scholarly journals From the Legacy of the Landfras Printing Works in the Jindřichův Hradec Archives – a Mirror of Time in Family Correspondence

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Helena Hálová
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
The Family ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Synoptic Table

The article studies the set of 27 original letters deposited in the Documentation Collection – Cultural-Historical Archives of the State District Archives of Jindřichův Hradec. This collection contains documents of non-official provenance concerning, among other topics, also remarkable figures of the town. A leading position among them is assumed by the Landfras family, whose members were not only owners of a prosperous printing works, but also patriots, leaders of the town, and supporters of education, societies and culture. The letters provide an insight into the private lives of the members of the Landfras family, in particular its most significant member, Alois Landfras, and people connected with the family. The article deals with an overall comparison of the letters. It studies references to them and to events in their family, and connections with their life in Jindřichův Hradec. It adds some less known information on the studies of Alois Landfras at the university in Prague, providing an insight into his inner world. The article is complemented by a synoptic table of all letters, including the quoted persons and places.

scholarly journals The De Rossett Farm (41HE75) and Quate Place (41HE81) Sites in the Cobb Creek Valley in the Upper Neches River Basin, Henderson County, Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
The State ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The University ◽  
Neches River ◽  
The Town

The De Rossett Farm and Quate Place sites were among the earliest East Texas archaeological sites to be investigated by professional archaeologists at The University of Texas (UT), which began under the direction of Dr. J. E. Pearce between 1918-1920. According to Pearce, UT began work in this part of the state under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and that work “had led me to suppose that I should find this part of the State rich in archeological material of a high order.” The two sites were investigated in August 1920. They are on Cobb Creek, a small and eastward-flowing tributary to the Neches River, nor far to the northeast of the town of Frankston, Texas; the sites are across the valley from each other. The De Rossett Farm site is on an upland slope on the north side of the valley, while the Quate Place site is on an upland slope on the south side of the Cobb Creek valley, about 2 km west of the Neches River, and slightly southeast from the De Rossett Farm. Both sites have domestic Caddo archaeological deposits, and there was an ancestral Caddo cemetery of an unknown extent and character at the De Rossett Farm.

The Spinning House girls: Cambridge University's distinctive policing of prostitution, 1823–1894

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET OSWALD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Town Centre ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACT:This article explores the regulation of prostitution in nineteenth-century Cambridge by an appraisal of the committal books of the university prison. Each evening in term-time the university proctors arrested and imprisoned local ‘streetwalkers’ in an attempt to protect the students’ morals. This research offers insight into the ways in which Cambridge's geography and its dual system of governance influenced the policing of prostitution in the town centre. The former compelled students and townspeople to share the same crowded space and the latter enabled the university to enforce traditional patterns of class and gender to control sexuality in the town.

A Different Kind of Freedom? Order and Discipline among the Moravian Brethren in Germany and Salem, North Carolina 1771–1801

1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Sommer
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
German Society ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Precise Meaning ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Communal Orientation ◽  
Spiritual Freedom ◽  
The Town ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Specific Impact

On 19 January 1774, Joseph Müller was expelled from the town of Salem, North Carolina for becoming engaged to Sarah Hauser without the permission of the Elders Conference. On 23 August 1775 Mattheus Weiβ was likewise expelled forwriting a “bad letter” to friends in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and on 4 November 1789, Jacob Bonn Jr., who hadbeen struggling with chronic debt, was expelled for refusing to sell his house and accept a steward for his finances. Theexpulsion of inhabitants for such offenses seems odd in a century labelled the “age of enlightenment.” It might well be viewed by good American constitutionalists as an unacceptable intrusion into the private lives of the individuals concerned. For the Moravian Brethren who built Salem on an ideal molded in Germany, the behavior of such offending Brethren represented a conflict between two different concepts of freedom: that of individual freedom, whichcame to be identified by both the European and American leadership of the Brethren as “American,” and that ofa spiritual freedom, which found expression in the submission to the good of the whole and obedience to Christ as literallord of the community. Historian A. G. Roeber has pointed out that many Germans were puzzled by “the American freedom” especially in the post-revolutionary years and did not always even agree among themselves over its precise meaning. Clearly, however, for many of them it represented a sharp departure from the more communal orientation of German society and government. Even the greater spiritual freedom offered by the lack of a state church was often viewed ambiguously. We can gain insight into the particular meaning of the conflict for the Brethren by first looking at the origins of the Moravian behavioral ideal, then at the way in which the dynamics of church/town discipline illustrate the tension between communal ideal and individual freedom, and finally by considering the specific impact of the translation of this ideal to an American setting.

