Renée Levine Packer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199730773
- eISBN:
- 9780199863532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730773.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, American
The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo celebrates its tenth anniversary with a gala sold-out concert at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery that ...
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The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo celebrates its tenth anniversary with a gala sold-out concert at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery that features Lukas Foss conducting Stravinsky's “L'Histoire du Soldat,” with local civic leaders, including Seymour Knox, in the speaking roles.Less
The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo celebrates its tenth anniversary with a gala sold-out concert at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery that features Lukas Foss conducting Stravinsky's “L'Histoire du Soldat,” with local civic leaders, including Seymour Knox, in the speaking roles.
Michael Patrick Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195333527
- eISBN:
- 9780199868896
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333527.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 4 isolates several essential aspects of Balthasar's theodramatic theory and discusses how they “play” in and through Lars von Trier's dramatic film Breaking the Waves (1996), the first ...
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Chapter 4 isolates several essential aspects of Balthasar's theodramatic theory and discusses how they “play” in and through Lars von Trier's dramatic film Breaking the Waves (1996), the first installment of his Golden Heart trilogy. It is no coincidence that Balthasar places his theodramatic program precisely between his Aesthetics and Logic in order to emphasize the spatial centrality of God's dramatic action in, with, and through the world. In addition to examining theological mysteries (such as kenosis and the “events” of Holy Saturday), the chapter demonstrates more acutely the many contributions that Balthasar provides the contemporary religious critic. The chapter finds that the retrieval of this powerful relationship between theology and narrative art—between theological rhetoric and dramatic representation—is a main topic of Balthasar's Theodrama and that a serious study of the implications of his theodramatics bears ripe fruit for theorists of contemporary literature.Less
Chapter 4 isolates several essential aspects of Balthasar's theodramatic theory and discusses how they “play” in and through Lars von Trier's dramatic film Breaking the Waves (1996), the first installment of his Golden Heart trilogy. It is no coincidence that Balthasar places his theodramatic program precisely between his Aesthetics and Logic in order to emphasize the spatial centrality of God's dramatic action in, with, and through the world. In addition to examining theological mysteries (such as kenosis and the “events” of Holy Saturday), the chapter demonstrates more acutely the many contributions that Balthasar provides the contemporary religious critic. The chapter finds that the retrieval of this powerful relationship between theology and narrative art—between theological rhetoric and dramatic representation—is a main topic of Balthasar's Theodrama and that a serious study of the implications of his theodramatics bears ripe fruit for theorists of contemporary literature.
Shelly Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195393323
- eISBN:
- 9780199866618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393323.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to ...
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This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to Marcion. It argues that the rhetorical method of Acts is to depict nonbelieving Jews as murderous and subversive and to underscore the compatibility of Christianity with the Roman Empire. It then refines arguments of Knox and Tyson concerning the role of Marcion in the final form of Acts, by offering an alternate model of heresy, thus making it possible to understand Luke-Acts as responding to “marcionite” ideas, without pinpointing them to the time of Marcion’s ministry in the East. Finally, by underscoring the martial imagery and rhetoric of vengeance that infuses Luke 1–2, it notes the perfect suitability of this Gospel preface in refuting marcionite associations of Gospel with mercy and peace.Less
This chapter situates Acts within debates concerning the Jews in Acts, Acts’ view of empire, and the possibility that Acts, along with canonical Luke chapters 1 and 2, are written in response to Marcion. It argues that the rhetorical method of Acts is to depict nonbelieving Jews as murderous and subversive and to underscore the compatibility of Christianity with the Roman Empire. It then refines arguments of Knox and Tyson concerning the role of Marcion in the final form of Acts, by offering an alternate model of heresy, thus making it possible to understand Luke-Acts as responding to “marcionite” ideas, without pinpointing them to the time of Marcion’s ministry in the East. Finally, by underscoring the martial imagery and rhetoric of vengeance that infuses Luke 1–2, it notes the perfect suitability of this Gospel preface in refuting marcionite associations of Gospel with mercy and peace.
