scholarly journals Reliefs of the Summer Palace: An Early Onset of Russian Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-321
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Korolev ◽  
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Michael M. Pozdnev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Onset ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Early Attempt ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
Domestic Art ◽  
Summer Palace ◽  
Charles Le Brun ◽  
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The Summer Palace, a ship-like realisation of Peter the Great’s high aspirations in fields both mundane and aesthetic, wears an admirably preserved and well-maintained girdle of twenty-eight bas-reliefs and one haute-relief crowning the entrance. Themed mostly around Ovid’s Metamorphoses, they are both propagandistic allegories and reflections on the private life of the incumbent. The accumulation of traditional motives is handled with a freedom betraying a lack of thoroughness in representation as well as a desire for all things classical. The reliefs thus appear to be neither an unfinished piece by the great Andreas Schlüter nor an accurate reproduction of well-known artefacts crafted by his continuers (Braunstein, Mattarnowi, or even Le Blond, et al.) and marred beyond recognition by clumsy handiwork on the home turf, but an early attempt of domestic art to think Classics while going under its own steam in their execution. The living force behind these pieces was, evidently, Peter the Great himself: the in­ventiveness of composition uninhibited by poor execution, the introduction of recurrent sea­faring (sea is an omnipresent background in reliefs even when the plot borrowed from Ovid is definitely terrestrial) and amatory motifs along with a close unity of literary and allegoric, intimately personal and statesmanlike, point in his direction. The engravings by Giovanni Andrea Maglioli on which (as Renate Kroll has shown) five relieves are modelled also correlate with Ovid representing the amorous Neptune transformed in various sea beasts. However, the majority of plots and artistic decisions prove to be sourced in a set of 226 engravings by Charles Le Brun originally accompanying a free verse translation of the Metamorphoses by Isaac de Berserade. The later copy of this work spotted by Peter either in Holland during the Great Embassy (1697–1698) or among the books of his European friends at home and finally reproduced in Petersburg in 1722 delivered the first and, admirably, never quite so full plastic representation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Russia.

scholarly journals Unknown Siberian Poems by Vasily Yan

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
I. V. Prosvetov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Face ◽  
Poetic Style ◽  
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The first publication of poems by the Soviet writer-historian, 1st degree Stalin Prize laureate Vasily Yan (Yanchevetsky), composed in 1920–1923, when he lived and worked in Siberia. Source – handwritten miscellany “Poems of Wanderings”, recently discovered in the Yanchevetskys’ family archive. The publication is accompanied by detailed biographical comments. In the civil war, V. Yanchevetsky took part on the side of the whites as one of the main propagandists of the Kolchak army – the head of the Informative Department of the Special Chancellery of the Supreme Commander’s Staff, editor of the front newspaper “Vperyod”. After the collapse of the white movement, V. Yanchevetsky had to hide his past, changing occupations and places of residence (Achinsk, Uyuk, Minusinsk). The Siberian po- etic cycle, created at this time, makes it possible to understand not only the mood of the author in the last years of the turning point in Russian history, but also literary searches, and the atmosphere of the time in general. The main themes are homeland, revolution, freedom, atheism, building a new life, preserving the personality in the face of political upheavals. Obviously, the influence on the poetic style of the author of such trends as symbolism and futurism, which he was interested in. In Omsk V. Yanchevetsky closely communicated with the writer, poet and avant-garde artist Anton Sorokin, attended his literary evenings at home. Probably, as a result, some of the Siberian poems were written in free verse, to which V. Yanchevetsky had never used before.

