I.—An Historical Study of the Werwolf in Literature

PMLA ◽  
1894 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirby Flower Smith
Keyword(s):  
Great Majority ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Similar Character ◽  
The Many

Among the many survivals which have come down to us from the childhood of humanity nothing seems to be so widespread, so prominent, so persistently vital, as the belief in Metamorphosis. Mythology and Legend are filled with it. Literature is indebted to it for some of her brightest jewels; in fact, some of her grandest monuments, without it, would hardly have a raison d'être. In all nations and times the gods enjoy this, their peculiar privilege, as a matter of course, and they use it, both on themselves and on others, with varying motives and more or less discretion. Among men, those who come by the gift naturally are comparatively rare, and seldom encountered outside of the most primitive nations; of the remainder, a few are presented with the gift by some higher power, but the great majority derive their ability wholly from the use of magic arts. There are the Bear-Men or “Berserkers” and the Swan-Maidens of Scandinavia, the Tiger-Men of India, the Hyena-Men of Abyssinia and many other people of a similar character in all quarters of the earth.

The silence of the ellipses: Why history can’t be about telling our children lies

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Sam Wineburg
Keyword(s):  
History Textbooks ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Boston Massacre

History textbooks are less likely to be complete renderings of the truth than a series of stories textbook authors (and the many stakeholders who influence them) consider beneficial. Sam Wineburg describes how the process of writing history textbooks often leads to sanitized and inaccurate versions of history. As an example, he describes how the story of Crispus Attucks and the Boston massacre has evolved over time. The goal of historical study, he explains, is not to cultivate love or hate of the country. Rather, it should provide us with the courage needed to look ourselves unflinching in the face, so that we may understand who we were and who we might aspire to become.

scholarly journals L’hypermédia Au Service De La Formation Initiale D’enseignants-Stagiaires (Cas Du CRMEF-FESMEKNES)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Youssef Nafidi ◽  
Anouar Alami ◽  
Moncef Zaki ◽  
Hanane Afkar ◽  
Mohammed Elazami Elhassani
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Formation Initiale ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
Digital Resource ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Promising Solution ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Training

In light of empirical experience from Morocco, combined with new possibilities afforded by Information and Communication Technology (ICT), there is a wish to integrate new technologies into distance education to help solve a set of problems identified in the initial training at the Regional Centre for the Professions of Education and Training of Fez-Meknes. The results of a study conducted among 15 trainee teachers of the Earth and Life Sciences allow us to conclude that designing a hypermedia tool for learning could constitute a promising solution to address the many challenges linked to the initial training of teachers in Morocco. Finally, the use of this digital resource by trainee teachers’ has also strongly contributed to their eagerness to integrate ICT in their subsequent teaching practices.

Upland Houses: The Influence of Mountain Terrain on British Folk Building

Antiquity ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (119) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
James Walton
Keyword(s):  
Wide Area ◽  
Black Forest ◽  
Hilly Terrain ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Mountain Terrain ◽  
Similar Character ◽  
Similar Solutions ◽  
Farm Buildings ◽  
Mountainous Country

The difficulty of building in mountainous country has resulted in similar solutions over a very wide area, and certain houses and farm buildings in western Britain have many features in common with those in Scandinavia, the Vosges, the Black Forest, Switzerland, Spain, Macedonia and even in the Himalayas. The most obvious method of building in hilly terrain is to create a level platform either entirely by excavation or by excavating the upper portion and using the earth removed to build up the lower part of the platform. A single-storeyed building on such a levelled site may then be identical with any lowland type.Primitive ‘platform’ sites dating from the Dark Ages have been recorded from several parts of Wales, notably those excavated by Aileen Fox on Gelligaer Common, Glamorgan. These homesteads, each consisting of from one to three buildings erected on platforms levelled into the hillside, were sited on a little shelf at the junction of the moorland plateau and the valley scarp at an elevation of about 1,300 feet. Each house was divided into two parts by an almost central cross-passage and the ridge-pole was supported by two or more upright posts. Dark Age and medieval houses of the platform type are known from twenty-six sites in Glamorgan, three in Radnorshire and two near Llanbadarn Fynydd, whilst many smaller homesteads of a similar character have been discovered in Caernarvonshire by Hemp and Gresham.

Openings and introductions: education for the many, prison for the few

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
Cover Image ◽  
Open University ◽  
Front Cover ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The Many

Setting the pioneering work of The Open University in context, the chapter explains how and why it’s work in prison is so consistent with its guiding principles. It recalls the passionate egalitarian beliefs that propelled The OU from the start, that continue to sustain it and that flow through the chapters. Each chapter is briefly introduced and the gift of the (prisoner) artist who provided the front cover image is celebrated.

