scholarly journals The plays with the axe in armour of the Anonimo Bolognese (1510-1515)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Daniel Jaquet
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Diplomatic Edition

This contribution examines an anonymous text (Di Accia armato di tutt’arme ) addressing the handling of the axe for armoured combat, compiled in a two-volume anonymous manuscript collection of the beginning of the 16th c. This collection is of particular interest since it predates the “classical” authors of the Bolognese school of the 16th c. and marks a turning point from an earlier late Medieval tradition. Moreover the inclusion of a text dedicated to armour fighting is equally interesting since this kind of combat tends to fade away from the technical register of the next Bolognese authors. The manuscript is shortly described and the text is presented in a diplomatic edition, with a translation and a reproduction of the manuscript in appendices. The content is described and analysed from a technical and a historical point of view, allowing comparison with other similar treatises, identification of the arms and armour, and discussion of the context of application.

scholarly journals Multilingual practices in late medieval Swedish writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Steffen Höder
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Low German ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Old Swedish ◽  
Swedish Text ◽  
Regional Languages

Abstract Late medieval Sweden was a multilingual society. At least three languages ‐ namely Old Swedish, Low German, and Latin ‐ were in use, beside other regional languages. While the influence of Low German is easily detectable in all parts of the Swedish language system and has been investigated rather thoroughly from a historical sociolinguistic point of view (cf. Braunmüller 2004), the role of Latin has been rather marginalized in traditional Swedish language historiography, focusing on the earlier stages of Old Swedish, which are described as its classical form (cf. Pettersson 2005). Starting out as the language of religion, administration, diplomacy and, to some extent, trade, Latin was the dominant language of text production in Sweden until the 14th century, which saw Written Old Swedish gain some domains as well, resulting in a more balanced diglossic relation between the two languages. The emerging written variety of Swedish, however, was heavily influenced by the multilingual practices of scribes, in large part clerics who were used to using at least Swedish and Latin on a daily basis for a variety of communicative purposes (Höder 2010). These multilingual practices, ranging from ad hoc translations via code-switching to the application of Latin stylistic, textual, and syntactic norms in Swedish text production (Höder 2018), had a lasting impact on the later development of a Swedish proto-standard, and are still reflected in conservative text types today. This contribution approaches this development from a historical sociolinguistic and contact linguistic perspective, concentrating on the establishment of multilingual practices.

Dominance runs deep

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Evolutionary Point

Seen in its historical context, Mazur & Booth's (M&B's) target article may come to be viewed as a turning point in the study of the biological basis of human behavior in general, and dominance in particular. To facilitate further research, suggestions are offered for making the definition of dominance more precise. From an evolutionary point of view, the testosterone-dominance link may be as important in women as it is in men.

Definitions of Poverty and the Rise of the Muslim Urban Poor

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval Islam ◽  
The Way

Poverty in medieval Islam is an enormous topic. It is worth considering from a historian's point of view, especially in the light of what has been accomplished by historians of Rome, Byzantium, and the medieval and modern West who have dealt with poverty and the poor. But as always, the sources for Islamic history, especially for the formative early centuries, present difficulties. Here I wish to make a preliminary attempt at dealing with part of this problem. I shall begin by considering an event which represents a turning point in the history of the Muslim poor, or more accurately, in the way poverty and the poor have been represented in modern historical scholarship on medieval Islam. Then I shall suggest a way in which this event may be set in context, and a possible strategy for handling some of the relevant sources. This strategy involves the identification of different, competing ways in which the poor were defined in the first centuries of Islam.

scholarly journals Neurophenomenology and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Axiomathes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Di Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Interpersonal Experience

