The role of historical sources in the restoration of Long Swamp, Discovery Bay, Victoria

ANNOTATION. This article is the first attempt of the biographic research of Grand Duchess Uliana Algirdienė of Lithuania (d. 17/03/1392), based on the critical analysis of primary sources. It is also aimed at pointing out the reflection of the role of women in the pagan Lithuanian society. The research was carried out by means of the analytical and comparative method of historical source analysis with a view to separate as distinctly as possible the information derived from contemporary sources from the images imposed by later historiographic tradition. The article questions the stereotypes related to Uliana’s great political power in Lithuania’s political life that are well-established in modern historiography and present-day cultural memory. With this an attempt is made to draw attention to the problematic nature of information derived from historical sources as well as to more distinctly define the frames imposed by the political culture of pagan Lithuania which clearly marked the boundaries for the political activities of women representing the ruling dynasty. This article for the most part dwells on the issues related to the coverage of Algirdas and Uliana’s marriage and the period of their married life up to Algirdas’ death in 1377. KEYWORDS: Uliana, Algirdas, Simeon, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Moscow, Tver, Rus’, women

Współczesne nazwiska Polaków o możliwej genezie litewskiej nieobecne w LPŽ, poświadczone w kartotece antroponimicznej LKI

Onomastica ◽

10.17651/onomast.64.16 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 ◽

Author(s):

Justyna Walkowiak

Keyword(s):

Actual Number ◽

Index Card ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Index File ◽

Card Index ◽

Do So

The aim of the article is to present the attestations of contemporary Polish surnames of Lithuanian origin which are absent from the dictionary of Lithuanian surnames (“Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas”, LPŽ), excerpted from the anthroponymic index card files that have been stored in the Lithuanian Language Institute in Vilnius and continually enlarged for several decades now. The files contain data excerpted from historical sources of the 16th to 19th centuries and consist of about 200,000 index cards (the actual number of excerpted anthroponyms is lower since some recur in various sources). Due to space limitations, generally only directly attested names have been included in the article, to the exclusion of those whose relationship with the researched name can be inferred rather than considered proven. Each listed attestation of an anthroponym (probably not in all cases an already established hereditary surname) is accompanied by information concerning its location and year (or time bracket), wherever available in the card index file. Given names or other details (e.g. the role of the person mentioned in documents, such as godmother in the data excerpted from baptismal registers) have only been included occasionally, if there was some reason to do so.

Revaluing Mimeographs as Historical Sources

RBM A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage ◽

10.5860/rbm.15.1.414 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 40-55

Author(s):

E. Haven Hawley

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

20Th Century ◽

Social Experience ◽

Technical Process ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Special Collections ◽

History Of ◽

Diverse Groups

Curators are partners with printing historians, collectors, and conservators, as well as with communities, in selecting, preserving, and interpreting cultural heritage. Uncovering the role of a technology such as mimeography reveals more than a history of a specific machine or technical process. It secures a better understanding about social experience by authenticating accounts about how diverse groups communicated with their own communities and to others. Special collections professionals need to be archaeologists to recover evidence from and to best preserve 20th-century publications. Current tools for studying recent print artifacts are insufficient. Thus, collaborating to generate methods for analysis is an . . .

Przyczynek do obrazu szlachty Inflant Polskich w łotewskich źródłach i opracowaniach historycznych początku XX w.

Acta Baltico-Slavica ◽

10.11649/abs.2014.009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 89-97

Author(s):

Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

General Development ◽

Folk Culture ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Positive Role ◽

