The Portuguese City of Braga during the Modern Era: Landscape and identity from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Portocarrero
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Era

JACOB’s LADDER: Reason, Liberty and Science. The Contribution of Freemasonry to the Enlightenment

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Mădălina Calance
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
Jacob's Ladder ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

Abstract The theme of the article relies to the particular contribution of Freemasonry in the initiation and development of modernity, focusing on science, religion and politics. We know that, during the late Middle Ages, the European society was obedient to the „Church-Tradition-Monarchy” trinity; this status-quo collapsed due to the rational way of thinking; also the establishment of the universal human rights belongs to the Enlightenment, whose theses were supported mainly by Freemasons. Many researchers have proposed to show the extent to which Freemasonry helped to build the ideals of Enlightenment. The main conclusions that can be drawn, by analyzing their tracks, are: (1) All famous leaders of the Enlightenment had connections to Freemasonry; (2) The Enlightenment tenets overlap Freemasonry tenets, and, therefore they were supported and propagated by English, French, and American lodges; (3) Freemasonry progressively turned into a transnational vehicle for liberal thinking, disseminating the concepts of property and freedom in Europe and across the Atlantic.

The evolution of the goals and conditions of the execution of the penalty of deprivation of liberty from the Middle Ages to the present day

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Justyna Bieda ◽  
Katarzyny Rydz-Sybilak
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Function ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Middle Ages

The functions of prisons in old Poland, their role and organization changed along with the evolution of views on the objectives of the institution of punishment in the system of criminal law. The picture will be completely different if the punishment is to have a main rehabilitation effect, and another when the basic premise of the penal policy is the principle of deterrence, not the moral improvement of the offender (it was in Poland until the 18th century). The penalty of deprivation of liberty could be carried out in five different ways. The choice of prison was primarily determined by the type of crime committed, but also the state of the convict was very important. The first, as early as the 12th-13th centuries are prisons, in which the population of lower states, ie townsmen, and peasants, were imprisoned. Initially, they play only a preventive role. In the Middle Ages, an upper tower was also developed, mainly applied to the nobility, it was an institution in which convicted in decent, even home conditions performed his penance. In the modern era, ie in the first half of the 16th century, a lower tower is being established, often not so much a place of imprisonment, but a place of slow death. Significant changes in the character and function of penitentiary institutions were brought by the 18th century, which was connected with the enlightenment flowing into the Republic of Poland, under which the punishment was also to be a means of improvement and rehabilitation, and not only revenge. The practice of imprisoning people in the tower, which was only a place of penance, deprived of any rehabilitation factors, slowly disappears, while prison comes to the fore. Here, the marshal prison should be pointed out, constituting a symbol of changes taking place, a modern facility in which the convict punished in humane conditions for those times, but above all, he was cared for his moral improvement, so that in the future he would not return to crime. The houses of improvement and forced labor houses started to play an extremely important role, the goal of which was to improve the prisoners through work and prayer.

scholarly journals Microstructure of Archaeological 17th Century Cast Copper Alloys

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Konieczny ◽  
K. Labisz ◽  
K. Głowik-Łazarczyk ◽  
J. Ćwiek ◽  
Ł. Wierzbicki
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Copper Alloys ◽  
Copper Block ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Solid Copper

Abstract In Poland, researchers have a very strong interest in archaeometallurgy, which, as presented in classical works, focuses on dating artefacts from the prehistoric and early medieval periods in the form of cast iron and copper castings. This study, extending the current knowledge, presents the results of a microstructure investigation into the findings from the Modern era dating back to the late Middle Ages. The investigated material was an object in the form of a heavy solid copper block weighing several kilograms that was excavated by a team of Polish archaeologists working under the direction of Ms Iwona Młodkowska-Przepiórowska during works on the marketplace in the city of Czestochowa during the summer of 2009. Pre-dating of the material indicates the period of the seventeenth century AD. The solid copper block was delivered in the form of a part shaped like a bell, named later in this work as a “kettlebell”. To determine the microstructure, the structural components, chemical composition, and homogeneity, as well as additives and impurities, investigations were carried out using light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy including analysis of the chemical composition performed in micro-areas, and qualitative X-ray phase analysis in order to investigate the phase composition. Interpretation of the analytical results of the material’s microstructure will also help modify and/or develop new methodological assumptions to investigate further archaeometallurgical exhibits, throwing new light on and expanding the area of knowledge of the use and processing of seventeenth-century metallic materials.

scholarly journals Sustained UK marine observations. Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?

2014 ◽  
Vol 372 (2025) ◽  
pp. 20130332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. P. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Observation Networks

This introduction traces the earliest interaction of ancient humans with their marine environment, through marine explorations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the development of early marine science in the Enlightenment. This sets the scene for how marine observations developed in the modern era and explains the status of today's marine observation networks. The paper concludes with an assessment of the future needs and constraints of sustained marine observation networks and suggests the lessons from a long history might be the key to the future.

