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/9780199740420.003.0053
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter fifty-three examines Hodge’s opposition to the reunion of the Old and New Schools of Presbyterianism just a few years later. Henry Boyton Smith of Union Seminary led the New School movement ...
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Chapter fifty-three examines Hodge’s opposition to the reunion of the Old and New Schools of Presbyterianism just a few years later. Henry Boyton Smith of Union Seminary led the New School movement for reunion. Hodge wished such a reunion to come, but only when it was based on theological agreements that he did not believe yet existed. He feared that a premature reunion would simply set the stage for a re-enactment of the Schism of 1837.Less
Chapter fifty-three examines Hodge’s opposition to the reunion of the Old and New Schools of Presbyterianism just a few years later. Henry Boyton Smith of Union Seminary led the New School movement for reunion. Hodge wished such a reunion to come, but only when it was based on theological agreements that he did not believe yet existed. He feared that a premature reunion would simply set the stage for a re-enactment of the Schism of 1837.
Susan Wessel
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199268467
- eISBN:
- 9780191699276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199268467.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This chapter examines the years between Ephesus I and Cyril's death in 444, by looking at how Cyril persuaded the emperor Theodosius II to decide for the Alexandrians, and then succeeded in ...
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This chapter examines the years between Ephesus I and Cyril's death in 444, by looking at how Cyril persuaded the emperor Theodosius II to decide for the Alexandrians, and then succeeded in establishing his understanding of Christ as the ultimate statement of Nicene orthodoxy. It concludes by considering Cyril's posthumous rise to orthodox status during the intervening years between Ephesus II in 449 and Chalcedon in 451.Less
This chapter examines the years between Ephesus I and Cyril's death in 444, by looking at how Cyril persuaded the emperor Theodosius II to decide for the Alexandrians, and then succeeded in establishing his understanding of Christ as the ultimate statement of Nicene orthodoxy. It concludes by considering Cyril's posthumous rise to orthodox status during the intervening years between Ephesus II in 449 and Chalcedon in 451.
Françoise Vergès
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381717
- eISBN:
- 9781781382288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381717.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Françoise Vergès applies creolization to the concrete context of the French-Reunion politics of remembrance and its persistent politics of oblivion in the former metropoles of colonial power. Taking ...
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Françoise Vergès applies creolization to the concrete context of the French-Reunion politics of remembrance and its persistent politics of oblivion in the former metropoles of colonial power. Taking the example of the museum project Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise, she discusses the unwillingness of the French government to recognize its colonial past. Her discussion on The Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise argues for a need to imagine a postcolonial museography for a society still undergoing creolization.Less
Françoise Vergès applies creolization to the concrete context of the French-Reunion politics of remembrance and its persistent politics of oblivion in the former metropoles of colonial power. Taking the example of the museum project Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise, she discusses the unwillingness of the French government to recognize its colonial past. Her discussion on The Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise argues for a need to imagine a postcolonial museography for a society still undergoing creolization.
Kam Louie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083794
- eISBN:
- 9789882209060
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083794.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This paper offers a close textual analysis of Eileen Chang's autobiographical novel Little Reunion. Examining how the novel constructs the protagonist's subjectivity and weaves the intersubjectivity ...
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This paper offers a close textual analysis of Eileen Chang's autobiographical novel Little Reunion. Examining how the novel constructs the protagonist's subjectivity and weaves the intersubjectivity between her and other characters, the article recognizes the relationship between affect and ethics, and it demonstrates how Chang respects the intervention of “other” to substantiate her own “self.”Less
This paper offers a close textual analysis of Eileen Chang's autobiographical novel Little Reunion. Examining how the novel constructs the protagonist's subjectivity and weaves the intersubjectivity between her and other characters, the article recognizes the relationship between affect and ethics, and it demonstrates how Chang respects the intervention of “other” to substantiate her own “self.”
Jonathan Beecher
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222977
- eISBN:
- 9780520924727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222977.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter deals with Victor Considerant's plan to establish a socialist colony in Texas. It highlights the challenges faced by Considerant in acquiring land because of the state legislature's ...