Bill Jenkins
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474445788
- eISBN:
- 9781474476515
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445788.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious ...
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It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious doubt has been cast on this assumption. This book will be the first major study of what was the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time when Charles Darwin was studying medicine in the city. Those who were students in Edinburgh at the time could have hardly avoided coming into contact with these new ideas, espoused as they were by many of professors, fellow students and acquaintances in Edinburgh. This book sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the history of western thought.Less
It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious doubt has been cast on this assumption. This book will be the first major study of what was the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time when Charles Darwin was studying medicine in the city. Those who were students in Edinburgh at the time could have hardly avoided coming into contact with these new ideas, espoused as they were by many of professors, fellow students and acquaintances in Edinburgh. This book sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the history of western thought.
Debbie Challis
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199584727
- eISBN:
- 9780191595301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584727.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter considers how the idealization of the human body in Greek art, as defined by Winckelmann, fed the theory that physical beauty and racial perfection were to be found among the ancient ...
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This chapter considers how the idealization of the human body in Greek art, as defined by Winckelmann, fed the theory that physical beauty and racial perfection were to be found among the ancient Greeks. Concentrating on the printed work and lectures of Robert Knox in the 1840s and 1850s, it considers how views on racial theory where formed and disseminated as well as the implications of Knox's use of Greek sculpture. It then considers how links were made between the ancient Greeks and contemporary ‘races’, or ‘types of mankind’, such as Saxons in Britain, and how this related to various claims to ownership of the classical past. It finishes with a brief overview of the geneticist Francis Galton's attitude towards the ancient Greeks and how this fed his views on emigration and the wider idea of ‘Greater Britain’.Less
This chapter considers how the idealization of the human body in Greek art, as defined by Winckelmann, fed the theory that physical beauty and racial perfection were to be found among the ancient Greeks. Concentrating on the printed work and lectures of Robert Knox in the 1840s and 1850s, it considers how views on racial theory where formed and disseminated as well as the implications of Knox's use of Greek sculpture. It then considers how links were made between the ancient Greeks and contemporary ‘races’, or ‘types of mankind’, such as Saxons in Britain, and how this related to various claims to ownership of the classical past. It finishes with a brief overview of the geneticist Francis Galton's attitude towards the ancient Greeks and how this fed his views on emigration and the wider idea of ‘Greater Britain’.
Paul Younger
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195140446
- eISBN:
- 9780199834907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195140443.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The festival in Kandy in the highlands of central Sri Lanka is unusual because in the eighteenth century, an older festival tradition was transformed by an order of the emperor Krti or Rajasimha to ...
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The festival in Kandy in the highlands of central Sri Lanka is unusual because in the eighteenth century, an older festival tradition was transformed by an order of the emperor Krti or Rajasimha to conclude the festival with a procession from the Buddhist Tooth temple. Both an archaic festival segment and a medieval agricultural segment, introduced when the Cola dynasty conquered Sri Lanka, were clear in the description of the festival given by Robert Knox who was held prisoner in Kandy in the seventeenth century. The more Buddhist‐oriented festival described in the Buddhist Chronicle of the eighteenth century had a very political form with each province of the empire expected to bring its drummers, dancers, elephants, and political officials to march in the procession. Today those elements of the procession remain the same, but they are now thought of as a reflection of medieval grandeur.Less
The festival in Kandy in the highlands of central Sri Lanka is unusual because in the eighteenth century, an older festival tradition was transformed by an order of the emperor Krti or Rajasimha to conclude the festival with a procession from the Buddhist Tooth temple. Both an archaic festival segment and a medieval agricultural segment, introduced when the Cola dynasty conquered Sri Lanka, were clear in the description of the festival given by Robert Knox who was held prisoner in Kandy in the seventeenth century. The more Buddhist‐oriented festival described in the Buddhist Chronicle of the eighteenth century had a very political form with each province of the empire expected to bring its drummers, dancers, elephants, and political officials to march in the procession. Today those elements of the procession remain the same, but they are now thought of as a reflection of medieval grandeur.
