Author: Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales
Author: Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Journal of the Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society, for the County, City, and Neighbourhood of Chester
Author: The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society
Author: Reception History, Tradition and Biblical Interpretation
Author: Robert EvansPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567655423
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This study seeks to make a contribution to current debates about the nature of Wirkungsgeschichte or reception history and its place in contemporary Biblical Studies. The author addresses three crucial questions: the relationship between reception history and historical-critical exegesis; the form of reception history itself, with a focus on the issue of which acts of reception are selected and valorized; and the role of tradition, pre-judgements and theology in relation to reception history. Disagreements about these matters contribute to what many characterise as the fragmentation of the discipline of biblical studies. The study champions the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer as a theoretical resource for understanding biblical interpretation, and a way of holding together with integrity the varied activities undertaken within the discipline. Each aspect of the argument is illustrated, tested and further explored with reference to the post-history of exhortations in the New Testament to 'be subject'. These have been widely cited and applied for 2,000 years – in literature, law and politics as well as in theological traditions. In this way the study makes a contribution not just to the theory but also the practice of reception history.
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Author: Garthine WalkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Journal
Author: Architectural, Archaelogical and Historic Society for the County, City and Neighborhood of ChesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society
Author: Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Shifting Currents
Author: Karen Eva CarrPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145775
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England
Author: David CressyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198207818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In Travesties and Transgressions, David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. He uses a series of linked stories and close readings of local texts and narratives to investigate unorthodox happenings such as bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular burial, nakedness and cross-dressing. Each story, and the reaction it generated, exposes the strains and stresses of its local time and circumstances. The reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I were witness to endless religious disputes, tussles for power within the aristocracy, and arguments galore about the behaviour and beliefs of common people. Questions raised by 'unnatural' episodes were debated throughout society at local and national levels, and engaged the attention of the magistrates, the bishops, the crown, and the court. The resolution of such questions was not taken lightly in a world in which God and the devil still fought for people's souls.
Author: B. E. Harris