scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF THE LAST JUDGMENT IN THE UKRAINIAN LITERARY TRADITION OF THE 12th – 18th CENTURIES AS A KEY TO EXPLANATION OF THE WORLDVIEW OF UKRAINIAN POPULATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN TIMES

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
A. Hryhorak
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article deals with the systematization and analysis of authentic ancient Ukrainian texts dedicated to the topic of the Last Judgment with the author's purpose to reconstruct the worldview of Ukrainian population of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times. The source base of the study included eschatological literature as the most popular and numerous during that ages as well as Holy Bible, hagiographic works, prophecies and the graffiti of St. Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv. The dominant idea in the works found was the idea of the Last Judgment. Through the prism of this idea the most urgent moral problems, which were of acute concern to society, are recovered: the problem of the fall of spirituality, social inequality, the decline of morality etc. The author also verified the foreign influences on Ukrainian eschatological literature as well the influence of preachers and polemicists of that time on public opinion about the signs of the end of the world. Revealing works in the medieval and early-modern Ukrainian literature devoted to the most fateful subjects, analyzing their content for reflection of eschatological ideas, systematizing the main ideas related to responsibility for terrestrial life, comparing these visions with those translated in literature, revealed the presence of the eschatological ideas on the common background of the general cultural and historical context of the studied ages. A study of Ukrainian eschatological literature led the author to the conclusion that the whole range of written eschatological sources gives us a linear development of the idea of the Last Judgment, from the dissemination of eschatological ideas of the 12th century to their concretization, development, popularization with each new period. Summing up the analysis of the works of eschatological literature, distributed on Ukrainian lands in the 17th – 18th centuries, the opposition of secular and religious thinking becomes noticeable, which is quite clearly reflected in the literature.

Protestant Rivalry — Metaphysics and Rhetoric in Germany c. 1590–1620

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

One of the most remarkable changes to take place at German Protestant universities during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first twenty years of the seventeenth century was the return of metaphysics after more than halfa century of absence. University metaphysics has acquired a reputation for sterile aridity which was strengthened rather than diminished by its survival in early modern times, when such disciplines are supposed deservedly to have vanished with the end of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, this survival has attracted some attention this century. For a long urne it was assumed that German Protestants needed a metaphysical defence against the intellectual vigour of the Jesuits. Lewalter has shown, however, that this was not the case.

scholarly journals Deutsch als Minderheitensprache

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Claudia Maria Riehl ◽  
Rahel Beyer
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
World War ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

<p>This contribution focusses on varieties of German which are spoken in extraterritorial German communities. Many of these groups go back to emigration in the Middle Ages or in Early Modern Times and have developed a specific koiné which is characterized by dialect merger and language contact with the surrounding languages. Another group are so-called "border minorities", extraterritorial communities that emerged after World War I and are bordering German-speaking countries. The article first provides a historical overview of the various German-speaking minorities. Then, the different sociolinguistic settings of the respective language communities are addressed and illustrated by examples of communities with a different sociolinguistic and linguistic background.</p><p> </p>

Lexical contact in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: French

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2017) ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Laura Minervini
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
French Case ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractIn the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, French was variously involved in the dynamics of lexical contact in the Mediterranean. The study of lexical loans may display the stratification of influences and linguistic exchanges that is peculiar to the “French case”.

Echte schrijvers zijn niet te koop : Praktijk en beeldvorming van het economisch profijt van de literaire auteur door de eeuwen heen1

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-61
Author(s):  
Helleke van den Braber ◽  
Nina Geerdink ◽  
Laurens Ham ◽  
Johan Oosterman ◽  
Sander Bax
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Assumption ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Financial Gains ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract A grand narrative of Dutch literary authors’ opportunities to economically profit from their writing is yet to be written. The general assumption, however, is that these opportunities developed teleologically from a dominant system of patronage during medieval and early modern times, in which financial gains were marginal and in which author’s independence of their supporters was constrained, to a system in which the commercial book market was dominant and where authors could be more self-supporting and thus more independent of supporters. This article argues that there is no such teleology. On the contrary: on the basis of an exploration of both practice and discourse of literary authors’ profits from the Middle Ages to the present, we conclude that in every period, it was possible for authors to profit from their writing through either patronage, market or governmental support, and often through a combination of these sources. Moreover, in every period varying types of independence of literary authors was valued highly. Our analysis of the discourse on profits shows that the continuous tendency to disguise financial advancement could be related to the importance of authorial independence throughout the ages.

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