George F. Hofmann
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124032
- eISBN:
- 9780813134819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124032.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book examines the changes in the cavalry doctrine during this period, the untold story of the first mechanized cavalry theorist Frank Parker, and the Army Organization Act which merged the cavalry with the armor branch. It also highlights of the role of Fort Knox in Kentucky, where new ideas had germinated at times and been discussed with German staff officers who visited the base in the 1930s.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book examines the changes in the cavalry doctrine during this period, the untold story of the first mechanized cavalry theorist Frank Parker, and the Army Organization Act which merged the cavalry with the armor branch. It also highlights of the role of Fort Knox in Kentucky, where new ideas had germinated at times and been discussed with German staff officers who visited the base in the 1930s.
J. H. Burns
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203841
- eISBN:
- 9780191676017
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203841.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
‘Fear God, honour the king’. Sixteenth-century people were supposed to do both. But what was the king entitled to command? And what if he ordered one thing and God's law said another? This book ...
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‘Fear God, honour the king’. Sixteenth-century people were supposed to do both. But what was the king entitled to command? And what if he ordered one thing and God's law said another? This book examines these questions by focusing on a neglected area of study: the Scottish experience. Sixteenth-century Scots lived through intense political and religious conflict, which generated a substantial literature of political debate. This debate was of such an intensity that James VI, the first king to rule over Scotland and England, wrote his own book on the subject: The True Lawe of Free Monarchies. Some of the substantial literature of political debate has long been recognized as important in the wider history of European political thought. Knox and Buchanan as exponents of ‘resistance theory’, Blackwood and Barclay as defenders of ‘absolute’ monarchy, have had that recognition. James VI uniquely expounding ‘divine right’ principles from the throne, has likewise had his place. More recently, the significance of the late-scholastic theory of John Mair has been increasingly acknowledged. This book attempts to bring together systematically these and less familiar elements in a rich and varied body of political thought. The Scottish response to monarchical government not only provides a microcosmic view of European thinking on the subject, it also contributes substantially to our understanding of the Scottish element in the new ‘British’ polity which was emerging at the end of the period.Less
‘Fear God, honour the king’. Sixteenth-century people were supposed to do both. But what was the king entitled to command? And what if he ordered one thing and God's law said another? This book examines these questions by focusing on a neglected area of study: the Scottish experience. Sixteenth-century Scots lived through intense political and religious conflict, which generated a substantial literature of political debate. This debate was of such an intensity that James VI, the first king to rule over Scotland and England, wrote his own book on the subject: The True Lawe of Free Monarchies. Some of the substantial literature of political debate has long been recognized as important in the wider history of European political thought. Knox and Buchanan as exponents of ‘resistance theory’, Blackwood and Barclay as defenders of ‘absolute’ monarchy, have had that recognition. James VI uniquely expounding ‘divine right’ principles from the throne, has likewise had his place. More recently, the significance of the late-scholastic theory of John Mair has been increasingly acknowledged. This book attempts to bring together systematically these and less familiar elements in a rich and varied body of political thought. The Scottish response to monarchical government not only provides a microcosmic view of European thinking on the subject, it also contributes substantially to our understanding of the Scottish element in the new ‘British’ polity which was emerging at the end of the period.
Mark O’Brien
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474424882
- eISBN:
- 9781399502177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.003.0051
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
First published in March 1859 and established by former conservative MP, Lawrence E. Knox, The Irish Times was aimed at Dublin’s mercantile and administrative class, which was predominantly ...