Evidence from the surface configuration of the Moon on its dynamical evolution

1967 ◽  
Vol 296 (1446) ◽  
pp. 298-303
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Moon System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
High Velocity Impacts

Examination of the Moon through large telescopes reveals a multitude of fine detail down to a scale of 1 km or less. The most prominent feature of the lunar surface is the abundance of circular craters. Many investigators agree that a great majority of these craters have been caused by explosions associated with high velocity impacts. It is further generally assumed that the majority of these high velocity impacts took place during the earliest stages of development of the present Earth-Moon system. The morphology of the Moon surface appears in dynamical considerations in the following way. We know from the work of G. H. Darwin that the Moon has been steadily retreating from the Earth. Dynamical considerations suggest that the period of rotation of the Moon on the average equals its period of revolution about the Earth. Thus when the Moon approaches the Earth, its rotation would be accelerated. Since the Moon, like the Earth, approximates to a fluid body, we should expect that a figure of the Moon would have changed in response to its changing rate of rotation. If the craters formed at a time at which the Moon’s figure was markedly different from the present, then initially circular craters would be deformed and any initially circular depression would tend to change into an elliptically shaped depression, with the major axis of the ellipse along the local meridian. Study of the observed distortions of the craters can give evidence as to the past shape of the Moon, provided the craters formed at a time when the Moon possessed a different surface ellipticity. I should like to examine the limitations the present surface structure places on the past dynamical history of the Moon. I will first review briefly calculations bearing on the dynamical evolution of the Earth-Moon system and the implications these calculations have on the past shape of the lunar surface.

Geopolitics, Geography, and War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Fettweis
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International Interaction ◽  
The Many

The study of international relations has always been multidisciplinary. Over the course of the last century, political scientists have borrowed concepts, methods, and logic from a wide range of fields—from history, psychology, economics, law, sociology, anthropology, and others—in their effort to understand why states act as they do. Few of those disciplines contributed more to the course of 20th-century international relations scholarship than geography. As the layout of the chessboard shapes the game, so do the features of the Earth provide the most basic influence upon states. That geography affects international relations is uncontroversial; what is not yet clear, however, is exactly how, under what conditions, and to what extent. After all, a board can teach only a limited amount about the nature of a game. Many theories of state behavior involve several ceteris-paribus assumptions about the setting for international interaction, even if the substantial variation in geographical endowments assures that all things will never be equal. Some states are blessed (or cursed) with a rich supply of natural resources, good ports, arable land, and temperate climate; others struggle with too little (or too much) rainfall, temperature extremes, mountain ranges or deserts, powerful neighbors, or lack of access to the sea. While the number of studies examining the effects of the constants of geography on state behavior may pale in comparison to those that focus on the variables of human interaction, international relations has not been silent about geography. What insights have come from the many investigations into the relationship between the game of international politics and the board it is played on, the surface of the Earth?

Some Reflections on Parachute Design, 1797-1837

1964 ◽  
Vol 68 (643) ◽  
pp. 464-466
Author(s):  
S. B. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Hot Air ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Casual Reader ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interim Period ◽  
Made In

The casual reader might think that there is a mistake in the title of this paper, but the first authenticated descent by parachute was made in 1797 by Andre Jacques Garnerin in Paris. Subsequently, M. Garnerin also made the first parachute descent in England, in 1802, and some thirty-five years later Mr. Robert Cocking, then sixty-one years of age, made a descent in a parachute of a very different design. This descent resulted in his losing his life.In the interim period between the two descents in England, considerable speculation arose about the designs. The authorities in “Aerostation” of the day put forward some remarkable hypotheses about the problems involved and it might perhaps be of interest to the many people who are now familiar with parachutes to read about them. It is no accident, of course, that the parachute first made a positive appearance at this time. Man had just learnt to free himself from the earth by means of hot air and gas balloons and thus the need for a means of escape was born.

John Zizioulas

2018 ◽  
pp. 466-486
Author(s):  
Paul McPartlan
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

The chapter explores three deeply interlinked aspects of John Zizioulas’s highly influential ecclesiology: the relationship between the church and the Trinity; the relationship between the church and the Eucharist; and finally the consequences of those relationships for the structure of the church. The church is a communion through its participation in the life of the Trinity. In Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit, it receives and re-receives the gift of communion in every Eucharist, and communion has a shape that reflects the life of God. The Trinity is centred on the Father, and so in the church at various levels the communion of the many is centred on one who is the head. This is the purely theological reason why the synodality of the church requires primacy at the local, regional, and universal levels. The chapter concludes that, while prompting many questions and needing further development, Zizioulas’s proposal has great ecumenical value.

Symbols of Power: Statues in Nineteenth-Century Provincial France

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
North Americans ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Iconography ◽  
The Many ◽  
The French Revolution

Maurice Agulhon, in his classic French historical study, revealed how the changing political fortunes of Republicanism were reflected in the many metamorphoses that statues of the Republic had undergone in the century after the French Revolution. This study and a number of important works by North Americans, like those of James Leith and Lynn Hunt, are also important in making us understand French political iconography.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: Some Mediæval Conceptions of Ancient History

1921 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
C. W. C. Oman
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many

It has been the laudable and most natural custom of my predecessors in this Presidential Chair to deliver as their swan-song of farewell to the Society a prophecy or forecast of the progress of Historical Study in the future, setting forth the many fields of historical knowledge that remain yet unconquered, and describing how best the attack on the tcrra incognita may be conducted. This is a worthy ambition: and no doubt such addresses may, from time to time, have set some newly-joined member of the Society on the track of some line of research where his energies have been well employed. But being myself too modest to assume for your benefit the rôle of prophet and guide, I have thought it worth while to-day, for the sake of variety, to ask you to look backward rather than forward, and to contemplate history as it presented itself to our ancestors, rather than as it will present itself to our successors.

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