Native Culture ◽

Village People ◽

Rich Material ◽

Polish Culture

A contribution to the image of Polish Livonia nobility in the Latvian historical sources and studies of the early Twentieth CenturyPolish literature devoted to the role of the Poles in shaping Latvian culture presents unanimity as far as the positive role and results of this influence are concerned. However diametrically opposite Latvian perspective particularly clear in the first years of the existence of independent Latvia needs to be highlighted here.Contacts between the Latvians and Poles and their cultures differed in different parts of Latvia since the beginning of the Polish presence in this country. The period called ‘the Polish times in Latvia’ in Latvian historical sources lasted the longest in Latgale (1561-1772), i.e. in the so called Polish Livonia. The Polish influence on Latvian folk culture was the strongest there.This period, especially the scale of the influence of Polish culture on Latvian native culture as well as general development of this region, was strongly criticized by numerous Latvian historians.The interest of the Polish noblemen in developing Latgale was subjected to criticism, too. Considering these lands as their own the Poles were not interested in propagating national ideas among local village people who, according to the Polish nobles, were to succumb to complete polonisation.Great influence of the Polish nobility on culture, economy and creating the national identity of the Latgalian Latvians, the policy of the Polish clergy and polonisation of the local people resulted in a negative opinion of the Polish influence in the Latvian lands.The study is an attempt to outline the issue which Polish researchers have not paid attention to so far. Nevertheless, regarding rich material it needs detailed research on a large scale. Przyczynek do obrazu szlachty Inflant Polskich w łotewskich źródłach i opracowaniach historycznych początku XX w.W literaturze polskiej poświęconej roli Polaków w kształtowaniu kultury Łotwy panuje jednomyślność co do pozytywnej roli i skutków tych wpływów. Nie można jednak pomijać milczeniem istnienia diametralnie różnej perspektywy łotewskiej, która szczególnie wyraźnie zarysowała się w pierwszych latach istnienia niepodległego państwa łotewskiego.Od początku obecności Polaków na Łotwie kontakty Łotyszy z Polakami i ich kulturą różnie wyglądały w poszczególnych regionach Łotwy. Okres, nazywany w historycznych źródłach łotewskich „polskimi czasami na Łotwie”, najdłużej trwał właśnie w Łatgalii (1561–1772), czyli w tzw. Inflantach Polskich. Tam też zauważalny był największy wpływ kultury polskiej na ludową kulturę łotewską.Okres ten był negatywnie oceniany przez wielu historyków łotewskich. Krytyce poddawana była skala oddziaływania kultury polskiej na rodzimą kulturę łotewską, a także na ogólny rozwój ziem dawnych Inflant Polskich.Negatywnie był też oceniany udział szlachty polskiej w rozwoju Łatgalii. Uważając te ziemie za swoje, nie była ona zainteresowana krzewieniem idei narodowych wśród miejscowej ludności chłopskiej, która, według możnowładztwa polskiego, już w niedługim czasie miała ulec całkowitej polonizacji.Ogromny wpływ inflanckiej szlachty polskiej na kulturę, gospodarkę, a także na kreowanie tożsamości narodowej łatgalskich Łotyszy, programowe działania duchowieństwa polskiego oraz polonizacja miejscowej ludności przyczyniły się do negatywnej oceny wpływów polskich na ziemiach łotewskich.Przedstawione opracowanie jest próbą naszkicowania zagadnienia, któremu dotychczas badacze polscy nie poświęcili większej uwagi, a które to ze względu na bogaty materiał wymaga szczegółowych i szeroko zakrojonych badań.

Uma análise sobre os discos promocionais como elementos estimuladores para a projeção de Raimundo Fagner no ambiente profissional da MPB (1973 – 1982)

Revista Discente Ofícios de Clio ◽

10.15210/clio.v3i5.14176 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 112

Author(s):

