Vanessa R. Sasson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195380040
- eISBN:
- 9780199869077
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380040.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, World Religions
The Buddha’s fetal life was as extraordinary as the rest of his hagiography. He sat ablaze with light in a jeweled palace inside his mother’s womb. He was bathed by deities. He delivered teachings to ...
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The Buddha’s fetal life was as extraordinary as the rest of his hagiography. He sat ablaze with light in a jeweled palace inside his mother’s womb. He was bathed by deities. He delivered teachings to his visitors. This chapter argues that these stories serve a number of important hagiographic functions: they give voice to the views of the time; they distinguish the future Buddha from ordinary beings by rendering him independent and invulnerable; and they foreshadow all the qualities he would eventually manifest as the Buddha he would become. In short, these fetal narratives tell us everything we need to know about the Buddha and the role he comes to play, with the womb functioning as a perfect metaphor for the cosmos—a legend at the microcosmic level that speaks of something far greater to come.Less
The Buddha’s fetal life was as extraordinary as the rest of his hagiography. He sat ablaze with light in a jeweled palace inside his mother’s womb. He was bathed by deities. He delivered teachings to his visitors. This chapter argues that these stories serve a number of important hagiographic functions: they give voice to the views of the time; they distinguish the future Buddha from ordinary beings by rendering him independent and invulnerable; and they foreshadow all the qualities he would eventually manifest as the Buddha he would become. In short, these fetal narratives tell us everything we need to know about the Buddha and the role he comes to play, with the womb functioning as a perfect metaphor for the cosmos—a legend at the microcosmic level that speaks of something far greater to come.
GIOVANNI ZANOVELLO
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197265055
- eISBN:
- 9780191754166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265055.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
How did the frottola inhabit Renaissance palazzi? One almost recoils from placing this unsophisticated music within the system of austere symbols that aristocratic interiors had to convey. This ...
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How did the frottola inhabit Renaissance palazzi? One almost recoils from placing this unsophisticated music within the system of austere symbols that aristocratic interiors had to convey. This apparent contradiction, however, may offer precious insights on the status of music at the turn of the sixteenth century. This chapter describes the layout and content of a Paduan frottola source, MS Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Alpha.F.9.9, and the context in which it originated. The contrast between the highly learned framework and the more vernacular content of this manuscript arguably reflects the tension between humanistic standards required of music and a secular repertory just beginning to adjust to a new role. Only later would music be able to develop the vocabulary for a fruitful dialogue with literary and artistic humanism.Less
How did the frottola inhabit Renaissance palazzi? One almost recoils from placing this unsophisticated music within the system of austere symbols that aristocratic interiors had to convey. This apparent contradiction, however, may offer precious insights on the status of music at the turn of the sixteenth century. This chapter describes the layout and content of a Paduan frottola source, MS Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Alpha.F.9.9, and the context in which it originated. The contrast between the highly learned framework and the more vernacular content of this manuscript arguably reflects the tension between humanistic standards required of music and a secular repertory just beginning to adjust to a new role. Only later would music be able to develop the vocabulary for a fruitful dialogue with literary and artistic humanism.
TESSA MURDOCH
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197265055
- eISBN:
- 9780191754166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265055.003.0016
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Following her abdication, Queen Christina of Sweden took up residence in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome from 1655. She had already developed a keen interest in music, gained from tuition from a French ...