scholarly journals Risk factors for pre-eclampsia among women at antenatal booking in Kano, Northern Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Yakasai ◽  
Imran O. Morhason-Bello
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Degree Relative ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
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Pre-eclampsia (PE) is an important cause of maternal mortality. There have been several studies on risk factors assessment with conflicting reports across the globe on this disease; however, rigorous recent evaluation of these factors is uncommon in this region. The aim of the present study was to determine the risks factors in the early-onset PE in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano (Northern Nigeria). We conducted a case-control study in Nigeria between April 2009 and January 2010 to identify the risk factors associated with the early-onset PE in women attending antenatal clinic in AKTH. Information on socio-cultural characteristics, medical history, previous obstetrics history, level of stress at home, and type of family were obtained and recorded in a proforma designed for the study. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the risk factors for PE at 95% confidence level. Pregnant women with early-onset PE (150 in each case and control group). Risk factors associated with increased risk of early-onset PE were: history of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) in a previous pregnancy [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.09]; exposure to passive smoking (AOR 1.34); inadequate antenatal supervision (AOR 15.21); family history of hypertension in one or more 1st-degree relative (AOR 8.92); living in a joint family (AOR 6.93); overweight (120% to 150% of pre-pregnancy ideal body weight, AOR 4.65). Risk factors among women in Northern Nigeria are similar to those reported from other studies. Good antenatal cares, early detection, reduction of stressful conditions at home are the most important preventive measures of early-onset severe PE among these women.

scholarly journals FÆLLESSPISNING MIDT I JYLLAND: Når det drejer sig mere om spisning og drikning end om mad og drikke

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Private Life ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
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Richard P. Jenkins: Sociability in Mid- Jutland: When Eating and Drinking is the Point, rather than Food and Drink This paper is based upon nearly a year’s field research in a town in mid-westem Jutland, Denmark. Ethnographic data is presented about the range of occasions for eating and drinking which are available to its inhabitants: eating at home, meetings, annual general meetings, parties and celebrations, and public eating on demand and at need. The argument is made that the social occasions of eating and drinking are more significant than the food and drink itself. This is related to a complex of cultural values concemed with sociability, consensus, mutuality, communality and apparent equality, which finds its widest expression in the Danish welfare State. Developing changes in the structure of private life and households - and in the values just itemised - are related to changes in the organisation of eating and drinking. A more general argument is also offered, about the need to re-orient the study of food and drink towards a processual study of eating and drinking.

scholarly journals The Scope of the Right to Give Birth at Home as Reproductive Self-determination In the Legislation of Georgia and the Practice of the European Court of Human Rights

Law and World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-124
Keyword(s):  
Home Birth ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Fetal Life ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Member States ◽  
Hospital Delivery ◽  
Legitimate Interest ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
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This article discusses the scope of the right to give birth at home as reproductive self-de- termination in the context of Georgian law and the case-law of the European Court. Georgia, like many other member states of the Council of Europe, unconditionally prefers the model of hospital delivery to protect maternal and fetal life and health. It is true that under Georgian law, home birth is not prohibited as such, however except for emergencies, medical staff is authorized to provide medical care only in a licensed medical premise. That equates to a restriction of the right. Despite the legitimate interest in restricting the right to give birth at home, scientific studies have confirmed the similarity between the consequences of home birth and hospital delivery in the case of low-risk pregnancies. The blanket ban on the right to give birth at home became the object of debate in the European Court in 2010. The court explained that the right to respect for private life enshrined in the Convention includes not only a person’s decision to become or not to become a parent, but also the choice of conditions. According to the court, childbirth is a unique and delicate moment in a woman’s life, and the determination of the place of childbirth is fundamentally related to a woman’s personal life. The European Court has discussed the availability and foreseeability of national legislation in the context of restricting the right to give birth at home. The Court has ruled that national authorities must ensure the clarity (if any) of the responsibility for providing obstetric services at home. However, the Court has still left open the issue of the need to restrict the right to give birth at home on the grounds of a lack of consensus among the member states of the Council of Europe and the complex socio-economic aspects of the issue.

