‘Spain! Most Pleasant were my wanderings’: Robert Southey's Pedestrian and Mountaineering Writing in the Iberian Peninsula

Romanticism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Cristina Flores
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hill Climbing ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Aesthetic Engagement

This article explores Robert Southey's literary responses to his walking experiences in Spain as he recounted them in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (1797). Published after a four-month visit to the Iberian Peninsula, Letters departs from previous travelogues in offering, apart from factual details, subjective impressions of the places visited both in prose and verse. Nonetheless, I argue, Southey adopts a more intimate and self-reflective mood when he relates his pedestrian excursions in verse, not only showing a deeper aesthetic engagement with the natural surroundings but also acquiring an inward look. Moved by the bodily exertion of walking and hill climbing in Spain, Southey produced a series of poems in which the fragility of memory, the feelings of isolation and distress and the related poetic incapacity are explored. Encompassing examples from Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poems, in this essay I read Southey's poems in Letters as aligned with and contributing to the then emerging Romantic pedestrian poetics, though at the same time showing their ideosyncracy derived from Southey's complex approach to the Other in ‘a land of strangers’.

scholarly journals Serial nominations for the AWH initiative: The paradigm of seven-stone antas and beyond

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 102-104
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Belmonte ◽  
César González García ◽  
Michael Hoskin
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Excellent Candidate ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractIn this short report we examine the ideal status of the seven-stone antas (a type of very ancient megalithic monument in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula) as an excellent candidate for a serial nomination within the Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative. This case will be compared with an extraordinary set of dolmens at the other side of the Mediterranean, within the Transjordan Plateau, worthy of being protected under the umbrella of the same initiative but which are in serious danger of ‘extinction’.

scholarly journals Earthen architecture in the Iberian Peninsula: a portrait of vulnerability, sustainability and conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Mileto ◽  
Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares ◽  
Valentina Cristini ◽  
Lidía García Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Rammed Earth ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Earthen Architecture ◽  
Earthen Buildings

AbstractFor more than a decade, a wide range of Spanish case studies, relating especially to rural inner or abandoned sites and areas, have been analysed by the authors as part of different research projects linked with traditional and monumental architecture, conservation strategies and earthen buildings. On one hand the studies have been undertaken in the framework of a project concerning the conservation of rammed earth in the Iberian Peninsula, including criteria, techniques, results and perspectives and, on the other, by a project about the conservation and rehabilitation of traditional earthen architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, providing guidelines and tools for its sustainable intervention. In all cases the researchers’ efforts focused on enhancing new perspectives and opportunities for rural earthen buildings, analysing landscapes, contexts, constructive features, decay and problems. The final common aim of this research is to stress these crucial topics to improve tangible or intangible opportunities for conservation strategies.

scholarly journals Between health and pleasure

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Good For ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
Medical Recommendations

Between pleasure and health, why should we have to choose? Though this combination did not mainly concern the culinary tradition of the Christian Middle Ages, on the other hand, it fits fully into an Arabic tradition of both East and West of the said period. In the late Middle Ages under Islamic domination, doctors, agronomists or botanists, offer –through multiple medical treatises on food or agriculture–, culinary recipes good for health. Thus, for Ibn Rush, Ibn Rāzī, Avicenne or Maimonides –as for many others scholars–, foodstuffs play a key role in its benefits for health. In this way, cookbooks occupy pride of place in this alliance between health and cooking. Therefore, the culinary recipes of half a dozen cookbooks of the Muslim Middle East dating back to the 10th-14th centuries, suggest this combination: listen to your body, take pleasure when you eat, do it according to your health and eat in a measured way. Cookbooks of the Iberian Peninsula written in Arabic in the Dar al-Islam testify to the transmission –from the Muslim Middle East– of the medico-culinary tradition based on humoral theory and culinary practices. This paper will focus on the place occupied by dietetic in the first known cookbook of the Iberian Peninsula: the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ [The cookbook]. Its anonymous author quote Galen and Hippocrates that, therefore, inscribes the Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ in the influence of the Greek dietetic tradition. Furthermore, the knowledge of the anonymous author concerning medicine, dietetic, and cuisine is undeniable. Through half a thousand recipes, I will first present a reflection on this source commonly named “The Cookbook”, and then underscore the proportion of dishes containing medical recommendations. Then I will offer an approach to frequently used foodstuffs in the recipes where health seems to take precedence over the pleasure of eating the dish. Curing the illness, avoiding it, take pleasure, what is the goal of the culinary recipes? Thus, the aim is to identify both the most common dietetics recommendations and the disease that seem the most important to avoid. Finally, I will provide a glimpse of one of the most characteristic culinary recipes of this alliance health/pleasure that can offer the Andalusian cookbook. A brief reflection can be conducted on the current phenomenon that shows the willingness to return to healthy food which recommendations can be found in the cookbooks dating from the Middle Ages.