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Following her abdication, Queen Christina of Sweden took up residence in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome from 1655. She had already developed a keen interest in music, gained from tuition from a French dancing master, and playing the star role in the ballet The Captured Cupid in honour of her mother's birthday in 1649. Christina's arrival in Rome was marked by performances in her honour in the Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphili of specially commissioned works by contemporary composers Marco Marazzoli and A.F. Tenaglia, and by her favourite Giacomo Carissimi. Inspired by the chamber music proportions of the cappella of the Collegio Germanico, many of Carissimi's secular arias were composed for his royal Swedish patron. After two years in France, Christina returned to Rome, where she took up residence in the Palazzo Riario on the Janiculum. Inventories record her musical instruments and describe the contents of the Great Hall in which concerts were held.Less
Following her abdication, Queen Christina of Sweden took up residence in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome from 1655. She had already developed a keen interest in music, gained from tuition from a French dancing master, and playing the star role in the ballet The Captured Cupid in honour of her mother's birthday in 1649. Christina's arrival in Rome was marked by performances in her honour in the Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphili of specially commissioned works by contemporary composers Marco Marazzoli and A.F. Tenaglia, and by her favourite Giacomo Carissimi. Inspired by the chamber music proportions of the cappella of the Collegio Germanico, many of Carissimi's secular arias were composed for his royal Swedish patron. After two years in France, Christina returned to Rome, where she took up residence in the Palazzo Riario on the Janiculum. Inventories record her musical instruments and describe the contents of the Great Hall in which concerts were held.
Kathryn E. Slanski
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263907
- eISBN:
- 9780191734687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263907.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines the so-called ‘rod and ring’, the identified symbol of the balance of power between the two premier institutions of ancient Mesopotamia, the palace and the temple. It proposes ...
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This chapter examines the so-called ‘rod and ring’, the identified symbol of the balance of power between the two premier institutions of ancient Mesopotamia, the palace and the temple. It proposes an identification of the ‘rod and ring’ that is rooted in the indigenous Mesopotamian conceptualization of justice. It suggests that the ‘rod and ring’ scene in royal monuments also signified righteous kingship sanctified by the gods and it communicated an aspect of the enduring relationship between the palace and the temple which served to secure the institutional continuity that endured throughout more than three millennia of regime change.Less
This chapter examines the so-called ‘rod and ring’, the identified symbol of the balance of power between the two premier institutions of ancient Mesopotamia, the palace and the temple. It proposes an identification of the ‘rod and ring’ that is rooted in the indigenous Mesopotamian conceptualization of justice. It suggests that the ‘rod and ring’ scene in royal monuments also signified righteous kingship sanctified by the gods and it communicated an aspect of the enduring relationship between the palace and the temple which served to secure the institutional continuity that endured throughout more than three millennia of regime change.
Philip Waller
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199541201
- eISBN:
- 9780191717284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541201.003.0024
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter looks at how fiction-writers advanced different causes and reforms, both within their stories and outside in newspaper and magazine articles and, by joining public campaigns. Authors ...
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This chapter looks at how fiction-writers advanced different causes and reforms, both within their stories and outside in newspaper and magazine articles and, by joining public campaigns. Authors ranged on both sides of arguments about the right role of women: female suffrage, constitutionalism or militancy, marriage and divorce law, and other feminist and New Women concerns. Writers whose attitudes are examined in this regard include Grant Allen, Mona Caird, Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Sarah Grand, Laurence Housman, R. C. Lehmann, Eliza Lynn Linton, John Masefield, George Meredith, Henry Nevinson, Elizabeth Robins, H. G. Wells, and Israel Zangwill. The last was also an active Zionist. A previous generation had seen Dickens, Charles Kingsley, and Thomas Hughes involve themselves in numerous public causes; and Thackeray and Trollope both stood for Parliament. Bulwer Lytton and, above all, Disraeli even combined high political office with continued novel-writing; but many otherwise less prominent writers could now point to a conspicuous record of good works, as was the case of Walter Besant who inspired the People's Palace in East London. The propriety of writers using their fiction as a vehicle for reform was debated — whether it was an abuse of art — but writers' increased public standing meant that they were frequently approached to lend their names to this and that cause. The chapter ends by focusing on the elderly George Meredith's activities, which included advocating military service and conscription.Less
This chapter looks at how fiction-writers advanced different causes and reforms, both within their stories and outside in newspaper and magazine articles and, by joining public campaigns. Authors ranged on both sides of arguments about the right role of women: female suffrage, constitutionalism or militancy, marriage and divorce law, and other feminist and New Women concerns. Writers whose attitudes are examined in this regard include Grant Allen, Mona Caird, Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Sarah Grand, Laurence Housman, R. C. Lehmann, Eliza Lynn Linton, John Masefield, George Meredith, Henry Nevinson, Elizabeth Robins, H. G. Wells, and Israel Zangwill. The last was also an active Zionist. A previous generation had seen Dickens, Charles Kingsley, and Thomas Hughes involve themselves in numerous public causes; and Thackeray and Trollope both stood for Parliament. Bulwer Lytton and, above all, Disraeli even combined high political office with continued novel-writing; but many otherwise less prominent writers could now point to a conspicuous record of good works, as was the case of Walter Besant who inspired the People's Palace in East London. The propriety of writers using their fiction as a vehicle for reform was debated — whether it was an abuse of art — but writers' increased public standing meant that they were frequently approached to lend their names to this and that cause. The chapter ends by focusing on the elderly George Meredith's activities, which included advocating military service and conscription.
