Hidden Secrets or the Mysteries of Daily Life. Hebrew Entries in the Journal Books of the Early Modern Astronomer Gottfried Kirch

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Sebastian Kühn ◽  
Bill Rebiger
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Astronomical Data

Abstract In the astronomical journal books written in German of Gottfried Kirch (1639–1710), a Christian astronomer and publisher with close connections to Pietists, several entries in Hebrew script are striking. In fact, it is not Hebrew or Yiddish but German in Hebrew characters. There is no doubt that the transcription follows more or less an orthography known from Yiddish. Since the content of these entries is rather banal and reflects daily life, it is possible that they are nothing but a kind of scholarly joke, a private pleasure, and practice of scholarly skills. While these private notes were not capable of academic discourse, perhaps Kirch playfully tried to enhance their status by using an uncommon script in contrast to the astronomical data. In this way, it was possible to cover over the triviality of daily life by a veil of mystery by transcribing it in Hebrew characters.

Time Goes on Crutches till Love Have All His Rites

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Legal Contract

The last three chapters of this book present specific case studies showing concrete examples of the issues to which probabilism was applied. These chapters bring the theoretical and theological discussions on probabilism into the daily life of early modern men and women, and they demonstrate the fundamental role probabilism assumed in early modern Western culture. This chapter focuses on the question of the validity of East Asian marriages, which were institutionally, legally, and culturally very different from the European West. As Catholic missionaries and theologians confronted these differences, they found probabilism immensely useful for rethinking, updating, and adapting to this new context traditional notions concerning the nature of marriage both as a sacrament and as a legal contract.

scholarly journals Ana-Ethnographic Representation: Early Modern Pueblo Painters, Scientific Colonialism, and Tactics of Refusal

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Sascha T. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Day Laborers ◽  
Sensitive Material ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

In 1918, San Ildefonso Pueblo artist Crescencio Martinez completed two commissions for the anthropologist Edgar L. Hewett: A set of paintings and a series of tiles. The paintings, called the Crescencio Set, mark a formative moment in the development of a new genre of art, modern Pueblo painting. Before Crescencio and his San Ildefonso peers began creating images of ceremonial and daily life for sale to outsiders, they were hired as day laborers at archaeological excavations. While Pueblo laborers benefited financially from working with anthropologists, they nevertheless understood anthropology as a threat to their communities, as scientists disrupted sacred sites and the dead, collected sensitive material, and pushed informants for esoteric information. In countering this new colonial threat, Pueblo communities deployed long-developed tactics of resistance. Among the most powerful of these tactics is what Audra Simpson calls “refusal”. Many Pueblo laborers refused to share esoteric knowledge with anthropologists, a tactic adopted by those laborers who became artists. Early Pueblo paintings can, thus, be understood as “ana-ethnographic”, a representational mode through which the artists worked both through and against ethnographic norms in order to simultaneously benefit from, manipulate, and resist scientific colonialism. Crescencio’s paintings and tiles are paradigmatically ana-ethnographic. In creating these objects, Crescencio benefited from the ethnographic desire to know and record Pueblo life, and yet he only represented aspects of his culture appropriate for outsider consumption, refusing to share protected knowledge.

Entering a city: on a lost early modern practice

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL JÜTTE
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Main Section ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Third ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
City Gates ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACT:City gates and walls were among the most striking features of the pre-modern city, yet we still know relatively little about their impact on daily life and what it meant to enter a city at that time. The present article explores precisely these questions. The first section outlines the general significance of city gates and walls in pre-modern times. In the second, I examine the four distinct functions of city gates in the early modern period. The third and main section presents a detailed description of the various practices, procedures and problems that accompanied the entrance to a city. Finally, and to conclude, the history of city gates is viewed in conjunction with the broader history of the early modern city and its transformation in the transition to modernity.