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This chapter deals with Victor Considerant's plan to establish a socialist colony in Texas. It highlights the challenges faced by Considerant in acquiring land because of the state legislature's decision to close off a large amount of land for a railroad project and Americans' opposition to his plans. It discusses the Colonization Society's acquisition of land in the Reunion and Considerant's decision to join Auguste Savardan's group. It highlights the tension between Savardan and Considerant that forced the latter to leave Reunion in July 1856.Less
This chapter deals with Victor Considerant's plan to establish a socialist colony in Texas. It highlights the challenges faced by Considerant in acquiring land because of the state legislature's decision to close off a large amount of land for a railroad project and Americans' opposition to his plans. It discusses the Colonization Society's acquisition of land in the Reunion and Considerant's decision to join Auguste Savardan's group. It highlights the tension between Savardan and Considerant that forced the latter to leave Reunion in July 1856.
Thomas Albert Howard
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198729198
- eISBN:
- 9780191795893
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729198.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The Pope and the Professor tells the neglected story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890), who fiercely opposed the dogma of Papal Infallibility at the time ...
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The Pope and the Professor tells the neglected story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890), who fiercely opposed the dogma of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869–70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846–78), among the most storied and controversial figures in the history of the papacy. Döllinger’s thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and the international sensation that this caused, provide a fascinating window into the intellectual and religious history of the nineteenth century. The book also examines Döllinger’s post-conciliar activities, including his pioneering work in ecumenism and his role in inspiring the “Old Catholic” movement in central Europe. Set against the backdrop of Italian and German national unification, and the rise of anticlericalism and ultramontanism after the French Revolution, the book is at once an endeavor of historical and theological inquiry. It provides nuanced historical contextualization of the events, topics, and personalities covered, while also raising abiding questions about the often fraught relationship between individual conscience and scholarly credentials, on the one hand, and church authority and tradition, on the other. Based on extensive archival research in Munich, Bonn, London, Cambridge, and Rome, this is the first major treatment of Döllinger in the English language.Less
The Pope and the Professor tells the neglected story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890), who fiercely opposed the dogma of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869–70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846–78), among the most storied and controversial figures in the history of the papacy. Döllinger’s thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and the international sensation that this caused, provide a fascinating window into the intellectual and religious history of the nineteenth century. The book also examines Döllinger’s post-conciliar activities, including his pioneering work in ecumenism and his role in inspiring the “Old Catholic” movement in central Europe. Set against the backdrop of Italian and German national unification, and the rise of anticlericalism and ultramontanism after the French Revolution, the book is at once an endeavor of historical and theological inquiry. It provides nuanced historical contextualization of the events, topics, and personalities covered, while also raising abiding questions about the often fraught relationship between individual conscience and scholarly credentials, on the one hand, and church authority and tradition, on the other. Based on extensive archival research in Munich, Bonn, London, Cambridge, and Rome, this is the first major treatment of Döllinger in the English language.
Sue Peabody
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190233884
- eISBN:
- 9780190233914
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190233884.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History, European Early Modern History
This book explores the hidden history of a family in slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, ...
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This book explores the hidden history of a family in slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, this biography uncovers the family lives of slaves and free people in two islands, Réunion (Isle Bourbon) and Mauritius (Isle de France). Madeleine, a girl from Bengal, entered the service of a French mistress in Chandernagor in the 1750s and accompanied her to France, where she became the slave of a planter couple who brought her to Isle Bourbon. Madeleine’s three children — Maurice, Constance, and Furcy — survived monsoons, famine, and the French Revolution. At the heart of the story is Furcy’s legal struggle to free himself from his putative master, Joseph Lory, a case that was ultimately decided by the Royale Court (Cour royale) of Paris in 1843. A meticulous work of archival detective work, Madeleine’s Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control while painting a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.Less
This book explores the hidden history of a family in slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, this biography uncovers the family lives of slaves and free people in two islands, Réunion (Isle Bourbon) and Mauritius (Isle de France). Madeleine, a girl from Bengal, entered the service of a French mistress in Chandernagor in the 1750s and accompanied her to France, where she became the slave of a planter couple who brought her to Isle Bourbon. Madeleine’s three children — Maurice, Constance, and Furcy — survived monsoons, famine, and the French Revolution. At the heart of the story is Furcy’s legal struggle to free himself from his putative master, Joseph Lory, a case that was ultimately decided by the Royale Court (Cour royale) of Paris in 1843. A meticulous work of archival detective work, Madeleine’s Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control while painting a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.