A Computer Simulation Model for Determining Fleet Size and Composition

1977 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
G. C. Schultz ◽  
E. E. Enscore
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Search Algorithms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hill Climbing ◽  
Computer Simulation Model ◽  
Fleet Size ◽  
Travel Costs ◽  
Total Vehicle ◽  
Vehicle Fleet

A heterogeneous vehicle fleet is one that is composed of several types of vehicles. The number of each type of vehicle in the fleet is called the fleet’s composition. The problem of determining the best fleet size and composition for an in-house heterogeneous company fleet having a known demand was solved in this paper. A computer model was developed which tied a fleet simulation model to two different search algorithms. One of the search algorithms is a complete factorial nonsequential search and the other is a combination of a partial factorial nonsequential search and a heuristic sequential hill-climbing search. The objective of both searches is to select the fleet size and composition which provides the lowest total vehicle travel costs to the company. Several examples were used to demonstrate the use of the model.

scholarly journals Three Mothers (2006) by Dina Zvi-Riklis: The Repressed Israeli Trauma of Immigration

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Yael Munk
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Outstanding Achievement ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Jewish Religion

This article relates to the complex approach of Dina Zvi-Riklis’ film Three Mothers (2006) to immigration, an issue that is central to both the Jewish religion and Israeli identity. While for both, reaching the land of Israel means arriving in the promised land, they are quite dissimilar, in that one is a religious command, while the other is an ideological imperative. Both instruct the individual to opt for the obliteration of his past. However, this system does not apply to the protagonists of Three Mothers, a film which follows the extraordinary trajectory of triplet sisters, born to a rich Jewish family in Alexandria, who are forced to leave Egypt after King Farouk’s abdication and immigrate to Israel. This article will demonstrate that Three Mothers represents an outstanding achievement, because it dares to deal with its protagonists’ longing for the world left behind and the complexity of integrating the past into the present. Following Nicholas Bourriaud’s radicant theory, designating an organism that grows roots and adds new ones as it advances, this article will argue that, although the protagonists of Three Mothers never avow their longing for Egypt, the film’s narrative succeeds in revealing a subversive démarche, through which the sisters succeed in integrating Egypt into their present.

Tardigrades from Portugal: four new records and description of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2030 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULO FONTOURA ◽  
GIOVANNI PILATO ◽  
OSCAR LISI ◽  
PAULO MORAIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Name ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

