scholarly journals Words, Characters, and Context: Giovan Maria Cecchi and the Language of Theatre

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Konrad Eisenbichler
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Great Productivity

With over sixty plays to his credit, the Florentine notary Giovan Maria Cecchi (1518–87) was the most prolific Italian dramatist of the entire Renaissance. Not surprisingly, his fellow Florentines nicknamed him il Comico (the playwright) not only because of his great productivity, but also because of the unquestioned success of his works. In fact, his plays seemed to please audiences that ran the gamut from adolescent boys in confraternities to the grand-ducal court, from cloistered nuns in convents to carnival brigades of carefree young men. Clearly, Cecchi knew something about theatre and about audiences that worked to his advantage. This article proposes that Cecchi’s dramatic talent rested, in part, on his keen sense of language and on his ability to adapt it as required not only by the plots and characters of his plays, but also by his audiences, their context, and the changing social political situation of sixteenth-century Florence.

scholarly journals Guilds, Social Mobility and Status in Sixteenth-Century Ghent

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Dambruyne
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Social Promotion ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Democratic Character ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article investigates the relationship between social mobility and status in guilds and the political situation in sixteenth-century Ghent. First, it argues that Ghent guilds showed neither a static picture of upward mobility nor a rectilinear and one-way evolution. It demonstrates that the opportunities for social promotion within the guild system were, to a great extent, determined by the successive political regimes of the city. Second, the article proves that the guild boards in the sixteenth century had neither a typically oligarchic nor a typically democratic character. Third, the investigation of the houses in which master craftsmen lived shows that guild masters should not be depicted as a monolithic social bloc, but that significant differences in status and wealth existed. The article concludes that there was no linear positive connection between the duration of a master craftsman's career and his wealth and social position.

Eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage of pre-adolescent and adolescent boys in comparison to young men

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (6) ◽  
pp. 1183-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor C. Chen ◽  
Hsin-Lian Chen ◽  
Yi-Chuen Liu ◽  
Kazunori Nosaka
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Damage ◽  
Eccentric Exercise ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
Exercise Induced

Urological Survivorship Issues Among Adolescent Boys and Young Men Who Are Cancer Survivors

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Sukhu ◽  
Sherry Ross ◽  
R. Matthew Coward
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys

scholarly journals Transitions in Adolescent Boys and Young Men’s High-Risk Sexual Behaviour in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Deepanjali Vishwakarma
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
High Risk Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Risk Sexual Behaviour

Abstract Background: The sexual behaviour of adolescents is of importance due to the engagement in risky sexual activity at a too early age, which may be associated with the adverse outcomes. The study aims to understand the transitions in adolescent boys and young men’s high-risk sexual behaviour in India using two rounds of Indian demographic health survey, NFHS-3 (2005-06) and NFHS-4 (2015-16). Methods: A total of 25,538 in NFHS-3 (2005-06) and 35,112 in NFHS-4 (2015-16) men were considered for the analysis. Men have been divided into two age groups as 15-19 years (adolescent) and 20-24 (young men) for comparison purposes. Descriptive and multivariate statistics have been used. Results: Overall, high-risk sexual behaviour has increased among adolescent boys (64% to 70%) and young men (18% to 27%) from 2005-06 to 2015-16. The trend of live-in relationship has increased among adolescent boys of rural areas (0.6% to 6.0%) as well as in urban areas (3.1% to 10.9%) over the last ten years. Adolescent boys having 10th and above years of schooling (AOR=1.98; p<0.01), residing in urban areas (AOR=2.23; p<0.01), and belonging to the affluent class of households (AOR=1.41; p<0.05) were more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activity than the young men in India. The odds of high-risk sexual behaviour was higher among alcohol-using adolescent boys (AOR= 1.82; p<0.01) and young men (AOR=2.38; p<0.01) in 2015-16.Conclusions: The study concludes that early sexual debut, lower prevalence of condom use at first sexual experience, tendency of live-in-relationship, and alcohol consumption indicate the hazardous interconnection between such behaviours among adolescent boys over the last decade which put them at higher-risky sexual behaviour as compared to young men. Adolescent’ sexual behaviours have both short-term and long-term consequences, and interventions that focus on multiple domains of risk may be the most effective in helping to promote broad reproductive health among young adults.

scholarly journals Transitions in Adolescent Boys and Young Men’s High-Risk Sexual Behaviour in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Deepanjali Vishwakarma
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
High Risk Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Risk Sexual Behaviour

