Sacred Bonds

2019 ◽  
pp. 276-293
Author(s):  
Constance M. Furey
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Religious Devotion ◽  
Mary Sidney Herbert ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter explores the link between familial and religious devotion by comparing a sibling relationship enacted in poems by and about Mary Sidney Herbert, co-author of Renaissance England’s influential Sidney-Pembroke Psalter, to hagiographic sources reporting on the love between mothers and daughters in early Syriac Christian texts. While in the Syriac context, the accounts of mothers and daughters reveal Christians responding to the urbanization of asceticism by joining familial and ascetic bonds, the renewed biblicism in sixteenth-century England inspired poetry preoccupied with the relational dynamics of authorship, translation, and prayer. The chapter further explores the ways that these varied accounts of spiritual relationships might shed light on the relationality of pedagogy and the transformative potential of relationships between teachers and students.

Disordered Books and Dynamic Archives: Rabbinic Scholarly Practices in Early Modern Ashkenaz

AJS Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-75
Author(s):  
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Dynamic Activity ◽  
Modes Of Transmission ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Shed Light

This article examines early modern learning through Ashkenazic responsa. Beyond explicit evidence from published responsa collections, implicit insights dwell in what these publications lack. These missing features shed light on sixteenth-century scholarly practices. The works’ organizational inconsistencies must be understood in context of learned archives. Such an adjustment offers a corrective to the regnant narrative, which views the introduction of print as a sharp rupture from earlier modes of transmission. This article suggests instead that the culture of printed books coexisted with older approaches, and that print was complemented by more disorderly and unconstrained forms of transmission. Comparing rabbinic “paper-ware” with contemporaneous humanist practices highlights the rabbi's working papers, focusing on a culture's dynamic activity rather than its stable output. This shift in perspective allows us to see rabbinic writings not merely as a collection of books but as a mode of scholarship.

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Meere
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Cain And Abel ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
David And Goliath ◽  
Shed Light

The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c.1550–1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The remainder of the book homes in on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.

scholarly journals Women vaqfs in the sixteenth-century Sanjak of Krusevac (Alaca Hisâr)

Balcanica ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Dragana Amedoski
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Shed Light

The role of the vaqf in the Ottoman Empire, as in the whole Islamic world, was quite significant, especially in a period marked by the founding of new orien?tal settlements. The first endowers in the newly-conquered lands were sultans, begs and prominent government officials. Affluent citizens also took part in endowing their cities, and women are known to have been among them. The aim of the paper, based on Ottoman sources, is to shed light on the participation of Muslim women in this kind of humanitarian and lucrative activity using the example of the Sanjak of Krusevac (Alaca His?r) in the sixteenth century.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitanism, Translocality, Astronoetics: A Multi-Local Vantage Point

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina ◽  
Manpreet Kaur Kang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Multiple Flows ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light

The world in which we live is crisscrossed by multiple flows of people, information, non-human life, travel circuits and goods. At least since the Sixteenth Century, the Americas have received and generated new social, cultural and product trends. As we see through the case studies presented here, modern literature and dance, the industrialization of food and the race to space cannot be historicized without considering the role the Americas, and particularly the United States, have played in all of them. We also see, at the same time, how these flows of thought, art, science and products emerged from sources outside the Americas to then take root in and beyond the United States. The authors in this special volume are devising conceptual tools to analyze this multiplicity across continents and also at the level of particular nations and localities. Concepts such as cosmopolitanism, translocality and astronoetics are brought to shed light on these complex crossings, giving us new ways to look at the intricacy of these distance-crossing flows. India, perhaps surprisingly, emerges as an important cultural interlocutor, beginning with the idealized, imagined versions of Indian spirituality that fueled the romanticism of the New England Transcendentalists, to the importance of Indian dance pioneers in the world stage during the first part of the twentieth century and the current importance of India as a player in the race to space. 

The Edinburgh Book Trade and Vernacular Literature, 1500–1660

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-96
Author(s):  
Adam Fox
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Extensive Range ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Chapter 2 surveys the development of the book trade in Edinburgh during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with a particular emphasis on the production and circulation of more popular works in Scots and English. It traces the development of printing in Edinburgh, looks at the expansion of booksellers in the city, and examines the role of travelling chapmen in disseminating literature across Scotland and into England. The remarkable inventories of Thomas Bassandyne and Robert Gourlaw are examined in some detail in order to shed light on the extensive range of vernacular literature from the London market that was being sold in the Scottish capital in the later sixteenth century.

