BUILDING THE PAST: MONUMENTS AND MEMORY IN THE FORUM ROMANUM

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way ◽  
Late Roman

Memory played a crucial role in the shaping of Late Roman political consciousness and identity. This is clear in the case of the city of Rome, where political, religious, and social transformations affected the way that the city’s inhabitants defined their relationship between themselves and with the imperial court. The area of the forum Romanum was intimately related to Rome’s history, and was therefore particularly appropriate for the construction of different ‘Roman memories’. The aim of this article is to discuss how the monuments built or restored in this area helped to define these memories and turn the past into a political argument.

scholarly journals Konstantynopol i jego mieszkańcy w "Nowej Historii" Zosimosa

Vox Patrum ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 573-584
Author(s):  
Małgorzata B. Leszka
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

For Zosimos Constantinople was a vital city, a city that owed a lot to Constantine the Great; all that despite the fact that both that ruler and his successors did not find much appreciation in the historian’s eyes. The new Capital city may have its problems, such as overpopulation, lack of room and safety, but it is also the place where one can easily find a job. Its inhabitants, whenever needed, can face serious threats (Gainas’ struggle with Goths), but their reactions are unpredictable and difficult to tame (Procopios’ usurpation, city unrest accompanying the deposition of John Chrysostom from bishopric). Constantinople is the place where the events essential for country’s existence take place, where there is a furious struggle for power, where one can fali with ease from the peaks of power down to the very bottoms (like e.g. Ruffinus of Eutropios). It is the place of the Imperial court, criticized so much by Zosimos himself because, as he says, of the monarchs’ weakness, but also due to bossy eunuchs, advisors and court cliąues. Such views may have resulted from the religious beliefs of the author, who could not agree to the apostasy of the rulers from religious traditions of the past. Constantinople is also the place with Christian temples and followers, led, according to the author, by arrogant individuals, for this is the way he perceives John Chrysostom. These individuals can riot the City against its rulers, while their followers from the mob may be a threat to law and public order.

Stages of Decline

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-378
Author(s):  
Ari Daniel Levine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
The Past ◽  
Southern Song ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Social Trauma ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
Northern Song ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The City

After the fall of the Northern Song [Formula: see text] (960–1127) capital of Kaifeng [Formula: see text] to Jurchen invaders in 1127, diasporic literati of the Southern Song dynasty [Formula: see text] (1127–1279) recreated and revisited its lost sites through textual commemoration, especially in memorabilia literature (biji [Formula: see text], lit. ‘brush notes’). As knowledge of the city passed from communicative memory into cultural memory, its decline and destruction became the focus of nostalgia and indignation for Yue Ke [Formula: see text] (1183–1234), the author of the Pillar Histories (Ting shi [Formula: see text]), a collection of counter-narratives of Northern Song history that expressed the shared experience of social trauma induced by dynastic collapse. Disconnected from their spatial context and even from historical fact, the city’s memory sites became stages for amoralistic declension narrative, in which the city’s destruction and occupation was assumed to have been instigated by the decadence of the imperial court of the passive Emperor Huizong [Formula: see text] (r. 1100–26) and his ‘nefarious ministers’. The most colourful elements of Yue’s ludic and fantastical narratives became the focus of his indignation, which encouraged his readers to denounce the traitors who had betrayed the empire by inviting the Jurchen invasion. In the Pillar Histories, Yue deployed textual imaginaries of nostalgia as forms of resistance by re-contesting the past events that led to dynastic collapse. By reconstructing the city in the cultural memory of his fellow diasporic literati, Yue was creating a vision of an ideal political, cultural and moral community that once existed at the dynasty’s inception, and might be reconstituted in the future, if and when Song subjects recaptured their lost homeland.

Genova, dalle Colombiane a Capitale Europea della Cultura. Grandi eventi e processi di rigenerazione urbana

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Francesco Gastaldi
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Centre

- Major events have played a crucial role in the urban transformations that have taken place in Genoa over the past 15 years, both for the huge investments they require and for the way they have redefined the city's image. Urban transformation, upgrading and maintenance, all of which have affected the historical centre and the waterfront, have contributed decisively to the reversing of the process of physical, economic and social degradation which had been devouring many parts of the city centre. 2004 was the year Genoa became European Capital of Culture and this was a turning point in the endeavour to relaunch and consolidate the role of the city in the tourist and cultural panorama of both Italy and Europe.

Quand observations et interprétations diffèrent : le cas de l'arc de triomphe de Tripoli dans les sources arabes

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 149-157
Author(s):  
Anis Mkacher
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe only building which has been preserved from the ancient urban fabric of Tripoli, Oea in antiquity, is the Triumphal Arch. By considering Arab sources, we may shed new light on its evolution, the place it had been in the past and the way it was considered during those times. If we compare two excerpts from Arab-Muslim historiography, written by local travellers, with Western testimonies, we see that the monument was reinterpreted in the light of the new culture which was established in the region and of the local history of the city.

scholarly journals Advanced care or advanced life support – what are we providing?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Makrides ◽  
Leon Baranowski ◽  
Lucas` Hawkes-Frost ◽  
Jennie Helmer
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Advanced Life Support ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

The field of paramedicine has undergone significant change and modernisation over the past 50 years. Presently there are no consistent terms or lexicon used across the profession to describe different levels of advanced practice. This inconsistency risks creating confusion as the professionalisation of paramedic practice continues. As well, many empirical studies support the claim that communication and the importance of managing language actively plays a crucial role in supporting change and in shaping the new paradigm. Therefore, the way one uses communication, and the deliberate choice of words to describe advance practice, will support change in the desired direction. This article explores these terms and their attendant influences on perceptions of practice to argue for change towards the standardised use of the term ‘advanced care paramedic’ across the Anglo-American paramedic system.  

