scholarly journals Leo Klejn. [Guidebook]: Volume dedicated to the memory of Leo Samuilovich Кlejn

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Full List ◽  
Public Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
History Of ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Middle Ages

This volume is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding humanities scholar Leo S. (Lev Samuilovich) Klejn (1927–2019). A short biographical essay provides an overview of the main landmarks of Klejn’s life and the main stages of his scholarly and pedagogical career. The articles included in the volume reflect a wide range of Klejn’s scholarly interests and his contributions to the fields of theoretical archaeology, history of science, and to the study of a whole number of archaeological cultures from the Neolithic through the Middle Ages. A number of articles deal with Klejn as a field archaeologist, a philologist, a semiotician and an art historian. Particular attention is given to his pedagogical and public activity. A short memoir of Klejn’s adopted son Damir characterizes him as a person. The appendix contains a full list of Klejn’s publications and of main publications about him. The book is designed for a wide range of researchers in the humanities (archaeologists, historians, ethnographers) and experts in allied subjects, humanities degree students, and all readers interested in humanitarian knowledge in general.

scholarly journals NEW MONOGRAPH ON MEDIEVAL AZERBAIJAN WEAPONS. SABUKHI AKHMEDOV’S “AZERBAIJAN WEAPONS IN THE IX―XVII CENTURIES: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT”

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Farah A. Huseyn
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
Logical Consistency ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article is a review on Ph.D. Sabukhi Akhmedov’s monograph «Azerbaijani weapons in the IX – XVII centuries: evolution and development», which considers the relevance and scientific validity of the issue as an «Azerbaijani weapons», noted that the problem of identification of various types of weapons made in Azerbaijan during the Middle Ages is relevant in geographical attribution, as well as belonging to a certain ethnocultural space established in a given territory.The article provides a general assessment of the wide range of diverse sources involved in the study, justifies the logical consistency of the structure of the monograph built on the principle of chronological order, recognizes the importance of the monograph in studying the history of military affairs in Azerbaijan and neighboring countries in the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals XXXI.—On some early Latin Stories, imitated at a later period by Chaucer and Shakespeare. By Thomas Wright, F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1846 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-367
Author(s):  
Thomas Wright
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Manuscript Collections ◽  
The Middle Ages

There are many obscure nooks and corners in the wide field of antiquarian research, which must be carefully explored, if we would make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with the history, or the literature and science, or the archæology of the Middle Ages. We shall find facts in the history of science and art among the heavy folios of the scholastic writers, which seem at first sight to forbid all attempt at perusal. Historical events are often cleared up from what has been looked upon as the refuse of manuscript collections, and hardly to be distinguished from the dust in which it has so long lain buried. Manners and customs of private life receive the most interesting illustration from the bills of butlers and cooks, from the parish register, or from the local court book.

Time on a Tablet: Early Ivory Sundials Incorporating Wax Writing Tablets

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Schewe ◽  
John Davis
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract This article offers the first comprehensive study of a newly discovered type of medieval sundial made of ivory which might well be the precursor of the well-known diptych dial form made from ivory and wood. These sundials are unique for the combination with a wax writing tablet (tabula cerata) on the reverse side, such as has been deployed as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Three previously unpublished examples of this type of sundial have been located in Germany, Italy and England. This article gives a detailed analysis of the sundials and the underlying construction principles, including considerations from the history of science, chronology and cultural history in order to answer the questions of where, when and by whom these sundials were made.

scholarly journals Leibniz and geography: geologist, paleontologist, biologist, historian, political theorist and geopolitician

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Elden
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This article discusses the way that the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) made a number of significant contributions to geography. In outlining his contributions as a geologist, palaeontologist, biologist, historian, political theorist and geopolitician, it challenges the straightforward way he is read in geography. Particular focus is on his Protogaea, the Annales Imperii and the Consilium Aegyptiacum, respectively a pre-history of the earth, a chronology of German nobility in the Middle Ages, and a military-strategic proposal to King Louis XIV. Making use of contemporary debates about ways of reading Leibniz, and drawing on a wide range of his writings, the article indicates just how much remains to be discovered about his work.

Humanist Culture and Renaissance Mathematics: The Italian Libraries of the Quattrocento

1973 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 46-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lawrence Rose
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Renaissance Mathematics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Middle Ages

There are two major problems in renaissance science, each of which has a cultural, as well as a scientific, dimension. The first problem concerns the impact of humanism upon the science of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is often claimed that the humanist influence was malign: by attacking scholastic thought, the humanists tried to interrupt the steady evolution of modern science from its medieval scholastic form to the more advanced structure of Galileo. A necessary foundation of this claim is, of course, the internal history of science argument, known as the Duhem thesis, which holds that the main ancestry of Galileo's thought is indeed the scholastic natural philosophy of the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Na szczycie wulkanu. O wyprawach na Heklę i Snæfellsjökull w XVIII i XIX wieku

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 297-315
Author(s):  
Radosław Jakubczyk
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Foreign Woman ◽  
The Middle Ages

The present paper gives an overview of the history of climbing on Hekla and Snæfellsjökull, Iceland’s most famous volcanoes, in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the Middle Ages and early modern period, Hekla was compared to the gates of hell due to its frequent and violent eruptions. Snæfellsjökull was considered a supernatural space and a domain of Bárður, the eponymous hero of Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss. The author analyses a wide range of sources: Reise igiennem Island by Bjarni Pálsson and Eggert Ólafsson (who reached the summits of Hekla and Snæfellsjökull in 1750 and 1754, respectively), British (from Banks to Burton) and French (from Gaimard to Labonne) travelogues, Ida Pfeiffer’s journals (who was the first foreign woman to climb Hekla).

scholarly journals Mobility of scholars and sciences between Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and France in the 14th–15th centuries: the contribution of prosopography to the history of sciences

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 233-259
Author(s):  
Pauline Spychala
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Alps ◽  
History Of Sciences ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
National Universities

This article aims to trace the mobility of scholars and sciences between France and Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland in the 14th and 15th centuries, seen from the perspective of prosopography. These exchanges were concentrated in only three oldest French universities of Montpellier, Orléans and Paris, albeit with significant variations, and in the newly-founded universities north of the Alps in the 14th century, namely those in Prague and Kraków. Mobility was less important and intensive at the end of the Middle Ages because of the policy in favour of establishing national universities. The names of 143 scholars from Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland, who were enrolled in the 14th and 15th centuries in French universities, have been found so far. Several of them played important roles in the history of science in these countries.

Ancient and Medieval Animals and Self-recognition: Observations from Early European Sources

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucyna Kostuch ◽  
Beata Wojciechowska ◽  
Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Mirror Reflection ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract This article presents the oldest European accounts that describe the reactions of animals to their own reflections on the surface of a body of water or in a mirror. The analysed sources will encompass Greco-Roman accounts, including the reception of these accounts in the Middle Ages. While this article belongs to the field of the history of science, it seeks to provide a historical commentary with insights from contemporary studies (the mirror test, MSR). The article presents surviving ancient and medieval accounts about particular animal species that describe their ability or inability to recognise a mirror reflection. The species discussed are the horse, mule, dog, birds (sparrow, partridge, rooster, quail, jackdaw, starling and pheasant), the monkey and tiger. Brief mention is also made of the sheep, pigeon, goose, parrot, raven and cat.

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