scholarly journals Drawing and architectural analysis of San Ildefonso’s Baths in Seville (1542)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-150
Author(s):  
María Núñez-González

This paper deals with the first hypotheses of elevations and of the architectural analysis of San Ildefonso’s Baths on the basis of unpublished data offered by the Book of written descriptive records (apeos) of 1542 in the Chapter on Seville Cathedral. Our own transformation methodology has been applied to this hitherto largely unknown book in order to attain and encompass graphic representation from the literary description. After giving a brief history of the Baths, the objective is to ascertain its location, by drawing hypothetical floor plans and elevations and analysing its typology, dimensions, spaces, and building elements. This research has shown that it was one of the most important bathing complexes in the historical centre of Seville, at least in the 13th Century, although it later became obsolete and was demolished in the 18th Century.

Author(s):  
E. V. Sitnikova

The article considers the historical and cultural heritage of villages of the former Ketskaya volost, which is currently a part of the Tomsk region. The formation of Ketsky prison and the architecture of large settlements of the former Ketskaya volost are studied. Little is known about the historical and cultural heritage of villages of the Tomsk region and the problems of preserving historical settlements of the country.The aim of this work is to study the formation and development of the village architecture of the former Ketskaya volost, currently included in the Tomsk region.The following scientific methods are used: a critical analysis of the literature, comparative architectural analysis and systems analysis of information, creative synthesis of the findings. The obtained results can be used in preparation of lectures, reports and communication on the history of the Siberian architecture.The scientific novelty is a study of the historical and cultural heritage of large settlements of the former Ketskaya volost, which has not been studied and published before. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is theoretical works of historians and architects regarding the issue under study as well as the previous  author’s work in the field.It is found that the historical and cultural heritage of the villages of the former Ketskaya volost has a rich history. Old historical buildings, including religious ones are preserved in villages of Togur and Novoilinka. The urban planning of the villages reflects the design and construction principles of the 18th century. The rich natural environment gives this area a special touch. 


Author(s):  
Norman Etherington

Christianity came very early to Africa, as attested by the Gospels. The agencies by which it spread across North Africa and into the Kingdom of Aksum remain largely unknown. Even after the rise of Islam cut communications between sub-Saharan Africa and the churches of Rome and Constantinople, it survived in the eastern Sudan kingdom of Nubia until the 15th century and never died in Ethiopia. The documentary history of organized missions begins with the Roman Catholic monastic orders founded in the 13th century. Their evangelical work in Africa was closely bound up with Portuguese colonialism, which both helped and hindered their operations. Organized European Protestant missions date from the 18th-century evangelical awakening and were much less creatures of states. Africa was a particular object of attention for Evangelicals opposed to slavery and the slave trade. Paradoxically this gave an impetus to colonizing ventures aimed at undercutting the moral and economic foundations of slavery in Africa. Disease proved to be a deadly obstacle to European- and American-born missionaries in tropical Africa, thus spurring projects for enrolling local agents who had acquired childhood immunity. Southern Africa below the Zambezi River attracted missionaries from many parts of Europe and North America because of the absence of the most fearsome diseases. However the turbulent politics of the region complicated their work by restricting their access to organized African kingdoms and chieftaincies. The prevalent mission model until the late 19th century was a station under the direction of a single European family whose religious and educational endeavors were directed at a small number of African residents. Catholic missions acquired new energy following the French Revolution, the old Portuguese system of partnership with the state was displaced by enthusiasm for independent operations under the authority of the Pope in Rome. Several new missionary orders were founded with a particular focus on Africa. Mission publications of the 19th and 20th centuries can convey a misleading impression that the key agents in the spread of African Christianity were foreign-born white males. Not only does this neglect the work of women as wives and teachers, but it diverts attention from the Africans who were everywhere the dominant force in the spread of modern Christianity. By the turn of the 20th century, evangelism had escaped the bounds of mission stations driven by African initiative and the appearance of so-called “faith missions” based on a model of itinerant preaching. African prophets and independent evangelists developed new forms of Christianity. Once dismissed as heretical or syncretic, they gradually came to be recognized as legitimate variants of the sort that have always accompanied the acculturation of religion in new environments. Decolonization caught most foreign mission operations unawares and required major changes, most notably in the recruitment of African clergy to the upper echelons of church hierarchies. By the late 20th century Africans emerged as an independent force in Christian missions, sending agents to other continents.


