scholarly journals Eternal Middle Ages: Time Models in Modern Mass Culture

2015 ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
A. I. Pozharov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
The Middle Ages

Eternal Middle Ages: Time Models in Modern Mass Culture (by Aleksey Pozharov). Nowadays in the works of mass culture, a remarkable interest in the Middle Ages is noticed. According to many cultural studies, it is not so much the historical Middle Ages reflected in the cultural artifacts as it is the contemporary society set in medieval surroundings. What images and ideas does the modern mass culture deliver? In order to deal with this issue, it’s necessary to consider one of the fundamental concerns of civilization: which model of time is relevant to the contemporary cultural artifacts.

scholarly journals The Monobloc Chair: Democratising the Practice of Sitting

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Carsten Kullmann
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines the cultural history of chairs to understand the many meanings the Monobloc can acquire. The history of chairs is traced from post nomadic culture through the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment period and the French Revolution. Subsequently, I will examine the Monobloc from a Cultural Studies perspective and demonstrate how its unique characteristics allow multiple meanings, which are always dependent on context and discourse. Thus, the Monobloc becomes an utterly democratic symbol of popular culture that can be appropriated for any use.

‘A song goes round the world’: the German Schlager, as an organ of experience

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Currid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
Siegfried Kracauer ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
Modern Mass

In recent work in film and cultural studies, the set of social configurations, practices of everyday life, and ideological formations that constitute twentieth-century ‘modernity’ have been increasingly the subject of research and debate. Fuelled by a renewed interest in critical phenomenologies of modernity, most prominently the work of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, scholars have focused the debate on the specific historicity of visual culture in the early years of the twentieth century, in order to illuminate the contradictory and fragmented nature of modern mass cultural experience. Fusing the theoretical traditions of critical theory with the empirical and theoretical interest in contradiction and contestation typical of cultural studies, not only does this debate open new perspectives for considering the problem of mass and/or ‘popular’ visual culture, it can also contribute to rethinking the way we discuss the historicity of popular music. Conversely, a more precise understanding of the historicity of popular music practice in modern mass culture, its institutions and modes of experience, can broaden the scope of this debate beyond the spectacles of visual culture to the ‘attractions’ of the acoustic.

scholarly journals Kitsch's casus in modern culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Galina Pavlovna Klimova ◽  
Viktor Petrovich Klimov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Art History ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Modern Mass

The article discusses the phenomenon of kitsch in its modern functioning in modern mass culture. The authors reviewed modern scientific researches in aesthetic theory, art history, and cultural studies.

scholarly journals Ustawodawstwo szkolne soborów od XII do pierwszej połowy XIV w. i początki jego recepcji w średniowiecznej Polsce - zarys problemu

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Ratajczak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

The aim of the paper is an analysis of a broadly understood legislation of general councils which took place in an important period for the development of the then educational system and culture - at the height of the Middle Ages (12th-13th c.). While analysing the written records of synodal and council acts, several interesting aspects can be considered: the regulations related to the education of clergy (the diocesan ones, as the same issues concerning monastic orders were regulated by the inner legislation of general chapters), the organization of schools and teaching programmes, the records telling about the moralizing influence on the community of the faithful, and finally, the attitude of the Church toward the question of general access to education, including the functioning of universities. The presented study demonstrates a significant role of ecclesiastical school legislation for the development of the educational system in mediaeval Poland. Also, it can be noticed that all changes in this matter were the result of legislative activity of the Church but also responded to the educational needs of the contemporary society. The latter, in turn, stemmed from a general civilizational development of Latin Europe, the part of which were the lands being under the rule of the Piast dynasty.

MEDIEVAL STAGES

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Enders
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

In 1996, R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols edited a remarkable volume of essays called Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, in which seventeen scholars pondered, through detailed philological analysis and imaginative cultural-studies approaches, the legacy of the Middle Ages and its relevance to modern times. “WORD'S OUT,” they began, “There's something exciting going on in medieval studies, and maybe in the Renaissance too. The study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interesting, innovative stage.” Bloch and Nichols understood, as few others, the pertinent critical stages of the interdiscipline of medieval studies. But, critically speaking, where was the stage? With the exception of Seth Lerer's terrific piece on Eric Auerbach's gender-biased editorial establishment of the text of the twelfth-century Play of Adam, theatre was nowhere to be found.

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