Additions to the Golden Mountain: Four Recent Books on ChaucerSigns and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry. John P. Hermann , John J. Burke, Jr.Chaucer's Frankin in the Canterbury Tales: The Social and Literary Background of a Chaucerian Character. Henrik SpechtSyntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry. Gregory RoscowNew Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism. Donald M. RoseA History of the English Language (1958). G. L. Brook

1984 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-414
Author(s):  
David C. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

Invisible Bodies

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-68
Author(s):  
Lan A. Li
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Material Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Study ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis essay explores the ways in which Lu Gwei-djen (1904–91) served as a gatekeeper for interpreting medicine in China in the second half of the twentieth century. After retiring from science in 1956, Lu set out to write one of the first comprehensive English-language histories of medicine in China. Through a close study of Lu’s work notes and marginalia from later in her life, this essay examines how she carefully articulated the material characteristics of a “Chinese” medicine that gave rise to jingluo, or therapeutic paths often known as “meridians.” I argue that at the heart of this uneasy comparison was the difficult process of translating across multiple expressions of physiology. By placing Lu Gwei-djen at the center of a feminist intellectual history of medicine, this essay further shows how Lu’s translations were influenced by the social hierarchies in which she was embedded, including cultural, gender, and temporal dualities.

Manly's Conception of the Early History of the Canterbury Tales

PMLA ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-415
Author(s):  
Germaine Dempster
Keyword(s):  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Canterbury Tales ◽  
Main Ideas

Scholars have regretted that the enormous work embodied in The Text of the “Canterbury tales” did not leave Professor Manly the time and strength to integrate in a summary his main ideas as to the early history of the work. For that unwritten chapter no one, of course, could hope to offer a substitute. Yet much which would have gone into it and is not clear at the first reading takes form and coherence as one's familiarity grows with Manly's ideas and his material. One comes to see that, on most of the important features of the early history of the text, he had formed very definite opinions, while his silence on a number of others, if in some cases hard to interpret, more often clearly reflects a conviction that no light can be elicited either from the manuscripts or anything else within our ken. Correlating all indications I shall try to present in its main lines Manly's view of the history of the Canterbury tales to c. 1500, indicating as far as possible the basis for his opinions.

scholarly journals The Reformation of Hell? Protestant and Catholic Infernalisms in England, c. 1560–1640

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER MARSHALL
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Despite a recent expansion of interest in the social history of death, there has been little scholarly examination of the impact of the Protestant Reformation on perceptions of and discourses about hell. Scholars who have addressed the issue tend to conclude that Protestant and Catholic hells differed little from each other in the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. This article undertakes a comparative analysis of printed English-language sources, and finds significant disparities on questions such as the location of hell and the nature of hell-fire. It argues that such divergences were polemically driven, but none the less contributed to the so-called ‘decline of hell’.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF CLASS IDENTITY OF THE FRENCH BOURGEOISE IN THE WORKS OF THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN S. MAZA

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (05) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
E.S. Meer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Historian

The article examines a modern episode from the history of the revision of the image of the French bourgeoisie in English-language historiography. The author shows that at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, the American historian Sarah Maza raised the problem of the identity of this class in the period from 1750 to 1850 and put forward a hypothesis for reflection about its non-existence in the social imaginary. The study traces how the historian comes to the formulation of this question, reveals the essence of S. Maza's socio-cultural approach, demonstrates the assessment of her views from the scientific community.

Manly's Conception of the Early History of the Canterbury Tales

PMLA ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germaine Dempster
Keyword(s):  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

scholarly journals “Building the New Jerusalem in Canada’s Green and Pleasant Land”: The Social Gospel and the Roots of English-Language Academic Sociology in Canada, 1889-1921

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Helmes-Hayes
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Faculty Appointment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Sociology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Colleges ◽  
English Canadian

According to the conventional account of the history of English-Canadian sociology, the discipline was established in the 1920s at McGill, followed by developments at Dalhousie, Toronto and elsewhere. I dispute this account by documenting the substantial institutional footprint of so-called “social gospel” sociology in Canada’s Protestant universities and religious colleges, 1889-1921: courses taught; faculty appointments made; programs established. Between 1889 and 1921, 28 men, many of them clerics, taught sociology for two years or more in one of Canada’s English-language universities or Protestant denominational colleges. By 1921, 11 institutions offered sociology courses, 7 institutions had made a dedicated faculty appointment in sociology, and 8 institutions offered a program in sociology. In most cases, their teaching reflected the political – but not theological – principles of the social gospel. I argue that these men are the true pioneers of Canadian sociology and that we should rewrite the first chapter of Canadian sociology to give them their due.

scholarly journals Nicholas Hans and the assessment of Soviet school policy of the Russian pedagogical émigré at the turn of 1920’s – 1930’s

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Oleg Efimovich Osovskiy ◽  
Vera Petrovna Kirzhaeva
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
School Policy ◽  
Soviet School ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Situation

This article reviews the problem of perception and assessment of the process of school building in USSR by the Russian pedagogical émigré at the turn of 1920’s – 1930’s. Having set the goal of creating the Russian foreign school, pedagogues and leaders of the social-pedagogical movement took a close eye on what was happening to the school homeward, assessed it with critical objectivity, highlighting the positive changes and pointing at dangerous tendencies. These issues are the focus of attention in the articles of Sergius Hessen, N. F. Novozhilov, A. L. Bem and N. A. Hans in the émigré pedagogical periodicals. Using the principles of the traditional historical-pedagogical research, approaches of content analysis and case study, the author determine the methodology applied by Nicholas Hans for analyzing the Soviet educational policy and school system. The authors reveal the scholar’s position, according to which the characteristic to the entire history of national school antagonism between radical and autocratic traditions finds its continuation in the Soviet school,  that in turn, allows extrapolating the conclusions based on the development stages of prerevolutionary school towards new situation. N. A. Hans uses similar approach in preparation of works about the Soviet school policy, addressed to the English audience. For the first time the authors introduce into the scientific discourse a number of Russian and English language publications of N. A. Hans, a notable participant of the social-pedagogical process of Russian émigré community, but yet unfamiliar to Russian audience. Nicholas Hans was one of the few Russian émigré, who was able to integrate into the scientific educational space of the Great Britain and became a prominent pedagogue-comparativist.

A victim of prudishness

Babel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-221
Author(s):  
Sergiy Sydorenko
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Canterbury Tales

Abstract Often excluded from Chaucer’s modernizations or heavily censored, The Miller’s Tale over the centuries has been stigmatized as bawdy, obscene and, as such, unfit for the general reader. The article briefly reviews the history of the modernization of The Miller’s Tale in the 18th–19th centuries and focuses on its four major 20th-early 21st-century translations into modern English to find out how the motives of decency might have determined the translators’ choices where it concerns the tale’s explicit language. The argument of decency appears to be a lame excuse for the failure of many of Chaucer’s modernizers to understand the true purport and place of The Miller’s Tale in the overall composition of The Canterbury Tales, as well as to appreciate Chaucer’s literary achievement in representing through his characters’ narratives the spirit and mindset of his age.

The Social History of the Family in the Territores of the Austrian Monarchy

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-288
Author(s):  
James O. Brown ◽  
Markus Cerman
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Social History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Historical Demography ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

With little delay, Central European historical research experienced the growth of historical demography and family history that began in English-language historiography during the 1960s. Initial studies on Austria proper were published from the early 1970s onward; in Czechoslovakia the journalHistorická demogmfie(Historical demography), acting as a forum for Czech research in this field, was founded in 1967, and also in Hungary, the 1970s mark the beginning of research into family history and historical demography.

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