scholarly journals The Queen’s Fantastic Body

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 96-114
Author(s):  
Yun Ni
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Political Symbolism ◽  
Eleanor Of Aquitaine ◽  
Two Bodies ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
Body Subject

Ernst H. Kantorowicz, in his seminal work The King’s Two Bodies, argues that a sovereign has two bodies: one mortal, physical body subject to illness and death, and another immortal, dynastic body equivalent to the administrative mechanism. Notably, it is the king who has two bodies, not the queen. The king’s dynastic body is his administrative persona, but the queen’s official body depends on her maternity for the continuation of the dynasty. This essay argues that a queen can have two bodies and explores female rulers’ ways of claiming the rhetorical doubling of a sovereign body independent of maternity. It also proposes a comparative approach. This essay reads the mythological representation of Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204) in Marie de France’s Arthurian tale Lanval against Empress Wu Zetian 武則天 (624–705)’s self-mythologization as the avatar of the Goddess of Pure Radiance in the Commentary on the Great Cloud Sutra. It illustrates how female rulers wielded political symbolism through a reshuffling of symbolic orders, which provides a window into the roles of Celtic myths in a medieval French Christian society and Buddhism in a medieval Chinese Confucian society.

Heroic Bodies in Judges

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-96
Author(s):  
Brian R. Doak
Keyword(s):  
Social Disorder ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Bodies ◽  
The Way ◽  
Book Of Judges

Chapter 3 reads the images of heroic bodies in the book of Judges on a number of levels, organized around an argument by the anthropologist Mary Douglas: “the social body constrains the way the physical body is perceived.” The two bodies cannot help but be connected, and the “forms it adopts in movement and repose express social pressures in manifold ways.” The ambiguous and severed bodies in Judges serve not merely as entertainment but rather as communicators of social disorder and political strife. Specific analysis focuses on the mutilation of Adoni-Bezek, the bodily confrontation between Ehud and Eglon, Jael’s killing of Sisera, Samson’s hair, and the dismemberment of an unnamed woman.

scholarly journals Homo sum – amicus sum, sive de Terentio Christiano Hrotsvithae Gandeshemensis

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
Kurt Smolak
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
John Of Salisbury ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Two Bodies ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
The Ideal

The most famous line from Terence, homo sum etc. (Heautontimoroumenos 77), has been interpreted in different ways under different circumstances by authors ranging from Cicero and Seneca in antiquity and Erasmus at the beginning of the modern age to figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bataille, and Thomas Mann. Augustine of Hippo was the first to refer to Terence within a broader Christian context, and in the 12th century John of Salisbury equated the presumed philanthropic attitude of the Roman comedian and imitator of Menander with charity, the ultimate Christian virtue. Whereas most of the testimonia to the reception of Heautontimoroumenos 77 have already been identified and in part analyzed, a refined indirect ῾quotation᾿ of the line in question has been neglected: In a sort of réécriture of the initial scene of Terence’s drama, Roswita (Hrotsvit) of Gandersheim (10th century), in her hagiographic comedy ῾Abraham᾿, interpreted the even then proverbial sentence by introducing for the attitude of ῾humanity towards one’s neighbour᾿ both the Aristotelian definition of friendship (῾one soul in two bodies᾿) and a reference to the ideal of a Christian society with ‘one heart and one soul᾿ (Acts 4, 32). Thus the Terentian humanum is bothparaphrased by and identified with both an other classical and a Christian concept of mutual human affection.

Flesh and the Common Man: Robert Penn Warren's Huey Long Drama

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 953-971
Author(s):  
JOSEPH KUHN
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Symbolism ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man ◽  
King's Men ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Two Bodies

R. P.Warren's play about Huey Long,Proud Flesh(1937–39), is not a provisional draft ofAll the King's Men(1946) but a distinct work in its own right. Its conservative criticism of New Deal “common-man-ism” makes it unusual in the politicized literature of the 1930s. At the core of the play is a political symbolism of the flesh, which Warren derives from Shakespeare's representation of the Tudor doctrine of the king's two bodies. Governor Strong embodies the people through his second or immortal body, a dictatorial flesh that Warren resists by trying to articulate an existential “definition” of the self.

Lectin-Induced RBC Agglutination: Chemical vs. Cryofixation

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 664-665
Author(s):  
Dean A. Handley ◽  
Lanping A. Sung ◽  
Shu Chien
Keyword(s):  
Lectin Binding ◽  
Freeze Substitution ◽  
Electrostatic Charge ◽  
Geometric Parameters ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Chemical Fixation ◽  
Cell Surfaces ◽  
Minimal Cell ◽  
Membrane Stiffness ◽  
Cell Contour

RBC agglutination by lectins represents an interactive balance between the attractive (bridging) force due to lectin binding on cell surfaces and disaggregating forces, such as membrane stiffness and electrostatic charge repulsion (1). During agglutination, critical geometric parameters of cell contour and intercellular distance reflect the magnitude of these interactive forces and the size of the bridging macromolecule (2). Valid ultrastructural measurements of these geometric parameters from agglutinated RBC's require preservation with minimal cell distortion. As chemical fixation may adversely influence RBC geometric properties (3), we used chemical fixation and cryofixation (rapid freezing followed by freeze-substitution) as a comparative approach to examine these parameters from RBC agglutinated with Ulex I lectin.

"The Word of St. Gregory": the beginning of a comparative approach to supernatural

1997 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Natalia Fatyushyna
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Domestic Literature ◽  
12Th Century

In the domestic literature, the beginnings of comparative ideas about supernatural belong to the writing of Kievan Rus. The most meaningful such representation is presented by "The Word of St. Gregory, reproduced in the interpretation of how the first pagans, that is, the pagans, worshiped the idols and laid them down, as they now do." The basis of this monument of the Kyivan culture of the 12th century, also known as the "Word of the Idols," was the sermon of the prominent patriarch Gregory the Theologian on the Epiphany, in which he reacted negatively to ancient paganism. But "The Word," as Y. Anichkov noted, is not a preaching, nor a translation of the thoughts of Gregory the Theologian, but an attempt to study Old Believers: it gives an interpretation of the work of the Byzantine theologian "in the interpretation" of the local paganism.

Trust in Modern Russia (Comparative Approach to "Social Virtues")

2010 ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sasaki ◽  
Yu. Latov ◽  
G. Romashkina ◽  
V. Davidenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
International Projects

This article offers economic and sociological theory of trust, embodying the idea of "social capital" by James Coleman. It also analyzes empirical data on personal and institutional trust obtained on the basis of nationwide opinion poll in the project "Comparative studies of trust in different countries during the period of globalization". The problem of trust is considered in the context of the international projects "World Values Survey" and "Trust Barometer" which made it possible to construct a mental world map of personal and institutional trust for various countries. It is shown that Russia has not a low, but a medium level of trust. In the mental world map some patterns were presented that reflect the basic trust as a form of social capital.

Migration and family change in Egypt: a comparative approach to social remittances

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucile Gruntz ◽  
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Return Policies ◽  
Social Remittances ◽  
Power Set ◽  
Gender Ideals ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
And Gender

Based on two ethnographical studies, our article explores social remittances from France and from the Gulf States, i.e. the way Egyptian migrants and returnees contribute to social change in their homeland with a focus on gender ideals and practices, as well as on the ways families cope with departure, absence and return. Policies in the home and host countries, public discourse, translocal networks, and individual locations within evolving structures of power, set the frame for an analysis of the consequences of migration in Egypt. This combination of structural factors is necessary to grasp the complex negotiations of family and gender norms, as asserted through idealized models, or enacted in daily practices in immigration and back home.

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