Homage to Petrarch as Humanist Saint: Peregrinatio litterarum ergo

Moreana ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (Number 135- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
J.B. Trapp
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Giovanni Boccaccio ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Francesco Petrarca ◽  
Country House ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Village

Francesco Petrarca retired in 1370 to the small country house at Arquà, near Padua, in which he died. The house, its contents, and the great marble sarcophagus erected for his remains outside the parish church brought fame to the village, as Giovanni Boccaccio had prophesied they would. By the fifteenth century literary pilgrims were attracted to the village; in the sixteenth, house and tomb were adomed by Pietro Paolo Valdezocco, and Anton Francesco Doni proposed an elaborate memorial. In the seventeenth, Giacomo Filippo Tomasini described the village and tomb, and by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the site had become popular with tourists, Lord Byron included. Among the attractions was the mummified corpse of a cat, said to have belonged to the poet.

scholarly journals VIII.—The Burial-place of the Slavonians in North Stoneham Church, Hants

Archaeologia ◽  
1894 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
George William Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
The Village

The village of North Stoneham, not far from the Eastleigh railway junction, eight miles from Winchester and four from Southampton, stands, as the name denotes, “Ad Lapidem,” at one of the milestones on the Roman road from Winchester to the waterside at Clausentum. The parish church has somewhat higher architectural pretensions than is usual with the simple Hampshire village churches; it has a nave and two aisles running the whole length of the building, but no structural chancel; it is almost a square, with a low fifteenth-century tower at the west end.

Public and Private: The Late Medieval Wall Paintings of Haddon Hall Chapel, Derbyshire

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 179-205
Author(s):  
Mellie Naydenova
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Public Statement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Private Devotion

This paper focuses on the mural scheme executed in Haddon Hall Chapel shortly after 1427 for Sir Richard Vernon. It argues that at that time the chapel was also being used as a parish church, and that the paintings were therefore both an expression of private devotion and a public statement. This is reflected in their subject matter, which combines themes associated with popular beliefs, the public persona of the Hall's owner and the Vernon family's personal devotions. The remarkable inventiveness and complexity of the iconography is matched by the exceptionally sophisticated style of the paintings. Attention is also given to part of the decoration previously thought to be contemporary with this fifteenth-century scheme but for which an early sixteenth-century date is now proposed on the basis of stylistic and other evidence.

The Traditional Romanian Folk Dance in Şieuţ, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, as Part of the Winter Traditions and Customs. Carol Singers and the “Beer”

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Patricia Smaranda Mureşan ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
Military Unit ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Church Service ◽  
The Village

"The present study focuses on the custom of “Beer”, a remarkable event that shaped the evolution of the communities that were part of the Second Romanian Border Regiment at Năsăud, a military unit of the Austrian army in Transylvania between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses specifically on the Şieuţ village and the detailed manner in which this social event was organized by the village’s young men between Christmas and the New Year, when young villagers could attend the “Beer”, an important occasion for social interaction. This research is based on a series of interviews with active community members from then and now and aims to offer an overview of the custom’s meaning and structure. According to tradition, during the Nativity Fast, young men would follow the call of the “bucin” and meet at the house of a host to plan the event. They were assigned the roles of “vătafi” and “colceri” who hired musicians for the event, while the “căprari” were responsible for collecting the traditional pastry received by carol singers. On Christmas Eve, they grouped and went caroling throughout the village. After the Christmas church service, the traditional folk dance (“Beer”) started at the host’s house. The traditional festive garments, the young men going caroling or the traditional men’s folk dance from Şieuţ, included in the UNESCO World Heritage, represent elements of this custom that have survived the passage of time, integrating the traditional into modern life. Keywords: Şieuţ, ”Beer”, Romanian folk dance, tradition, carol "

In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Keyword(s):  
Small Country ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
The Village

It was late in a drizzly afternoon that a traveller alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N——, in Kentucky. In the bar-room he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and...

scholarly journals Economic Forms in Pre-Colonial Ghana

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Hymer
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Economic Surplus ◽  
New Class ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
The Village

This paper uses a simple physiocratic model to examine forms of economic organization prevailing in Ghana before it was incorporated into the British Empire at the end of the nineteenth century. It is divided into three parts. The first analyzes the village subsistence economy and suggests that the egalitarian nature of the land-tenure system prevented the emergence of a land-owning class and the appropriation of an economic surplus. This led to an economic structure characterized by a low level of material production and a low degree of specialization and exchange. The second part analyzes forms of economic organization associated with long distance trade: that is, the very old northern trade with other parts of Africa, and the southern coastal trade with Europe which began in the fifteenth century. It argues that foreign trade not only expanded the consumption possibilities of the society, as predicted by the theory of international trade, but also introduced a new class structure and greater income inequality, since it allowed a small group to appropriate a surplus for its own use. The third part discusses the relevance of Pre-Colonial forms to twentieth century economic development.