Towards a fire history of European cities (late Middle Ages to late nineteenth century)

Urban History ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-224
Author(s):  
DAVID GARRIOCH
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACT:Fires are often seen as a constant in early modern European towns, changing only in the modern era when inflammable building materials replaced wood. This article argues that the incidence, nature and risk of fire shifted repeatedly over time. Fire danger was determined not only by building materials but also by forms of construction, by the everyday uses people made of flame and by wider factors such as climatic variation and shifts in world trade and consumer demand. It was influenced by urban social and political change, including the way governments and populations responded to the risk. Responses to new fire dangers in turn helped change the way urban government functioned.

J. S. Mill on Oriental Despotism, including its British Variant

Utilitas ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kurfirst
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Proper Interpretation

European portraits of the great Asian states, China, India, and Persia, remained remarkably constant from the establishment of the Chinese silk trade in the first century B.C. until the religious and mercantile expeditions to the Orient prominent in the late Middle Ages. For more than a millenium, the Eastern empires had been classified by Europeans as stable despotisms – stationary societies governed by custom and tradition and devoid of economic, political, or cultural dynamism. Only during the Enlightenment did the proper interpretation of the merits of ‘Oriental despotism’ become a matter of controversy. To some Enlightenment figures, the paternalistic despotisms of Asia appeared to be superior to the nations of Europe ethically and in the quality of their political, legal, and educational institutions. Many social philosophers of the period agreed that the example afforded by Asia could contribute much to the rejuvenation of European society they hoped to effect.

scholarly journals The Saint Benedict Cross or the Saint Benedict Medal Based on a Find from Archaeological Research in Gniew (Pomerania Province)

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-187
Author(s):  
Jakub Michalik
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Metal Plate ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Small Fragment ◽  
Information Leaflet ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Church

In 2015, during archaeological research conducted around the church in Gniew (Pomerania Province), a small fragment of a metal plate was found. After it was cleaned as part of restoration it turned out to be a cross. The excavation was located outside, near the chancel wall. Research conducted there confirmed the conclusions drawn in previous years, i.e. that the church grounds had been used as a graveyard. The fact that the graveyard had been used for a long time was proved by numerous burials, overlapping grave pits and ossuaries, meaning places where human remains were gathered after earlier burials in the graveyard and the church had been emptied. Devotional items, including medals, crucifixes, scapulars, and prayer ropes, have been long connected with the Christian tradition. The fact that they are found during excavations in churches and graveyards may indicate that they were popular in Late Middle Ages and in the Modern Era. Unfortunately, the cross has not been preserved whole. It is difficult to determine whether the missing loop and two fragments of the horizontal bar were damaged when it was used by its owner or as a result of corrosion taking place after it had been deposited in the ground. The first written sources concerning the medal itself come from an information leaflet dated to 1664. It depicts Saint Benedict in a gesture of benediction and a medal with a characteristic cross and letters. One of the most important works on the Saint Benedict Medal is the work by Prosper Guèranger from 1862. Saint Benedict medals and crucifixes are also known from many inventories of artefacts compiled during research conducted in graveyards, mostly from the Modern Era. Saint Benedict crosses in a form resembling a knight’s cross were found in, among others, Maniowy in Podhale, Gliwice, Lubiń near Kościan, Wrocław, and Częstochowa. Despite the three and a half centuries that have passed since the first information about the medal appeared, and the six centuries since the first mention of its symbolism, it is still very popular among Christians. Most probably, information about the miracles happening thanks to it are no longer the main reason why it is worn but it can be a kind of an amulet protecting against evil. Despite rather scarce literature on Saint Benedict devotional items found at archaeological sites, one should expect that as research progresses, doubts about the manufacturing places or more detailed relationships between the appearance of crosses and medals will be dispelled.

Heart of the State, Site of Tension: The Archival Turn Viewed from Venice, ca. 1400-1700

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (03) ◽  
pp. 457-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo de Vivo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The State ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

In recent years, a new historiographical trend has focused on archives not as mere repositories of sources, but as objects of inquiry in their own right. Particular attention has been paid to how their continually evolving organization and management reflect the political presuppositions of the institutions presiding over them. This article acknowledges this archival turn and provides an example drawn from the famous case study of the Venetian chancery between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, at a time of substantial developments in the management of archives. It proposes a more inclusive and socially contextualized approach in order to demonstrate that archives were not just tools of power but also sites of economic, social, and political conflict. A close reading of the very document that led to the institutional view of the Venetian archive as the “heart of the state” reveals that the patrician rulers worried about both the fragility of their archive and the reliability of the notaries in charge of it. This perspective helps to explain the exalted representation of the archive in the late Middle Ages and the early modern era—a representation that, taken at face value, continues to inspire historical analysis today—by illuminating the practical difficulties surrounding archival methods at the time. The history of archives emerges as a promising field of inquiry precisely because it can shed light on both the history of the state and the social context in which the state’s actions had to be negotiated.

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