scholarly journals The Birthday of Boris Godunov

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Fyodor Borisovich Uspenskij ◽  
Anna Felikovna Litvina
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Boris Godunov ◽  
Patron Saints ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

The life story of Tsar Boris Godunov, one of the most intriguing characters of Late Medieval Rus’, is still surrounded by unsolved enigmas, obscure gaps, and omissions. The date of his birth is to yet be verified and introduced into scholarly discourse. This paper presents evidence that, if interpreted appropriately, we argue it enables us to estimate Godunov’s  birthday. Accurate dating is important for many reasons, for instance it helps us to contextualize and broaden our understanding of everyday life at the ruling house, the cult of personal patron saints, and aristocratic naming conventions in Rus’ between the 14th and the 17thcenturies.

scholarly journals Truth and Politics in Late Medieval Arabic Historiography: the Formation of Sultan Barsbāy’s State (1422‒1438) and the Narratives of the Amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438)

Der Islam ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-187
Author(s):  
Jo Van Steenbergen ◽  
Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Abstract: Throughout al-Ashraf Barsbāy’s reign as sultan of Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1422‒1438), one of the main performers and representatives of his expanding authority and power was the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438). Defeated in the power struggle that followed sultan Barsbāy’s death, Qurqumās’ career ended dramatically in his execution by order of the new sultan, al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq (r. 1438‒1453). Whereas this amir’s rich case received substantial attention from the era’s leading Egyptian historiographers, it has so far hardly attracted any interest in modern scholarship. This article aims to remedy this, but not simply in order to pursue some detailed reconstruction of Qurqumās’ life story. It rather wishes to explore this story as a case study towards a better understanding of how extant historiographical narratives that mattered so much to Qurqumās’ contemporaries may be read in analytically more meaningful ways than traditional approaches have so far allowed for. The article therefore proposes and explores a two-tiered ‒ social and cultural ‒ method of reading contemporary historical texts as politically engaged narrative claims to historical truth. It is demonstrated how across a diverse set of narrative texts the high-profile career of the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī appears as functionally constructed around the messy relational realities of the administration of sultan Barsbāy’s justice and the performance of his warfare in Egypt, Syria, the Ḥijāz and Eastern Anatolia. It is furthermore argued that in the historiographical record of these messy realities Qurqumās’ career is made to appear through the semantics of justice and sovereignty as an agent of the legitimate and truthful political order of the formation of sultan Barsbāy’s state, but only for as long as that state existed.

Das Motiv der Grenzüberschreitung in Karpatendeutschen Autobiografien

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Diana Balogáčová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Prison Camp

"The Motif of Crossing Borders in Carpathian German Autobiographies. Josef Derx's Memories is the autobiography of a Wehrmacht soldier who becomes a banker after the war. Free of mythology and biblical references, but often with humorous-parodic undertones, the narrative focuses on spatial and temporal details of Derx's life story. In the description of everyday life in a prison camp and the escape from it, the transformation of the remembered self into a remembering self can be observed textually and stylistically by means of changes in tempo and rhetorical figures. Elisabeth Metzl's Ein Paradies verloren aber wir leben (A Lost Paradise but We Live) tells the story of a young woman who has to flee from Bratislava to Austria in her “travelling prison” before the war, without knowing that she will leave her homeland behind forever. The search for her lost sons becomes a personal odyssey. Keywords: autobiography, remembered self, remembering self, personal odyssey "

scholarly journals Z dziejów potomstwa i wdowy po zmarłym podkomorzym kaliskim Rafale z Gołuchowa (zm. 1442). Przyczynek do historii życia rodziny szlacheckiej w późnośredniowiecznej Polsce

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Witold Brzeziński
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Family ◽  
Written Law ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of the paper is to present these events and experiences whose occurrence in the life of a noble family in late‑medieval Poland was the consequence of the death of husband and father. This was achieved by means of reconstructing the life story of Elżbieta, the fourth wife of the Kalisz‑district chamberlain Rafał of Gołuchowo from the Wieniawa family, as well as that of his sons and daughter (Iwan, Rafał, Jan, Andrzej, and Cherubin, and their sister Barbara), after his death. This reconstruction essentially provided insight into such activities undertaken by them or with their participation as taking ownership of the property left to the widow, establishing custody of the children that had not yet come of age and of their assets, establishing guardianship of the as yet unmarried daughter and regulating the payment of her part of the family money in the form of a monetary dowry, and, in time, dividing the family estate between the brothers. These actions were, in a way, a natural consequence of the death of husband and father, and were a part of the life of most families living in those times. An analysis of their realisation in social practice based on relevant records in court’s registers allow to understand the underlying legal customs, only partly reflected in the norms of the written law, as well as the events and experiences which resulted from the death of husband and father for his wife and children, and the role played by their relatives in this period of their lives.