Integration of Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools into Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 522-538
Author(s):  
Phillip Olla ◽  
Elena Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Computer Information Systems ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Shed Light

Web 2.0 is opening new capabilities for human interaction. It also broadens the way technology is used to collaborate more effectively. This chapter discusses instructional strategies and techniques used to successfully utilize Web 2.0 tools for classroom collaboration. It will also shed light on pedagogical issues that arise with the implementation of Web 2.0 into the educational setting. The chapter will present case studies describing how various Web 2.0 applications can be incorporated into a variety of courses in the areas of nursing, education, and computer information systems. Finally, recommendations for teachers and students on how to effectively use Web 2.0 tools to improve collaboration will be outlined.

Architecture and Infirmitas: Doge Andrea Gritti and the Chancel of San Marco

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-197
Author(s):  
Andrew Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Shed Light

The mid-sixteenth century location of the doge's throne and the seating for the Signoria in S. Marco, Venice, were considerably different from the original arrangements of the twelfth century. The date of the changes and the motives that prompted them have never been clarified. An examination of Marin Sanudo's Diaries provides not only the date of the changes in practice but also suggests the initial and hitherto unsuspected impetus: the infirmity of Doge Andrea Gritti. This article utilizes Sanudo's contemporary accounts to shed light on architectural changes in the chancel of S. Marco in the 1530s.

Who Was “Prioris”? A Royal Composer Recovered

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodor Dumitrescu
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Basic Documentation ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Loire Valley

Abstract Research into the musical establishments of the French royal court during the reign of Louis XII (1498–1515) must contend with a severe lack of basic documentation from the musical chapels of Louis and Queen Anne of Brittany. A hitherto unexplored resource helping to fill this lacuna is offered by the archives of Blois, the principal urban base of the peripatetic royal households in the early sixteenth century. New archival records shed light on the activities of leading singers and composers of the court, among them the enigmatic royal chapelmaster “Prioris,” occasioning a complete revision of the composer's biography. A new story emerges: Prioris turns out to be not the “Johannes Prioris” known from the secondary literature—who likely never existed—but the Blois canon Denis Prieur (Dionisius Prioris), who had already served Louis XII for many years before his accession. The new outline of Prioris's biography reveals a career and life rooted in the Loire Valley, a localized and institutionalized view supported by a reexamination of the musician's compositional output and significant new musical evidence.

The Church and Business Practices in Late Sixteenth Century Mexico

1988 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Hennessey Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
The Church ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Shed Light

Historians have long been interested in shedding light on the numerous, habitual transactions that constitute economic life at its basic level. Yet, questions about how men transact business as individuals, and how they feel about it are largely unanswered by traditional political and bureaucratic records, perhaps because these activities were so commonplace to the society, so well-known and unremarkable to contemporaries as to obviate remark in the records. A study of the extensive records of the Roman Catholic Church, however, can shed light on this, and many other aspects of Spanish colonial society in Mexico.

scholarly journals Nearly unbiased estimator of adult population size based on within-cohort half-sibling pairs incorporating flexible reproductive variation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Akita
Keyword(s):  
Unbiased Estimator ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Reproductive Potential ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Offspring Number ◽  
Sibling Pairs ◽  
Accuracy And Precision ◽  
Age Variation ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Half Sibling

AbstractClose-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) is a kinship-based method for estimating adult abundance. However, the application of CKMR is limited to using a kinship relationship that is not affected by family-correlated survivorship, which leads to a biased estimation. We developed a nearly unbiased estimator of the number of mothers in a population, which is based on the known maternal half-sibling relationship found within the same cohort. Our method allowed for variance of the averaged offspring number per mother (between-age variation) and for variance of the offspring number among mothers with the same reproductive potential (within-age variation). Estimators of its variance and coefficient variation were also provided. The performance of the estimators was quantitatively evaluated by running an individual-based model. Our results provide guidance for (i) a sample size to archive the required accuracy and precision when the order of mother size is available and (ii) a degree of uncertainty regarding the estimated mother size when information about the mother size is not available. Taken together, these findings offer an opportunity to shed light on the usefulness of analysing within-cohort half-sibling pairs and will greatly widen the scope of the CKMR method.

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