Marianne Hirsch
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520257726
- eISBN:
- 9780520944909
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257726.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter discusses the presence of Czernowitz on the web. It reveals that a Czernowitz-related internet mailing list was formed, due to people who were interested in genealogy and the search for ...
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This chapter discusses the presence of Czernowitz on the web. It reveals that a Czernowitz-related internet mailing list was formed, due to people who were interested in genealogy and the search for family roots and connections related to the Jewish community of Czernowitz. The chapter then discusses the “Czernowitz Reunion 2006,” stating that the participants went on different tours of Transnistria, and also provides some of the participants' impressions of the trip.Less
This chapter discusses the presence of Czernowitz on the web. It reveals that a Czernowitz-related internet mailing list was formed, due to people who were interested in genealogy and the search for family roots and connections related to the Jewish community of Czernowitz. The chapter then discusses the “Czernowitz Reunion 2006,” stating that the participants went on different tours of Transnistria, and also provides some of the participants' impressions of the trip.
Lily Chumley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691164977
- eISBN:
- 9781400881321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164977.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This concluding chapter considers a question posed by Maxim Gorky in 1932: “On which side are you, ‘Masters of Culture’?” Examining the role of creative human capital in an urban service economy by ...
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This concluding chapter considers a question posed by Maxim Gorky in 1932: “On which side are you, ‘Masters of Culture’?” Examining the role of creative human capital in an urban service economy by analyzing a 2008 propaganda video titled “Reunion,” this chapter shows how the “creative class” is positioned intermediate to the socialist class categories of capital and labor. The culture workers who are supposed to transform the nation, the culture, and the economy with their innovative potential appear as labor to capital (in the person of the client or collector) and capital to labor (in the person of working-class service providers). Their professional activities can be framed as either authorial power or subaltern service, depending on context. This ambivalence demonstrates the antinomies of class in China's already postsocialist, but increasingly postindustrial, political economy.Less
This concluding chapter considers a question posed by Maxim Gorky in 1932: “On which side are you, ‘Masters of Culture’?” Examining the role of creative human capital in an urban service economy by analyzing a 2008 propaganda video titled “Reunion,” this chapter shows how the “creative class” is positioned intermediate to the socialist class categories of capital and labor. The culture workers who are supposed to transform the nation, the culture, and the economy with their innovative potential appear as labor to capital (in the person of the client or collector) and capital to labor (in the person of working-class service providers). Their professional activities can be framed as either authorial power or subaltern service, depending on context. This ambivalence demonstrates the antinomies of class in China's already postsocialist, but increasingly postindustrial, political economy.
Steven Matthews
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199574773
- eISBN:
- 9780191760037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574773.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, Poetry
The final chapter discusses several of the practical aspects of Eliot's saturation in the imagery and stagecraft of Early Modern drama, in connection with his last four plays and in the theatrical ...
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The final chapter discusses several of the practical aspects of Eliot's saturation in the imagery and stagecraft of Early Modern drama, in connection with his last four plays and in the theatrical conceits of Four Quartets. Again, themes of untimeliness and its antithesis, ‘measure’, come to the fore, in these extensive late meditations on identity, and its relation to the multivocal past to be figured, for Eliot, from his engagement with the era of English literature that most fascinated him. The chapter reviews the manuscript drafts of several of the plays and of the Four Quartets, and reveals the continuing proximity of Eliot's ambition in these later works to some of his perennial Early Modern-inspired preoccupations.Less
The final chapter discusses several of the practical aspects of Eliot's saturation in the imagery and stagecraft of Early Modern drama, in connection with his last four plays and in the theatrical conceits of Four Quartets. Again, themes of untimeliness and its antithesis, ‘measure’, come to the fore, in these extensive late meditations on identity, and its relation to the multivocal past to be figured, for Eliot, from his engagement with the era of English literature that most fascinated him. The chapter reviews the manuscript drafts of several of the plays and of the Four Quartets, and reveals the continuing proximity of Eliot's ambition in these later works to some of his perennial Early Modern-inspired preoccupations.