scholarly journals Betty Møllers almanak

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Gredal Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. In 2006 the Royal Library bought an almanac that had belonged to Betty Møller (1804-34). It was given to her by her husband, the Danish poet and philosopher Poul Martin Møller (1794-1838) during their stay in Norway where he was professor of philosophy. While the book is an almanac in the usual sense, containing a calendar of months and days, with astronomical data and calculations, ecclestiastical and other anniversaries, Betty Møller also used the blank pages as a kind of personal journal. The article briefly presents the general background, transcribes and comments upon her entries, some of which were written after their return to Denmark in 1831. The personal contents mostly concern her daily life with their small children or record a few major events, for instance the happy feeling when Møller was appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen, since this meant that their life abroad could come to an end. The last long entry, which is highly emotional, she seems to have written shortly before her early death in 1834. She dedicates the almanac to one of her sons, Frederik Møller, called Fritz, whose infancy and early development is the subject of several of the entries and to whom she has copied some short passages from her favourite books for him to read after her death.  

scholarly journals Form, Content, and Space: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern European Graffiti

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Gaia Trentin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Final Interpretation

Scholars of variousdisciplines have focused their attention on European Medieval and Early Modern graffitiduring the last decade, thus confirming and reinforcing the value of thispeculiar written evidence. Their contributions demonstrate that graffiti canoffer valuable information to different fields of study (e.g. shipbuilding,palaeography, history, social culture, and visual culture) through a glimpseinto past daily life. Due to their nature, graffiti present a completely freegraphic expression, which may appear in either textual or pictorial forms, orboth. This characteristic makes their study rather challenging due to the twodifferent mechanisms of communication they employ. In the case of textualgraffiti, the content is transmitted through linguistic codification, whilepictorial graffiti require a decoding process that is more complex andarticulated. The first challenge, though, is to find a way to record andcompare both evidence on the same graphic and verbal levels.  Furthermore, as for any other epigraphicevidence, the graffiti analysis must take into account the writing surfaces andthe context, two elements that are fundamental for the final interpretation ofthis source. This paper will address these methodological issues concerning thepreliminary phase of graffiti documentation and classification/cataloguing. Thestarting point has been the recent debate and application of FAIR dataprinciples in the field of Humanities, which aim to create quality data, easilyexchanged in a digital environment, fostering knowledge in the field. Sincethis approach has not yet been applied to graffiti studies, the paper aims tostimulate a dialogue on innovative and objective methodological approacheswithin the researchers’ community.

Training Missionaries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rex Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
College Training ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Curriculum Reforms ◽  
And Training

This chapter examines the missionary training program in the Franciscan colleges for the propagation of Catholicism, focusing on the collegial curriculum, especially instruction in moral theology and languages. The objective of the Franciscan Order's college training program was to provide missionaries with pedagogic and epistemological techniques to help them in their evangelical endeavors, particularly preaching skills. Franciscan friars in the colegios were exposed to a stringent daily life and training in linguistics, philosophy, and theology. Franciscan missionaries and preachers were trained to become assertive evangelical ministers at the vanguard of the Catholic religion in the early modern world. The chapter discusses the specific elements of the Franciscan training program in the colegios de propaganda fide, what and how veteran missionaries and reformers contributed to college curricula, and quotidian life in the college. It also describes the curriculum reforms pursued by the Franciscan colleges.

scholarly journals Forms, Handbills and Affixed Posters

Quaerendo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pettegree ◽  
Arthur der Weduwen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Total Output ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
The World

Abstract In 2018, we published an article that provided a first attempt to survey the whole output of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Our estimate was a minimum of 357,500 editions. This calculation did not yet include the world of ephemeral forms, handbills and posters. The survival of such commercial or private notices is microscopically small, compared to what must have been produced. It is nevertheless vital for our understanding of the print trade that we attempt to capture the complexities of this lost world: this was work that sustained printshops. It was also the form which most acutely influenced commerce, government and social life. Here we wish to offer an introduction to this most elusive genre of the early modern print world, document the myriad ways in which print infiltrated the daily life of people, and offer some hypotheses on the likely total output of certain forms of ephemeral print.

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