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First published in March 1859 and established by former conservative MP, Lawrence E. Knox, The Irish Times was aimed at Dublin’s mercantile and administrative class, which was predominantly Protestant and unionist. It articulated a belief that Ireland functioned best as part of the British Empire. In line with its conservative ethos it believed the position of the established (minority) church should be ‘left undisturbed’ and was opposed to the concept of the secret ballot, which had ‘been overrated by its promoters’. It did, however, recognise the need for land reform. Following Knox’s death in 1873 the title was purchased by Scottish businessman Sir John Arnott. As a philanthropist, Arnott was sympathetic to the objectives – though not the tactics – of the Land League. Home Rule, however, was a different issue: despite Arnott being sympathetic to the demands for Home Rule, TheIrish Times consistently and vehemently editorialised against it in 1886 and 1892. This strain of thinking was to continue through to the early twentieth century, when in an independent Ireland, nationalists were often quick to point to the title’s heritage as proof of its where its real, supposedly pro-British, sympathies lay.Less
First published in March 1859 and established by former conservative MP, Lawrence E. Knox, The Irish Times was aimed at Dublin’s mercantile and administrative class, which was predominantly Protestant and unionist. It articulated a belief that Ireland functioned best as part of the British Empire. In line with its conservative ethos it believed the position of the established (minority) church should be ‘left undisturbed’ and was opposed to the concept of the secret ballot, which had ‘been overrated by its promoters’. It did, however, recognise the need for land reform. Following Knox’s death in 1873 the title was purchased by Scottish businessman Sir John Arnott. As a philanthropist, Arnott was sympathetic to the objectives – though not the tactics – of the Land League. Home Rule, however, was a different issue: despite Arnott being sympathetic to the demands for Home Rule, TheIrish Times consistently and vehemently editorialised against it in 1886 and 1892. This strain of thinking was to continue through to the early twentieth century, when in an independent Ireland, nationalists were often quick to point to the title’s heritage as proof of its where its real, supposedly pro-British, sympathies lay.
John Knox
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203841
- eISBN:
- 9780191676017
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203841.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter deals with the development in Scotland of themes such as the right or duty to resist ‘tyrannical’ rulers. The figure of John Knox imposes itself upon the scene as the enquiry moves into ...
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This chapter deals with the development in Scotland of themes such as the right or duty to resist ‘tyrannical’ rulers. The figure of John Knox imposes itself upon the scene as the enquiry moves into the formative decades of the Scottish Reformation. The shadow of his History of the Reformation in Scotland lies heavily across the path of historical interpretation. Knox manifested an awareness of broader political issues and of the reality of constitutional principles and practices. For him, however, such matters were subordinate to the divine imperatives of religious truth and purity. By the summer of 1558, he was advocating revolution and tyrannicide in England and Scotland.Less
This chapter deals with the development in Scotland of themes such as the right or duty to resist ‘tyrannical’ rulers. The figure of John Knox imposes itself upon the scene as the enquiry moves into the formative decades of the Scottish Reformation. The shadow of his History of the Reformation in Scotland lies heavily across the path of historical interpretation. Knox manifested an awareness of broader political issues and of the reality of constitutional principles and practices. For him, however, such matters were subordinate to the divine imperatives of religious truth and purity. By the summer of 1558, he was advocating revolution and tyrannicide in England and Scotland.
J. H. Burns
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203841
- eISBN:
- 9780191676017
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203841.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The political ideas of the Congregation in the struggle which led to the establishing of the kirk contained Knoxian elements, but the arguments that were used had a broader basis and their appeal was ...
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The political ideas of the Congregation in the struggle which led to the establishing of the kirk contained Knoxian elements, but the arguments that were used had a broader basis and their appeal was directed to a wider audience. In the autumn of 1558, the Congregation had made a further approach to the queen regent, attributing to her a desire to bring about a public Reformation. Meanwhile, the two Books of Discipline served a purpose defined by the word of God in the Bible. It is possible to detect a pervasive ambiguity in the attitude of the Scottish Protestants of the 16th century towards the authority of the temporal ruler.Less
The political ideas of the Congregation in the struggle which led to the establishing of the kirk contained Knoxian elements, but the arguments that were used had a broader basis and their appeal was directed to a wider audience. In the autumn of 1558, the Congregation had made a further approach to the queen regent, attributing to her a desire to bring about a public Reformation. Meanwhile, the two Books of Discipline served a purpose defined by the word of God in the Bible. It is possible to detect a pervasive ambiguity in the attitude of the Scottish Protestants of the 16th century towards the authority of the temporal ruler.
