Popular and Public History

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-559
Author(s):  
Liz Covart
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Scholarly Identity ◽  
History Play

Abstract This essay offers a reflection on the role public and popular history play in creating understanding and awareness about early modern history. It considers Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks’ chapter “Popular and Public History” in her book, What is Early Modern History, and uses Wiesner-Hanks’ ideas as a starting point to expand understanding of early modern scholarly identity, the role museums and historic sites could play in creating broad awareness about the early modern period, and why podcasts provide historians with a powerful tool to help non-historians better connect with and understand the early modern period.

The Antiquarian and the Abbess

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Jaime Goodrich
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Familial History ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Gender And Genre ◽  
Monastic History ◽  
Historical Sketch

This essay considers how two Benedictine writers, Claude Estiennot (1639–1699) and Anne Neville (1605–1689), engaged with the generic conventions of historical writing, specifically the subgenre of monastic history. In an attempt to complicate critical narratives about early modern history, Estiennot and Neville are read through the lens of feminist formalism. A Maurist and antiquarian, Estiennot wrote a chronicle of the Congregation of the English Benedictine Dames that exemplifies the professional revolution in historiography. Neville, in contrast, cultivated the humbler position of an abbess, creating a historical sketch of her congregation that served as both a familial history and a personal aide-mémoire. By considering the different ways that Estiennot and Neville approached the same historical subject, this essay demonstrates that reading prose in terms of its formal qualities can provide new insights into the interrelationship of gender and genre in the early modern period.

The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Starting Point

Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom while unifying religion with science and mind with body. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and the analysis of religion remain vital to the present day. Yet his writings initially appear forbidding to contemporary readers, and his ideas have often been misunderstood. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza includes new chapters on Spinoza's life and his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and biblical scholarship, as well as extensive updates to the previous chapters and bibliography. A thorough, reliable, and accessible guide to this extraordinary philosopher, it will be invaluable to anyone who wants to understand what Spinoza has to teach.

scholarly journals Variations on gui and the Trouble with Ghosts in Modern Chinese Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Imbach
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
Republican Era ◽  
Modern Chinese Fiction

AbstractGhosts appear in a great number of fictional works from the early modern period to the present. Yet, to this date no systematic study of this very heterogeneous textual corpus has been undertaken. This paper proposes as a useful starting point a review of figures and discourses of spectrality, mainly in Republican-era literary and critical texts, that focuses in particular on the different meanings and usages of the term

scholarly journals The Study of Nation and Patria as Communities of Identity: Theory, Historiography, and Methodology from the Spanish Case

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Pablo Sánchez León
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Modern Period

This article argues for a renovation in the study of nationalism by addressing the issue of the rationality underlying the decisions by citizens willing to leave their homelands. From the example of unforced exiles from the 1939 Republican diaspora (and inner exiles as well), the text starts with providing a theory of disidentification from a nation for the sake of civic commitment. Having shown the relevance of jointly studying the language of nation and patria, it focuses on Spanish post-Francoist historiography of the Early modern period for showing its unbalanced account of discourse revolving around patria in favor of that of nation. Thereafter, it provides a comparative overview of the scholarly interest in patriotism in modern history as depending on different national trajectories of political culture. Finally, it claims a methodological reorientation in the study of nationalism and patriotism by distinguishing between nation and patria as terms, as concepts, and as analytical categories defining distinctive collective identities.

scholarly journals Jewish and Hebrew Books in Marsh’s Library: Materiality and Intercultural Engagement in Early Modern Ireland

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 597
Author(s):  
Bradford A. Anderson ◽  
Jason McElligott
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
Intercultural Engagement ◽  
Personal Collection

Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland, is an immaculately preserved library from the early eighteenth century. Founded by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, the library has an extensive collection of Jewish and Hebrew books which includes Hebrew Bibles, Talmudic texts, rabbinic writings, and Yiddish books that date back to the early modern period. This study explores a cross section of the Jewish and Hebrew books in Marsh’s collection, with particular focus on issues of materiality—that is, how these books as material artefacts can inform our understanding of early modern history, religion, and intercultural engagement. We suggest that these books, a majority of which come from Marsh’s personal collection, are a valuable resource for reflection on (1) Christian engagement with Jewish culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, (2) the production, use, and travel of Jewish books in early modern Europe, and (3) snapshots of Jewish life in early modern Ireland and beyond.

scholarly journals The Pageant of History: Nostalgia, the Tudors, and the Community Play

Sederi ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Michael Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Mystery Plays ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War ◽  
History Play ◽  
Ethnic Origins

This paper considers the persistence of the Renaissance pageant in modern and post-modern culture, both as a recurrent metaphor for history in general and as a feature of stage, cinematic and communal representations of early modern history in particular. After examining the status of public processions in Renaissance London as conscious revivals of the Roman triumph, indebted at the same time to aspects of the medieval mystery plays, the essay examines the English historical pageants of the Edwardian and inter-war years as themselves revivals of both Renaissance pageantry and aspects of the Shakespearean history play. It looks in particular at their emphasis on the Tudor monarchs and on the ethnic origins of Englishness, identifying the fading of the pageant as a genre in the post-war years with the collapse of certain ideas about English exceptionalism and historical continuity.

Capturing the Landscape Within

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of

This chapter situates the history of listening in the context of recent work in the histories of reading, seeing, and feeling. Using William Reddy’s The Navigation of Feeling (2001), it considers changes in practices—from the absence of silent reading in antiquity and the early Middle Ages, to public reading in the early modern period, to modern silent reading—and, using depictions of museum-goers, sketches a history of experience in the visual arts. By widening the field from listening, this chapter aims both to fill out and to integrate the modern history of experience. It also suggests ways of understanding how transformations in perception by one of our human senses affects those in another and why historic modes of perception and description will not likely return.

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