scholarly journals The Middle Ages (from the Birth of Christ to the 13th Century). The East and the West

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 6-27
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
The Middle Ages

The essence of the series of essays published by the journal is that with a maximum compactness of the presentation, it provides a summary of the main phenomena of world artistic culture, covered in its entirety both from the point of view of the general historical process, and in relation to the various arts (literature, the fi ne arts, architecture, music, theater and cinema). At the same time, the customary categorization according to national schools and the division into the separate respective arts with the genre specifi cation inherent in each of them are overcome, which answers the positive trends of globalization and provides a holistic view of artistic phenomena. The following artistic and historical periods are considered in stages: the Ancient world, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance era, the Baroque period, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Post-romanticism, the fi rst, second and third Modern periods, Postmodernism, and, as an afterword, — “The Golden age of Russian artistic culture.”

scholarly journals Antiquity (A Millennium before the Birth of Christ). The Basis of European Culture

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 6-25
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
The Middle Ages

The peculiarity of the series of essays published by the magazine is that with the maximum compactness of the presentation, it provides a summary of the main phenomena of world artistic culture, covered in General both from the point of view of the General historical process, and in relation to various types of creativity (literature, fne art, architecture, music, theater and cinema). At the same time, the usual categorization of national schools and the division into separate types of art with the genre specifcation inherent in each of them is overcome, which meets the positive trends of globalization and provides a holistic view of artistic phenomena. The following artistic and historical periods are considered in stages: the Ancient world, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Postromanticism, Modern I, Modern II, Modern III, Postmodern, and as an afterword — «The Golden age of Russian artistic culture».

scholarly journals The Enlightenment (the Second Half of the 18th Century). Horizons of Light and Mind. First Essay

ICONI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Historical Periods

The essence of the series of essays published by the magazine is that with a maximum compactness of presentation it provides a summary of the main phenomena of world artistic culture covered in general, both from the point of view of the general historical process, and in relation to the various forms of art (literature, the visual arts, architecture, music, theater and cinema). At the same time, the usual categorization of national schools and division into separate types of art with the genre specification inherent in each of them is overcome, which meets the positive trends of globalization and provides a holistic view of artistic phenomena. The following artistic and historical periods are considered in a stepwise manner: the Ancient world, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque Period, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Post-Romanticism, the First Modern Period, the Second Modern Period, the Third Modern Period, the Postmodern Period, and as an afterword — “The Golden Age of Russian Artistic Culture”.

scholarly journals Ancient World. (Depth of Times). Discoveries and Revelations

ICONI ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 6-23
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Demchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art History ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Style ◽  
The Middle Ages

The object of the proposed cycle of essays is that with a maximal compactness of presentment it presents a cumulative overview of the chief phenomena of world artistic culture, spanned in whole, both from the perspective of an overall historical process and in relation to the various arts (literature, the visual arts, architecture, music, theater and cinema). At the same time, it avoids the customary rubrication according to national schools and division into separate arts forms with the specifi cation of genre inherent to each one of them, which is in accord with the positive tendencies of globalization and provides an integral vision of artistic phenomena. A phased examination of the following periods of art history is foreseen: the Ancient World, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque period, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the 1st Modern style, the 2nd Modern style, the 3rd Modern style, the Postmodern style, and as an afterword — “The Golden Age of Russian Artistic Culture.”

scholarly journals Pre-Christian Scandinavian royalty. From the legendary kings to the 11th century kingship

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Alexandra Airinei
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article focuses, as the title already expresses it, on the Pre-Christian Scandinavian Royalty, not from a political point of view, but from the perspective of what we nowadays call ideology of power. This means that we will try to identify the whole system of beliefs regarding the ideal ruler and the concepts that support his right to the throne and to the exercise of his authority . The ideas used to build the image of the perfect kingship in the pagan Scandinavia continued to exist long after the difficult process of christianisation, thing which meant in fact that the conversion was never fully completed and that this area remained distinct from the rest of the continent during the Middle Ages and even later. Even if the article refers to the Northern monarchy up to the 11th century, we included in our references a 13th century work allegedly written by the king Håkon Håkonsson, “Konungs Skuggsja”, to show this particular aspect: the fact that the pagan ideas were deeply rooted in the endemic society, the fact that they still shaped the concept of the perfect king and that there was no breach between the Christian period and the previous one, but rather a balanced continuity.