Paul C. Gutjahr
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199740420
- eISBN:
- 9780199894703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740420.003.0019
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter Nineteen traces Hodge’s final months in Europe, including the six months he spends in Berlin which he considers the highpoint of his trip. In Berlin he meets and befriends Ernst Hengstenberg ...
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Chapter Nineteen traces Hodge’s final months in Europe, including the six months he spends in Berlin which he considers the highpoint of his trip. In Berlin he meets and befriends Ernst Hengstenberg and Johann Neander, and attends the lectures of Alexander Von Humboldt. He partakes of many “Awakening” evening sessions with friends. He then travels home via France, England and Scotland.Less
Chapter Nineteen traces Hodge’s final months in Europe, including the six months he spends in Berlin which he considers the highpoint of his trip. In Berlin he meets and befriends Ernst Hengstenberg and Johann Neander, and attends the lectures of Alexander Von Humboldt. He partakes of many “Awakening” evening sessions with friends. He then travels home via France, England and Scotland.
Christopher Hill
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206682
- eISBN:
- 9780191677274
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206682.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Ideas
This chapter discusses the contribution of three Scottish thinkers: John Knox, George Buchanan, and John Goodman. All three of these defenders of a right of resistance by subjects were at least as ...
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This chapter discusses the contribution of three Scottish thinkers: John Knox, George Buchanan, and John Goodman. All three of these defenders of a right of resistance by subjects were at least as well known in England as in Scotland. They played a prominent part in the formation of the political thinking of Buchanan's pupil, the future King of England. James learnt from them that ‘the ordering and reformation of religion with the instruction of subjects doth especially appertain to the civil magistrate’, ‘as God's Word most evidently declares’. James I always remained firmly hostile to papal claims though anxious to be tolerant to rank-and-file Catholics. However he reacted against ‘such infamous invectives as Buchanan's, or Knox's Chronicles’, and he learnt to be distrustful of popular initiatives from below in the name of religion, such as had led to his mother's deposition and ultimate execution.Less
This chapter discusses the contribution of three Scottish thinkers: John Knox, George Buchanan, and John Goodman. All three of these defenders of a right of resistance by subjects were at least as well known in England as in Scotland. They played a prominent part in the formation of the political thinking of Buchanan's pupil, the future King of England. James learnt from them that ‘the ordering and reformation of religion with the instruction of subjects doth especially appertain to the civil magistrate’, ‘as God's Word most evidently declares’. James I always remained firmly hostile to papal claims though anxious to be tolerant to rank-and-file Catholics. However he reacted against ‘such infamous invectives as Buchanan's, or Knox's Chronicles’, and he learnt to be distrustful of popular initiatives from below in the name of religion, such as had led to his mother's deposition and ultimate execution.
Richardson John T. E.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231141680
- eISBN:
- 9780231512114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231141680.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter describes Howard Andrew Knox’s childhood, education, and medical training. Knox was born on March 7, 1885, in Romeo, Michigan; he was the only child of Howard Reuben Knox and Jennie ...