VIII.—The Priory of St. Leonard of Stanley, Co. Gloucester, in the light of recent discoveries documentary and structural

Archaeologia ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 199-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Swynnerton
Keyword(s):  
Western Slope ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
The Village

Stanley, Co. Glos., is a village on the western slope of a spur of the Cotswolds one and a half miles north of Stonehouse. The village and parish are commonly called Leonard Stanley or Stanley St. Leonards to distinguish them from the next parish of King's Stanley as well as from the Wiltshire Stanley where there was also a conventual house. Occasionally it appears as Stanley Monachorum. But generally it was simply Stanley, and Stanley without qualification is the name which local lips often assign to it even at the present day.Stanley St. Leonards can boast of two most interesting churches. The older church, now degraded to farm-yard purposes, was the ancient preconquest rectory church, but it is small, a chapel in fact, and therefore, following medieval usage, we shall distinguish it from the greater monastic and present parish church by naming it as the chapel of St. Leonard.

The Mandailing Raja Tradition in Pakantan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Kartomi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Village ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Aesthetic Meaning

This chapter examines the music culture of the village complex of Pakantan in south Tapanuli, North Sumatra, with particular emphasis on the Mandailing raja tradition. It aims to reconstruct the historical and aesthetic context of Pakantan's pre-Muslim ritual orchestral music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the village was ruled by a chieftain (raja) of the original Lubis clan. The three ritual orchestras, which are differentiated by their respective sets of either five or nine tuned gordang drums or two untuned gordang drums, possess indigenous religious and aesthetic meaning. After providing an overview of the Mandailing people's cultural history, the chapter discusses the social role, aesthetic thought, and ritual practice of their ceremonial music. More specifically, it considers the gordang sambilan performed at major ceremonies, funerals, weddings, and clairvoyant rituals. It shows that each musical item on ceremonial occasions, whether played on a gondang or a gordang ensemble, is named after its totop, or fixed drum rhythm, and serves as an invocation.

A Mycenaean Pictorial Vase of the Fifteenth Century B.C. from Laconia

1971 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
K. Demacopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
East Side ◽  
Early Date ◽  
The Village ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Brown Clay

The large pictorial jug published here (Plate 12 a-d) was discovered in 1966 in a plundered Mycenaean chamber tomb at the site Melathria, near the village of Skoura in Laconia. Skoura is close to Sparta, opposite to and east of the Vapheio tholos tomb, on the east side of the river Eurotas.It is a most unusual Mycenaean vase, remarkable for its pictorial decoration at such an early date. In view of the shape of the vase and its linear decoration, it seems to be one of the earliest pictorial vases yet found on the mainland of Greece.The jug, which is now exhibited in Sparta Museum (Inv. no. 5533), has been restored from fragments, and large pieces of the belly have been completed with plaster. It can be described as follows: Tall jug with cut-away neck (Plate 12a). Light brown clay, polished yellow-pink surface, lustrous red paint which in places has adhered badly and flaked away.

Eastern Chapels in the Cathedral Church of Norwich

1932 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
D. H. S. Cranage
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Original Work ◽  
The South ◽  
South Side ◽  
Parish Church

The Cathedral Church of Norwich is remarkable for several features which rarely or never occur elsewhere. Among these the form of the two surviving eastern chapels may be mentioned. They may be described as bulbous in shape, and were clearly a part of the original work of Herbert de Losinga, the bishop of Norwich who transferred his seat from Thetford to Norwich in 1094. His great church was begun in 1096, and was sufficiently forward for consecration on 24th September 1101. The northern chapel has been called the Jesus chapel since the end of the fifteenth century, but before it had been the chapel of the Martyrs and later the chapel of St. Stephen. The south chapel is St. Luke's, used since the reign of Elizabeth as a parish church in lieu of St. Mary's in the Marsh, which stood on the south side of the Close and was then pulled down.

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