Todd Lewis and Subarna Tuladhar
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195341829
- eISBN:
- 9780199866816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341829.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter begins with the death of Queen Māyā a week after the birth. The mourning of the royal court contrasts vividly with the happiness that ended the previous chapter. The last rites for the ...
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This chapter begins with the death of Queen Māyā a week after the birth. The mourning of the royal court contrasts vividly with the happiness that ended the previous chapter. The last rites for the queen are described in accordance with Newar custom. The poet narrates how the king solicited the prophecy of an elderly sage, Asita, who upon examining the boy concluded that the child would either be a universal emperor or a great religious sage. The boy is given the name Siddhārtha. An extended description of a drought that withers crops, kills insects, and leaves everyone parched plunges the reader into the emotion of the grief that lingers in the kingdom. As planting season approaches and monsoon rain clouds gather, the royal ploughing ceremony is described, one in which the canonical texts describe Siddhārtha off to the side seeming to meditate, the first of many wondrous signs of the boy's extraordinary nature.Less
This chapter begins with the death of Queen Māyā a week after the birth. The mourning of the royal court contrasts vividly with the happiness that ended the previous chapter. The last rites for the queen are described in accordance with Newar custom. The poet narrates how the king solicited the prophecy of an elderly sage, Asita, who upon examining the boy concluded that the child would either be a universal emperor or a great religious sage. The boy is given the name Siddhārtha. An extended description of a drought that withers crops, kills insects, and leaves everyone parched plunges the reader into the emotion of the grief that lingers in the kingdom. As planting season approaches and monsoon rain clouds gather, the royal ploughing ceremony is described, one in which the canonical texts describe Siddhārtha off to the side seeming to meditate, the first of many wondrous signs of the boy's extraordinary nature.
Todd Lewis and Subarna Tuladhar
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195341829
- eISBN:
- 9780199866816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341829.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter opens with the dismay, confusion, and mourning caused by the prince's departure. Although palace life adjusts to Siddhārtha's absence with the consolations of raising the son named ...
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This chapter opens with the dismay, confusion, and mourning caused by the prince's departure. Although palace life adjusts to Siddhārtha's absence with the consolations of raising the son named Rahula, the pain does not easily lift for Yashodharā. Through a series of reminiscences, Yashodharā recalls stories of her romantic moments with Siddhārtha. By using the mechanism of Yashodharā's recollections, the poet imaginatively writes what is not found in any classical source: the romantic personality of Siddhārtha after he was married. The chapter dwells on the misery and depression engulfing the princess. As time passes and the prince stays away, the poet describes what the autumn season is like and what festivals and traditional rites are performed by Newars. After hearing the advice of her attendants who bring up precedents from Hindu literature, Yashodharā in the end decides that all she can do is live as an ascetic in the palace.Less
This chapter opens with the dismay, confusion, and mourning caused by the prince's departure. Although palace life adjusts to Siddhārtha's absence with the consolations of raising the son named Rahula, the pain does not easily lift for Yashodharā. Through a series of reminiscences, Yashodharā recalls stories of her romantic moments with Siddhārtha. By using the mechanism of Yashodharā's recollections, the poet imaginatively writes what is not found in any classical source: the romantic personality of Siddhārtha after he was married. The chapter dwells on the misery and depression engulfing the princess. As time passes and the prince stays away, the poet describes what the autumn season is like and what festivals and traditional rites are performed by Newars. After hearing the advice of her attendants who bring up precedents from Hindu literature, Yashodharā in the end decides that all she can do is live as an ascetic in the palace.