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This chapter describes Howard Andrew Knox’s childhood, education, and medical training. Knox was born on March 7, 1885, in Romeo, Michigan; he was the only child of Howard Reuben Knox and Jennie Mahaffy Knox. Knox’s parents separated when his father moved to Virginia to set up a business investing in tobacco futures. He had a close relationship with his mother that endured until her own death in 1929. In 1894, when he was just nine years old, Knox acquired a stepfather, Leander Blackwell, who was to have a decisive influence upon his choice of career. In 1899, the family moved to another farm on Babcock Hill outside Willimantic in Windham County, Connecticut. Knox settled in well at his new school, getting grades of either H (honor work) or A (excellent) in most subjects. After high school Knox entered the medical school at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. On March 27, 1908, Knox graduated from Dartmouth Medical School with a degree of Doctor of Medicine.Less
This chapter describes Howard Andrew Knox’s childhood, education, and medical training. Knox was born on March 7, 1885, in Romeo, Michigan; he was the only child of Howard Reuben Knox and Jennie Mahaffy Knox. Knox’s parents separated when his father moved to Virginia to set up a business investing in tobacco futures. He had a close relationship with his mother that endured until her own death in 1929. In 1894, when he was just nine years old, Knox acquired a stepfather, Leander Blackwell, who was to have a decisive influence upon his choice of career. In 1899, the family moved to another farm on Babcock Hill outside Willimantic in Windham County, Connecticut. Knox settled in well at his new school, getting grades of either H (honor work) or A (excellent) in most subjects. After high school Knox entered the medical school at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. On March 27, 1908, Knox graduated from Dartmouth Medical School with a degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199584581
- eISBN:
- 9780191725159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584581.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The preservative techniques intended to render organic remains stable are the subject of Chapter 4. The messy, contingent business of museum conservation is concealed by the pristine pages of the ...
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The preservative techniques intended to render organic remains stable are the subject of Chapter 4. The messy, contingent business of museum conservation is concealed by the pristine pages of the published catalogues, and this chapter turns to the very materiality of the preparation: the preservative fluids, the jars,and the injected substances. This gives us a rare glimpse into museum practice, the techniques, and the skills involved, and a deeper understanding of the processes of material culture (and material culture as process). How were dead bodies transformed into museum objects? After they arrive in the museum, and before they are seen by the visitors (if at all), what happened to objects behind the scenes? What did anatomists, pathologists, curators, and technicians actually do on a day-to-day basis, and how did they learn to do it?Less
The preservative techniques intended to render organic remains stable are the subject of Chapter 4. The messy, contingent business of museum conservation is concealed by the pristine pages of the published catalogues, and this chapter turns to the very materiality of the preparation: the preservative fluids, the jars,and the injected substances. This gives us a rare glimpse into museum practice, the techniques, and the skills involved, and a deeper understanding of the processes of material culture (and material culture as process). How were dead bodies transformed into museum objects? After they arrive in the museum, and before they are seen by the visitors (if at all), what happened to objects behind the scenes? What did anatomists, pathologists, curators, and technicians actually do on a day-to-day basis, and how did they learn to do it?
Alexander Samson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526142238
- eISBN:
- 9781526152091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526142245.00013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Historians have struggled to understand the co-monarchy of Mary and Philip and how it functioned in practice, too often attributing commonplace misogyny to agents all too aware of the competing axes ...
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Historians have struggled to understand the co-monarchy of Mary and Philip and how it functioned in practice, too often attributing commonplace misogyny to agents all too aware of the competing axes of gender and power. Assumptions about Mary’s lack of concrete engagement in ruling have left the impression of the co-monarchy as a vacuum, where in fact she was engaged and assiduous, imposing her will in the face of opposition at times from councillors or her co-ruler. Having analysed the political success of their rule, the argument turns to the cultural exchanges and influences of the union, including the first Spanish-English language-teaching manual, portraits and other forms of image-making that projected their co-monarchy on the international stage.Less
Historians have struggled to understand the co-monarchy of Mary and Philip and how it functioned in practice, too often attributing commonplace misogyny to agents all too aware of the competing axes of gender and power. Assumptions about Mary’s lack of concrete engagement in ruling have left the impression of the co-monarchy as a vacuum, where in fact she was engaged and assiduous, imposing her will in the face of opposition at times from councillors or her co-ruler. Having analysed the political success of their rule, the argument turns to the cultural exchanges and influences of the union, including the first Spanish-English language-teaching manual, portraits and other forms of image-making that projected their co-monarchy on the international stage.
