Epilogue

Last Acts ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Maggie Vinter
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Art Of Dying

The epilogue explores what continued relevance ars moriendi ideas have for artistic, political, and social practice. Following The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Ariès’s history of Western approaches to mortality, the notion that the art of dying is lost has become a commonplace. In this view, the end of life has been medicalized, sanitized, and monetized to the point where it can no longer be understood as a practice. Rather, it marks perhaps the final site where individuals are fully subsumed into a biopolitical and capitalist state. To complicate this narrative, the epilogue considers a number of disparate efforts to sustain an art of dying into the modern and postmodern eras, including John Donne’s preparations for death, Elizabeth Jocelin’s The Mothers Legacie to Her Unborn Childe;Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa; and “Lazarus,” the final music video David Bowie released before his death. As they echo the devotional tracts and dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these texts and artworks perpetuate arts of dying today into the present.

Improving Spiritual Care at the End of Life by Reclaiming the Ars moriendi

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-743
Author(s):  
Columba Thomas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Art Of Dying

Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dying, was a highly influential fifteenth-century text designed to guide dying persons and their loved ones in Catholic religious practices at a time when access to priests and the sacraments was limited. Given recent challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, there is a heightened need to offer additional forms of guidance related to death and dying. This essay examines the content of the Ars moriendi and considers how key principles from the work apply to the current context. The Ars moriendi, in its direct approach to the salvation of souls and thoughtful treatment of struggles faced by dying persons, offers a much-needed supplement to typical approaches to death and dying today.

A Contemporary Ars moriendi for End-of-Life Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Ughetti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Medical Providers ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Art Of Dying ◽  
Hospice And Palliative Care

There was a time when the clergy, medical providers, philosophers, and individuals agreed on how to achieve a happy and holy death. In the fourteenth century, as a response to the horror of the black death, a document emerged that was accepted and adopted by these disparate parties. Translated as the art of dying, the ars moriendi was a set of common instructions and coaching tools to facilitate a peaceful transition for providers and patients alike. The contemporary world needs a new ars moriendi that articulates a triple aim: standardizing the service terms and definitions of hospice and palliative care, promoting early initiation of end-of-life services, and de-emphasizing services provided by intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments. If consensus could coalesce around these three goals, the experience of death and dying could be significantly improved.

LET'S GO TO FRENZY A Brief History of New Zealand Music TV and Music Video

Perfect Beat ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Bruce Sheridan ◽  
Philip Hayward
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Music Video ◽  
History Of

Law in Common

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Common People ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Economic Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law ◽  
Late Medieval England

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of ‘legal pluralism’. Law in Common provides a way of apprehending this complexity by drawing out broader patterns of legal engagement. The first half of the book explores four ‘local legal cultures’ – in the countryside, towns and cities, the maritime world, and Forests – that grew up around legal institutions, landscapes, and forms of socio-economic practice in these places, and produced distinctive senses of law. The second half of the book turns to examine ‘common legalities’, widespread forms of social practice that emerge across these different localities, through which people aimed to invoke the power of law. Through studies of the physical landscape, the production of legitimate knowledge, the emergence of English as a legal vernacular, and the proliferation of legal documents, it offers a new way to understand how common people engaged with law in the course of their everyday lives. Drawing on a huge body of archival research from the plenitude of different local institutions, Law in Common offers a new social history of law that aims to explain how common people negotiated the transformational changes of the long fifteenth century through legality.

Socialism and Socialist Intellectuals in French History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wright
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter sets out the specific historiographical basis for a new study of the French socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that one particular framework—that of the reluctant relationship of socialism with power in the capitalist state—has dominated our approaches to writing the history of French socialism, and suggests that a new focus on temporalities, particularly exploring the clash between revolutionary, future-focused socialism, and present-minded socialism, opens up a new range of cultural, intellectual, and biographical sources for understanding the French socialist movement. It provides the specific intellectual context for understanding how historians in France today are seeking to rethink their intellectual inheritance from left-wing writers of earlier generations.

scholarly journals Departments and disciplinary gatekeeping: The sociolinguistics of Spanish in US academia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (263) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
José del Valle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Service Departments