Classics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Natali ◽  
Gaia Bagnati

Aristotle (384–322 bce) was a younger disciple and colleague of Plato. They are the two most famous and important ancient philosophers, and Aristotle is the only Platonic disciple whose works have been transmitted to us. The relationship between the two thinkers is complex: they share some basic ideas but the disciple is a strong critic of some aspects of his master’s thought, a fact not unusual in the relationships between master and disciple. He agrees with Plato on a rejection of materialism in favor of the idea that our world is the result of a formal structure that can be formulated in rational and scientific definitions. On the other hand, he thinks that sensible moving entities contain in themselves their forms and because of that they can be the object of scientific knowledge, i.e., a universal and deductible knowledge and not only of a true unstable opinion as Plato maintained. They also are the real substances. From this basic difference many oppositions between Aristotle and his master derive. In the history of philosophy Aristotle suffered a complex destiny, different from Plato’s continuous success. In some periods he was neglected, for instance in the Hellenistic period and from the 18th century until the main part of 19th century. In other periods he achieved great fame, for instance in later Antiquity, in the Middle Ages from the 13th century, and also in our own time. The authors would like to thank warmly Professor Iain MacPherson for revising their far-from-perfect English.


1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Keith Percival

Summary This paper outlines the history of dependency notions from Antiquity to the present century. Although the notion of syntactic dependency was unknown in Antiquity, the idea of semantic dependency was foreshadowed in early definitions of the minor parts of speech, i.e., parts of speech other than the noun and the verb. In part, this happened because logicians had originally posited only the two major parts of speech, and grammarians then formulated their definitions of the minor parts of speech in relation to those of the noun and the verb. The adverb, for instance, was defined as augmenting or diminishing the meaning of the verb. The first writer who used (if not coined) a special term to refer to the notion that some words specify or ‘determine’ the meanings of the subject noun and the verbal predicate was Boethius (ca. 500 A.D.), and in this way the notion of ‘determination’ was launched. As a result of the subsequent popularity of Boethius’s logical works, ‘determination’ was adopted and extensively utilized by Latin grammarians from the 12th century on. In the 13th century, it was complemented by the term ‘dependency’, which was the logical converse of ‘determination’. Grammarians claimed that a dependency relation exists between the members of all constructions. The vogue of ‘dependency’ declined even before the advent of Renaissance humanism, while ‘determination’ survived. In the early modern period, the terminological repertory expanded. Thus, in the 18th century, French grammarians coined the terms ‘modification’ (Buffier) and ‘complement’ (Du Marsais). The 20th century has been marked by a further increase of new terms. Inspired by Tesnière’s posthumous Elèments de syntaxe structurale (1959), some linguists have also proposed formalized dependency theories as alternatives to phrase-structure grammar.


Author(s):  
Oksana A. Maltseva

The paper investigates the structure and significance of a mythopoetic component in the poem “Lieutenant Schmidt” (1926–1927) by B. Pasternak, revealing that mythopoetics contributes to the expression of the author’s Christian views on the events of the Russian revolution of 1905–1907. It depicts the Sevastopol Uprising as a kind of repetition of the tragic history of capture of Kyiv by Mongols-Tatars in the 13th century, as well as the represents bloody realities of the Great French Revolution of the late 18th century, since these events resulted from the fact that society neglected the spiritual and moral foundations of its existence. According to the author the images, arising in the subtext, the images of the Church of the Tithes destroyed in 1240, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) and the October Manifesto (1905), not implemented in time, are the embodiments of such foundations. At the same time, the study emphasizes the significance of a philistine appearance of the “sleeping” fortress-city of Sevastopol. The author draws attention to the fact that the leitmotif of representing the spiritual sleep, lying and violence is the image of the rampant demonic force which eventually engulfed both warring parties. As she argues, there is, however, an antagonistic spiritual origin of this element in the poem — it is exactly in the image of Lieutenant Schmidt who embodies the idea of evangelical self-sacrifice in the era of violence and lack of spirituality. The paper analyzes the nature of internal conflict experienced by the hero, as well as the dynamics of the plot lines connected with him and highlights the role of biblical, historical and literary allusions. The author concludes that the work under study reveals characteristic features of a historical and mythological poem.