Jane Dawson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300114737
- eISBN:
- 9780300214185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300114737.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This concluding chapter presents Knox's final moments amidst the religious and political turmoil sweeping across his homeland and in Europe. Even though she was a prisoner in England, Knox remained ...
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This concluding chapter presents Knox's final moments amidst the religious and political turmoil sweeping across his homeland and in Europe. Even though she was a prisoner in England, Knox remained afraid of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of the plots that gathered about her; he also remained concerned over political affairs happening within and without Scotland, many of which could compromise the Protestant cause he'd worked so diligently for. Knox returned to the capital and lived long enough to induct his ministerial successor; and during his last illness he was finally able to lay down the burden of his calling and prepare for a peaceful end. With his heightened appreciation of the dramatic, he took care over his performance of the “good death” and consciously provided a legacy for his loyal supporters.Less
This concluding chapter presents Knox's final moments amidst the religious and political turmoil sweeping across his homeland and in Europe. Even though she was a prisoner in England, Knox remained afraid of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of the plots that gathered about her; he also remained concerned over political affairs happening within and without Scotland, many of which could compromise the Protestant cause he'd worked so diligently for. Knox returned to the capital and lived long enough to induct his ministerial successor; and during his last illness he was finally able to lay down the burden of his calling and prepare for a peaceful end. With his heightened appreciation of the dramatic, he took care over his performance of the “good death” and consciously provided a legacy for his loyal supporters.
David D. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691151397
- eISBN:
- 9780691195469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151397.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter assesses how reformation unfolded in Scotland. From the moment John Knox gave up on Catholicism and joined the beleaguered Protestant community in his native Scotland, he framed his ...
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This chapter assesses how reformation unfolded in Scotland. From the moment John Knox gave up on Catholicism and joined the beleaguered Protestant community in his native Scotland, he framed his preaching around the difference between the truth as he understood it and the idolatry he imputed to Catholicism. In an early sermon, he drew on the book of Daniel to explain what was wrong with Rome. No Catholic could be trusted, since all were allied with the Antichrist. Nor was Catholicism capable of adhering to the commandment that declared, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Placing himself in the lineage of Old Testament prophets who warned their people to dispense with idols and worship the one true God, Knox evoked this ancestry to justify his outbursts against a Catholicism he deemed “Anti-christian.” Like his Old Testament predecessors, Knox knew that the process of reform was easily disrupted. He wanted Scotland to do better—much better, if it were to enjoy a “perfect reformation” that recovered “the grave and godly face of the primitive Church.” The missing element in England was discipline in the double sense of purging “superstition” from worship and reworking church structures to ensure the presence of an evangelical ministry.Less
This chapter assesses how reformation unfolded in Scotland. From the moment John Knox gave up on Catholicism and joined the beleaguered Protestant community in his native Scotland, he framed his preaching around the difference between the truth as he understood it and the idolatry he imputed to Catholicism. In an early sermon, he drew on the book of Daniel to explain what was wrong with Rome. No Catholic could be trusted, since all were allied with the Antichrist. Nor was Catholicism capable of adhering to the commandment that declared, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Placing himself in the lineage of Old Testament prophets who warned their people to dispense with idols and worship the one true God, Knox evoked this ancestry to justify his outbursts against a Catholicism he deemed “Anti-christian.” Like his Old Testament predecessors, Knox knew that the process of reform was easily disrupted. He wanted Scotland to do better—much better, if it were to enjoy a “perfect reformation” that recovered “the grave and godly face of the primitive Church.” The missing element in England was discipline in the double sense of purging “superstition” from worship and reworking church structures to ensure the presence of an evangelical ministry.