AbstractThe article aims to provide the main conceptual coordinates in order to fully understand the state of the art of the most recent research in the field of neurobiology of interpersonal experience. The main purpose of this work is to analyze, at an anthropological, phenomenological and epistemological level, how the fundamental characteristics of the recognition of otherness and intercorporeity among human beings contribute to changing the image of nature in the light of a possible new relationship between living bodies, neurophysiological systems and empathy. From this point of view, the hypothesis to investigate is that neurophenomenology, understood as a new evolutionary, multidimensional and autopoietic approach, is capable of probing the preconditions of the possible delineation of a phenomenology of intersubjectivity shaped by the neuroscientific turning point, represented by the discovery of mirror neurons. At this level, the neuroscientific data are interpreted according to a specific interdisciplinary perspective, thus trying to offer a possible unitary and integrated theoretical framework.

scholarly journals ¿Quién Teme al Espejo? Una Polémica Sociológica en Torno a Cómo los Gays Ven el Envejecimiento Gay

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Ernesto Meccia
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Critical Approach

<div><p>Our aim is to analyze different representational forms of gay ageing by old gays. We will draw on aspects related to various theoretical viewpoints and enhance them by presenting empirical evidence with a critical approach. Thus, we will delve into the theory of competence in crisis, some theories of adjustment and resilience, the theory of fast aging, and last, the theory of minority stress. Our reflection is focused on aging experienced by gays who have witnessed social changes as from the 70s, taking into account they represent a turning point in gay subjectivity formed by contrasting representational repertoires, some deriving from an old homosexuality pattern in which they socialized primarily and others from the gay model fostered, generically, after the Stonewall uprising. From the methodological point of view, the texts of the authors considered representative of the theories mentioned are crossed. Then, each was busy trying to point out their particular strengths and limitations providing primary data (interviews) and secondary (statistics on perceptions and interviews). In conclusion, it is noted that there have been contrasting situations in the aging process based on heterogeneous analysis variables, including: sexual identity, the scene of identity (areas of healthcare are clearly regressive to show the gay identity) and, among others, by the features that subjects allocated to institutional environments within which developed his biography.</p></div>

scholarly journals A Search for the Hidden King: Messianism, Prophecies and Royal Epiphanies of the Kings of Aragon (circa 1250–1520)

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Serra Desfilis
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Art History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Crown Of Aragon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Abundance And Diversity ◽  
Point Of Departure

Modern historiography has studied the influence of messianic and millennialist ideas in the Crown of Aragon extensively and, more particularly, how they were linked to the Aragonese monarchy. To date, research in the field of art history has mainly considered royal iconography from a different point of view: through coronation, historical or dynastic images. This article will explore the connections, if any, between millennialist prophetic visions and royal iconography in the Crown of Aragon using both texts and the figurative arts, bearing in mind that sermons, books and images shared a common space in late medieval audiovisual culture, where royal epiphanies took place. The point of departure will be the hypothesis that some royal images and apparently conventional religious images are compatible with readings based on sources of prophetic and apocalyptic thought, which help us to understand the intentions and values behind unique figurative and performative epiphanies of the dynasty that ruled the Crown of Aragon between 1250 and 1516. With this purpose in mind, images will be analysed in their specific context, which is often possible to reconstruct thanks to the abundance and diversity of the written sources available on the subject, with a view to identifying their promoters’ intentions, the function they fulfilled and the reception of these images in the visual culture of this time and place.

A Conflict in the Identity of Traditional Iranian Houses: The Case of Qajar Dynasty

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Amirreza Farahbod ◽  
Uğur Dağli
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Processing Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Traditional Construction

From an architectonic point of view, the identity of Iranian houses has become more enriched itself throughout history. Primarily, during the Qajardynasty (1785-1925)as a consequence of the social, political, and economical changes which took place, there was a turning point from traditional architectural construction to the modernism principals of construction. In this regard, this studyaims toexplore the importance of the compatibility of the termidentity of architecture in the transformation age (a period which led tothe turning point in the history of Iranian architecture) bydescriptive (including comparative and co-relational methods) and explanative-analytical methods. By evaluating the spatial characteristics of TraditionalIranian Houses (TIH), the study has developed a method of assessingthe architectural identity of the Qajar era. It alsointroduceda Top-down and Bottom-up processing method as the two main factors in shapingthe identityofan architectural style. By comparing both the objective and subjective indicators of shapingthe identity of TIH, the study also revealed that, in transitioning from the traditional construction to modern, the physical characteristics of the houses might change considerably, whilst lifestyles will not change at the same speed.

