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Steve McCarty deposited Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThree consecutive patriarchs of Esoteric Buddhism were Amoghavajra of India, Huiguo of China, and Kūkai of Japan. This paper foregrounds the usually taken-for-granted but vital historical role of language education and translation in the international spread of religion and culture. There had to be sufficiently educated bilingual or multilingual…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Drive to Understand & Need for Meaning! – “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”- Leonardo Da Vinci – William James, Clifford Geertz, Roy Rappaport Albert Einstein, Lev Tolstoy – w Baumeister’s Paradigm w/ Order, Categorization, and Bargh So in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoGeertz, perhaps the most influential of the anthropologists, contends that symbolism and meaning are central to religion: “The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not o…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Drive to Understand & Need for Meaning! – “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”- Leonardo Da Vinci – William James, Clifford Geertz, Roy Rappaport Albert Einstein, Lev Tolstoy – w Baumeister’s Paradigm w/ Order, Categorization, and Bargh So in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoGeertz, perhaps the most influential of the anthropologists, contends that symbolism and meaning are central to religion: “The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not o…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Enrique IV de Castilla en la poesía de cancionero: algún afán ignorado entre las mil congoxas conocidas in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoUno de los muchos manuscritos de la Crónica de Enrique IV de Enríquez
del Castillo,1 en concreto el que hoy reposa en la Biblioteca de El Escorial
(X.II.15), se abre con unos curiosos versos seguramente redactados por el
anónimo amanuense autor de esta copia, fechada en la primera mitad del
siglo XVI.2 El poemita, que creo es inédito (algo lóg…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Enrique IV de Castilla en la poesía de cancionero: algún afán ignorado entre las mil congoxas conocidas in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoUno de los muchos manuscritos de la Crónica de Enrique IV de Enríquez
del Castillo,1 en concreto el que hoy reposa en la Biblioteca de El Escorial
(X.II.15), se abre con unos curiosos versos seguramente redactados por el
anónimo amanuense autor de esta copia, fechada en la primera mitad del
siglo XVI.2 El poemita, que creo es inédito (algo lóg…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Early Christian Mystics and Modern Scientists: from St. Gregory of Nyssa, Denys the Areopagite, St. Augustine, Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, ! – Absolute Truth [God] is Beyond Words and Beyond Comprehension! = “the unbounded, incomprehensible divinity” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEinstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited «Alta Reina esclareçida»: un cancionero ficticio para Isabel la Católica in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoNo descubro nada nuevo comenzando estas líneas aludiendo al sobradamente conocido carácter de mecenas cultural y de impulsora de grandes obras artísticas de Isabel la Católica , cuyos resultados son fáciles de detectar a lo largo de todo su reinado (1474-1504). Concretando este comentario general en lo que ha sido el núcleo de mi tesis docto…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited «Alta Reina esclareçida»: un cancionero ficticio para Isabel la Católica in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoNo descubro nada nuevo comenzando estas líneas aludiendo al sobradamente conocido carácter de mecenas cultural y de impulsora de grandes obras artísticas de Isabel la Católica , cuyos resultados son fáciles de detectar a lo largo de todo su reinado (1474-1504). Concretando este comentario general en lo que ha sido el núcleo de mi tesis docto…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited El Primer Congreso Científico Pan Americano, 1908 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoSummary of the book “Science Still Born” (2001), presented at the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, Mexico, July 8-14, 2001. // Resumen del libro “Amistad y Progreso” (2001), presentado en el XXI Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Ciencia, Ciudad de Mexico, 8-14 de julio del 2001.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Censo de ejemplares de las ediciones del Cancionero general 2.0 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoVersión actualizada de la anterior versión (2014) del censo de ejemplares del ‘Cancionero general’ de Hernando del Castillo, con la incorporación de seis copias más de las dos ediciones impresas en Amberes por Martín Nucio en los años 1557 y 1573.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Jews and Conversos in Spanish Cancioneros and Portuguese Cancioneiros (c. 1350-1520) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis chapter presents the significance of both Spanish cancioneros and Portuguese cancioneiros for the scholarly examination of medieval Jewish history and literature on the Iberian Peninsula. Through a close integration of historiographical and literary analysis, all major cancioneros are examined and contextualized based on exemplary…[Read more]
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Edmundo Murray deposited Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva – Building the Future in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]
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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
Early Modern History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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Sarah Lowengard deposited On the Disappearance of the Animal Body in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPart of a special issue “Making Animal Materials in Time” (HSNS 53, no. 3)
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Sarah Lowengard deposited On the Disappearance of the Animal Body in the group
Early Modern History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPart of a special issue “Making Animal Materials in Time” (HSNS 53, no. 3)
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Art & Spirituality; Paul Klee – Synthesizing “inner vision” with “outside experience; Langer – origins dancing, music, painting. J Schulkin, & G.Raglan Our evolution is tightly bound to music….helps to facilitate social cooperative. Art as “collective p in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art – dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art….. Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social…[Read more]
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