

Șoprul și alte structuri pentru fân din Țara Maramureșului

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Teofil Ivanciuc
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Special Structure ◽  
Traditional Farming ◽  
Unique Structure ◽  
Northern Half ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Look

"The hay barrack and other hay structures from the Land of Maramureș The hay barrack is a unique structure, consisting of four wooden poles which support a pyramidal roof, which can be raised or lowered, depending on the amount of hay sheltered from the weather. The Land of Maramureș (the northern half of the current Maramureș County), a quite well-known traditional life stronghold, can be considered ”the World’s hay capital”, a place where the hay culture is stronger than anywhere else and where the fields are filled up with ”classic” hay barracks (we estimate that there are probably 10-15,000 structures still left), with tens of thousands hay stacks, with thousands hay barracks with immovable roof and with countless drying hayracks of different types, so many that they change the look of the landscape. Moreover, there is the only place where the hay barracks are still used today exactly as in the Middle Ages (being filled regularly, manually, with traditionally harvested hay), and on a huge scale, not found elsewhere. With prehistoric origins, the most special structure, the hay barrack is considered to have its birthplace in the Netherlands, from where, since the 13th and 14th centuries, it spread over a large part of the continent, a territory bordered by Great Britain, France, Northern Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Northern Transylvania, Ukraine, Russia or Scandinavia. Today, everywhere, the unusual barrack has disappeared, except în Maramureș and the Netherlands - where there is the second largest group of preserved structures, but without being used anymore for storing hay. The study lists the main features of the construction, the villages where the hay barracks survive in more significant number, and it tries to find out the reason why this type of structure still persists so strongly in that region. At the end there are some old images from different places, as well as contemporary photographs taken in Maramureș, featuring various types of hay structures. Keywords: hay barrack, hay stack, hayrack, Maramureș, traditional farming "

The Making of the Neutrality Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Gabriela A. Frei
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
The Middle Ages

Chapter 2 examines the development of the concept of neutrality from the Middle Ages to the golden age of neutrality in the nineteenth century, and shows how Great Britain adopted a policy of neutrality after 1856. The chapter discusses Great Britain’s experience of the American Civil War as a neutral, and examines various instances of international conflict such as the Alexandra case, where Great Britain was accused of breaching neutrality. The negotiations of the Alabama claims tribunal resulted not only in the Treaty of Washington, which outlined neutrality more precisely, but also prompted a change in British domestic legislation, in particular the Foreign Enlistment Act. Both the treaty and the act defined Great Britain’s neutrality policy after 1870.

Raising Lilies: Ruskin and Women

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
The State ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
General Study ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
English Prose ◽  
Considerable Body ◽  
Adequate Analysis

John Ruskin, art and social critic, master of English prose, is one of the most infuriating yet attractive Victorian figures. In the last twenty years, a revival of interest in his work after years of neglect has stimulated a considerable body of scholarly analysis and several biographies. As Ruskin himself would have hoped, historians have been most interested in his trenchant attacks on the assumptions and effects of nineteenth-century political economy, but paradoxically he appears in women's history only as the author of “Of Queens' Gardens,” promoting a fundamental Victorian paradigm, the ideology of pure womanhood. Yet the anthologized excerpts which are all most people read of Ruskin do not do justice even to “Of Queens' Gardens,” an admittedly cloying piece, and although biographers have analyzed his tortured relationships with Effie Gray and Rose La Touche almost to the point of tedium, there is no extended general study of his many relationships with women and the expectations he had of them. An adequate analysis of Ruskin's view of women requires familiarity with all his works, an understanding of his fears for the state of England, and a greater knowledge of his relationships with women than provided by the lurid details of his failed marriage and predilection for adolescent girls. The following is an attempt to sketch an outline of such an account.

Ecclesiastical History

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayr-Harting Henry
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The West ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medieval Political Theory ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter examines the study of ecclesiastical history in Great Britain. It explains that the various departments of ecclesiastical history have tended to be under the umbrella of Theology rather than of History and that in Anglican terms the subject has tended to mean Early Church, Reformation and Nineteenth Century. Medieval ecclesiastical history, therefore, has no established position. Some of the most notable British works on medieval ecclesiastical history include Medieval Political Theory in the West by A.J. Carlyle and Westminster Abbey and Its Estates in the Middle Ages by Barbara Harvey.

War, Church, Empire and the Medieval in British Histories for Children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Oliver Goldsmith

From the mid-eighteenth century onward, histories of England written for children became a very popular literary genre, attempted by authors as various as Oliver Goldsmith, Jane Austen, William Godwin, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin and H. E. Marshall (Our Island Story, 1905). This chapter investigates how these histories typically represent the Middle Ages to children through themes of war, violence and religion, within a long-range view of the nation and empire slowly developing beyond archaism. Medieval war is sometimes depicted as barbaric, but also read as a sign of racial spirit. Medieval religion, especially monastic culture, receives a more generally hostile reaction. The medievalism of most writers – Ruskin is a telling exception – frames the period as a dark prelude to Reformation and the later growth of Great Britain through the assertion of regal and parliamentary power.

Fostering Resilience in Response to Terrorism: For Psychologists Working With Adults With Serious Mental Illness

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Christopher Frueh ◽  
◽  
Ronald F. Levant ◽  
Stevan E. Hobfoll ◽  
Laura Barbanel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Serious Mental Illness
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