Anthony King
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199576982
- eISBN:
- 9780191702235
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576982.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter highlights the three great icons of British government: 10 Downing Street, the Palace of Westminister, and Buckingham Palace. 10 Downing Street is the place where the prime minister ...
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This chapter highlights the three great icons of British government: 10 Downing Street, the Palace of Westminister, and Buckingham Palace. 10 Downing Street is the place where the prime minister lives and works, and the cabinet meets. The Palace of Westminister is where the two houses of parliament meet, while Buckingham Palace is where the monarch lives and works. All three are icons in every sense of the term. They are all visual objects and not abstract concepts such as the sovereignty of parliament or the rule of law.Less
This chapter highlights the three great icons of British government: 10 Downing Street, the Palace of Westminister, and Buckingham Palace. 10 Downing Street is the place where the prime minister lives and works, and the cabinet meets. The Palace of Westminister is where the two houses of parliament meet, while Buckingham Palace is where the monarch lives and works. All three are icons in every sense of the term. They are all visual objects and not abstract concepts such as the sovereignty of parliament or the rule of law.
Alan H. Sommerstein
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199568314
- eISBN:
- 9780191723018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568314.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter notes that the omen of the eagles and the hare (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–20) is described as having appeared to Agamemnon and Menelaus ‘near the house’, and argues that the ‘house’ ...
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This chapter notes that the omen of the eagles and the hare (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–20) is described as having appeared to Agamemnon and Menelaus ‘near the house’, and argues that the ‘house’ referred to can only be the palace they share at Argos; the scene of the action narrated by the chorus only moves to Aulis after line 184. Scholars have been misled by recollection of another omen on which this one is partly modelled, that of Iliad 2.299–330. That the omen appears near the palace at Argos is highly appropriate given that it is interpreted as being deadly, not for the army that mustered at Aulis, but ‘for the royal house’ (157).Less
This chapter notes that the omen of the eagles and the hare (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–20) is described as having appeared to Agamemnon and Menelaus ‘near the house’, and argues that the ‘house’ referred to can only be the palace they share at Argos; the scene of the action narrated by the chorus only moves to Aulis after line 184. Scholars have been misled by recollection of another omen on which this one is partly modelled, that of Iliad 2.299–330. That the omen appears near the palace at Argos is highly appropriate given that it is interpreted as being deadly, not for the army that mustered at Aulis, but ‘for the royal house’ (157).
MARK GREENGRASS
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199214907
- eISBN:
- 9780191706561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199214907.003.02
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
Public speaking dominated French politics in the 16th century. The speeches delivered before the king, during the meetings of representative institutions, or in courts of law were carefully prepared ...
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Public speaking dominated French politics in the 16th century. The speeches delivered before the king, during the meetings of representative institutions, or in courts of law were carefully prepared and rehearsed. Although oratorical techniques were personalised, rhetoric was an art form that was learnt and practised. It therefore rested on a shared understanding of the power of the word as a polemical and redemptive instrument, alternately unleashing and controlling passions. In his treatise De l'éloquence françoise, Guillaume Du Vair explained how eloquence provided an understanding of group psychology and laid out a governing matrix for the passions. This chapter also examines moral philosophy in the 16th century, lectures at the Palace Academy of Henry III and what they told about the passions, the effects of the civil wars on political authority and the emphasis upon eloquence as a means to win over people's hearts and minds and reinforce the authority of the royal state, and the Projet d'Éloquence Royale.Less
Public speaking dominated French politics in the 16th century. The speeches delivered before the king, during the meetings of representative institutions, or in courts of law were carefully prepared and rehearsed. Although oratorical techniques were personalised, rhetoric was an art form that was learnt and practised. It therefore rested on a shared understanding of the power of the word as a polemical and redemptive instrument, alternately unleashing and controlling passions. In his treatise De l'éloquence françoise, Guillaume Du Vair explained how eloquence provided an understanding of group psychology and laid out a governing matrix for the passions. This chapter also examines moral philosophy in the 16th century, lectures at the Palace Academy of Henry III and what they told about the passions, the effects of the civil wars on political authority and the emphasis upon eloquence as a means to win over people's hearts and minds and reinforce the authority of the royal state, and the Projet d'Éloquence Royale.
