scholarly journals Language of Space in Live of Saint Erasmus

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
B. B. Ilyin

The article is devoted to the consideration of the category of space in the Old Russian text. The text of the live of Erasmus was used for analysis.  The novelty of the work lies in the reference to the text of the monument, in which the category of space was not previously considered.  The research is based on nominative vocabulary with spatial meaning. In the course of consideration, various types of spaces in the live were identified: real-geographical, urban, sacred, biblical, symbolic. The axiological attitude of the genre becomes important for understanding space in live: space is interpreted in a religious-symbolic way. It is showed in the article that the living space is built horizontally and vertically. It is emphasized that the horizontal movement of the hero reflects the movement of the hero in the geographic space. The path is understood both literally and metaphorically. Particular attention is paid to the opposition of the top and bottom that is significant for the text of the live: the top is associated with the divine, the bottom is associated with the concept of the devil. It shows how the biblical space is created by references to the biblical text. The symbolic space is also associated with vertical opposition and has a religious and ethical interpretation: the image of the city of the saint appears, intended for the righteous. The axiological attitude is also reflected in the transformation of space or its overcoming when describing some miracles in the text.

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Ana Claudia Lyra

Resumo: O artigo analisa a prática social da doação de terras como uma das baseshistóricas de formação dos atuais campos de poder econômico e político que estruturam o espaço físico, social e simbólico da cidade de Poço Fundo (MG). Com base em insights presentes no exame antropológico da dádiva realizado por Mauss, investigo a lógica sociossimbólica da doação de terras pelos fazendeiros e a dinâmica de subordinação política que tais doações põem em jogo na cidade, transformando os fazendeiros doadores em chefes locais. Como parte de um estudo histórico mais amplo da formação do espaço sociogeográfico de Poço Fundo, pretendo indicaro processo de “territorialização da dádiva” como um dos desdobramentos da sua “matrizterritorial”, isto é, da tradicional fazenda cafeeira, um modelo de organização sociossimbólicado território que prepondera até hoje nas formas pelas quais a cidade é social e culturalmente percebida, apropriada e vivenciada pelos seus habitantes.Palavras-chave: Dádiva; espaço geográfico e rural; poder político local; Poço Fundo; territorialização. Abstract: The article analyzes the social practice of land donation as one of thehistorical bases for the formation of the current fields of economic and political power thatstructure the physical, social and symbolic space of the city of Poço Fundo (MG). Based oninsights present in Mauss’ anthropological investigation of the gift, I examine the social-symboliclogic of land donations carried out by farmers and the dynamic of political subordination thatstems from such donations, transforming donor farmers into local leaders. As part of a largerhistorical study of the occupation and transformation of Poço Fundo’s social-geographic space,I intend to indicate the process of “territorialization of the gift” as one of the offsprings of its “territorial matrix”, that is, the traditional coffee plantation, a model of social-symbolical organization that prevails till today in the forms whereby the city is socially and culturallyperceived, appropriated and experienced by its inhabitants.Keywords Geographical and rural space; gift; local political power; Poço Fundo; territorialization.


2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Urs Gantner

Densification by greening, or what we can learn from Singapore (essay) Singapore, a city-state with a high population density, wants to give its population, its tourists and its economy a living and livable city and has developed the concept of the Garden City. Parks, nature reserves, forest, green corridors, trees, botanical gardens, horizontal and vertical greening of buildings, as well as popular participation, are all important for this vision of the city. Singapore is counting on dense construction alongside “greening” and biodiversity. Let us be prepared to learn from Singapore's example! Our land is also a non-renewable resource. To protect our ever more limited agricultural land, we should renounce any extension of building land, and free ourselves from the expanding carpets of suburban development. Let us build multiple urban neighbourhoods with mixed use and more biodiversity. Let us develop new types of communal gardens. Urban gardens in the widest sense – from private gardens to garden cooperatives, to parks and botanical gardens – are a part of our living space. The city should be our garden.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Hellemans

<p>For the coming ten years, the heart of Europe will turn into a gigantic construction site for works on one of the largest hubs of the continent: Antwerp. The Oosterweel Link is the project whereby the motorway ring around Antwerp is undergoing a metamorphosis to reinvigorate traffic flow and add living space to the City. The project had come to a standstill for several years as a result of protests by assertive citizens, but was given a second lease of life following a large-scale participation project.</p><p>To ensure its successful completion, unparalleled efforts are being made in the field and in the area of digitization. It is therefore with good reason that in Belgium the project is referred to as “the construction site of the century”.</p>


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávio Leonel Abreu da Silveira

