scholarly journals Promocje doktorskie jako ceremonie akademickie

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Emilia Szymczak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Academic Capital ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Academic Degrees

Academic regalia, symbols and ceremonies are an important element of university reality. The ruling force here is the tradition and continuity of the preservation of symbols since the Middle Ages. The awarding of academic degrees and titles in the XXI century is still associated with a consistent structure during which specific rituals – characteristic for University or even each field of study – take place. They become an exemplification of prestige in the academic world, the position of professors, as well as other social groups, and crystallize the place in the hierarchy of various individuals and groups of people, as well as the academic capital that they represent. In this article, I will focus on this initial level of academic career which is a doctorate and especially at this ceremonial or symbolic ritual of passage – the doctoral promotion.

scholarly journals En norsk matriark analyserer patriarkerne

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Norwegian matriarch, Kari E. Børresen, died in April 2016, after a fine academic career as one of the outstanding feminist theologians of her generation. This article seeks to portray her by lifting up one of the key issues of her research within gender studies: the imago Dei and the various ways this was understood in Christian antiquity and the Middle Ages. Before embarking on that, the article introduces Børresen and her work as a feminist theologian in general.

On the Professorial Voice

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Clark
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Middle Ages

ArgumentMuch recent research has established the importance of visualization in modern science. This essay treats, instead, of the continued importance of the aural and oral: the professorial voice. The professor remains important for science since so many scientists still instantiate this persona and, as is here argued, a “voice” constitutes an essential feature of it. The form of the essay reflects its contents. From the Middle Ages until well into the modern era, the archetypal professorial genre was the disputation, an oral event recast in written form. Apropos of the traditional disputation, this essay begins with a disquisition more or less to the point. It concerns Nietzsche’s first major publication, which violated norms for the proper professorial voice, thus accelerated the destruction of his academic career. The essay then presents six theses on the professorial voice. The theses treat relevant aspects of the professorial voice from the Sophists onward. It is argued, in Weberian terms, that the professorial voice or persona embodies elements of charismatic and traditional authority which coexist with and condition the rational authority or “objectivity” of science.

KNIGHT EDUCATION IN MIDDLE AGES – PART TWO

2012 ◽  
Vol 165 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Szymon MARKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article presents the process of education of noble youths. It characterizes the area of activity of social groups, its aims, tasks and historical circumstances. It is also an attempt at refuting the stereotypes of knowledge related to the Middle Ages. From the pedagogical perspective, it is an analysis of the historical re-enactment phenomenon. The author focusing on historical premises specifies only the sources of re-enactment for the contemporary continuators of knight traditions: re-enactors.

scholarly journals Social mobility and the Middle Ages

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANDRO CAROCCI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Middle Ages

ABSTRACTNotwithstanding its relevance, social mobility has not been at the forefront of the agenda for historians of the Middle Ages. The first part of this paper deals with the reasons for this lack of interest, highlighting the role of historical models such as the French ‘feudal revolution’, the neo-Malthusian interpretations, the English commercialisation model and the great narrative of Italian medieval merchants. The second part assesses the extent to which this lack of interest has been challenged by conceptions of social space and social mobility developed in recent decades by sociologists and anthropologists. Therefore, it is really important to indicate the gaps in our understanding, and to clarify research questions, technical problems and methods. The paper examines the constitutive elements of social identities, the plurality of social ladders, and the channels of social mobility. It touches upon the performative role of learned representations, and upon the constraints imposed upon human agency by family practices and genre. It underlines the importance of studying the mobility inside social groups, and argues that we must distinguish between two different types of medieval social mobility: autogenous social mobility, and endogenous or conflictual social mobility.

scholarly journals Arbor Praedicandi. Some Remarks on Dispositio in Mediaeval Sermons (on the Example of Sermo 39 “Semen Est Verbum Dei” by Mikołaj of Błonie)

Terminus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (Special Issue 2) ◽  
pp. 169-195
Author(s):  
Lidia Grzybowska
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Middle Ages

