Performing the Emperor: Sui Jingchen's “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-58
Author(s):  
Karin Myhre
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Home Village ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Historical Accounts

Abstract Reading Sui Jingchen's song suite “Gaozu Returns to His Home Village” against early sources, this article explores how Sui's work selects and inverts the elements that ground definitive historical accounts of rulership to refashion a familiar narrative in a theatrical mode. The sanqu's use of performance tropes expands the scope of criticism in this humorous piece past concerns about Yuan rulership, or even the imperial institution, to broader questions of representational instability and uncertainty. These shifts implicate readers in a social and political critique and engage issues often associated with early modern fiction and drama, including authenticity, imposture, and interpolations of author, character, player, reader, and audience.

scholarly journals La imponente belleza de las armas blancas persas elaboradas con acero de Damasco

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Damascus Steel ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Crucible Steel ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Made In

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The objective of this article is to give a short overview of different types of a product called “Persian watered steel” and show its beauty through examples of edged weaponry. I use the terms “watered steel,” “Damascus steel,” and “crucible steel” interchangeably throughout this article, and those terms are also explained. Watered steel is produced from steel made in crucibles, and the resulting differences in properties occurring during the process will be explained. The resulting quality is vital in producing edged weapons that are of praiseworthy significance. Another section of this article deals with the production centers of crucible steel and gives a short overview of this topic, including a discussion on watered steel in historical accounts. Lastly, the classification of properties of watered steel in early modern times is discussed.</span></span></span></p>

Conclusion: The Literary Transformation of History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit Heyam
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Historical Accounts

This conclusion explores the implications of this study for two key areas of scholarship: the study of Marlowe’s Edward II, and our understanding of medieval and early modern history-writing. I argue for the productive potential of acknowledging the extent to which the medieval and early modern writing of history was a literary process, one significantly shaped by literary techniques and literary texts. Medieval and early modern writers constructed historical accounts in all genres – chronicles and political texts as well as drama and poetry – for an imagined reading public. In this way, writers’ consideration for imagined readers – based on knowledge of the actual tastes of the reading public – directly shaped the reputations of historical figures.

Plantation, Contagion, and Containment in Spenser and Bryskett

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-145
Author(s):  
Andrew Zurcher
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Present State ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Way ◽  
Space Security

Abstract Early modern Ireland was notoriously, or reputedly, a place of disease: the plague, the ague, the country fever, the looseness, the bloody flux, and an assortment of coughs, chills, sweats, and other illnesses—Ireland’s endemii morbi or “reigning diseases”—regularly figure in surviving letters and historical accounts from the period. This essay explores not only the reports of disease issuing from Ireland at this time, but the way in which the experience and rhetoric of contagion help to shape ideas about space, security, and civility in the colonial theory of the period. In Spenser’s View of the present state of Ireland (c. 1596) and Bryskett’s A Discourse of Ciuill Life (1606), illness and its metaphors seem to correlate with, and perhaps to occasion, complex responses to the alleged disorder and promiscuity of the Irish—energies evident, too, in the military and political strategies of deputies Sir Henry Sidney, Arthur Lord Grey, and Sir Arthur Chichester. This essay sees Spenser’s View and Bryskett’s Discourse as polemical attempts – at key moments before the planting of Munster and Ulster – to push New English colonial policy away from the morbid failures of Pale government and violent military suppression toward the corpus sanum of plantation.

scholarly journals Indian Vernacular History-writing and Its Ideological Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Piotr Borek
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intersection Points ◽  
Vernacular Poetry ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Vernacular History ◽  
Contemporary Account

Indian Vernacular History-writing and Its Ideological Engagement: A Contemporary Account on Shivaji’s Visit to Agra (1666) in Brajbhāṣā Verse The visit of Shivaji Bhosle at Aurangzeb’s court in 1666 is a famous subject of modern historical and popular accounts. A contemporary relation of this event is to be found in vernacular poetry, which according to the Western understanding of traditional history should not be considered factually reliable. Academic research of at least the last two decades has seen many attempts to oppose this view and to theorize Indian vernacular literatures as legitimate ways of recording the past. This article offers an analysis of a few 17th-century Braj stanzas by Bhushan against the background of modern professional historical accounts, all of them devoted to the 1666 event, in order to demonstrate intersection points between two separately molded ways of intentional history-writing and to support the credibility of recording the past by the early modern poet.