O artigo propõe uma discussão teórica acerca das paisagens coexistenciais interespecíficas na urbe, voltando-se especialmente à morada humana. Esta é percebida como o lugar da convivência entre humanos e não-humanos – também se considera o seu entorno, onde aparecem os quintais/pomares e os espaços verdes habitados pela fauna silvestre urbana. A coexistência interespecífica contribui para a diversidade na conformação das paisagens citadinas, sendo que as ambiências domésticas – a localidade do espaço habitado/lócus da experiência íntima – permitem a humanos e não-humanos o compartilhamento de uma vida juntos a partir de diferentes formas de interações simbólico-práticas. As áreas verdes revelam-se lugares de interações interespecíficas diversas na urbe, figurando enquanto espaços de contato. Para as reflexões que proponho realizar, parto de minha experiência de coabitação com gatos domésticos e de meu ofício de etnógrafo que pesquisa as relações entre humanos e não-humanos em uma área verde na cidade de Belém (PA) na Amazônia.Palavras-chave: Paisagens. Cidade. Habitat. Animais. Áreas verdes. Interespécies.The Coexistent and Interspecific Landscapes or About Humans and Nonhumans Sharing Domestics Places in an Amazonian City  AbstractThe paper proposes a theoretical discussion about the coexistent and interspecific landscapes at the urbis, regarding, specially, the human shelter. This is perceived as a place of coexistence between humans and nonhumans – its surroundings where there are yards/orchards and green spaces inhabited by urban wildlife is also considered. The interspecific coexistence contributes to the diversity in shaping cityscapes and the domestic ambiences - the location of the living space/locus of intimate experience - allow human and nonhuman sharing a life together, founded on different forms of symbolic and practical interactions. The green areas turn up in places of diverse and interspecific interactions at the urbis, constituting spaces of contact. Aiming at these reflections, I consider my own coexistence experience with domestic cats and my work as an ethnographer who studies the relationships between human and nonhumans in a green area in the city of Belém (PA) in Amazon.Key words: Landscapes. City. Habitat. Animals. Green areas. Interspecies.


1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Ling

SummaryA British team has been working since 1978 upon a programme of documentation and analysis in the Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, one of the irregular city-blocks situated immediately to the west of the old part of the city in an area which was developed from the early fourth century B.C onwards. Study of the structural techniques, of wall-abutments, and of anomalies in plan can be used in conjunction with the evidence of painted wall-plaster to identify five main phases in the building-history: Phase I (fourth-third centuries B.C), Phase 2 (second and early first centuries B.C), Phase 3 (c. 80-c. 15 B.C), Phase 4 (c. 15 B.C.-C. A.D. 50), Phase 5 (c. A.D. 50-79). These illustrate a complex pattern of changing property-boundaries, but underline the general trend towards increasing commercialization and greater pressure upon living-space in this area of the city. There is also interesting evidence of the economic basis of life in the individual houses during the years immediately before 79.


Menotyra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Vitkauskaitė

The article analyzes urban representations of Soviet-era Lithuanian cinema. Like any other object of reality, the city in cinema is a secondary reality, the fruit of artistic interpretation. At the same time, images of the city in film can reflect individual and collective consciousness of the period. The analysis of urban space of Lithuanian feature cinema reveals that cinematographic space can be treated as a composite construct, which creates and represents projections of identities and feelings, reflects demands, ideas, cinema fashions of its time and “hides” real sociocultural and sociopolitical discourses. Most of Soviet-style feature films much easier incorporate countryside spaces, images, landscapes and lifestyle. Meanwhile the city often not only creates an impression of a claustrophobic space, but even looks very decorative. It seems that most of filmmakers can’t identify cities with their own, Lithuanian, national living space. In search of identity or inspiration they turn to idealized village, agrarian culture and its images. Therefore, the city of Soviet Lithuanian cinema is more likely to become a space of collapsed hopes, prison, ideological repressive space, which is stuck between the present and the past. Filmmakers, like their characters, run to the shelter of nature, the mythologized, well-decorated farmstead, where archetypal father and mother figures or a calm, meditative landscape await. It seems that movie characters (and filmmakers), who have escaped from the socialist reality and its challenges to the landscapes of nature and village, have never returned.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Deise Margô Müller ◽  
Luciane Sgarbi S. Grazziotin