Allison Varzally
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630915
- eISBN:
- 9781469630939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630915.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter tracks the assimilation of adopted Vietnamese and Amerasians through the 1970s and 1980s amid contested memories about wars in Southeast Asia, conceptions of identity, and ideas of ...
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This chapter tracks the assimilation of adopted Vietnamese and Amerasians through the 1970s and 1980s amid contested memories about wars in Southeast Asia, conceptions of identity, and ideas of community. It traces how they have interpreted their own histories since the 1990s through social media, memoirs, documentaries, reunions, conferences, and calls to Congress. I doing so, they changed the public’s thinking of the past, exposing a history of racial difference, violence, and dislocation.Less
This chapter tracks the assimilation of adopted Vietnamese and Amerasians through the 1970s and 1980s amid contested memories about wars in Southeast Asia, conceptions of identity, and ideas of community. It traces how they have interpreted their own histories since the 1990s through social media, memoirs, documentaries, reunions, conferences, and calls to Congress. I doing so, they changed the public’s thinking of the past, exposing a history of racial difference, violence, and dislocation.
Rebecca Tuuri
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638904
- eISBN:
- 9781469638928
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638904.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This conclusion offers a brief overview of the National Council of Negro women (NCNW) from 1980 to the present, looking especially at its changes during the Regan era. After Ronald Regan's election, ...
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This conclusion offers a brief overview of the National Council of Negro women (NCNW) from 1980 to the present, looking especially at its changes during the Regan era. After Ronald Regan's election, the NCNW lost a significant proportion of its federal grant funding. NCNW then began to build connections with private businesses through its network of professional black women. One example of this was that in 1986 the NCNW created the Black Family Reunion with significant support from Procter and Gamble. As government funding dried up, NCNW turned inward and began to focus again on broadening opportunities for professional and elite women. Today, NCNW continues to ensure that black women be given educational, political, and economic opportunities and serve in leadership positions in mainstream America.Less
This conclusion offers a brief overview of the National Council of Negro women (NCNW) from 1980 to the present, looking especially at its changes during the Regan era. After Ronald Regan's election, the NCNW lost a significant proportion of its federal grant funding. NCNW then began to build connections with private businesses through its network of professional black women. One example of this was that in 1986 the NCNW created the Black Family Reunion with significant support from Procter and Gamble. As government funding dried up, NCNW turned inward and began to focus again on broadening opportunities for professional and elite women. Today, NCNW continues to ensure that black women be given educational, political, and economic opportunities and serve in leadership positions in mainstream America.
Michelle R. Warren
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665259
- eISBN:
- 9781452946498
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665259.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his ...
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Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated Tristan and Isolde as well as France’s national epic, The Song of Roland. Bédier was publicly committed to French hegemony, yet he hailed from a culture that belied this ideal—the island of Réunion in the southern Indian Ocean. This book demonstrates that Bédier’s relationship to this multicultural and economically peripheral colony motivates his nationalism in complex ways. Simultaneously proud of his French heritage and nostalgic for the island, Bédier defends French sovereignty based on an ambivalent resistance to his creole culture. The book shows that in the early twentieth century, influential intellectuals from Réunion helped define the new genre of the “colonial novel,” adopting a pro-colonial spirit that shaped both medieval and Francophone studies.Less
Joseph Bédier (1864–1938) was one of the most famous scholars of his day. He held prestigious posts and lectured throughout Europe and the United States, an activity unusual for an academic of his time. A scholar of the French Middle Ages, he translated Tristan and Isolde as well as France’s national epic, The Song of Roland. Bédier was publicly committed to French hegemony, yet he hailed from a culture that belied this ideal—the island of Réunion in the southern Indian Ocean. This book demonstrates that Bédier’s relationship to this multicultural and economically peripheral colony motivates his nationalism in complex ways. Simultaneously proud of his French heritage and nostalgic for the island, Bédier defends French sovereignty based on an ambivalent resistance to his creole culture. The book shows that in the early twentieth century, influential intellectuals from Réunion helped define the new genre of the “colonial novel,” adopting a pro-colonial spirit that shaped both medieval and Francophone studies.