Abstract Background: The sexual behaviour of adolescents is of importance due to the engagement in risky sexual activity at a too early age, which may be associated with the adverse outcomes. The study aims to understand the transitions in adolescent boys and young men’s high-risk sexual behaviour in India using two rounds of Indian demographic health survey, NFHS-3 (2005-06) and NFHS-4 (2015-16). Methods: A total of 25,538 in NFHS-3 (2005-06) and 35,112 in NFHS-4 (2015-16) men were considered for the analysis. Men have been divided into two age groups as 15-19 years (adolescent) and 20-24 (young men) for comparison purposes. Descriptive and multivariate statistics have been used. Results: Overall, high-risk sexual behaviour has increased among adolescent boys (64% to 70%) and young men (18% to 27%) from 2005-06 to 2015-16. The trend of live-in relationship has increased among adolescent boys of rural areas (0.6% to 6.0%) as well as in urban areas (3.1% to 10.9%) over the last ten years. Adolescent boys having 10 th and above years of schooling (AOR=1.98; p<0.01), residing in urban areas (AOR=2.23; p<0.01), and belonging to the affluent class of households (AOR=1.41; p<0.05) were more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activity than the young men in India. The odds of high-risk sexual behaviour was higher among alcohol-using adolescent boys (AOR= 1.82; p<0.01) and young men (AOR=2.38; p<0.01) in 2015-16. Conclusions: The study concludes that early sexual debut, lower prevalence of condom use at first sexual experience, tendency of live-in-relationship, and alcohol consumption indicate the hazardous interconnection between such behaviours among adolescent boys over the last decade which put them at higher-risky sexual behaviour as compared to young men. Adolescent’ sexual behaviours have both short-term and long-term consequences, and interventions that focus on multiple domains of risk may be the most effective in helping to promote broad reproductive health among young adults.

scholarly journals Eating disorders in adolescent boys and young men: an update

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Nagata ◽  
Kyle T. Ganson ◽  
Stuart B. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Boys

How Information Spread Among the Gentry, 1550-1640

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Information Spread ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Courts

During the first half of the sixteenth century, the English gentry came to realize that its continued access to the controls of power would depend less on birth and military prowess and more on literacy and learning. As a result, the sons of gentlemen flooded into the grammar schools, where they acquired a good knowledge of classical Latin and, rather less commonly, the rudiments of Greek. Together with the languages of the ancients, the schoolboys imbibed at least something of classical ideals. Principally they learned the duty of service to the common weal, a service to be expressed politically. That ideal had permeated Roman education and, through the writings of humanist educational theorists such as Erasmus, was embodied in the curricula of the English grammar schools and universities. Young men were trained in the arts of argument. They learned the trick of compiling a commonplace book, under whose artfully devised headings they entered the “flowers” of their reading. Then, when occasion demanded it, in conversation or letter, in the law courts or parliament, they could search out the appropriate topos, in their memories or in their notes, and bring to bear the weight of classical (and even modern) wisdom. So much, indeed, might be learned by all grammar school boys. Those who proceeded to the universities added further weapons to their armories. Since the universities existed principally to train theologians and preachers, a function whose importance increased as it became necessary to defend English Protestantism from the attacks of Catholics and separatists, they emphasized dialectic.

Gender Goals: Defining Masculinity and Navigating Peer Pressure to Engage in Sexual Activity

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 795-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiera D. Duckworth ◽  
Mary Nell Trautner
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Outright Rejection

A significant part of hegemonic masculinity is proving one’s heterosexuality though sexual experiences. Peer pressure to conform is particularly acute for adolescent boys and young men. We analyze interviews with 87 boys in middle school, high school, and college about how their masculinity goals and subsequent achievement of those goals influence their navigation of pressure to engage in sexual relations with girls and women to “prove” themselves. Our findings show that, while boys and young men recognize dominant notions of hegemonic masculinity, most do not subscribe to those uncritically. Rather, they struggle to balance personal ideas about masculinity with consistent pressure from others to demonstrate their heterosexuality. As a result, they employ various strategies to negotiate such pressures, including avoidance, acceptance, and outright rejection of this particular expectation. These strategies, however, ultimately contribute to a broader gender culture among adolescents in which expectations and privileges associated with hegemonic masculinity that dominate U.S. culture remain largely unchallenged.

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