scholarly journals Countrywide Epidemics as “Visits of the Horseman of Death” in Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Éva Bruckner
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

For thou­sands of years Hun­gary has, for the most part, been a transit zone for other na­tions’ armies or a tar­get of con­quest. As a res­ult, the Four Horse­men of the Apo­ca­lypse: Con­quest, War, Fam­ine and Death were ravaging mostly at the same time. Among them, Death is “the deputy of hell”, which can des­troy everything by dis­eases and epi­dem­ics. This study is a brief re­view of the in­fec­tious dis­eases which rav­aged vari­ous re­gions in Hun­gary dur­ing the past cen­tur­ies, fol­lowed by a more elab­or­ate de­scrip­tion of those that tar­geted the whole coun­try: plague, chol­era and Span­ish flu. With the help of doc­u­ments which have not been re­vealed so far, the study sheds light on in­ter­est­ing stor­ies, like the way the plague helped the city of Pest to be­come the cap­ital city, or how Hun­garian doc­tors could suc­cess­fully cure tuber­cu­losis in the unique cli­mate of the Tatra Moun­tains. At the turn of the 19th and 20th cen­tur­ies, chol­era triggered a de­vel­op­ment in pub­lic health­care and hy­giene that still has its im­pacts felt to date. The coronavirus, which has hit us in the 21st cen­tury, is stud­ied with a focus on its ef­fects on our cur­rent so­ci­ety.

TO THE PROBLEM OF ENLIGHTENED PLURALISM IN RUSSIAN TOWN PLANNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Elina V. DANILOVA
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
Special Events ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the study of processes in Russian urban planning over the past three decades. This period is marked by the birth and formation of a new city growing out of the Soviet urban environment. The article discusses the three conditional stages of the city after restructuring, exploring their specifi city. The context and features of each of the considered stages are described: 1990s, 2000s. 2010s. The state of the architectural and town planning profession is analyzed, the goals and tasks of which changed in accordance with social transformations. Particular att ention is paid to the typology of constructed objects, the development of the architectural order in the context of a market economy. The innovations at each stage are matched, special events that aff ect professional thinking and design methodology are emphasized. The author explores how the two recognized theoretical models of the city - the collage city and the generic city - were adapted to the post-Soviet reality.

scholarly journals Empty Night: Kashubian “Home Liturgy” in the Context of Death

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Jan Perszon
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Passion Of Christ ◽  
Religious Songs

Based on ethnographic field research and thanatological literature, this article analyzes the continuing, but rapidly disappearing, Kashubian custom of bidding farewell to a deceased member of the local community known as “empty night”. Its essence is the night prayer vigil in the house of the deceased, performed by neighbors and relatives. The prayer consists mainly of singing religious songs on “the last things”—in particular about purgatory, human fragility, God’s mercy, and the Passion of Christ. The efforts of the orants are motivated by the concern for the salvation of the soul of the deceased, that is, the shortening and relieving the purgatorial punishment. The centuries-old tradition of “empty night” has been rapidly disappearing over the past 50 years as a result of both economic and social transformations, the gradual erosion of living faith, and the abandonment of the priority of salvation by younger Kashubians. The progressive medicalization of life and change of the approach to death play a crucial role in weakening the tradition of the ancestors. Thus the traditional “empty night” becomes a relic of “tamed death,” giving way to its tabooization and the illusion of “technological immortality”.

scholarly journals Calles de la memoria: filmando los procesos performativos de la memorialización

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Guarini
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Past ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Es sabido que la memoria es una construcción del pasado desde un presente. Sin presente no hay memoria posible. Partiendo desde esta línea conceptual mi trabajo se ha sustentado desde sus inicios en el principio de observar y filmar en qué elementos del presente se instala la memoria, en pos de construir imágenes que den cuenta del modo en que el pasado circula en nuestro presente y lo resignifica. En mi último film Calles de la Memoria  exploro desde un doble proceso performativo un reciente proceso de memorialización: las “baldosas x la memoria” en la ciudad de Buenos Aires a cargo de grupos de emprendedores de Memoria. Palabras clave: Memoria. Baldosas. Desaparecidos. Memorialización. Performa.   Streets of Memory: filming performative processes of memorialization   Abstract   It is known that memory is a construct of the past from a present. Without this there is no memory possible. Starting from this conceptual line my work has been based in the principle of observing and filming in which elements of this memory is installed, after constructing images that account for the way in which circulates in the past and our present new meaning. In my last film Streets of Memory I explore a recent performative memorialization process: the "memory’s flagstones" in the city of Buenos Aires made by groups of entrepreneurs Memory. Keywords: Memory. Flagstones. Desaparecidos. Memorialization. Performa.

Regional Associations and the Chinese City: A Comparative Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary G. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Regional Associations ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This essay outlines research that has occupied much of my time for the past several years. It concerns regional associations in traditional China, or what is known as hui-kuan or tung-hsiang-hui. When I began this research, inspired in part by Ho Ping-ti's masterful survey (1966), I believed, as did Ho, that most of the stones on this particular field of knowledge had been turned.What remained to be done, it seemed to me, was to record the vicissitudes of these traditional associations in the modernizing atmosphere of early twentieth-century China. But the more I began to look into these associations—into the way they operated, what they implied about Chinese society, and how they seemed to put the countryside into the city—the less I felt I knew and the less I was satisfied with previous generalizations made about them.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document