Stênio Ronald Mattos Rodrigues

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Professional Life ◽

Historical Sources

Este artigo objetiva realizar uma análise acerca dos produtos fonográficos promocionais enquanto elementos potencializadores da popularidade do artista envolvido profissionalmente no ambiente musical. Para tanto, busco delimitar essa reflexão a partir do percurso profissional do artista Raimundo Fagner em dois momentos de sua carreira – 1973 e 1982 –, observando a importância desses produtos promocionais para a divulgação de seus trabalhos e as distinções evidenciadas nesses dois momentos, especificamente no que diz respeito ao conteúdo vinculado aos mesmos. Tendo em vista a reflexão que o presente texto busca levar a efeito, opto pela utilização dos aparatos teóricos-metodológicos da História Cultural, principalmente no que se refere ao uso plural de fontes históricas como recursos para a reconstrução do passado.Palavras-Chave: Fontes Históricas; Indústria Fonográfica; Discos Promocionais; Raimundo Fagner. AbstractThis article aims to do an analysis about promotional phonographic products as elements that enhance the popularity of the artist professionally involved in the musical environment. Therefore, I seek to delimit this reflection from the professional life of the artist Raimundo Fagner in two moments of his career - 1973 and 1982 -, noting the role of these promotional products for the dissemination of his works and the distinctions evidenced in these two moments, specifically concerning the content linked to them. Considering the reflection that this text seeks to carry out, I decide to use the theoretical / methodological apparatus of Cultural History, namely in what refers to the plural uses of historical sources as resources for reconstructing past.Keywords: Historical Sources; Phonographic Industry; Promotional Disks; Raimundo Fagner.

Iconographic micro-history of Maria Montessori 150 years after her birth. Figurines, coins, stamps

MeTis - Mondi educativi Temi indagini suggestioni ◽

10.30557/mt00160 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fabrizio Bertolino ◽

Gianni Nuti ◽

Manuela Filippa

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Popular Belief ◽

Maria Montessori ◽

Picture Card ◽

History Of ◽

Wide Community

The aim of the present study is to highlight and to critically discuss the role of the secondary and silent historical sources in the reconstruction of the biography of Maria Montessori, a century and a half after her birth. The collective memory, both at a national and international levels, has preserved the figure of the pedagogist into a series of celebratory objects. Picture card, notes and coins, stamps maximum cards, phone cards or, more recently, doodles are accessible to the wide community. Constructing a narrativity of a public celebrity means capturing the important features, and transforming them into symbolic constructs. We therefore propose to identify the overmentioned constructs in the light of the official biographies of Maria Montessori. Moreover, we aim to follow the iconographic traces of a micro-history which is often overlooked from the primary sources. However, this micro-history represents the heart of a collective and popular belief, widespread and educating, which preserves the memory and heritage of this “Personality to Remember".

Epilogue

Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451482.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 226-230

Author(s):

Cailah Jackson

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

The Political ◽

Islamic Art ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Complex Objects ◽

Late Medieval ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

Visual Properties ◽

Artistic Communities

THIS BOOK HAS uncovered the aesthetic variety and documentary richness of the Islamic arts of the book of the late medieval Lands of Rūm and produced new ways of understanding this material in its proper cultural and intellectual contexts. It has done so by considering the manuscripts as ‘whole’, complex objects. This approach has entailed looking closely at the codicological and visual properties of the manuscripts themselves, reading their inscriptions and analysing this material within a framework that accounts for patronage beyond dynastic confines – a facet that is sometimes overlooked in the wider scholarly field of Islamic art history. The manuscripts discussed here show that some of Rūm’s cities (particularly Konya) were home to dynamic artistic communities that consisted of local and émigré craftsmen, including converts to Islam and, possibly, Christians. This material also reveals that patrons were often drawn from the political classes, but were, generally speaking, otherwise not well-known from historical sources. In some cases, patrons’ affiliations and intellectual interests challenge simplistic or unambiguous conceptions of the ‘frontier’ and the role of ‘Turkishness’ in late medieval Rūm....