Michelle R. Warren
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665259
- eISBN:
- 9781452946498
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665259.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter analyses the interdependence of medievalism and colonialism in French republican discourse between 1870 and 1940, with particular interest to Réunion. From the loss of Alsace-Lorraine ...
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This chapter analyses the interdependence of medievalism and colonialism in French republican discourse between 1870 and 1940, with particular interest to Réunion. From the loss of Alsace-Lorraine against Prussia in 1870 to the conquest of Madagascar and hostilities that culminated World War I, colonialism reconfigured national relations to both history and overseas identities. The medieval genre of the epic came to signify both the ancient origins of national prestige and the glories of expansionism. Medievalist scholars, including Joseph Bédier, participated actively in the promulgation of a colonial medievalism that served republican nationalism. The chapter also describes how colonialist metaphors underwrote the depiction of France’s Middle Ages as a cultured precedent to modern domination overseas. The conjunction of medievalism and colonialism thus enabled France to appear powerful and modern. Republican medievalism and colonialism illustrate clearly the double valence of both terms, invested alternately and simultaneously with “positive” and “negative” values.Less
This chapter analyses the interdependence of medievalism and colonialism in French republican discourse between 1870 and 1940, with particular interest to Réunion. From the loss of Alsace-Lorraine against Prussia in 1870 to the conquest of Madagascar and hostilities that culminated World War I, colonialism reconfigured national relations to both history and overseas identities. The medieval genre of the epic came to signify both the ancient origins of national prestige and the glories of expansionism. Medievalist scholars, including Joseph Bédier, participated actively in the promulgation of a colonial medievalism that served republican nationalism. The chapter also describes how colonialist metaphors underwrote the depiction of France’s Middle Ages as a cultured precedent to modern domination overseas. The conjunction of medievalism and colonialism thus enabled France to appear powerful and modern. Republican medievalism and colonialism illustrate clearly the double valence of both terms, invested alternately and simultaneously with “positive” and “negative” values.
Michelle R. Warren
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665259
- eISBN:
- 9781452946498
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665259.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the public performance of national and imperial identities. On the popular level, medievalism and colonialism came together monumentally each time France put itself on display ...
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This chapter examines the public performance of national and imperial identities. On the popular level, medievalism and colonialism came together monumentally each time France put itself on display for the expositions universelles, or World Fairs, hosted in Paris. Through reconstructions of medieval and colonial buildings, organizers encouraged millions of visitors to draw parallels between distant times and distant places. They grounded national identity in the prestige of both medievalism and colonialism, enlisting both in the service of a triumphant modernity. The exhibits from Réunion, for their part, vividly crystallized creoles’ dreams of imperial prominence. To this end, the island’s pavilions in the 1920s and 1930s showcased Joseph Bédier’s scholarly publications, turning the famous medievalist into an icon of both colonial achievement and the nation’s most cherished ideals.Less
This chapter examines the public performance of national and imperial identities. On the popular level, medievalism and colonialism came together monumentally each time France put itself on display for the expositions universelles, or World Fairs, hosted in Paris. Through reconstructions of medieval and colonial buildings, organizers encouraged millions of visitors to draw parallels between distant times and distant places. They grounded national identity in the prestige of both medievalism and colonialism, enlisting both in the service of a triumphant modernity. The exhibits from Réunion, for their part, vividly crystallized creoles’ dreams of imperial prominence. To this end, the island’s pavilions in the 1920s and 1930s showcased Joseph Bédier’s scholarly publications, turning the famous medievalist into an icon of both colonial achievement and the nation’s most cherished ideals.
Michelle R. Warren
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665259
- eISBN:
- 9781452946498
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665259.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines the continuing development of creole medievalism in the present. Since Joseph Bédier’s death, creole medievalism has included engagements with both the Middle Ages and Bédier ...