The Republic of Letters: Arab Modernity? [Pt. II]

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Muhsin al-Musawi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Mamluk Period ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Image Position ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractIn this part, the implications of negativism are interrogated, especially as they lead to a deliberate negligence on the part of some nahḍah scholars to overlook significant and in fact groundbreaking contributions to the theories of translation as laid down by al-Jāḥiẓ, for example. Counter readings by other nahḍah scholars and translators balance and should have corrected the view of$T{\hskip-5.6pt\vskip1.9pt.}\,$āhā Ḥusayn, whose alignment with the Enlightenment prevented him from exploring even the most salient features of a past tradition. The medieval as a powerful dynamic in the makeup of historical understanding can be traced in writings by Mudawwar, Sulaymān Khaṭṭar al-Bustānī, and others, but these draw on a Golden past (the Abbasid) as an imaginary that sustains another lineage that takes translation from a Greco-Roman tradition as an invigorating enterprise in an otherwise lively Abbasid (750–978; and then until 1258) culture that was already triumphant. In other words this reclamation of the Golden past was not meant to disparage the Middle Ages, that is, the Mamluk period (1250–1517), but to obliquely criticize cultural dependency on Europe. Hence, prominent journals and publishers did not shy away from picking their designations and names from the Mamluk parlance and architectural sites. These two trends in lexical activity, translation, and historicization attest to a differentiated nahḍah space where the proclaimed epistemic discontinuity with the immediate past was balanced by the setup of a schema for translation as a schema for the nation, a premise that was also applied to the lexicon as a pan-Arab cauldron.

scholarly journals English texts with parable elements, dating from the XIII-XIV centuries: synergetic approach

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Pilgui
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
First Results ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
The Middle Ages

The scientific article presents the first results of the study of the English parable in the diachronic aspect from the synergetic point of view. The research started from the Middle Ages, illustrated and analyzed the first English texts with parable elements, dating from the XIII-XIV centuries. The scientific work is based on historical events, specific writers and their individual style; the development of a parable as an independent type of text and discourse took place under the influence the mentioned above. It is determined that during this period it is difficult to distinguish the English parable in a separate genre of literature of that time, but the authentic English parable confidently functioned as metatext in the great texts of the Middle Ages. Several parable contexts were observed in one text. The article outlines the results of the study and gives examples of texts of a certain era. The general stylistic and synergetic characteristics of the investigated texts are singled out and their classification according to thematic groups is presented: condemnation of negative human traits, relations of God and mankind, interpretation of spiritual truth and moral values. From the synergetic point of view, thematic groups are thematic attractors that contribute to the development and existence with its functional meta-texts with parable elements. The study of English parable texts allowed us to identify of a number of stylistic devices and stylistic features. It is noted that stylistic attractors of the Middle Ages parables are as follows: prose and poetic form, rhetorical and logical-expressive style. The results of scientific work determine the broad perspectives of further research, in particular the study of the English parable in diachrony from the synergetic point of view, as well as the analysis and comparison of the texts of the following centuries with the systematization of their general and specific features

The Career of Philosophy: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

1963 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
William Gerber ◽  
John Herman Randall
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Middle Ages

Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology in Medieval Hebrew Encyclopaedias

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Zonta
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Principal Feature ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Albert The Great ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

There are three principal philosophical-scientific encyclopaedias written in Hebrew during the Middle Ages: Yehudah ha-Cohen'sMidrash ha-Ḥokmah(1245–1247), Shem Tov ibn Falaquera'sDe'ot ha-Filosofim(ca. 1270) and Gershon ben Shlomoh'sSha'ar ha-Shamayin(end of the 13th century). All three include detailed treatments of zoology, and the last two of botany and mineralogy as well. The principal feature of their treatments is their “theoretical” – not merely “descriptive” – approach: these encyclopaedias do not contain only lists of stones, plants and animals (such as other Arabic and Latin Medieval encyclopaedias), but also attempts at systematization and philosophical arrangement of the various available theories in the fields of mineralogy, botany and zoologyquasciences. An examination of the doctrines and the sources of these texts shows that, while the treatment of zoology relies upon Aristotle's zoological works and, above all, theirCompendiaby Averroes, the treatment of mineralogy and botany reflects the non-Aristotelian theories of theBrethren of Purity(Iḫwān al-Ṣafā'), rather than such texts as pseudo-Aristotle'sDe lapidibusand Nicolaus Damascenus'De plantis. In particular, Falaquera's encyclopaedia represents the most convincing effort to provide a truly scientific discussion of mineralogy and botany, comparable to that of his contemporary Albert the Great, and based upon theBrethren, Avicenna and, maybe, some lost works by Averroes.

The Enlightenment’s Paradigm Shift and the Three Impostors

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Guy G. Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Close Family ◽  
The Middle Ages

The preceding chapter dealt with the legend of the three rings, which highlighted the close family relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This relationship, which had been an obvious one up through the Middle Ages, began to be seen as less evident in the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment (or perhaps, rather, the Enlightenments) took many different shapes across Europe. The present chapter is devoted to a paradigm shift, one which reflects a new historicization of European cultural life, at least in the approach to religious phenomena. In France, on which this chapter focuses, the historical transformation started earlier than elsewhere, at the very beginning of the eighteenth century.

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