Symbolic Reproduction In Early Medieval England

Author : Katharine Sykes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192659125

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Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England by Katharine Sykes Pdf

In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced through education and training, rather than biological means; their inhabitants practised celibacy as a lifelong state, rather than as a stage in the life course. Because monastic households depended on secular households to produce the next generation of recruits, previous studies have tended to view them as more mutable than their secular counterparts, which are implicitly regarded as natural and ahistorical. Katharine Sykes charts some of the significant changes to the structure of households between the seventh to eleventh centuries, as ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction first fostered in monastic households were adopted in royal households in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and as ideas about kinship that were generated in secular households, such as the relationship between genealogy and inheritance, were picked up and applied by their monastic counterparts. In place of binary divisions between secular and monastic, biological and spiritual, real and imagined, Sykes demonstrates that different forms of kinship and reproduction in this period were intimately linked.

Author : Richard Sowerby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191088117

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Angels in Early Medieval England by Richard Sowerby Pdf

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for the living and the dead; others erected stone monuments carved with images of winged figures; and still others made angels the subject of poetic endeavour and theological scholarship. This wealth of material has never been fully explored, and was once dismissed as the detritus of a superstitious age. Angels in Medieval England offers a different perspective, by using angels as a prism through which to study the changing religious culture of an unfamiliar age. Focusing on one corner of medieval Europe which produced an abundance of material relating to angels, Richard Sowerby investigates the way that ancient beliefs about angels were preserved and adapted in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. Between the sixth century and the eleventh, the convictions of Anglo-Saxon men and women about the world of the spirits underwent a gradual transformation. This book is the first to explore that transformation, and to show the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons tried to reconcile their religious inheritance with their own perspectives about the world, human nature, and God.

Author : édéric Portal (Baron De)
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294661981

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An Essay on Symbolic Colours by édéric Portal (Baron De) Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ An Essay On Symbolic Colours: In Antiquity--the Middle Ages--and Modern Times Frederic Portal (baron de) W. S. Inman J. Weale, 1845 Art; Color Theory; Art / Color Theory; Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Psychology / Applied Psychology; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Symbolism of colors

Author : Robert A. Paul
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226240862

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Mixed Messages by Robert A. Paul Pdf

Nearly everyone would agree that humans and their societies evolved by natural selection, that humans are biologically a single species but societies vary greatly, and neither genetic inheritance nor cultural inheritance alone can fully explain humans and their social systems. While there is a literature that addresses dual inheritance theory or the coevolution of culture and genetics, almost all of it is written from a perspective that accepts the neo-Darwinian evolutionary framework but does not give proper weight to social and cultural theory as it has been developed by cultural anthropologists. At the same time, cultural anthropologists have ignored the question of dual inheritance altogether, leaving the theorizing of how it works almost exclusively in the hands of those with a strong biological viewpoint. In this book anthropologist and psychoanalyst Robert Paul attempts to reconcile evolutionary and cultural approaches in anthropology through a comparative ethnographic exploration of how humans receive behavioral instructions from two separate channelsthe genetic code carried in the DNA and the symbolic systems that constitute culture. He develops a dual inheritance model that aims to do justice to both the genetic and cultural channels of inheritance. Paul elaborates his model of the relationship between genes and cultural symbols and then shows how it can make sense of both the similarities and variations found in human social life as captured in the now very extensive ethnographic record. He argues that cultural systems evolve to manage intra-group competition that would ensue from the genetic program pursuing its interests. The book uses thick descriptions and heavy interpretations from the ethnographic record to demonstrate how different societies tackle this challenge. The book fills a niche, connecting the dual-inheritance literature and symbolic cultural anthropology, using insights from the former to detect patterns in the latter. This is a rare and well-researched project, and should receive a broad readership among biological and cultural anthropologists, and students of human nature more broadly."

Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher : Case Studies in Early Societie
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885942

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Early Medieval Britain by Pam J. Crabtree Pdf

Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

Author : Georges Renard
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531286613

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Guilds in the Middle Ages by Georges Renard Pdf

The origin of guilds has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, and two opposing theories have been advanced. According to the first theory they were the persistence of earlier institutions; but what were these institutions? Some say that, more particularly in the south of France, they were of Roman and Byzantine origin, and were derived from those collegia of the poorer classes (tenuiorum) which, in the last centuries of the Empire, chiefly concerned themselves with the provision of funerals; or, again, from the scholae, official and compulsory groups, which, keeping the name of the hall in which their councils assembled, prolonged their existence till about the year 1000.

Author : William Kuskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124054094

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Symbolic Caxton by William Kuskin Pdf

In this fascinating read, William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority.

Author : Line C. Engh
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048537150

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The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages by Line C. Engh Pdf

In the middle ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ, married the universal church. And lay men, high and low, married carnal woman. What unites these marriages was their common reference to the union of Christ and church. Christ's marriage to the church was the paradigmatic symbol in which all the other forms of union participated - in superior or inferior ways. This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period. In what ways did marriage symbolism - with its embedded concepts of gender, reproduction, household, and hierarchy - shape people's thought about other things, such as celibacy, ecclesial and political relations, and devotional relations? How did symbolic thinking, contrariwise, shape marriage regulation and law? And how, if at all, were these two directions of thinking symbolically about marriage related?

Author : Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041026340

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Early Medieval Book Illumination by Carl Adam Johan Nordenfalk Pdf

Looks at the history of illuminated manuscripts, and shows examples of late Roman, pre-Carolingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian illumination.

Author : Rudiger Ahrens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0404635695

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Symbolism by Rudiger Ahrens Pdf

Author : Terence Wise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780966700

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Medieval Heraldry by Terence Wise Pdf

Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry. From the mundane to the fantastic, from simple geometric patterns to elaborate mythological beasts, this fascinating work by Terence Wise explores the origins and appearance of medieval heraldic devices in an engagingly readable style accompanied by numerous illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Richard Hook.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422789

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065983

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Toward a Global Middle Ages by Bryan C. Keene Pdf

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Celts
ISBN : NWU:35556022839450

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Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015090131908

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The Huntington Library Quarterly by Anonim Pdf