Hellenistic Eponymous Cities and Ethnics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Reverse Process ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peripheral Regions

Chapter 6 showed the long history of metonomasy, which is preserved in a number of entries in documentary evidence and particularly in Stephanus, relating to cities and communities of the Classical world. It also investigated the reverse process, by which ethnics of cities that had for one reason or another ceased to exist as independent bodies continued to be used, particularly (but not exclusively) in peripheral regions such as Egypt. This chapter looks forward to the new world, particularly the early Hellenistic age, which brought into being new urban settlements, with politically eponymous titles.

Benedict XIV’s donation of Amazonian objects to the Istituto delle Scienze of Bologna (1751) Origins and history

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuele Tacconi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
New World ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Jesuit Missions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jesuit Missionary ◽  
The City

Abstract In 1751 Pope Benedict XIV made a donation of Amazonian objects to the Istituto delle Scienze in Bologna, a scientific academy located in the city of his birth. This article reconstructs the history of this group of objects back to its origins in the Jesuit missions of the upper Amazon basin, by presenting and examining new documentary evidence. The encounter between a Jesuit missionary and Pope Benedict XIV is analysed in the context of the early modern reception of the New World and its peoples in Catholic Europe. Finally, an overview is presented of the items in this collection, which represent some of the scarcest and oldest known examples of native material culture from the region.

scholarly journals Naturalism and political science adaptation to the non-classical world picture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Alekseeva
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
New World ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Mechanistic Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge

One of the greatest achievements of the humanity is obviously the recognition of the systematic unity of the natural and social knowledge. However, this recognition was not constant. The forming development and history of political sciences reflected it rather evidently, tending to go from one extreme to another - from identifying its methods with natural, to pretending for its uniqueness, or even universality. All these questions got a special importance in the perspective of the new non-classical world picture, but the adaptation of political sciences to a new type of thinking meets considerable difficulties. The analysis of the most significant approaches towards the political and international processes demonstrate, that the acceptance of the new postulates od none-classical and post-none-classical pictures of the world is quite complicated. Simultaneously with the preservation of the pure mechanistic, approach some of the elements of the new world pictures were taken from quantum physics, biology, as well as the chance factor and the rejection of the casual relationships. Nevertheless, it is better to speak not about the translation of the methods and approaches from natural sciences to political, but about the attempts to build “weak” theories or analogues (for instance, quantum-like theories). Nevertheless, generally speaking, political as well as other social sciences tend to be developing accepting the zeitgeist. The adaption of political sciences to the new world pictures is inevitable,, but would be limited by definition. Even with the backgrounds of the unity of knowledge as such, its methods and instruments are quite different and even during the process of adaption change so significantly and are so greatly reduced, that they preserve only names and imitation of the other sciences’ methodology. Anyway, we should follow the parallelcourse.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Visual Models ◽  
Woman Reader ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Literacy

This chapter explores a more concrete and historicized figure of the woman reader. It explores the forces that make her appear and disappear, and surveys the state of knowledge on medieval female literacy, and the documentary evidence on women readers. It investigates typically female modes of reading (such as the educational, the devotional, and the courtly) and the visual models that were available to vernacular authors to forge their imagined textual interlocutor. It shows how the protagonist of this book is the product of two cultural events within the history of reading and the material culture of the book: the raise of literacy among the laity and women in the years under consideration, and a changed scenario insofar as theories and practices of reading are concerned.

Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492–1821

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra ◽  
Adrian Masters
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New World ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Group Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Social Order

Scholars have barely begun to explore the role of the Old Testament in the history of the Spanish New World. And yet this text was central for the Empire’s legal thought, playing a role in its legislation, adjudication, and understandings of group status. Institutions like the Council of the Indies, the Inquisition, and the monarchy itself invited countless parallels to ancient Hebrew justice. Scripture influenced how subjects understood and valued imperial space as well as theories about Paradise or King Solomon’s mines of Ophir. Scripture shaped debates about the nature of the New World past, the legitimacy of the conquest, and the questions of mining, taxation, and other major issues. In the world of privilege and status, conquerors and pessimists could depict the New World and its peoples as the antithesis of Israel and the Israelites, while activists, patriots, and women flipped the script with aplomb. In the readings of Indians, American-born Spaniards, nuns, and others, the correct interpretation of the Old Testament justified a new social order where these groups’ supposed demerits were in reality their virtues. Indeed, vassals and royal officials’ interpretations of the Old Testament are as diverse as the Spanish Empire itself. Scripture even outlasted the Empire. As republicans defeated royalists in the nineteenth century, divergent readings of the book, variously supporting the Israelite monarchy or the Hebrew republic, had their day on the battlefield itself.

scholarly journals Germans in the New World: Essays in the History of Immigration

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 515
Author(s):  
Susan Lee Pentlin ◽  
Frederick C. Luebke
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
History Of
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