THE COMMON WORLD: HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND DOMESTIC INTIMACY

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH R. COEN
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Private Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Professional Norms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
First Time ◽  
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Let us begin by considering a series of letters written in 1863 by Max Vigne, a humble imperial surveyor in India, to his wife at home in England. In the course of his affectionate and finely observed correspondence, Vigne comes to think of himself for the first time as a naturalist. He recounts his growing fascination with botany, particularly the new field of plant geography, and he expresses a keen desire to share this new knowledge—and his newfound identity—with his faraway wife, Clara.Everything I am seeing and doing is sonew. . . When I lie down to sleep everything spins in my brain. I can only make sense of my life the way I have made sense of everything, since we first met: by describing it to you. That great gift you have always had oflistening, asking such excellent questions—when I tell you enough to let you imagine me clearly, then I can imagine myself.In these lines Vigne is proposing what might strike us at first as a surprising connection between scientific observation and private life. He seems to derive his standard of clear description—the backbone of his scientific work as a naturalist—not from professional norms or philosophical reflections, but rather from an ideal of intimacy. In subsequent letters Vigne makes clear that his study of the geographical relations among plants is part of a more personal quest for knowledge: an attempt to make sense of the persistence of his own identity during his transformative experiences of travel. “Only now do I begin to grasp the principles of growth and change in the plants I learned to name in the woods, those we have grown at home—there is ascienceto this. Something that transcends mere identification.” He likens the plant's essential and enduring form to the bond he shares with Clara:The point, dear heart, is that through all these transformations one can still discern the original morphology; the original character is altered yet not lost. In our separation our lives are changing, our bond to each other is changing. Yet still we are essentially the same.These letters never reached Vigne's wife, because neither he, nor Clara, nor the letters themselves ever really existed. They are fictions, penned not by a nineteenth-century naturalist but by the twenty-first-century novelist, Andrea Barrett. Why begin a historiographical essay with fiction? In part because in very few cases have historians yet gone to the trouble of reconstructing such profound resonances between familial and scientific experiences. As historians, we are not yet sure how to read domestic documents as sources for the history of knowledge production. “Flimsy lists of things to do, large parchment mortgages, ‘private letters of no consequence’”—these are among the historical documents that we need to learn to read for their clues to intellectual history.

Coronavirus and the Colonisation of Private Life

Legalities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
Margaret Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Temporal Flexibility ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Government ◽  
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The idea of a distinction between public and private life has a long history in political thought, but the boundary between them has become increasingly blurred as a result of temporal flexibility. Technological change lies at the heart of the ability to choose when and where work is performed, including ‘working at home’. This refers only to productive work so that the unpaid domestic and caring work that women disproportionately undertake has been excluded. Its invisibility has led to it ‘counting for nothing’ in the computation of the Gross National Product. With particular regard to the gender ramifications of working at home, this article analyses the responses to an on-line survey conducted in Australia when lockdown was a key prong of the government response to COVID-19 in 2020. As unpaid work was integrated with productive work, it is suggested that the rationale for discounting it in national accounts no longer holds, especially as the sphere of intimacy is insidiously being colonised by capitalism.

scholarly journals Teleworking: A new method for organizing work

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Bojan Urdarević
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The World ◽  
Unusual Situation ◽  
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Recently, especially with the development of information technologies, the so-called flexible employment modes is increasingly represented. From the employer standpoint, this employment model has a lot of benefits in the form of reducing certain costs, but it is also more comfortable for an employee because there is no commuting. On the other hand, the great disadvantage of this kind of work is that it is difficult to separate private life from work obligations. The great changes in the economies and societies of the countries in the world brought about by the pandemic of infectious disease COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 have greatly affected the world of work. The biggest change that has taken place in the world of work is the change of place of work, so instead of in the employer`s premises, employees switched to teleworking, mostly at home, especially during the state of emergency and prohibition of free movement. During that period, telework and work at home began to be used more and more often as synonyms for designating a specific way of conducting work - outside the employer`s premises. Such an unusual situation has left many countries surprised by how to help employees and employers, not only due to the lack of appropriate legal framework, but also due to the lack of resources needed for new technologies. In that sense, teleworking has proven to be a highly successful means of enabling continuity in the employer`s business, especial in times of natural disasters and pandemics, but at the same time, many legal issues related to the nature of such working regime are open.

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