The Case of Carlo Calà and Giovanni Calà: Historical Truth and Doctrinal Orthodoxy in post-Reformation Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-463
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
Complex Investigation ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Historical Authenticity ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Joachim Of Fiore

In the second half of the 1650s, Carlo Calà, Duke of Diano and president of the Regia Camera della Sommaria in Naples, began a well-orchestrated campaign to convince the ecclesiastical authorities to canonize a mysterious and hitherto unknown ancestor, Giovanni Calà. Said to have lived between the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries, Giovanni Calà purpotedly served the Holy Roman Emperor Henry vi as one of his most trusted army captains, aiding the Emperor in conquering southern Italy before eventually becoming a hermit and follower of the Calabrian mystic Joachim of Fiore, whose supernatural and prophetic power he allegedly shared. Carlo Calà’s demands originated a long and complex investigation, which in turn provoked a heated debate within the Roman Curia on how to establish historical authenticity while defending theological dogmas. The case of Carlo Calà and Giovanni Calà opens a unique window on the changing and complex attitudes of post-Reformation Catholicism concerning the relationship between historical truth, philological criticism, and doctrinal orthodoxy. The implications of the debates initiated by this case are still thought-provoking and relevant today.

‘Nature Has Its Own Soul and Speaks Its Own Language’

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Helena Ruotsala
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Reindeer Herding ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Finnish Lapland ◽  
The People ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

Nature and environment are important for the people earning their living from natural sources of livelihood. This article concentrates on the local perspective of the landscape in the Pallastunturi Fells, which are situated in Pallas-Ylläs National Park in Finnish Lapland. The Fells are both important pastures for reindeer and an old tourism area. The Pallastunturi Tourist Hotel is situated inside the national park because the hotel was built before the park was established 1938. Until the 1960s, the relationship between tourism and reindeer herding had been harmonious because the tourism activities did not disturb the reindeer herding, but offered instead ways to earn money by transporting the tourists from the main road to the hotel, which had been previously without any road connections. During recent years, tourism has been developed as the main source of livelihood in Lapland and huge investments have been made in several parts of Lapland. One example of this type of investment is the plan to replace the old Pallas Tourist hotel, which was built in 1948, with a newer and bigger one. It means that the state will allow a private enterprise to build more infrastructures for tourism inside a national park where nature should be protected and this has sparked a heated debate. Those who oppose the project criticise this proposal as the amendment of a law designed to promote the economic interests of one private tourism enterprise. The project's supporters claim that the needs of the tourism industry and nature protection can both be promoted and that it is important to develop a tourist centre which is already situated within the national park. This article is an attempt to try to shed light on why the local people are so loudly resisting the plans by a private tourism enterprise to touch the national park. It is based on my fieldwork among reindeer herding families in the area.

Le Benevole. Riflessioni su storia e letteratura

2009 ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Looking Back

- In Les Bienveillantes. Reflections on History and Literature Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat discusses the relationship between history and literature on the Shoah, in particular through an analysis of Jonathan Littells highly successful novel, published initially in France and translated in other European countries. Looking back at earlier books on the same theme that failed to attract any attention, he concludes that Littells novel marks a new phase, with the Shoah seen through the person of the «executioner». Morbid or voyeuristic insistence on violence, like instrumental use of music or Greek tragedy, risks reducing the Shoah yet again to a commonplace, without respect for the historical truth and hence for the memory of the victims.Key words: Literature, Nazism, Shoah, witnesses.Parole chiave: Letteratura, nazismo, Shoah, testimoni.

scholarly journals Technical aspects of the reconstruction of historic gardens

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Original State ◽  
General Methodology ◽  
Prominent Component ◽  
Historical Authenticity ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Built elements and structures are a prominent component of our historic gardens, both in terms of function and artistic composition and garden scenery. The surveys of historic garden structures are important research tasks, which also underpins and validates restoration work. In most cases, the neglected state of historic gardens and sites and the unavailable archival materials do not allow an authentic restoration of historic gardens to their original state. Nevertheless, there is a real need to reconstruct our historic gardens, based not only on historical authenticity but also on a systematic reinterpretation of the relationship between society and landscape. The objective of this article is to present a general methodology for renewal of historic gardens through examples of specific garden reconstructions. The case studies are the authors' own design works, which demonstrate the application of different design approaches, highlighting details of the reconstruction of specific built garden elements.

Public Intimacy and the New Face (Book) of Surveillance

2010 ◽  
pp. 2057-2068
Author(s):  
Lemi Baruh ◽  
Levent Soysal
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Social Currency ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years, social media have become an important avenue for self-expression. At the same time, the ease with which individuals disclose their private information has added to an already heated debate about the privacy implications of interactive media. This chapter investigates the relationship between disclosure of personal information in social media and two related trends: the increasing value of subjective or private experience as a social currency and the evolving nature of automated dataveillance. The authors argue that the results of the extended ability of individuals to negotiate their identity through social media are contradictory. The information revealed to communicate the complexity of one’s identity becomes an extensive source of data about individuals, thereby contributing to the functioning of a new regime of surveillance.