Six species of Eutardigrada are recorded from Portugal; four of them, Macrobiotus crenulatus Richters, 1904, Hypsibius seychellensis Pilato, Binda & Lisi, 2006, Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue (Marcus, 1936) and D. (Diphascon) patanei Binda & Pilato, 1971 are recorded for the first time in Portugal. Two species, Minibiotus orthofasciatus sp. nov. and Bertolanius (new name of Amphibolus) portucalensis sp. nov. are new to science. Minibiotus orthofasciatus sp. nov. is one of the species of the genus with three macroplacoids, microplacoid and cuticular pores forming transverse bands. The new species differs from all existing species by one or more of the following characters: distribution of the pores, shape of the pores, absence of dots on the legs, level of insertion of the stylet supports on the buccal tube. To the new species is attributed an unembryonated egg similar to those of Minibiotus intermedius (Plate, 1888), M. poricinctus Claxton, 1998, M. floriparus Claxton, 1998, and M. weglarskae Michalczyk, Kaczmarek & Claxton, 2005 but different from them in some details. Bertolanius portucalensis sp. nov. is very similar to the other species of the genus, but it differs from them in having very small cuticular tubercles. From some of them it differs by characters of the buccopharyngeal apparatus and/or of the eggs. This is the first record of the genus and of the Eohypsibiidae family in the Iberian Peninsula.

The Research and Application of Auto-Focus Based on Hi3515

2012 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 440-444
Author(s):  
Yan Long Liu ◽  
Jian Jun Guo ◽  
Fu Mei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hill Climbing ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Key Technology ◽  
Integer Dct ◽  
Auto Focus ◽  
Peak Value

Auto-focus is a key technology for visual presenter, this paper mainly presents how to achieve the function of auto-focus on Hi3515. The 4x4 integer DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) shown as Eq. (2) was used to indicate whether the system was on accurate focus or not. Because the 4x4 integer DCT not only has the characteristics of single peak value, non-deflection, reliability, high-speed, but also has lower complex computation than the other frequency methods such as FFT(Fast Fourier Transform), DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform). This paper employed the method of monotonic and blind hill climbing to achieve auto-focus. The result of auto-focus is shown as Fig. 6.

scholarly journals Assessing extreme droughts in Spain during 1750–1850 from rogation ceremonies

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 705-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Domínguez-Castro ◽  
P. Ribera ◽  
R. García-Herrera ◽  
J. M. Vaquero ◽  
M. Barriendos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Meteorological Hazards ◽  
Instrumental Period ◽  
Climatic Characteristics ◽  
Instrumental Series ◽  
Rainfall Deficits

Abstract. Among the different meteorological hazards, droughts are those with the highest socio-economical impact on the Iberian Peninsula. Drought events have been largely studied in the instrumental period, but very little is known about the characteristics of droughts in the preinstrumental period. In this work, several series of rogation ceremonies are used to identify severe droughts within the period 1750–1850. The overlapping of the rogation series with some instrumental series served to identify some climatic characteristics of rogation ceremonies: (a) during spring, rainfall deficits needed to celebrate rogation ceremonies are smaller than in any other season; (b) the hydrological deficit in a particular region increases with the number of locations celebrating rogations simultaneously. On the other hand, it was found that between 1750–1754 and 1779–1783 are probably the driest periods of the 101 analyzed years. Both show an important number of rogations all over Iberia and during all the seasons. The most extended drought of this period occurred during the spring of 1817, affecting 15 of the 16 locations studied. This drought was influenced by the Tambora eruption (1815). The study of the climate footprint of this eruption and its comparison with similar situations in the series suggest that the spring drought of 1824 may be associated with the eruptions of the Galunggung and Usu volcanoes (1822). Further studies are required to confirm this fact and understand the atmospheric mechanisms involved.

scholarly journals A new species of perennial Bromus (Bromeae, Poaceae) from the Iberian Peninsula

PhytoKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Acedo ◽  
Félix Llamas
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
National Park ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
The Other ◽  
Perennial Species ◽  
A New Species

During a survey of the genus Bromus for the ongoing Flora Iberica, B.picoeuropeanussp. nov., a new orophilous species of perennial Bromus from Picos de Europa National Park, was found, and it is described and illustrated here. This new species belongs to the Bromuserectus complex and differs from the other perennial species of this group occurring in the Iberian Peninsula in its well-developed rhizome, the small innovation leaves and all peduncles and branches shorter than the spikelets. B.picoeuropeanus grows on calcareous stony soils associated with dry places. We provide a description and illustrations of the new species and an identification key for the most related European perennial species belonging to the complex.

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