A LATENT HISTORIOGRAPHY? THE CASE OF PSYCHIATRY IN BRITAIN, 1500–1820

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. HOUSTON
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
North American ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Disorders Of Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Accounts

ABSTRACTBoth empirically and interpretively, extant histories of psychiatry reveal a vastly greater degree of difference among themselves than historical accounts of any other field. Scholarship focuses on the period after 1800 and the same is true of historiographical reviews; those of early modern British psychiatry are often brief literature studies. This article sets out in depth the development of this rich and varied branch of history since the 1950s, exploring the many different approaches that have contributed to understanding the mad and how they were treated. Social, cultural, philosophical, religious, and intellectual historians have contributed as much as historians of science and medicine to understanding an enduring topic of fascination: ‘disorders of consciousness and conduct’ and their context. Appreciating the sometimes unacknowledged lineages of the subject and the personal histories of scholars (roots and routes) makes it easier to understand the past, present, and future of the history of psychiatry. The article explores European and North American influences as well as British traditions, looking at both the main currents of historiographical change and developments particular to the history of psychiatry.

Rodfei Shalom, Metavkhei Shalom, Pashranim, and Nikhbadim

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-252
Author(s):  
Daniel Roth
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Lay Leaders ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Almost All

This chapter examines historical accounts and stories of non-rabbinic Jewish lay leaders who served as third-party peacemakers within their communities as found in medieval and early modern rabbinic literature. As opposed to the rabbis of whom the identities of almost all were known, lay leaders who served as third-party peacemakers are almost entirely anonymous. They were, however, often referred to with quasi-titles to signify their role as third-party peacemakers. The chapter is therefore divided into four primary sections based on these various titles used to refer to lay peacemakers. The chapter also includes a discussion on the imperative in Jewish law and tradition of lay people to serve as third-party peacemakers or mediators.

From Rabbi Yosef Syracusty to Rabbi Nissi al-Nahrawani

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-206
Author(s):  
Daniel Roth
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Third Party ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
High Social Status

This chapter presents eight historical accounts and stories of rabbis or a group of rabbis who served as third-party peacemakers in medieval and early-modern rabbinic literature. The chapter is divided into three subsections based on the status and degree of success of the third party. The first section focuses on successful third-party rabbinic peacemakers with high social status, the second on unsuccessful rabbinic peacemakers who possessed less social status, and the third explores exceptions to this assertion. The chapter also includes a discussion about the responsibility of the rabbi to serve as a peacemaker or mediator in Jewish law and tradition.

Brazilian manatees (re)discovered: Early modern accounts reflecting the overexploitation of aquatic resources and the emergence of conservation concerns

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Vieira ◽  
Cristina Brito
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Era

The relationship between indigenous people and manatees in Brazil dates back to prehistoric times. It has been the subject of interdisciplinary research by specialists in marine environmental history, ethnozoology and anthropology. Manatee species, Thrichechus inunguis and Thrichechus manatus, form part of the local culture and traditions of their distribution regions: subtropical and tropical regions, as well as the entire Amazon basin and its Atlantic range. The estimated number of manatees in Brazil when the Europeans first arrived was in the tens of thousands. But the several uses of this exotic, large and strange New World creature not only meant that it featured from early times in literature, folklore and mythology, but also led to hunting and therefore falling populations. We have collected information from documentary sources that referred to manatees. These derived mainly from the early modern era, and included travel books, letters from Portuguese and Spanish missionaries and explorers, chronicles, scientific treatises, illustrated broadsheets, leaflets and images in naturalists’ records, sailors’ reports, folklore sources, poetry and literature. Our main goal was to frame and discuss the first historical accounts of the human exploitation, uses and perceptions of manatees in the Americas. This facilitated analysis of the abundance and uses of manatees from the sixteenth century to this day, as well as discussion of conservation issues, which started to emerge during the mid-eighteenth century, around overexploited resources in colonial Brazil. In focusing on manatees, and other aquatic animals, we offer paradigmatic case studies of past ecosystems and the historical relationships between people and nature.

scholarly journals The Meanings of Romance: Rethinking Early Modern Fiction

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Fiction
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