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This chapter examines the continuing development of creole medievalism in the present. Since Joseph Bédier’s death, creole medievalism has included engagements with both the Middle Ages and Bédier himself. Bédier’s prestige as a Réunionnais has made him attractive to partisans of nearly every political persuasion. The Middle Ages have an equally varied valence as the fact that Réunion was settled in modern times makes it both a justifying precursor to modern expansionism and innocent of colonialism’s direct legacies. The chapter describes Bédier and the Middle Ages consoling metropolitan ambitions of centralized control while also fostering postcolonial dreams. Creole medievalism has appeared in a number of ways on Réunion since departmentalization in 1946, such as street names and historical commemorations. Each of these manifestations refers either to Bédier or the Middle Ages as symbols of the essence of either “France” or “Réunion.”Less
This chapter examines the continuing development of creole medievalism in the present. Since Joseph Bédier’s death, creole medievalism has included engagements with both the Middle Ages and Bédier himself. Bédier’s prestige as a Réunionnais has made him attractive to partisans of nearly every political persuasion. The Middle Ages have an equally varied valence as the fact that Réunion was settled in modern times makes it both a justifying precursor to modern expansionism and innocent of colonialism’s direct legacies. The chapter describes Bédier and the Middle Ages consoling metropolitan ambitions of centralized control while also fostering postcolonial dreams. Creole medievalism has appeared in a number of ways on Réunion since departmentalization in 1946, such as street names and historical commemorations. Each of these manifestations refers either to Bédier or the Middle Ages as symbols of the essence of either “France” or “Réunion.”
Michelle R. Warren
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665259
- eISBN:
- 9781452946498
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665259.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This afterword describes the aim of the author in establishing an archive of local knowledge that places colonial history in relation to medieval studies during the Third Republic through Joseph ...
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This afterword describes the aim of the author in establishing an archive of local knowledge that places colonial history in relation to medieval studies during the Third Republic through Joseph Bédier. His influential medievalism resides simultaneously on Réunion, in Paris, during the Third Republic, and within French literature, and its formation and impact derive from the multiple migrations that made these collocations possible. Bédier’s literary histories reflect, and reflect on, the many meanings of French imperialism, viewed simultaneously from the eleventh century and the twentieth century, and from France’s southeastern colonial edge and its metropolitan center. The afterword also discusses Anna Laura Stoler’s concept of “imperial debris”, a sociocultural process that the author exemplifies with Joseph Bédier’s journeys which suggests that sometimes the colony comes “before” the metropole. The idea of imperial debris underscores the very idea of creole medievalism—an imperial formation also shaped by subversion and resistance.Less
This afterword describes the aim of the author in establishing an archive of local knowledge that places colonial history in relation to medieval studies during the Third Republic through Joseph Bédier. His influential medievalism resides simultaneously on Réunion, in Paris, during the Third Republic, and within French literature, and its formation and impact derive from the multiple migrations that made these collocations possible. Bédier’s literary histories reflect, and reflect on, the many meanings of French imperialism, viewed simultaneously from the eleventh century and the twentieth century, and from France’s southeastern colonial edge and its metropolitan center. The afterword also discusses Anna Laura Stoler’s concept of “imperial debris”, a sociocultural process that the author exemplifies with Joseph Bédier’s journeys which suggests that sometimes the colony comes “before” the metropole. The idea of imperial debris underscores the very idea of creole medievalism—an imperial formation also shaped by subversion and resistance.
Mark S. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198835271
- eISBN:
- 9780191872938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198835271.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This chapter traces the reception of Ephesus after 431. It argues that there was a complex pluriformity of divergent receptions, each embodying a subtly different construal of the Nicene faith. ...
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This chapter traces the reception of Ephesus after 431. It argues that there was a complex pluriformity of divergent receptions, each embodying a subtly different construal of the Nicene faith. First, the initial struggle over the reception of Ephesus is analysed, down to the Formula of Reunion (433). Then, several distinct trajectories of Ephesine reception are traced in the years following 433: a ‘minimal Cyrilline’ reception (which acknowledged the authority of Cyril’s council and the deposition of Nestorius); a ‘moderate Antiochene’ reception (which defined the council’s achievement via the Formula of Reunion, blunting the council’s attack on Antiochene doctrine); a ‘hard-line Cyrilline’ reception (which reoriented the documentary record of Ephesus around the 22nd July session of 431); and a ‘hard-line Antiochene’ reception (which continued to reject Cyril’s council). The diversity of receptions of Ephesus was further encouraged by the varied textual forms in which the decisions of the council came to circulate.Less
This chapter traces the reception of Ephesus after 431. It argues that there was a complex pluriformity of divergent receptions, each embodying a subtly different construal of the Nicene faith. First, the initial struggle over the reception of Ephesus is analysed, down to the Formula of Reunion (433). Then, several distinct trajectories of Ephesine reception are traced in the years following 433: a ‘minimal Cyrilline’ reception (which acknowledged the authority of Cyril’s council and the deposition of Nestorius); a ‘moderate Antiochene’ reception (which defined the council’s achievement via the Formula of Reunion, blunting the council’s attack on Antiochene doctrine); a ‘hard-line Cyrilline’ reception (which reoriented the documentary record of Ephesus around the 22nd July session of 431); and a ‘hard-line Antiochene’ reception (which continued to reject Cyril’s council). The diversity of receptions of Ephesus was further encouraged by the varied textual forms in which the decisions of the council came to circulate.