David D. Hall
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691151397
- eISBN:
- 9780691195469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151397.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter addresses the Puritan version of a “reformation of manners” or moral reform, situating it within a larger anxiety about “decline.” As those who signed the Covenant of 1596 surely knew, ...
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This chapter addresses the Puritan version of a “reformation of manners” or moral reform, situating it within a larger anxiety about “decline.” As those who signed the Covenant of 1596 surely knew, perceptions of “decline” had prompted fast days in Scotland ever since the 1560s. Several of these exercises in repentance and covenanting were means to the end of a firmer alliance between a Protestant state church and a monarchy (or civil state) susceptible to Catholic or more moderate tendencies. This was the purpose of the Negative, or King's, Confession of 1580/81, when the young James VI and most of the political class pledged never to allow “the usurped tyranny of the Roman Antichrist” to return to Scotland. John Knox had organized a similar event in 1565 at a moment when the political fortunes of Mary Stuart were on the mend. Knox had called on the General Assembly to institute a countrywide fast directed against “idolatry,” with the queen as its implied target. Responding to Knox's sense of crisis, this assembly endorsed a “reformation of manners” and “public fast” as the means of “avoiding of the plagues and scourges of God, which appeared to come upon the people for their sins and ingratitude.” Simultaneously, it urged the queen to suppress “the Mass” and other “such idolatry and Papistical ceremonies.”Less
This chapter addresses the Puritan version of a “reformation of manners” or moral reform, situating it within a larger anxiety about “decline.” As those who signed the Covenant of 1596 surely knew, perceptions of “decline” had prompted fast days in Scotland ever since the 1560s. Several of these exercises in repentance and covenanting were means to the end of a firmer alliance between a Protestant state church and a monarchy (or civil state) susceptible to Catholic or more moderate tendencies. This was the purpose of the Negative, or King's, Confession of 1580/81, when the young James VI and most of the political class pledged never to allow “the usurped tyranny of the Roman Antichrist” to return to Scotland. John Knox had organized a similar event in 1565 at a moment when the political fortunes of Mary Stuart were on the mend. Knox had called on the General Assembly to institute a countrywide fast directed against “idolatry,” with the queen as its implied target. Responding to Knox's sense of crisis, this assembly endorsed a “reformation of manners” and “public fast” as the means of “avoiding of the plagues and scourges of God, which appeared to come upon the people for their sins and ingratitude.” Simultaneously, it urged the queen to suppress “the Mass” and other “such idolatry and Papistical ceremonies.”
Ter Ellingson
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222687
- eISBN:
- 9780520925922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222687.003.0015
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
James Hunt had developed an interest in ethnology by 1854, when he “became a disciple” of Dr. Robert Knox, promoter of the doctrine that “race is everything in human affairs.” For Hunt, the great ...
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James Hunt had developed an interest in ethnology by 1854, when he “became a disciple” of Dr. Robert Knox, promoter of the doctrine that “race is everything in human affairs.” For Hunt, the great struggle between hereditarian privilege and egalitarianism should have been acted out in the drama of the slavery conflict; or, as the conflict stirred the feelings and consciences of other scholars, Hunt should have been drawn into the conflict as a defender of the scientific “truth” of racial superiority. This chapter argues that race is a popular and political myth which privileges superficial bundles of obvious phenotypic traits over the complexities of underlying genotypes. Yet Hunt strove his mightiest to make it the basis of anthropological science.Less
James Hunt had developed an interest in ethnology by 1854, when he “became a disciple” of Dr. Robert Knox, promoter of the doctrine that “race is everything in human affairs.” For Hunt, the great struggle between hereditarian privilege and egalitarianism should have been acted out in the drama of the slavery conflict; or, as the conflict stirred the feelings and consciences of other scholars, Hunt should have been drawn into the conflict as a defender of the scientific “truth” of racial superiority. This chapter argues that race is a popular and political myth which privileges superficial bundles of obvious phenotypic traits over the complexities of underlying genotypes. Yet Hunt strove his mightiest to make it the basis of anthropological science.