“Men Buy Their Slaves, Women Buy Their Masters”: Theories of Liberty in Thomas Middleton’s City Tragedy

2020 ◽  
pp. 174387212091117
Author(s):  
Natalie Suzelis
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
The State ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Public ◽  
Home Reading ◽  
The Family ◽  
Insight Into

This paper provides a feminist critique of theories of liberty in two of Thomas Middleton’s city tragedies. Expanding on the neo-Roman theories of liberty presented by Quentin Skinner in Liberty Before Liberalism, I connect Middleton’s city tragedies to feminist critiques from Mary Nyquist and Ellen Mieksins Wood. Close readings of Women Beware Women and The Revenger’s Tragedy reveal connections between Middleton’s radical critiques of tyranny in later theories of liberty of the English Civil War. Because Middleton’s critiques are explored through both the state and marriage relations, I argue that Middleton exposes the same contradictions of liberty in the institution of the family, providing insight into notions of slavery, servitude, and coercion under the public rule of the sovereign and in the privacy of the home. Reading such contradictions back through Middleton, can, I argue, allow for a better understanding of feminist critiques of such theories of liberty.

Participation of the Battalions of the 11th Marching Regiment in the Battles for the Control of the Fortified Positions in the Area of the Town of Machin in January 1917

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-370
Author(s):  
Manush Hristov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
The State ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Good Basis ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Town

The study is devoted to little-known facts related to the participation and contribution of the troops of the 11th Marching Regiment to the victory achieved in the battles for control of the heavily fortified area in the Machin. The data presented come to fill the gap in the researches regarding the participation of the marching formations and in particular of the 11th Marching Regiment in the battles as part of the 3rd Army. The presented information helps to clarify and supplement the general picture of the events on the front, by revealing specific details of the course of the hostilities, which so far have not fallen within the scope of attention of the scientific community. Also, a good basis is created for the formation of reasonable conclusions about the significance of the achieved victory. Archival materials have been put into circulation, which reveal new facts about the battles in the Dobrudzha region. The presented brief information about the marching regiments and the combat history of the regiment helps to clarify the nature and purpose of these units, taking into account the fact that the available information about them is more than modest and insufficient. The presented data are entirely based on materials from the State Military Historical Archives – Veliko Tarnovo.

A History Manuscript in Hausa Ajami from Wurno, Nigeria by Malam Haliru Mahammad Wurno

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 389-396
Author(s):  
John Edward Philips
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sokoto Caliphate ◽  
The Town ◽  
Local Languages

This manuscript is a history of the family of Muhammad Buji, who led a migration from the town of Bunkari in Argungu (Sokoto State, Nigeria) to Wurno, sometime capital of the Sokoto Caliphate. It is important as an illustration of the ongoing historiographical tradition of Islamic west Africa in local languages, and as evidence of the strong historical sense and continuing production of historical documents by certain of the scholars of the area.Wurno was constructed ca. 1830 by Muhammad Bello, Sultan of Sokoto and successor of Usuman dan Fodio, founder of the Sokoto Caliphate. Its primary purpose was to defend Sokoto from the northeast, and it replaced Magarya as the principal ribat (frontier fortification) and residence of Bello in that area. It also became the staging point for the annual dry season campaigns against the Gobirawa and other enemies of the Caliphate. When the Caliph himself was resident there, it became the capital of the state. Barth referred to it as such in his account of his travels. Wurno was the capital with more and more frequency as the nineteenth century wore on.