scholarly journals Magische Alltagsvorstellungen und spätmittelalterliche Zaubereiprozesse in Tirol

2015 ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Hester Margreiter
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
World View ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The People ◽  
Historical Function

Common Magical Concepts and Late-Medieval Sorcery Trials in TyrolThe beliefs of the people in the late Middle Ages went beyond the canonical doctrine of the Catholic Church, magic performances complemented the religion and its application has played a central role in coping with everyday life. The aim of the following paper is to discuss the historical function of magical ideas in social context, their importance for everyday life and world-view, and furthermore the criminalization, legal interpretation and prosecution of „magical crimes“. The conclusion tries to offer guidelines to distinguish between socially accepted magic and criminalized sorcery on the eve of the European witch hunting era.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Many ◽  
Tv Show

The introduction contextualizes and previews the book’s primary aims and arguments. It discusses the book’s methodology, its focus on everyday life, its relevance to queer and transgender thought, and its engagement with theories of media and audiences. Opening with the life story of Margie, a white transgender woman in her early sixties, and her experiences with media, the introduction underscores the many influences of technologies of communication on the everyday lives of transgender individuals. In chronicling the experiences of people like Margie, Struggling for Ordinary offers a portrait of how transgender individuals lived with media toward the latter part of the twentiethand the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury. This was a time before the recent wave of transgender visibility in our culture, before what Time magazine called the “transgender tipping point.” It was before Caitlyn Jenner and her reality TV show, before Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Amazon’s Transparent, and the current transgender reality television boom. Situated during this historic moment, during a time of growing but uneven and scattered access to transgender representation and communication networks, Struggling for Ordinary offers a snapshot of how transgender audiences made their way toward identity and ordinary life.

Heilige Als Patrone Gegen Den Schlaganfall1

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Karenberg ◽  
Ferdinand Peter Moog
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fatality Rate ◽  
High Fatality Rate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
Falling Sickness ◽  
Patron Saints ◽  
Based Medicine

AbstractIn Christian Europe of the High Middle Ages, saints played a central role in the everyday life of the ailing. Alongside healing attempts which involved magic and/or scientifically-based medicine, the invocation of specific patron saints for protection against evils or for the curing of ailments was a widespread practise. A large choice of patron saints was "available" for a wide range of diseases, especially those nowadays classified as neurologic or psychiatric. For the falling sickness alone, e.g., there is evidence of some twenty patron saints reputed to have a particular involvement. Surprisingly, there is no evidence of a comparable devotion to patrons for apoplectics. This "negative result" is confirmed by a thorough examination of medieval sources. St. Wolfgang and St. Andreas Avellino are the only two proven stroke patrons. Both, however, were only known within their respective locations. The absence of a specific supportive Christian figure for stroke victims deserves particular analysis: The high fatality rate of apoplexy and the lack of commercial interest on the part of the Christian places of pilgrimage may serve as possible explanations.

scholarly journals What possibilities and barriers for community engagement does graphical facilitation establish?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Sandholdt ◽  
G M Hviid Malling ◽  
M Jeppesen ◽  
S F Villadsen ◽  
R Lund
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Deprived Areas

Abstract Participatory approaches are appropriate to apply in interventions aiming at improving health and wellbeing in the everyday life of people living in deprived areas. However, more research is needed on how participation is staged, what negotiations of power are possible and to what extent the applied methods for engagement are accessible to a less affluent spectrum of residents. We apply an interdisciplinary approach to allow theoretical reflections on the applied strategy of participation. The intervention employs the use of physical materials through the performance of drawing to make participation less dependent of language and writing skills and hereby more equal. With this participatory intervention study, we aim to empower residents to increase their ability to act on their own health, i.e. social relations and life quality. We apply graphical facilitation by using physical drawing materials to explore how this method can give voice to the residents by providing them the opportunity to tell their story - from where they came to where they hope to go. The main component in the study is four participatory workshops in spring 2020: a) two focusing on teaching of basic drawing skills; b) one where the residents individually draw their own life story; c) one where the residents draw their shared vision of their community. This intervention study aims to contribute to health promotion by exploring generic methods to engage residents in deprived areas. The intended outcome is to empower residents by giving them a means of communication transferable to other settings in everyday life.

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