Este estudo tem viés historiográfico e o objeto de análise é a Fundação Escola Técnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha localizada no município de Novo Hamburgo/RS. Tem o objetivo de explicitar as escolhas metodológicas que viabilizam a produção historiográfica vinculada à temática da História das Instituições de Ensino. Ao se investigar a gênese do processo de implantação de uma escola técnica, em determinado tempo e lugar, foi possível compreender a construção de um discurso de excelência de ensino em tal instituição e o envolvimento desse discurso com as políticas públicas de educação vigentes no período estudado, articuladas às características regionais do espaço geográfico em que a escola está localizada.Palavras chave: Metodologia de Pesquisa. Ensino Técnico Profissionalizante. História da Educação. História das Instituições de Ensino.Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha Technical School: from the physical construction to the constitution of a myth of excellence (1957-1967)ABSTRACTThis historiographical study relates to the History of Educational Institutions, and its object of analysis is the Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha Technical School, located in the city of Novo Hamburgo/RS. It aims at revealing the methodological choices that enable historiographical production in past times. Investigating the genesis of the process of implantation of a technical school, in a certain time and place, enabled understanding about the construction of a discourse of educational excellence in this institution, as well as the involvement of this discourse with educational public policies in effect in the period studied, articulated to the regional characteristics of the geographic space in which the school is located.Keywords: Research Methodology. Technical Professional Secondary Education. History of Education. History of Educational Institutions.Fundación Escuela Técnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha:  de la construcción física hasta la constitución de un mito de excelencia (1957 - 1967)RESUMENEste estudio tiene un carácter historiográfico y el objeto del análisis es la Fundación Escuela Técnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha, situada en la ciudad de Novo Hamburgo/RS. Tiene el objetivo de explicitar las opciones metodológicas que hacen posible la producción historiográfica vinculada a la temática de la Historia de las Instituciones de Educación. Investigando el origen del proceso de implantación de una escuela técnica, en determinado tiempo y lugar, fue posible entender la construcción de un discurso de excelencia de enseñanza en tal institución y el envolvimiento de ese discurso con las políticas públicas de educación vigentes en el período estudiado, articuladas a las características regionales del espacio geográfico donde se localiza la escuela.Palabras clave: Metodología de investigación. Enseñanza técnica profesional. Historia de la Educación. Historia de las Instituciones de Educación.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Vasylyna PASTERNAK

Before the war, urban symbolic space of Zhovkva was divided between several national groups – Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, who created the culture and history of the city. The foundations for such cohabitation were laid during the construction of the city by the Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, and survived until the start of the war, as evidenced by the memories of its inhabitants. Therefore, the article explains how the ethnic composition of the city’s population has changed and its further influence on the symbolism of the urban space. Subsequently of the dramatic events of the Second World War and the processes of resettlement of the population, two of the national groups disappeared from the urban space. The Jewish community was physically destroyed during the war, and the Poles were evicted from Zhovkva to Poland in 1944–1946. The destruction of the Jews meant the death of the whole subethnos with original culture and history. The resettlement of Poles from Zhovkva, from their homes, was extremely difficult psychologically, because they were saying goodbye to their hometown, where they lived for several generations, were deprived of their homes, property that belonged to the ancestors, they were allowed to take out only 2 tons of items social household consumption. Soviet soldiers and functionaries, peasants from the surrounding villages, who got used to living together and rebuilding Zhovkva, became “new” city dwellers. The “new” residents of the city, in cooperation with the Soviet authorities, changed the symbolic space of the city, starting with the change of name from Zhovkva to Nesterov, in honor of the Russian pilot Peter Nesterov, who died near the city in 1914. The city was built on the socialist urban model, which destroyed the historical and architectural environment of Zhovkva, founded in the XVI century. Architectural sights that testified to the multinational of Zhovkvа were destroyed or completely changed their purpose. Polish churches and monasteries were turned into warehouses or barracks for soldiers, and icons, paintings, statues, religious things were destroyed or exported abroad. Keywords Zhovkva, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Jan ІІІ Sobieski, socio-demographic processes, Poles, Jews, interethnic relations, symbolic space.


Author(s):  
Marta Siekierska

This paper aims at sketching cultural portrayals of the Ukrainian city Odessa and the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, with reference to their current socio-political situation. Cultural visions of both places not only tend to have a lot in common, paradoxically due to the differences that they share but also the ones present in various texts of culture. Thus, both cities can boast their own myths. The symbolic space is approached among others through the prism of Vladimir Toporov’s theory. The city perceived by some researchers as a metaphor of culture functions as a kind of laboratory that fixates social and cultural changes emerging within the society on the microscopic scale. In addition, the current geopolitical situation of those places is mentioned with its war/conflict aftermath that contributes to certain city image.


Author(s):  
Maria Novak

The paper focuses on the composition, lexical, and grammatical features of a Nativity sermon in the 13 th century Old Russian Tolstovskiy Sbornik (National Library of Russia, F.p.I.39). The author considers its Byzantine sources, principles of editorial work, and the differences from original rhetorical structures. Attributed to John Chrysostom, the sermon turns out to be a complicated compilation from various early Byzantine sermons. The compilation is based both on rearranging fragments of the same source and on combining excerpts from different sermons in a small context. Such transformations indicate the lack of cohesion in sermon texts, due to their independence from the causation and time factor. Non-attributed parts of the Old Russian text may be original since they demonstrate a certain similarity with Kirill Turovskiy orations in the same anthology. The lexical level of the sermon contains non-standard solutions that reinterpret the Greek source text, which may indicate either the missionary nature of the translation or a tendency to the poetic decoration. In some cases, the semantic mismatch of lexical units within Greek-Slavonic correlations is due to errors. At the grammatical level, there are also grammatical inconsistencies of Slavonic and Greek units; they affect the categories of time, number, gender, as well as parts-of-speech status.


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