HENRY W. SULLIVAN. Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain. Seven Essays on the Definition of a Genre. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2018. 434 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-553
Author(s):  
Margaret Rich Greer
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tragic Drama

Reseña de Tragic Drama in the Golden Age of Spain. Seven Essays on the Definition of a Genre de Henry W. Sullivan. 

The Function of the Historian

2017 ◽  
pp. 70-125
Author(s):  
Ramin Jahanbegloo ◽  
Romila Thapar ◽  
Neeladri Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Indian History ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Definition Of

In this section Romila Thapar reflects on the function of the historian in general and more precisely on her approach to history. Nationalist historians had opposed some interpretations of Indian history made by colonial scholars but many were left unquestioned. Her generation of historians challenged colonial historiography on a larger scale and this also brought them into opposing some nationalist interpretations. Among these was the periodization of Indian history by James Mill into Hindu, Muslim, and British periods, and the theory that ancient India was a golden age that declined in the medieval period under Muslim rule. This questioning opened up many debates on a range of themes in the method of writing history, such as, the definition of a historical fact, priorities in historical explanation, testing the reliability of the data, as well as the incorporation of fresh and different data from archaeology.

XVIII.—A Definition of the Pastoral Idyll

PMLA ◽  
1904 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Hale Shackford
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The history of the pastoral is a long history; perhaps no other manner of writing has exerted so wide an influence or held so deep a fascination. The words pastoral, idyllic, Arcadian still move us; they surround us with an atmosphere of charm; they encourage those moments that are unstrenuous; they recall us to an early and almost outgrown freshness of feeling. Yet, oftentimes, the poets of the Golden Age are regarded as mere literary alchemists by critics who cannot yield themselves to genuine poetic illusion, failing to recognize in that distant world the embodiment of really existent beauty. Pastoral has, in many cases, justly been a word of reproach and ridicule, a synonym for insipid creations, unreal in feeling, affected in style; but whether good art or bad it has appeared, Proteus-like, in numerous forms. Music, sculpture, and painting have used the pastoral motif; the Good Shepherd has been for twenty centuries, in the Christian church, a tender symbol of Divine Care; and in literature the pastoral has never really faded away, but has come back again and again with persistent appeal. It seems, therefore, that there must be in it some inherent beauty, some elemental greatness which deserves investigation and acknowledgment.

Rascals, Scoundrels, Villains, and Knaves: The Evolution of the Law of Piracy from Ancient Times to the Present*

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-383
Author(s):  
Rebecca Fantauzzi
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis paper begins by tracking the history of piracy from Greek and Roman times, to the Golden Age of piracy, into modern day. It also looks at the motivations for becoming a pirate and the “piracy cycle.” The paper then moves into a discussion of how piracy has influenced the law, such as its impact on Universal Jurisdiction and international treaties like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; however, a stable definition of what constitutes “piracy” has become troublesome, even with the abundance of legal sources related to the subject. The paper then moves into a discussion of three US court cases dealing with the issue of piracy: the first from the Golden Age of piracy, the second in the early part of this century showing how piracy is not always prosecuted in the traditional sense, and finally with the case of the famous pirate the US Navy SEALS captured during the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama. Finally, the paper concludes the discussion using the modern day situation of Somalia to show how the “piracy cycle” is still capable of explaining what draws people to piracy, how that particular situation has been combated by the international community, and how neighboring countries, like Kenya, are using their own court systems to the advantage of the rest of the world.

1 Reconfiguring the national constellation

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL ZÜRN ◽  
STEPHAN LEIBFRIED
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The influence of the state on the trajectory of human lives is more comprehensive and sustained than that of any other organizational construct. We provide a definition of the modern nation-state in four intersecting dimensions – resources, law, legitimacy, and welfare – and review the history and status of each dimension, focusing on the fusion of nation and state in the 19th century, and the development of the ‘national constellation’ of institutions in the 20th. We then assess the fate of the nation-state after the Second World War and, with western OECD countries as our sample, track the rise and decline of its Golden Age through its prime in the 1960s and early 1970s. Finally, we identify the challenges confronting the nation-state of the 21st century, and use the analyses in the following eight essays to produce some working hypotheses about its current and future trajectory – namely, that the changes over the past 40 years are not merely creases in the fabric of the nation-state, but rather an unravelling of the finely woven national constellation of its Golden Age. Nor does there appear to be any standard, interwoven development of its four dimensions on the horizon. However, although an era of structural uncertainty awaits us, it is not uniformly chaotic. Rather, we see structured, but asymmetric change in the make-up of the state, with divergent transformations in each of its four dimensions. In general, nation-states are clinging to tax revenues and monopolies on the use of force, such that the resource dimension may change slowly if at all; the rule of law appears to be moving consistently into the international arena; the welfare dimension is headed in every direction, with privatization, internationalization, supra-nationalization, and defence of the national status quo, occurring at various rates for healthcare, pensions, public utilities, consumer protection, etc. in different countries. How, and whether, the democratic legitimacy of political processes will be ensured in such an incongruent, if not incoherent and paradoxical state is still unclear.

Elsewhere

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Bilal Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
British Raj ◽  
American Television ◽  
Definition Of

The Jewel in the Crown was based on a quartet of acclaimed novels by the British writer Paul Scott and told the interwoven stories of colonial officers and their families living in India as the empire collapsed around them. It aired over fourteen weeks on PBS's Masterpiece Theater, from December 1984 to March 1985, and arrived in the midst of a golden age of television that included groundbreaking miniseries such as The Thorn Birds (ABC, 1983) and Brideshead Revisited (ITV, 1981). The new British import produced by Granada Television became a critical and cultural sensation–the definition of appointment television. One in nine Americans with a television set tuned in, over several months, as it transported audiences to the unseen exotic landscapes of India and the twilight of the British Raj. Qureshi reflects on this series thirty years after it first aired on American television, and finds it unexpectedly subversive, sly, and prescient.

IV Landscape: Time and Motion

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Diana Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Time And Motion ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Scientific Advances

We have already thought about how Golden Age imagery influences understanding of what landscape should be about, and we will return later to issues of chronology and temporality. Here, we start with some strategies for reading landscape as a sequence of places that can be combined to tell a story. One definition of space makes it what we experience by moving through a series of places, which we connect up into patterns by picking particular routes to follow. Using this model, landscape stories invite us to move into and around them, offering different ‘ways of going out and coming back in’, depending on how we map our route. Following the narrative flow through a landscape takes time. Time, however, is relative – and culturally constructed; depending on context and terminology, time can move at different speeds and follow different logics. Bakhtin's chronotope is helpful here. Using the natural environment to create a structure for understanding how time passes gives meaning and order to the passage of the year. For agricultural communities, it was a matter of life and death: studding the calendar with legends and myths closely linked to places, seasons, and appropriate activities was one way to ensure that good and bad ways of doing things were remembered over time. Calendars therefore engage in a complex dialogue with religious and cultural assumptions, and they also respond to scientific advances in measuring the passage of time.

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