AbstractIn his contribution, José del Valle looks at the intersection of the sociolinguistic study of Spanish in the US and the transformations of Spanish language departments in higher education. Del Valle traces the history of the institutionalization of Spanish teaching and study and its effects on linguistic research’s position within Spanish departments. Shifts in approaches to the use of language in social practice, and the growing demands on language units to act as service departments for language learners, has isolated scholars in those institutional homes from broader integration into sociolinguistic research.

scholarly journals Palliative Care as Response to Suffering at End of Life

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Daniela Moşoiu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Spiritual Distress ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hospice And Palliative Care ◽  
Care System

Abstract Persons suffering from chronic and life limiting illnesses often have unrelieved symptoms such as pain, depression, fatigue, and psychosocial and spiritual distress. In Romania they are frequently left in the care of their families with little support from the health care system. It seems a paradox that those who are the sickest persons in a country find little place in the health care system. This article presents palliative care as a solution to the suffering for these patients and their families by describing the concept, models of services, its beneficiaries and benefits and presenting the history of development of hospice and palliative care worldwide and in Romania.

The Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and Satoyama (越後妻有トリエンナーレと里山)

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Amiko Matsuo ◽  
亜実子 松尾
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Social Art ◽  
Active Pursuit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Producer ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Regional Histories

Fram Kitagawa is a major producer of contemporary art festivals in Japan. His optimistic vision connects artists, farmers, rural residents, and researchers to redefine the notion of local identity and place. Doing so revitalizes rural Japanese communities by increasing awareness through the restorative process of satoyama, which allows for connections between the history of the landscape, aesthetics, and local socio-economic issues. Kitagawa’s active pursuit of dialogue within the multiple narratives of local and regional histories makes the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennali precursors to other expansive social art practices. More importantly, the restorative efforts of Kitagawa and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale endure despite the economic recession, the Chuetsu earthquake, polarization of the urban and rural, and the Tohoku devastation on 3/11. This persistence depends upon linking artistic practices with social development rooted in place-making and place-identity. Increased awareness by Western artists might set up Echigo-Tsumari as a model for transformative art elsewhere on the scale of Kitagawa’s vision. The model could inspire, for example, more work in the vein of Theaster Gates, the American ceramic and social practice installation artists, who argues that artists should do more than just make objects. Rather, we should “make the thing that makes the thing,” and as Gates asserts, we should transform culture. 北川フラムは、日本における現代アート・フェスティバルの重要なプロデューサーの一人である。彼の前向きな考え方は、アーティスト、農民、地方の住民、そして地域のアイデンティティや場所の概念の再定義を行う研究者を結びつけている。この結びつきは里山の回復プロセスに対する人々の気づきを促し、日本の地方コミュニテイを活性化している。さらにこの結びつきによって、風景の歴史、美学、地域の社会経済問題を結びつけることも可能となっている。北川が地元や地方の歴史に関する多様な物語と活発に対話しつづけてきたことによって、越後妻有トリエンナーレは他の社会的アート実践のさきがけとなった。より重要なのは、経済的不況、中越地震、都市と地方の二極化、そして３１１の東日本大震災の発生にもかかわらず、北川と越後妻有トリエンナーレが活力を失わずに努力を続けてきたということである。この努力の継続は、場所づくりや場所のアイデンティティに根付いた社会的発展とアートによる実践が結びついていることに依っている。西洋のアーティストたちから、ますますこのトリエンナーレに注目があつまるようになっている。そのため、北川の考えるような規模の場所でということであれば、世界の別のどこかで実践される変革的アートのモデルとして越後妻有が機能することになるだろう。陶芸や社会実践的インスタレーションを製作するアメリカのアーティストであるスイースター・ゲイツは、アーティストはただ作品を作る以上のことをすべきだと主張する。越後妻有のようなアートのモデルは、この彼の考えに連なるような作品を生み出しうるだろう。われわれはゲイツの主張するように、「モノをつくるモノをつくる」べきである。つまり、われわれは文化を変革すべきなのである。 This article is in Japanese.

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