scholarly journals Performing innocence: Violence and the nation in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-210
Author(s):  
Ana María Sánchez-Arce
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
British Society ◽  
Main Character ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Direct Violence ◽  
International Status

Mainstream British society and post-9/11 fiction borrow from the discourse of American exceptionalism (including the fall from innocence to experience, the desire to create or preserve a better world, a “Messianic consciousness” reflecting the arrogance of virtue, the development of narratives of heroism and goodness tied to nation-building, and the use of the above to justify “exemptionalism”) to expose and query the entitlement of those within the narrative home of Britishness and the outsider status of those used to define its borders. This article discusses Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Sunjeev Sahota’s Ours Are the Streets, arguing that they illustrate a turning point in Britain’s imagination of itself as a nation in a struggle over Britishness which is predicated on notions of violence and innocence. Since 9/11 the debate about Britishness has used innocence as a constitutive inside of the nation and direct violence as an exclusionary characteristic. McEwan satirizes this rhetoric of innocence whereas Sahota challenges it. Both novels illustrate how post-9/11 British fiction deals with politics as war, placing violence at the heart of society. McEwan parodies the point of view of British normative society by allowing his main character to justify his privileged position under the guise of arguing for the current social and international status quo. Sahota charts the journey of those who are caught between the rejection of unjust social structures and the desire to fit within them, depicting his protagonist’s misguided attempt to redefine the British nation through terrorism. Violence and exceptionalism are central to both novels, which portray a turn in the imagining of Britain. The events of 9/11 can therefore be seen not just as a historical turning point but as a turn in Britain’s imagination of itself.

scholarly journals Evaluation of critical factors determining the profitability of sweet maize

2016 ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Evelin Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Sweet Corn ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Elasticity Analysis ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Average Yield ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Field Crops ◽  
Output Factors ◽  
Main Factors

The main goal of this analysis was to determine, whether the production of sweet corn competitive is from the point of view of profitability and identify the main factors determining profitability. The hypothesis of this research was that sweet corn production is profitable and output factors (yields, selling prices) affect most significantly the profitability. The total costs of production with irrigation are 560 000 HUF ha-1. Average yield is 18 t ha-1, while selling prices on average of the last 5 years were about 38 000 HUF t-1. The realisable profit in the sector was 248 828 HUF ha-1. Direct cost-related profitability was 48.6% and profit level 26%. Elasticity analysis pointed out that the changes of selling prices and yields affect profitability. The critical value shows the turning point of profitability, which was at the yield of 13.82 t ha-1. It can be concluded, the hypothesis was true, because sweet corn production was profitable compared to other field crops.

scholarly journals Policy Learning from the Experience of a Neighboring Country: Adaptation of Korean Earthquake Management System after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Keun Namkoong
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Earthquake Response ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Metropolitan Government ◽  
Kobe Earthquake ◽  
Japanese Experience

This article reviews the adaptation of the Korean earthquake management system after the 1995 Kobe earthquake with special reference to the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The Kobe earthquake was a turning point for the earthquake management system in Korea. From a theoretical point of view, social learning and policy diffusion, and adaptation of disaster management system occurred after the Japanese experience of 1995 Kobe earthquake. Section II reviews seismic activities and damages in Korea; Section III discusses reframing governance system for earthquake response in Korea; Section IV covers public policy initiatives for earthquake management in Korea; Section V introduces a preliminary assessment of Seoul Metropolitan Government's earthquake management system from an international standard, and finally Section VII summarizes and makes some recommendations.

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