Walter Stiles, 1886-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 343-357
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
The West ◽  
Public Elementary School ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
The University ◽  
Grassland Research

Walter Stiles was born on 23 August 1886 at Shepherd’s Bush, Hammersmith. He was the eldest child of the family and had one sister born three years later. Both his parents were Londoners. His father, Walter Stiles (1861-1938), was an artist who worked in wood and clay and whose work ornamented many large houses in London and elsewhere. His mother was Elizabeth Sarah Stiles ( née Dury; 1859-1943). His grandfather, James Stiles, was a corn merchant of Pimlico and the family appears previously to have been long settled in Kent in the neighbourhood of Cobham. James’s brother, Walter Stiles, at Cobham, was the grandfather of Walter Stanley Stiles, F.R.S. On 7 July 1920 Walter Stiles married Edith Ethel May Harwood at St Mary’s Church, Stamford Brook, Hammersmith. Her parents came from the West Country, her father from Wiltshire and her mother from Dorset. There were two children; Walter born in 1922 and Ruth Mary born in 1927. The son graduated in physics at the University of Birmingham and now works on irrigation problems as a member of the staff of the Grassland Research Institute, Hurley, Berkshire. The daughter, after graduating at Birmingham in Spanish and Portuguese, went on to the University of Madrid and is now a lecturer in Spanish at Torquay Technical College. Stiles’s education commenced at the public elementary school in Westville Road, Shepherd’s Bush (1890-1897). He then, with the assistance of L.C.C. junior and intermediate scholarships, went to Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, of which he afterwards wrote in enthusiastic terms. Very much, he said, was due to the wisdom of the headmaster, the Reverend C. J. Smith, who, from a modest beginning in 1895, raised the school to a leading position among the grammar schools of London. Personally, he felt that he owed a great deal to the teaching of the Mathematics and Senior Science Master, G. M. Grace, who was a source of inspiration to his pupils. Contemporary with Stiles were Harold Spencer Jones, later F.R.S. and Astronomer Royal; G. K. Livers, afterwards Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cardiff; and D. Orson Wood, for many years an Editor of Science Progress .

The different profiles of young people’s experiences in university

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
The Family ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses in what respects the different profiles of the university experience can be considered forms of inequalities. It shows that the inequality of the experience is shaped by the interplay between socio-economic backgrounds and ‘structures of welfare’ that are available to young people. The chapter describes for each profile illustrated in the previous chapter, the function of class and welfare mixes in reinforcing inequality. The chapter shows how negative experiences of young people during university arise, in particular, as a consequence of a ‘mismatch’ between the resources required during university, and what is available from the state, the family and the labour-market.

Leviathan Writ Small: Thomas Hobbes on the Family

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Allen Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Small State ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Republican Rome ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University

Though not above an occasional appeal to the “experience of fathers,” Hobbes was not a patriarchalist in his view of the family. Rather, he quite deliberately represented the family as a small Leviathan, and he used it to illustrate the principles of Hobbesian political science. In the family, as in the state, there is a mutual relationship between protection and obedience; sovereignty is undivided, based on necessity, and justified by performance; authority is absolute and derives from consent. In the state of nature, Hobbes views the family in structure and function as a small state. In commonwealth, the family sovereign relinquishes his absolute power over wife, servant, and child, but he is still entitled to obedience and honor for having raised and educated his children. The content of family education consists of the principles of Hobbesian political science, and the children thereby are properly receptive to sovereign power as they leave the family, whether for the university or for independence.Hobbes's conception of the family is derived from the patria potestas of republican Rome, and not from common law. His use of the family is fully integrated with his political theory, and it is designed to reinforce both the theory and practice of Leviathan.

scholarly journals Foreign Languages and Internationalisation at a University of Education in Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dines
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into

As my title suggests, the aim of this article is to give interested readers an insight into the ways in which advanced foreign language studies are taught at Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE), Baden-Württemberg, Germany and how this links up with the policy of internationalisation which has been developed by the university over the past 15 years or so. It is my hope that our attempts to address the challenges of teacher education and training maybe of some use to readers of this journal and possibly lead to a discussion of the issues at hand with interested parties – a discussion to which we at Ludwigsburg are more than willing to engage in, especially in view of the changes to the system of teacher education currently being prepared by the government of the state of Baden-Württemberg

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