The main aim of this paper is to present the motif of a tree-shaped compositional scheme called arbor picta (arbor praedicandi) and to show it against the field of rhetorical elements such as dispositio and memoria as found in mediaeval sermons. The basic sources for the analysis of this question are two fourteenth-century theoretical treatises on the art of preaching (manuals: Libellus artis preadicatorie by Jacobus de Fusignano and Tractatulus solennis de arte et vero modo praedicandi by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas), and one of the sermons from the collection de tempore of a fifteenth-century Polish preacher, Mikołaj of Błonie (Dominica sexagesime: sermo 39 “Semen est verbum Dei”). The problems of arbor praedicandi, which are part of a broader field of study on the structure of sermons, editorial methods of texts and mnemonics, were the subject of interest of many researchers such as H. Caplan, O.A. Dieter, S. Khan, S. Wenzel. In Poland, this issue has not yet become a subject of proper study. In order to analyse this scheme in the treatises of Jacobus de Fusignano and Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas, as well as in the exemplary sermon, the paper briefly outlines the existence of topics and images of the tree in the writings of the Middle Ages (e.g. lignum vitae, arbor sapientiae, arbor amoris). Then fragments from the manuals of Jacobus de Fusignano and Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas are presented in which the authors discussed the scheme in question and explained its importance for the practice of preaching. An analysis of a practical example—here: sermo 39 from Mikołaj of Błonie’s collection de tempore—shows the creative use of the tree scheme in the sermon by the Polish preacher (with the speculative assumption that Mikołaj of Błonie knew Jacobus’s theory of preaching). Particular attention is also paid to the circumstances of the development of the art of preaching in the late Middle Ages in Poland. Finally, the importance of the concept of the sermon as a tree for the elements of rhetoric such as dispositio/divisio/partito and memoria is emphasised. In this study, it is shown that the use of the tree scheme in presenting abstract concepts and structuring texts allowed preachers and their audiences to visualise vague and often difficult ideas, as well as to describe their relationship within the subjects of the sermons. Therefore, the use of the scheme in the Middle Ages had great significance for ars memorativa and the didactic dimensions.

KNIGHT EDUCATION IN MIDDLE AGES – PART ONE

2012 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-236
Author(s):  
Szymon MARKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article presents the process of education of noble youths. It characterizes the area of activity of social groups, its aims, tasks and historical circumstances. It is also an attempt at refuting the stereotypes of knowledge related to the Middle Ages. From the pedagogical perspective, it is an analysis of the historical re-enactment phenomenon. The author focusing on historical premises specifies only the sources of re-enactment for the contemporary continuators of knight traditions: re-enactors.

Spil, leg og idræt i nordisk middelalder

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Søndergaard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Original Function ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Physical Strength ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Middle Ages

Beskrivelse af de sociale klassers sportsdyrkelse og bevægelseskulturer i middelalderen i de nordiske lande.Games and Sports in the Middle Ages in the NorthFrom Saxo’s Gesta Danorum (ce. 1200), the Icelandic Sagas and the Norwegian King’s Mirror (ce. 1250), we obtain the clear impression that games and sports in the early Middle Ages served two main functions: 1) to display physical strength and 2) to train in the proper use of weapons. These abilities were needed at all levels of Viking and early medieval society. Even kings had to distinguish themselves in sports. Later in the Middle Ages sports and games were socially differentiated. The peasantry continued with trials of strength, – wrestling, boxing, tug-of-war, running and jumping games, ball games, throwing the javelin, shooting with longbow or crossbow, stone lifting etc. The nobility however developed new games. The chivalric virtues, values and norms were transmuted into tournaments. A full scale tournament comprised three sections: 1) riding at the ring, 2) fights between riding knights armed with lances and, 3) standing fights with swords. The nobles also played skittles and other games. The burghers in the towns invented their own games during the Later Middle Ages. Their guilds organised festive sports at Shrovetide, pulling the head off a goose, sword dancing, riding summer and winter, – and at Pentecost, shooting popinjays (a wooden figure on the end of a pole). During the Middle Ages sports and games lost most of their original function of displaying power. Instead they aspired to a place among the rituals of representative courtly display. The games were often integrated into annual festivities, and contributed to giving a distinct cultural identity to each of the social groups who performed them.

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