Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5117/9789462989085 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Art Music ◽

Medieval History ◽

Late Antique ◽

The Past ◽

Creative Solutions ◽

The Future ◽

Alternative Approaches ◽

Disciplinary Group

A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome's late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony, literature, art, music, clerical education and the city's very sense of its own identity, the essays examine how a variety of actors, from poets to popes, addressed the intermittent crises and shifting dynamics of these centuries with creative solutions that bolstered the city's resilience. Without denying that the past (both pre-Christian and Christian) always remained a powerful touchstone, the studies in this volume offer rich new insights into the myriad ways that Rome and Romans, between the fifth and the eleventh centuries, creatively assimilated the past in order to shape the future.

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Getting Nothing from Something: Unfulfilled Promises of Current Dominant Approaches to Entrepreneurial Decision-Making

Administrative Sciences ◽

10.3390/admsci10030061 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Richard J. Arend

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Entrepreneurial Process ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Alternative Approaches ◽

Entrepreneurial Decision

We provoke. In this conceptual piece, we challenge the value of two dominant models of the entrepreneurial process that have existed over the past two decades—the creativity school and the logic of effectuation. We point out their weaknesses and their unfulfilled promises, and we argue for the field to move on forward with different ideas. We identify the lessons our field should learn so as to minimize the possibility of potentially detrimental model dominance in the future. We then outline three alternative approaches to modeling entrepreneurial decision-making that suggest further skills and policies required in improve the entrepreneurial process.

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“The Redeemer to Arise from the House of Dan”: Samson, Apocalypticism, and Messianic Hopes in Late Antique Galilee

Journal for the Study of Judaism ◽

10.1163/15700631-12340391 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (4-5) ◽

pp. 553-589 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matthew J. Grey

Keyword(s):

Late Antiquity ◽

Late Antique ◽

Religious Context ◽

The Past ◽

Jewish Art ◽

Close Proximity ◽

The Future ◽

Liturgical Texts ◽

Byzantine Period ◽

Late Roman

Abstract In the last five years, two mosaics depicting Samson’s biblical exploits have been discovered in Lower Eastern Galilee. Both mosaics were found in synagogues that date to the Late Roman/Byzantine period and are located in close proximity to Tiberias. Because of the rarity of Samson in ancient Jewish art and Samson’s lack of historical ties to the region, the significance of these mosaics requires explanation. This article explores this significance by considering the socio-religious context of the region in which the mosaics were discovered. Sources indicate that apocalyptic thought and messianic expectations flourished in Jewish Galilee throughout late antiquity, particularly in the vicinity of Tiberias. In addition, liturgical texts show that some Jews in this period viewed Samson as a biblical type of the future messiah—a redeemer of the past who foreshadowed Israel’s eschatological redemption. This confluence of evidence suggests that the Samson mosaics can be viewed as apocalyptic images reflecting messianic hopes that were popular in late antique Galilee.

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Dossier on Govan Young : Exploring children's historical consciousness through film and archaeology

Film Education Journal ◽

10.18546/fej.01.2.07 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Stephen T. Driscoll ◽

Catherine Doherty ◽

Mia Perry

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Film Studies ◽

Historical Consciousness ◽

Medieval History ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Film Making

Govan Young (2017) is a 30-minute documentary in which schoolchildren from Glasgow learn of the area's important but largely unknown medieval history. This dossier brings together four essays that reflect on the film from various academic perspectives – film studies, archaeology and education – to explore how schoolchildren might learn about the past, and develop a historical consciousness, by participating in film-making projects. The dossier also reflects on how educators can learn from those whom they are supposedly teaching, thereby highlighting that experimental pedagogical projects often bring unexpected learning outcomes into being. Consequently, educators must resist the pressures to predict the outcomes of projects, and must strive to keep the future open-ended.

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Entropy and the Direction of Time

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23040388 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 388

Author(s):

Jerzy Gołosz

Keyword(s):

Physical Theory ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Open Future ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Research Programmes ◽

Future Events ◽

Alternative Approaches ◽

The Open Future ◽

The Asymmetry

The paper tries to demonstrate that the process of the increase of entropy does not explain the asymmetry of time itself because it is unable to account for its fundamental asymmetries, that is, the asymmetry of traces (we have traces of the past and no traces of the future), the asymmetry of causation (we have an impact on future events with no possibility of having an impact on the past), and the asymmetry between the fixed past and the open future, To this end, the approaches of Boltzmann, Reichenbach (and his followers), and Albert are analysed. It is argued that we should look for alternative approaches instead of this, namely we should consider a temporally asymmetrical physical theory or seek a source of the asymmetry of time in metaphysics. This second approach may even turn out to be complementary if only we accept that metaphysics can complement scientific research programmes.

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