scholarly journals A New Perspective in Russian Intellectual History: Russian Political Thought in Early Modern Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Derek Offord
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Russian Intellectual History ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
New Perspective

G. M. Hamburg, Russia’s Path Toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016, 912 p. ISBN: 9780300113136

SMOLENSK IN JAN KUNOWSKI’S POETRY AND LIFE

2019 ◽  
pp. 324-336
Author(s):  
Ludmila Ivonina
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The City ◽  
Xviith Century

The article analyzes a career and a number of poetic works written by a Polish poet Jan Kunowski. The books are associated with Smolensk and the wars between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moscow State in the first half of the XVIIth century. The example of Kunowski’s poems and life demonstrates the place of Smolensk both in the political thinking of the Polish nobility of the Early Modern Times and, in particular, of an individual person. In addition, the article demonstrates some methods used by the propaganda of the Early Modern Times; they are dedicated to the event under the study. The author agrees that the writings by Jan Kunowski about Smolensk are an expression of the mentality of the Polish nobleman lived the XVIIth century, who was confident in Providence protecting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and convinced of the special mission of the Polish-Lithuanian State. In a certain way, the canticle to Smolensk was propaganda. In reality, Kunowski renewed the state and ethnic myth of Polish and partly Lithuanian political thought; he added a new element – Smolensk – to the thousand-year history of the state. Moreover, the article emphasizes that comprehension of Kunowski’s poems content from the only perspective of gentry’s mentality, propaganda and love for the city can be incomplete. The poet’s reflection of the reality was largely stimulated by material reasons, career aspirations, and religious confession.

scholarly journals «ETERNAL PUNISHMENT» AS A REGULATOR OF ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISHMEN IN EARLY MODERN TIMES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.А. Васильева
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Civil Laws ◽  
Eternal Punishment

В статье рассматриваются особенности религиозного сознания и мышления англичан раннего Нового времени, связанные с восприятием «вечного наказания». На основе текстов проповеднической публицистической литературы XVII–XVIII веков проанализированы представления, страхи и ожидания «вечного наказания», разделяемые как духовенством, так и мирянами. Методологическим ориентиром при анализе проповедей послужили принципы «новой культурно-интел- лектуальной истории», которая видит свою основную задачу в исследовании ин- теллектуальной деятельности и процессов в сфере гуманитарного, социального и естественно-научного знания в их конкретно-историческом социокультурном кон- тексте. В рассматриваемый период угроза «вечного наказания» и воздаяния по грехам была более эффектив- на, чем страх перед земным правосудием. Союз церкви и государства выражался в совмещении понятий «боже- ственное возмездие» и «уголовное наказание». Постоянная актуализация образа ада, истолкование природных явлений и эпидемических болезней в понятиях «предупреждения» и «возмездия» со стороны священнослужите- лей обеспечивали поддержание социального порядка и закладывали привычку к повиновению государственной власти. Англиканская вера отвергала учение о чистилище, проповедники последовательно проводили мысль о том, что верующие должны придерживаться такого образа жизни, который позволит достичь покаяния и исправления в течение земной жизни. Угроза «вечного наказания» для грешников обеспечивала относительное послушание гражданским законам. The article considers peculiarities of the religious consciousness and mentality of the Englishmen, associated with perception of the «Eternal punishment» in early modern times. Based on preaching sermons of XVII-XVIII centuries, the article analyses the perception, fears and expectations of «eternal punishment», shared by either clergy or laity. The principles of “the new cultural-intellectual history” served as a methodological orienting point in analyzing sermons, that sets as its main task the study of intellectual, social and scientifi c knowledge in their specifi cally-historical and sociocultural context. In the period under review, the threat of «Hell’s torments» and retribution for sins was more effective than the fear of “Earthjustice”. The Union of Church and State was refl ected in combination of the following concepts: «divine retribution» and «criminal punishment». The constant actualization of the image of Hell, the interpretation of natural phenomena and epidemic diseases in the concepts of «prevention» and «retribution» by the clergy ensured the maintenance of social order and develop a habit of obedience to the state power. The Anglican faith rejected the doctrine of purgatory; the preachers maintained the conviction that believers should follow such a way of life that would allow them to seek penance and rehabilitation during their mortal lives. The threat of «eternal punishment» for sinners provided the relative obedience to civil laws.

La otredad: ¿real o inventada? El caso de las brujas

1999 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Elia Nathan Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The One ◽  
In Virtue Of

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. On the one hand, it offers a general analysis of stigmas (a person has one when, in virtue of its belonging to a certain group, such as that of women, homosexuals, etc., he or she is subjugated or persecuted). On the other hand, I argue that stigmas are “invented”. More precisely, I claim that they are not descriptive of real inequalities. Rather, they are socially created, or invented in a lax sense, in so far as the real differences to which they refer are socially valued or construed as negative, and used to justify social inequalities (that is, the placing of a person in the lower positions within an economic, cultural, etc., hierarchy), or persecutions. Finally, I argue that in some cases, such as that of the witch persecution of the early modern times, we find the extreme situation in which a stigma was invented in the strict sense of the word, that is, it does not have any empirical content.

Shakespeare’s Dancing Bodies

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-196
Author(s):  
Brandon Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Somatic Psychology ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times

Romeo’s well-known excuse that he cannot dance because he has soles of lead is demonstrative of the autonomous volitional quality Shakespeare ascribes to body parts, his utilization of humoral somatic psychology, and the horizontally divided body according to early modern dance practice and theory. This chapter considers the autonomy of and disagreement between the body parts and the unruliness of the humors within Shakespeare’s dramas, particularly Romeo and Juliet. An understanding of the body as a house of conflicting parts can be applied to the feet of the dancing body in early modern times, as is evinced not only by literary texts, but dance manuals as well. The visuality dominating the dance floor provided opportunity for social advancement as well as ridicule, as contemporary sources document. Dance practice is compared with early modern swordplay in their shared approaches to the training and social significance of bodily proportion and rhythm.

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