Author(s):  
Андрей Викторович Чекмарёв ◽  
Ирина Викторовна Белинцева

Cтатья посвящена описанию процесса проектирования и архитектурному анализу приходской церкви в Гроссенаспе (земля Шлезвиг-Гольштейн), связанной с историей российско-немецких отношений в XVIII в. Обстоятельства появления этого памятника отсылают к краткому и яркому периоду, когда Россия активно участвовала в решении судеб ряда немецких территорий, а российская императрица Екатерина II являлась регентом Голштинии при малолетнем сыне Павле, унаследовавшем от Петра III корону Гольштейн-Готторпа. Екатерина содействовала постройке храма, лично утвердив в 1771 г. проект архитектора Иоганна Адама Рихтера (1733-1813) и оказав финансовую помощь приходу. В знак признательности церковь была торжественно освящена в честь Святой Екатерины в сентябре 1772 г. в присутствии обер-камергера герцога Гольштейн-Готторпского Каспара фон Сальдерна (1711-1788), талантливого и ловкого дипломата, активно участвовавшего в решении т. н. «Голштинского вопроса» во взаимоотношениях России и Дании. Позже Сальдерн, оказавшийся в результате интриг в опале, осел в перешедшей к Дании Голштинии - в 1774-1782 гг. обустроил усадьбу в Ширензее и семейную усыпальницу в Бордесхольме, недалеко от Гроссенаспе. Имея политическое влияние в регионе, он немало способствовал постройке рассматриваемой церкви в Гроссенаспе, обеспечив помощь со стороны российской императрицы. Церковь является одновременно и типичным, и относительно редким в северной Германии образцом протестантской церковной архитектуры периода барокко. В основе постройки октагональный кирпичный неоштукатуренный объем, перекрытый мансардной черепичной кровлей, с примыкающей с запада двухъярусной башней-колокольней. Выбор центрической модели был обусловлен спецификой протестантского богослужения и теоретическими поисками визуального воплощения лютеранского храма. На обновление церковной архитектуры протестантской части Германии повлияли теоретические воззрения и увражи Леонарда Кристофа Штурма (1669-1719) и других архитекторов. Рассматривается архитектурно-исторический контекст памятника, анализируется круг причастных к его сооружению заказчиков и архитекторов. The subjects of this articles are the history of construction and architectural analysis of the parish church at Grossenaspe (the land of Schleswig-Holstein), connected with the history of Russian-German relations in the 18th century. The circumstances of the appearance of this monument refer to a brief and bright period, when Russia actively participated in deciding the fate of a number of German territories, and Russian empress Catherine II was regent of Golsch Under Tor. Catherine facilitated the construction of the temple, personally approving in 1771 the project of architect Johann Adam Richter (1733-1813) and providing financial assistance to the parish. As a sign of gratitude, the church was solemnly consecrated in honor of St. Catherine in September 1772 in the presence of the ober-chamberlain Duke of Holstein-Gottorp Kaspar von Saldern (1711-1788), a talented and skillful diplomat who actively participated in the solution of the so-called “Golstein question” in the relations between Russia and Denmark. Later Saldern, who was disgraced as a result of intrigues, settled in Golschtinia, which passed to Denmark. In 1774-1782 he set up an estate in Shirensee and a family stump in Bordesholm, near Grossenaspe. With his political influence in the region, he contributed greatly to the construction of the church in Grossenaspe, ensuring support from the Russian empress. The church is both a typical as well as a relatively rare model in northern Germany of the Protestant church architecture of the Baroque period. The basis of the construction is the octagonal brick non-stucco volume, covered with mansard tile roof, with two-tier bell tower adjacent from the west. The choice of a centric model was due to the specifics of Protestant worship and theoretical searches for the visual embodiment of the Lutheran temple. The renewal of the church architecture of the Protestant part of Germany was influenced by the theoretical views and ouvrages of Leonard Christoph Sturm (1669-1719) and other architects. In the article the architectural and historical context of the monument is considered and the circle of customers and architects involved in its construction is analyzed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaus Ruge