Moving Inland from the Coast

A Material Culture ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198759317.003.0010 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Keyword(s):

Lake Victoria ◽

Active Role ◽

Eastern Africa ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Long Distance ◽

Swahili Coast ◽

General Terms ◽

New Locations ◽

Networks Of Practice

It is immediately clear that the towns of the Swahili coast could not have existed without a web of connections linking them to a deeper African hinterland. This is a complex network to recover: a lack of historical documents and an extremely patchy archaeological record have meant that interaction has been understood only in very general terms. This is often cited as a major lacuna in our understandings of the coast (Horton 1987a; Sinclair 1995), with calls for sustained archaeological attention to interior societies. There can be no doubt that this is necessary. Yet here a cautiously optimistic approach is taken, as I suggest that part of the problem we have in understanding interior networks is in the ways that we expect them to be manifest, according to a model developed for the coast: connections have been sought through the movement of imported trade goods, which may not everywhere be a useful proxy for interaction. In fact, there is now a significant body of evidence for the ways that these connections worked, even though they do not always take the form of foreign artefacts in new locations. In this chapter I extend the notion of networks of practice to think through the ways that activities and consumption would have determined the nature of coast/interior entanglements; I suggest that the absence of trade goods in sites of the interior may not be (just) a function of lack of knowledge, but also the result of choices and the active role of taste among hinterland groups. Historical sources hint at long-distance movements across eastern Africa from at least the first century AD; Ptolemy’s Geography refers to the ‘Lake of the Nile’ (Freeman-Grenville 1962b: 4), suggesting knowledge of areas and connectivity as far inland as Lake Victoria. Direct material evidence of these two millennia of interaction tends to be sought in the remains of imports found at interior sites. These are comparatively few, but do at least offer a map of connectivity that sets a framework for thinking about interaction. The earliest imports at interior sites are not, in fact, objects.

Intellectual Virtues

Philosophy ◽

10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0413 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Charlie Crerar ◽

Teresa Allen ◽

Heather Battaly

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Virtue Epistemology ◽

Intellectual Virtue ◽

Philosophical Work ◽

Intellectual Virtues ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Intellectual Humility ◽

Professional Fields ◽

Aristotelian Tradition

Intellectual virtues are qualities that make us excellent thinkers. There are different analyses of exactly which qualities count as intellectual virtues: virtue responsibilists have emphasized praiseworthy character traits, such as open-mindedness and intellectual humility, while virtue reliabilists have emphasized reliable skills and faculties, such as vision, memory, and skills of logic. Importantly, all agree that intellectual virtues are (i) excellences, as opposed to defects; and (ii) distinctively intellectual and not, or not simply, moral. In other words, intellectual virtues are qualities that make us excellent (and not defective) as thinkers, not (or not simply) as people in general. This bibliography provides an overview of philosophical work on the intellectual virtues. It includes articles and books addressing responsibilist and reliabilist analyses of the structure of intellectual virtue; analyses of individual intellectual virtues; the application of intellectual virtue to education and other professional fields; the role of intellectual virtues in epistemology; and, finally, the structure of intellectual vice. It also includes some historical sources on intellectual virtue, though its focus is contemporary. Analyses of intellectual virtue (and of individual intellectual virtues) have developed in tandem with the epistemological subfield of virtue epistemology, which employs the notion of intellectual virtue in an account of knowledge. These analyses also frequently draw on virtue ethics, especially in the Aristotelian tradition. Some of the sources cited touch upon connections between intellectual virtue and these fields, though a fuller treatment of these topics can be found in the corresponding bibliographies on Virtue Epistemology and Virtue Ethics.

Gesture and language

Gesture ◽

10.1075/gest.4.1.04wil ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 43-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Sherman Wilcox

Keyword(s):

American Sign Language ◽

Sign Language ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Signed Languages ◽

Signed Language ◽

Grammatical Morphemes ◽

Linguistic System ◽

Region I ◽

Using Data

In this paper I explore the role of gesture in the development of signed languages. Using data from American Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language, as well as historical sources describing gesture in the Mediterranean region, I demonstrate that gesture enters the linguistic system via two distinct routes. In one, gesture serves as a source of lexical and grammatical morphemes in signed languages. In the second, elements become directly incorporated into signed language morphology, bypassing the lexical stage. Finally, I propose a unifying framework for understanding the gesture-language interface in signed and spoken languages.