Mark S. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198835271
- eISBN:
- 9780191872938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198835271.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The ecclesial convulsions of 448–51 involved the collision of the conflicting textual receptions of Ephesus 431. The late 440s saw a revival of the controversy over the idea of Nicaea, and the ...
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The ecclesial convulsions of 448–51 involved the collision of the conflicting textual receptions of Ephesus 431. The late 440s saw a revival of the controversy over the idea of Nicaea, and the meaning of its Ephesine reception. Domnus, Flavian and Eusebius sought to make the Formula of Reunion (433) the primary locus of Nicaea’s authoritative confirmation, exploiting the reception of Ephesus to grant impeccable Nicene credentials to a strongly dyophysite Christology. The Constantinopolitan ‘Home Synod’ of 448 represented an attempt to enshrine this interpretation of Nicaea as alone authoritative, through the subtle textual shaping of the synodical acta. Eutyches, however, effectively undermined this strategy through his own shrewd counter-presentation of the Nicene faith, and was able to depict Flavian and Eusebius as heretically seeking to add to it.Less
The ecclesial convulsions of 448–51 involved the collision of the conflicting textual receptions of Ephesus 431. The late 440s saw a revival of the controversy over the idea of Nicaea, and the meaning of its Ephesine reception. Domnus, Flavian and Eusebius sought to make the Formula of Reunion (433) the primary locus of Nicaea’s authoritative confirmation, exploiting the reception of Ephesus to grant impeccable Nicene credentials to a strongly dyophysite Christology. The Constantinopolitan ‘Home Synod’ of 448 represented an attempt to enshrine this interpretation of Nicaea as alone authoritative, through the subtle textual shaping of the synodical acta. Eutyches, however, effectively undermined this strategy through his own shrewd counter-presentation of the Nicene faith, and was able to depict Flavian and Eusebius as heretically seeking to add to it.
Thomas Albert Howard
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198729198
- eISBN:
- 9780191795893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729198.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter examines Döllinger’s various activities after his excommunication. First, it takes stock of the extraordinary, international media sensation caused by Döllinger’s excommunication, in ...
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This chapter examines Döllinger’s various activities after his excommunication. First, it takes stock of the extraordinary, international media sensation caused by Döllinger’s excommunication, in which he was often interpreted as “new Luther.” Second, it examines Döllinger’s role in inspiring the Old Catholic movement in Germany and his ambivalent relationship to it. Finally, the chapter recounts and analyzes Döllinger’s preoccupation with Christian unity (ecumenism) and his involvement in the Bonn Reunion Conferences of 1874 and 1875. These extraordinary, if ultimately unsuccessful, conferences brought Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican Christians together to deliberate on the causes of past Christian divisions and the way toward unity in the future—despite the setback, they agreed, of the outcome of the First Vatican Council.Less
This chapter examines Döllinger’s various activities after his excommunication. First, it takes stock of the extraordinary, international media sensation caused by Döllinger’s excommunication, in which he was often interpreted as “new Luther.” Second, it examines Döllinger’s role in inspiring the Old Catholic movement in Germany and his ambivalent relationship to it. Finally, the chapter recounts and analyzes Döllinger’s preoccupation with Christian unity (ecumenism) and his involvement in the Bonn Reunion Conferences of 1874 and 1875. These extraordinary, if ultimately unsuccessful, conferences brought Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican Christians together to deliberate on the causes of past Christian divisions and the way toward unity in the future—despite the setback, they agreed, of the outcome of the First Vatican Council.