A Controversial Partner

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Authenticity ◽  
Joachim Of Fiore

This chapter focuses on Joachim of Fiore, Giovanni’s alleged companion and inspirator. After a brief introduction to Joachim’s life and works, this chapter explains the controversies that Joachim’s prophecies and theological views provoked. The chapter also explores the centuries-long and failed attempts made by Joachim’s followers to have him officially canonized. In the seventeenth century, the case for Joachim’s sanctity received several boosts, including the important endorsement of the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch, one of the leaders of the Bollandists. The chapter explores all the political, intellectual, and theological reasons for this novel enthusiasm, which Carlo hoped would have benefited Giovanni’s case as well. Analyzing the joint cases of Joachim and Giovanni provides a unique lens through which we can appreciate the politics of sanctity in connection with questions of historical authenticity and theological orthodoxy.

scholarly journals Mnemonic Populism: The Polish Holocaust Law and its Afterlife

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kornelia Kończal
Keyword(s):  
Significant Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

In early 2018, the Polish parliament adopted controversial legislation criminalising assertions regarding the complicity of the ‘Polish Nation’ and the ‘Polish State’ in the Holocaust. The so-called Polish Holocaust Law provoked not only a heated debate in Poland, but also serious international tensions. As a result, it was amended only five months after its adoption. The reason why it is worth taking a closer look at the socio-cultural foundations and political functions of the short-lived legislation is twofold. Empirically, the short history of the Law reveals a great deal about the long-term role of Jews in the Polish collective memory as an unmatched Significant Other. Conceptually, the short life of the Law, along with its afterlife, helps capture poll-driven, manifestly moralistic and anti-pluralist imaginings of the past, which I refer to as ‘mnemonic populism’. By exploring the relationship between popular and political images of the past in contemporary Poland, this article argues for joining memory and populism studies in order to better understand what can happen to history in illiberal surroundings.

The volcanism of southern Italy: Role of subduction and the relationship between potassic and sodic alkaline magmatism

1989 ◽  
Vol 94 (B4) ◽  
pp. 4589-4601 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Ellam ◽  
C. J. Hawkesworth ◽  
M. A. Menzies ◽  
N. W. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Alkaline Magmatism ◽  
The Relationship

THE ACCIDENTAL MARXIST: ANDRE GUNDER FRANK AND THE “NEO-MARXIST” THEORY OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT, 1958–1967

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
CODY STEPHENS
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Influential Book ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Based on newly available archival records, this article examines the life and thought of Andre Gunder Frank from his years as a graduate student in development economics to the publication of his first and most influential book. A closer look at the evolution of Frank's thought provides new insight into the relationship of his brand of “neo-Marxist” development theories with both classical Marxism and modernization theory. Frank interpreted Marxist political debates according to the categories of thought of 1950s American development economics, and in doing so he both misinterpreted fundamental aspects of Marxism and simultaneously generated lively theoretical debates that remain relevant today.

Excavations at D85 (Santa Maria in Cività): An Early Medieval Hilltop Settlement in Molise

1980 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 70-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hodges ◽  
Graeme Barker ◽  
Keith Wade
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hilltop Settlement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Santa Maria

Between 1974 and 1978 the settlement archaeology of the Biferno valley in Molise in southern Italy was investigated by a programme of field survey, excavation and allied archaeological research directed by one of us (GB) and termed the Molise Project. For the historic periods the archaeology has been combined with documentary studies; both have then been integrated with geomorphological research into the environmental history of the valley, forming an inter-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between human settlement and landscape change in the valley from prehistoric times to the present day. For interim reports on the project, see Barker (1976, 1977), Barker et al. (1978), and Lloyd and Barker (1981).

scholarly journals Stylistic marking of the text as a method of manipulation: psychological aspect

Obraz ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (32) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Oksana Pochapska
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Press ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. Up to date, the situation in the Ukrainian media space has not changed dramatically from the Soviet Period. This gives wide possibilities for variations to manipulate the minds of the audience, a large part of which is made up of people of 55 years of age who are accustomed to reading and trusting the press. Accordingly, the study of the relationship between the audience’s trust in the journalistic publication and the manner of presenting news of the specified category of the population will enable to form ways of introducing media literacy for different categories of society, which is relevant today. Significance and purpose. In our study, we analyze the reactions of this audience as it is the part of the active population that in one way or another influences the formation of conscious perception of the surrounding reality of modern youth. The purpose of the study is to research the relationship between the stylistic marking of the text and the audience’s confidence in the information presented in the publication (based on the analysis of regional periodicals 1943-1960). Research methods. During the study such methods as surveys (oral and online surveys) were used to examine the audience’s response to texts of different styles, content analysis, which analyzed the frequency of use of satirical-humorous genres, stylistically labeled vocabulary and religious imagery for criticism/condemnation of those people or phenomena that did not fit into the criteria of the USSR; genre, stylistic and semantic analysis. Results. The analysis of the period 1943-1960 showed that in the newspaper “low” style was used to ridicule those who did not fit into the Soviet system of vision of the state and citizens in the state. As a result, a population of 55+ (experimentally confirmed) formed a well-founded distrust of information presented in a satirical form. This makes it possible to predict the effectiveness and efficiency of journalistic materials. Conclusion. Selected publications analyzed that the Soviet print periodicals clearly distinguished the manner of presenting information about the so-called «positive» and «negative» heroes. At the same time, the survey revealed a tendency of public confidence in the information that does not contain stylistically marked vocabulary. Accordingly, we can say that stylistic marking of the text is one of the methods of manipulation of public opinion. Prospective for further research. Studying the peculiarities of the perception of newspaper texts by different categories of the population is a prospect for further research. Keywords: newspaper, stylistic marking, manipulation, consciousness, audience.

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