scholarly journals The Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 499-514
Author(s):  
Rafał Zarębski
Keyword(s):  
16Th Century ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Linguistic Means ◽  
Modern Perspective

The article tries to describe the linguistic creation of a city in Polish 16th-century diaries from journeys to the Holy Land. During long trips, the authors visited many exotic, for the Polish traveller, cities and towns to whom they devoted a lot of space in their diaries. The analysis is based on findings of theory of linguistic image of a world and on the concept of linguistic creation and semiotic role. The author outlines the set of linguistic means used by the diarists to indicate various roles. He concludes that the image of a city presented in the analysed texts oscillates between traditional frame that has its source in the classical antiquity and modern perspective significant for the man of the Renaissance.

scholarly journals Guidebooks to the Holy Land in the repertoire of the pilgrim literature of Muscovite Rus'

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-238
Author(s):  
Irina V. Fedorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Translation ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The Wanderer ◽  
Holy City

The repertoire of guidebooks to the Holy Land in the Old Russian literary culture of Muscovite Rus’ is significant and diverse. Its basis is texts translated from Greek and Polish. Using the example of the Old Russian translation of a monument preserved in handwritten lists of the 17th–18th centuries entitled “A Tale for the Benefit of Hearing and Reading About the Holy City of Jerusalem and its Surrounding Places”, the article discusses the content and narrative features of guidebooks to the Holy Land. The analysis showed that the studied Tale in terms of composition, principles of material selection and organization is close to similar monuments of the Byzantine tradition, which to one degree or another are associated with the 15th century proskynetarian Anonymous Allyatsiya. Comparison of the text of the Tale with this proskynetarian suggested that the original of its Old Russian translation was one of the alterations of this guide, dating no earlier than the 16th century, when the Turks mentioned in the text ruled Palestine. The relevance of guidebooks to Palestine for the Old Russian book culture is also demonstrated by the original monuments of this genre, the creation of which began in the 15th century. The article names and briefly describes several such texts of the 15th–18th centuries, found in manuscripts under the titles “The Wanderer of Jerusalem”, “The Legend of the Jerusalem Way”.

Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-266
Author(s):  
Stephen White
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Ancient Greek Philosophy ◽  
Modern Perspective

This chapter addresses Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers, which recounts the doings, sayings, and writings of the leading figures of ancient Greek philosophy from its origins down to its rapid efflorescence and institutionalization in the fourth and third centuries bc, with occasional glimpses of its continuing vitality in the centuries beyond. Diogenes’ Lives is an exceptional work on many counts. For one, it is the single largest collection of Lives to survive from classical Antiquity, handily surpassing Plutarch in number and scope if not in depth or length, and so too Philostratus and Suetonius. It is also a key witness to the early stages of biographical literature in the fourth and third centuries bc. At the same time, it presents the single most comprehensive account of the origins and development of an entire discipline, and a distinctive form of intellectual history from a biographical perspective. It also, accordingly, represents a distinctive form of life-writing, framed by basic biographical data but lean, often very lean on the standard biographical fare—from a modern perspective at least—of incident and narrative, and governed instead by its disciplinary orientation, and its sustained focus on philosophy as a distinctive cultural practice and way to live.

scholarly journals Prikaz Korčule na ikoni iz Bizantskog muzeja u Ateni

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Zoraida Demori Staniči
Keyword(s):  
16Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Pointed Arch ◽  
Rough Sea ◽  
The Way

The icon of Miracle by the Virgin attributed to the circle of Theodore Poulakis from Byzantine Museum in Athens is known and published. It is divided in two horizontal registers: the upper depicts Virgin Hodegetria with venerating angels under adorned pointed arch, while in the lower one there is a shipwreck in front of the fortified town. Virgin is accompanied by the eloquent epithet „The Hope of Sinners”. The wreck below this celestial scene is realistically presented with passengers of the ship perishing in the rough sea. Two of them clinging to wooden boards swim to nearby land with fortified city which Greek inscription „Kurzula”. This town is, actually, Korčula on the epinomous island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic which was Venetian territory and important port, and not Kurzulari islands at the western entrance to the Corinthian gulf, as had been suggested. Icon has Greek votive dedication to the „Virgin of the Venetians”, made by obviously saved Ioannis Ardavanis, which is a Greek name from Kefallinia, who was either passenger or owner of the ship. The image of the Virgin may be identified as venerated icon from Hvar Franciscan monastery, parallel to island of Korčula, a well known medieval sanctuary, situated on the way to Holy Land. Hvar icon with the epithet „Hope of the Sinner” was painted in the second half of 16th century and has the same iconography and a similar epithet as the Virgin in the Byzantine Museum.

scholarly journals Prikaz Korčule na ikoni iz Bizantskog muzeja u Ateni

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Zoraida Demori Staničić
Keyword(s):  
16Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Pointed Arch ◽  
Rough Sea ◽  
The Way

