scholarly journals A Thousand Times Do it: Historical European Martial Arts and the Cultural Record

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
David Lichty
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Information

The following paper explores how intangible cultural knowledge is represented in the cultural record as information made known through physical objects. It seeks to prove that the preservation of intangible knowledge requires the continued practice of that knowledge as well as the creation of physical information. I believe that a study of European martial arts will demonstrate this. This paper will cover the history of historical European martial arts manuscripts in the early medieval period, relevant advances in manuscript making in the late medieval period, and the current revitalization of historical European martial arts. The paper will describe how communities of practitioners dedicated to recording guidelines for what can only be realized in practice and which is intangible knowledge, employ new technologies, ideas and metadata in creating a cultural record.

scholarly journals From under the elbow to pointing to the palm: Chinese metaphors for learning medicine by the book (fourth–fourteenth centuries)

BJHS Themes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Marta Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Medical Manuscripts ◽  
Medical Books

AbstractThis article focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their ‘learning-by-the-book’ contents. It finds that in contrast to the European preference for hand metaphors in the genre terms – enchiridions, manuals and handbooks – the Chinese medical archive preserves bodily metaphors within which the hand metaphor appears only rarely in the early medieval period and is then superseded by metaphors that rely on the fingers and palms more than the hands per se. This longue durée survey from roughly the fourth to the fourteenth centuries of the wide-ranging metaphors for ‘handy medical books’ places their historical emergence and transformation within the history of Chinese medical manuscripts and printed texts. Metaphors in medical titles conveyed to potential readers at the time significant textual innovations in how medical knowledge would be presented to them. For later historians, they provide evidence of profound changes in managing an increasingly complex and expanding archive of Chinese medical manuscripts and printed texts. Innovations in textual reorganization intended to facilitate ‘learning by the book’ were often creatively captured in an illuminating range of genre distinctions, descriptors and metaphors.

scholarly journals Jesuit Sanctity: Hypothesizing the Continuity of a Hagiographic Narrative of the Modern Age

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Franco Motta ◽  
Eleonora Rai
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
History Of

Abstract The introduction to this special issue provides some considerations on early modern sanctity as a historical object. It firstly presents the major shifts in the developing idea of sanctity between the late medieval period and the nineteenth century, passing through the early modern construction of sanctity and its cultural, social, and political implications. Secondly, it provides an overview of the main sources that allow historians to retrace early modern sanctity, especially canonization records and hagiographies. Thirdly, it offers an overview of the ingenious role of the Society of Jesus in the construction of early modern sanctity, by highlighting its ability to employ, create, and play with hagiographical models. The main Jesuit models of sanctity are then presented (i.e., the theologian, the missionary, the martyr, the living saint), and an important reflection is reserved for the specific martyrial character of Jesuit sanctity. The introduction assesses the continuity of the Jesuit hagiographical discourse throughout the long history of the order, from the origins to the suppression and restoration.

‘Emigrants’ and ‘Exiles’: migration in the early Irish and Scottish church

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Brian Lambkin
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Early History ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irish Migrants

A central theme in both Irish and Scottish migration studies is the distinction between voluntary and forced migration, which is highlighted in the titles of major books in the field by the contrasting terms ‘emigrants’, or ‘adventurers’, and ‘exiles’.1 However, it has received relatively little attention with regard to the medieval period.2 Migration was central to the process by which the early Irish Church established itself in Scotland, most notably on Iona, in the sixth century. This article is concerned mainly with migration between Ireland and Scotland as evidenced by Adomnán's Life of Columba – ‘a source of the first importance for the early history of Ireland and Scotland’.3 In particular it is concerned with how the distinction between ‘emigrants’ and ‘exiles’ was understood, in both secular and sacred contexts, and it finds that in the early medieval period, c.300–800, as distinct from later periods, Irish migrants to Scotland and Irish and Scottish migrants further afield were thought of less as ‘exiles’ than as ‘emigrants’ or ‘adventurers’

scholarly journals SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE WESTERN CASPIAN REGION IN CONFRONTATION WITH ZOROASTRISM IN THE IV-VTH CENTURIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Т. Гаджимурадов
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Region ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Contact Zones ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
History Of

