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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] -
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 Censo de ejemplares de las ediciones del Cancionero general 2.0 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 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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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
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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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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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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Steve McCarty deposited Interview on the life and times of Japan’s great saint Kūkai in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThrough the book Kūkai the Universal, the podcast guest discusses the life and times of Japan’s great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism, and Zen, in terms of East Asian history, language education, and translation issues including voice.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoByzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited De la ‘fermosa judía’ a la bella conversa: la erótica de lo prohibido en las literaturas hispánicas del medievo y del temprano renacimiento in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa hipersexualización de personajes femeninos en la literatura de todos los tiempos responde a varios patrones culturales bastante determinados y convenientemente analizados por la teoría literaria, tanto la de rango más generalista (Dworkin 13-47) como la dedicada de forma específica a las literaturas hispánicas (García Velasco 292-307). En el…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEl artículo analiza el neogoticismo y su incidencia en la propaganda ideológica dispersa en la Edad Media hispánica desde los siglos IX al XV. Se estudia su apogeo en las crónicas medievales y su posterior desaparición, así como su recuperación entre los siglos XV y XVI de la mano de obras genealógicas y de cancioneros poéticos. Específi…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La controversia judía y judeoconversa en los debates del Cancionero de Baena in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLos debates literarios son prácticamente consustanciales e intrínsecos a la existencia de la literatura en cualquier lengua y en cualquier cultura, en tanto que «en último término, remiten a condicionamientos pragmáticos humanos» (Chas Aguión 2002 : 59). Por lo que respecta a su inserción en la cultura de la Edad Media hispánica, hay un aspecto i…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited एक जोमो का जीवन in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoपत्रकार और शिक्षाविद् प्रमोद रंजन ने जून, 2017 में हिमाचल प्रदेश के दुर्गम इलाकों की यात्रा की थी। इस यात्रा में उन्हें किन्नौर जिले के सुदूर गांव कानम के एक गोम्पा में सुमार नाम की जोमो मिलीं। जोमो यानी बौद्ध भिक्षुणी। मध्य हिमालय की अपूर्व शांति से भरी उस घाटी में सहज वात्सल्य से भरीं 56 वर्षीय सुमार के साथ कुछ घंटे बिताना उनके लिए एक अनूठा अ…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited Shifting Paradigms in Black Death Chronologies in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis blogpost summarizes findings presented at a talk at Erfurt University on 16 May 2023, in the series KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formation,” Global Exchange: Trade, Knowledge, and Religion. In this blogpost we present our key argument that rigorous correlation between archaeological, genomic, and documentary evidence dem…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Joaquina Mayol Bazo, fotógrafa con nombre propio in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe name of Joaquina Mayol Bazo (Málaga, 1830 – 1915) is linked to her former husband, the photographer Eugenio Lorichon, son of the legendary pioneer of photography in Spain: Enrique Lorichon. Joaquina worked as an independent photographer in Malaga from 1860 to 1865, above all, under the name of Viuda de Lorichon. / El nombre de Joaquina Ma…[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, 9 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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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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