The icon of Miracle by the Virgin attributed to the circle of Theodore Poulakis from Byzantine Museum in Athens is known and published. It is divided in twohorizontal registers: the upper depicts Virgin Hodegetria with venerating angels under adorned pointed arch, while in the lower one there is a shipwreck in frontof the fortified town. Virgin is accompanied by the eloquent epithet „The Hope of Sinners”. The wreck below this celestial scene is realistically presented withpassengers of the ship perishing in the rough sea. Two of them clinging to wooden boards swim to nearby land with fortified city which Greek inscription „Kurzula”. This town is, actually, Korčula on the epinomous island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic which was Venetian territory and important port, and not Kurzulari islands at the western entrance to the Corinthian gulf, as hadbeen suggested. Icon has Greek votive dedication to the „Virgin of the Venetians”, made by obviously saved Ioannis Ardavanis, which is a Greek name from Kefallinia, who was either passenger or owner of the ship. The image of the Virgin may be identified as venerated icon from Hvar Franciscan monastery, parallel to island of Korčula, a well known medieval sanctuary, situated on the way to Holy Land. Hvar icon with the epithet „Hope of the Sinner” was painted in the second half of 16th century and has the same iconography and a similar epithet as the Virgin in the Byzantine Museum.

scholarly journals Venice in Polish Literature of the Latter Half of the 16th Century and in the 17th Century as a Model Political System, a Leading Centre in the Fight Against the Ottoman Empire, and the Centre of the Pilgrimage Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-50
Author(s):  
Michał Kuran
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Political System ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
System A ◽  
The Republic

The aim of the study is to present at least three reasons why Old Polish writers of the latter half of the 16th century and 17th century wrote about Venice. The first one was the admiration in the nobility-ruled republican political system which emerged in the Republic of Venice, and which was considered as an attractive model by Old Polish thinkers and writers. They, e.g. Palczowski, Górnicki, and Wolan, expressed their convictions in their treatises. The second reason was that of the struggles of Christian states with the Ottoman Empire. Venice constituted the first potential ally and often a leader of European armies intended to participate in the often-planned anti-Muslim crusades. The study references the accounts of the visions of Venice as a leader of crusades as inscribed in the exhortation-related literature. The third reason was the perception of Venice as a safe port for pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land and, more broadly, to the territory of the Ottoman state via the sea. Its image emerged from the accounts of Old Polish pilgrims, travellers, and escaped slaves.

scholarly journals Rushton and Jensen’s Work has Parallels with Some Concepts of Race Awareness in Ancient Greece

Psych ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 391-402
Author(s):  
Gabriel Andrade ◽  
Maria Campo Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Race Differences ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Cold Winter ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Winter Conditions ◽  
Selection Of

Rushton and Jensen’s “Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability” documents IQ differences in populations on the basis of race. The authors explain these data by arguing that cold winter conditions in Europe had greater pressure for the selection of higher intelligence. Critics of Rushton and Jensen, and of the very category of race, claim that race is a social construct that only came up in the 16th century, as a result of overseas voyages and the Atlantic slave trade. The goal of this article is to refute that particular claim, by documenting how, long before the 16th century, in classical antiquity race was already a meaningful concept, and how some Greek authors even developed ideas that bear some resemblance to Rushton and Jensen’s theory. The article documents how ancient Egyptians already had keen awareness of race differences amongst various populations. Likewise, the article documents passages from the Hippocratic and Aristotelian corpus, which attests that already in antiquity, there was a conception that climatic differences had an influence on intelligence, and that these differences eventually become enshrined in fixed biological traits.

Electrochemical nucleation and growth of copper on iron and aluminum: A TEM study of industrial copper cementation

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
L.E. Murr ◽  
V. Annamalai
Keyword(s):  
Metal Surface ◽  
Copper Deposit ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Electrochemical Reactions ◽  
Mine Shaft ◽  
De Re ◽  
Copper Precipitation ◽  
Electrochemical Nucleation ◽  
Interesting System

Georgius Agricola in 1556 in his classical book, “De Re Metallica”, mentioned a strange water drawn from a mine shaft near Schmölnitz in Hungary that eroded iron and turned it into copper. This precipitation (or cementation) of copper on iron was employed as a commercial technique for producing copper at the Rio Tinto Mines in Spain in the 16th Century, and it continues today to account for as much as 15 percent of the copper produced by several U.S. copper companies.In addition to the Cu/Fe system, many other similar heterogeneous, electrochemical reactions can occur where ions from solution are reduced to metal on a more electropositive metal surface. In the case of copper precipitation from solution, aluminum is also an interesting system because of economic, environmental (ecological) and energy considerations. In studies of copper cementation on aluminum as an alternative to the historical Cu/Fe system, it was noticed that the two systems (Cu/Fe and Cu/Al) were kinetically very different, and that this difference was due in large part to differences in the structure of the residual, cement-copper deposit.

Geography in Classical Antiquity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Dueck ◽  
Kai Brodersen
Keyword(s):  
Classical Antiquity

Toward Healing Trauma in the Holy Land

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Blanch
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land
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