Статья посвящена истории проникновения и распространения христианства в одной из так называемых контактных зон , а именно в Западном Прикапии в раннесредневековый период. Показана степень противостояния в данном регионе ведущих держав того периода Ирана эпохи династии Сасанидов и Византии периода династий Валентинов и Львов, а также их имперских религий зороастризма и христианства соответственно. Проблема распространения христианства в регионе рассматривается в трех аспектах: геополитическом, идеологическом и военном. Особое внимание уделено изучению деятельности первых христианских миссионеров и ведомых ими общин, которым пришлось пройти через тяжелейшие трудности в борьбе за свою веру. The article is devoted to the history of the penetration and spread of Christianity in one of the socalled contact zones , namely in the Western Caspian region in the early medieval period. The paper also describes the intensity of confrontation in this region between leading powers of the period the Iran of the Sassanid and Byzantine dynasty of the period of the Valentinian and Leonid dynasties, as well as between their imperial religions Zoroastrianism and Christianity, respectively. The problem of the spread of Christianity in the region is considered in three aspects: geo-political, ideological and military. Particular attention is paid to the activities of the first Christian missionaries and the communities they led, as they had to go through terrible hardships in the struggle for their faith.

THE ISLIP ROLL RE-EXAMINED

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 231-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Payne
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
New Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence

The mortuary roll of John Islip (1464–1532), Abbot of Westminster, is the finest example of its kind to survive in England. The drawings, possibly by Gerard Horenbout, afford the only views of the interior of Westminster Abbey before the Dissolution. The discovery of eighteenth-century copies of an unknown, coloured version of the roll provides important new evidence for both the circumstances of the production and the later history of both rolls. It also provides, for the first time, an authentic colour view of the interior of Westminster Abbey in the late medieval period, and new information on its decoration.

Inchinnan 5

2019 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Kasten
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Digital Analysis ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Community Project ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Decorative Motifs ◽  
Three Dimensional Models

The site of All Hallows Church in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, had its foundations in the early medieval period, an interpretation supported by the identification of four carved stones from the site that date between the 9th and 11th centuries ad. Thanks to a recent community project ‘597 ad St Conval to All Hallows: 1420 Years and Counting’, led by Heather James of Calluna Archaeology and the members of the Inchinnan Historical Interest Group with Spectrum Heritage, a fifth carved stone has been discovered. Inspection of the photogrammetric three-dimensional models and the Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files of the late medieval recumbent monuments at the site, produced by Spectrum Heritage, revealed that one worn specimen was originally an early medieval recumbent cross slab conforming to the ‘Govan School’ of carving. After identifying the remnants of carving and applying a novel digital analysis technique, it was possible to recover and identify many of the worn decorative motifs from Inchinnan 5. This reconstruction allows for Inchinnan 5 to be compared with other stones from the Govan School, especially those found at Govan and St Blane’s, Bute.

Writing the History of Merovingian Gaul

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
Agnès Graceffa
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Political Realities

The Merovingian period has long been contested ground on which a variety of ideologies and approaches have been marshaled to debate the significance of the “end” of antiquity and the start of the Middle Ages. Particularly important to these discussions has been the role of this period in shaping national identity across western Europe; interpretations of the Merovingians have varied as political realities have changed in Europe, going back, in some cases, as far as the late medieval period. This chapter focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but offers examples as early as the seventeenth century as to how the Merovingian period has been harnessed for a large number of purposes and how these sometimes polemical interpretations have encouraged or stymied our understanding of this period.

Autobiography and the History of Reading

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Autobiography as a concept asks deep questions about the periodization of history. It is also a scene of persistent rivalry in the construction of medieval and Renaissance models of history. Since Jakob Burckhardt’sDie Kultur der Renaissance in Italienof 1860, there has been a war of ownership over the rise of human subjectivity. This article examines the debate over the history of autobiography by focusing on St. Augustine and hisConfessions. It considers the exposure of theConfessionsto different kinds of reading during the late medieval period, including that by Petrarch. It argues that theConfessionshas been read more extensively in the twentieth century than ever before and that the Augustine of the “invention of subjectivity” is a writer of a specifically twentieth-century imagination. In this way it also assesses the impact of the Reformation on theConfessions.

On the Path of the Sign

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baranna Baker
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Medieval Philosophy ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Point Of Departure

AbstractWith Medieval Philosophy Redefined as the Latin Age, John Deely has written a truly revolutionary book. Both medieval historians and semioticians alike will gain a new perspective on their subject matter upon reading Medieval Philosophy Redefined. In it, Deely traces the history of the sign by going to its roots in the writings of Augustine, and following it through to the time of John Poinsot. John Poinsot, a previously marginalized philosopher from the late medieval period, factors greatly in Deely’s book. Poinsot makes it possible to get through the “thicket” of nominalism and see beyond Renaissance Humanism. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that, by using the sign as the point of departure, Deely has found a constant thread that runs through the Medieval Ages, making it, the sign, a key to understanding medieval philosophy from its start to its finish.

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