Morphematic reorientation of German orthography takes place in conformity with a general law in the history of writing. Alphabetic writing systems, being necessarily phonographic, tend to develop towards the encoding of non-phonetic units. The emergence of morphematic elements in German is preceeded by the evolution of word-separation by regular spaces which had been adopted throughout Europe by the end of the 13th century. Based on a corpus containing 157 High German texts (late 15th to late 18th centuries), this paper will demonstrate that morphematic reorientation of German orthography can be explained neither as an invisible-hand-process nor as the outcome of prescriptive grammar, but as the result of interaction between orthograpic norm and usage. Three cases will be considered in detail: (1) Graphic assimilation of allomorphic plosive variation emerges as early as the 12th century, reflecting regional final devoicing. By the early 17th century, the rule governing orthographic reprensentation of final devoicing in present-day German is fully adopted in usage. Its morphematic reinterpretation does not follow before the end of the 17th century. (2) Morphematic graphic representation of [a]-Umlaut emerges during the 14th century in Upper Germany as a phonetic reflex of open [e]. It is recommended by Middle German grammarians since the 1560s, with explicit mention of morphological factors. Around 1700 the writing rule imposes itself in usage. (3) The use of double consonant letters occuring in final positions of 'graphic' syllables ( according to ) rests inhibited until the 18th century, in particular to prevent tri- or tessaragraphs (, ). It is the influence of Adelung's grammar which leads to the final adaption of the present-day rule.


Author(s):  
E. V. Sitnikova ◽  
M. I. Rubanova

Purpose: Description of the building architecture in the village of Bogorodskoye in the middle Ob region. The emergence of the village, its planning and architecture of individual objects are studied. The low level of study of the historical and cultural heritage of the Tomsk region villages as well as the problem of preservation of historical settlements determines the relevance of this paper.Research methods: The critical analysis of the literature and the comparative architectural analysisPractical implication: The obtained results can be used in lectures, reports and messages on the history of the Siberian architecture. Theoretical works of scientists, historians and architects concerning the architecture in the village of Bogorodskoye, and field research conducted by the authors in 2021.Originality/value: The historical and cultural heritage of the Tomsk province settlement is not previously studied and published. It is shown that Bogorodskoe village has a rich history and great historical, cultural and natural potential. In this connection, it is necessary to pay attention to preservation and development of this historical settlement founded at the beginning of the 18th century.


2019 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Reza Esmaeelzadeh Dizaji ◽  
Ashrafali Rezaie kehkhaie ◽  
Mohammad Taqi khammar ◽  
Reza shirazinia

Traditional medicine is a general word referring to both tradiotional medicine systems and to Native medicine. Iranian traditional medicine is a great history of medicine and pharmacy.to inform the importance of Iranian traditional medicine we may state great evidences such as: Makhzan-ol-advie by Aghili (18th century, Tehran University of Medical Science Press), canon of medicine by Avicenna (10th and 11th centuries, Beirut publication) and Al-shamel by Gharashi (13th century, Caltural foundation Publication) etc. this valuable books and manuscripts refers us the great position of research,science and expertise in the Iranian traditional medicine.medicinal plants so far have been more noticed due to their desirable therapeutic properties and also the lesser rate of adverse effects. The importance of medicinal plants is highlighted in traditional medicine too. despite all evaluations on the herbal plants and their pharmacologic effects more investigations is needed to inform the world about this valuable topic of micine and pharmacy. The importance of iranian traditional medicine and herbal plants made us to make an interview on these pure and precious fields of medicine.


Author(s):  
Nicolas Lyon-Caen

From the 13th century until the early 18th century, Paris—the capital city of France and the official residence of the kings—was the largest city in Europe. Many scholars have provided in-depth studies on the urban life and the ordinary life of the Parisians, at city-wide or district level. But the metropolis also played a prominent political, cultural, and economic role, both for the kingdom and for the rest of the world. Therefore, the history of the city as a civic community is inextricably interwoven with the history of the French state. Historians have usually stressed the limitations the state imposed on the city’s autonomy. But at the same time, Parisian elites are often considered as the main agent of centralization. Yet when it comes to describing what the consequences are of the special position of Paris, scholars differ on what the pertinent scale of analysis should be. They also disagree on issues pertaining to the link between the growing prominence of Paris and the national government: to what extent was it determined by the city’s own importance rather than by a process of centralization? By embracing the notion of capital city, many historians endeavor to articulate both the global and the local scales of the metropolis.


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