Siân Reynolds
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199560424
- eISBN:
- 9780191741814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560424.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Cultural History
On 20 June 1791, Louis XVI and his family, rejecting cooperation, flee the Tuileries Palace. The idea of a republic gains ground among Parisians. After the king's arrest at Varennes, the Rolands ...
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On 20 June 1791, Louis XVI and his family, rejecting cooperation, flee the Tuileries Palace. The idea of a republic gains ground among Parisians. After the king's arrest at Varennes, the Rolands witness weeks of resulting turmoil: pro-monarchy Feuillants secede from the Jacobins; a Cordelier petition on the Champ de Mars in July is repressed by troops, killing dozens and injuring many. During the wave of arrests, the Rolands help protect certain radicals. The Constitution is patched up, with the king taking the oath. Roland succeeds in his financial mission on Lyon's behalf, so hopes to be elected a deputy to the new Assembly.Less
On 20 June 1791, Louis XVI and his family, rejecting cooperation, flee the Tuileries Palace. The idea of a republic gains ground among Parisians. After the king's arrest at Varennes, the Rolands witness weeks of resulting turmoil: pro-monarchy Feuillants secede from the Jacobins; a Cordelier petition on the Champ de Mars in July is repressed by troops, killing dozens and injuring many. During the wave of arrests, the Rolands help protect certain radicals. The Constitution is patched up, with the king taking the oath. Roland succeeds in his financial mission on Lyon's behalf, so hopes to be elected a deputy to the new Assembly.
Judith Herrin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153018
- eISBN:
- 9781400845224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153018.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
This chapter examines the mutual relations of palace and city in Byzantium. More specifically, it considers the link between the imperial court within the Great Palace of Constantinople and the local ...
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This chapter examines the mutual relations of palace and city in Byzantium. More specifically, it considers the link between the imperial court within the Great Palace of Constantinople and the local population who called themselves “Byzantines.” Constantine's foundation of a new capital on the site of ancient Byzantion gave rise to a series of epithets for the metropolis: the Queen City, or ruling city, basileuontas polis, as it became known, or simply “the city.” In Constantinople “the palace” refers to the “Great Palace,” even though there were many other palaces in the city and suburban region. The chapter describes the occasions when the emperor had contact with three important groups of people who could enter the palace doors: circus factions, soldiers, and merchants. It also discusses two circumstances in which the emperor left the palace: journeys established by imperial protocol for fixed ceremonies, and unplanned visits to the city.Less
This chapter examines the mutual relations of palace and city in Byzantium. More specifically, it considers the link between the imperial court within the Great Palace of Constantinople and the local population who called themselves “Byzantines.” Constantine's foundation of a new capital on the site of ancient Byzantion gave rise to a series of epithets for the metropolis: the Queen City, or ruling city, basileuontas polis, as it became known, or simply “the city.” In Constantinople “the palace” refers to the “Great Palace,” even though there were many other palaces in the city and suburban region. The chapter describes the occasions when the emperor had contact with three important groups of people who could enter the palace doors: circus factions, soldiers, and merchants. It also discusses two circumstances in which the emperor left the palace: journeys established by imperial protocol for fixed ceremonies, and unplanned visits to the city.
Henry Maguire
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199766604
- eISBN:
- 9780199950386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766604.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
This chapter considers the question of the extent to which the unfigured intarsia floors of the medieval Byzantine churches and palaces were read by the Byzantines as abstract depictions of the earth ...
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This chapter considers the question of the extent to which the unfigured intarsia floors of the medieval Byzantine churches and palaces were read by the Byzantines as abstract depictions of the earth and its rivers, that is, as symbols. These were frequently described by Byzantine writers as the earth, or as colorful flowering meadows, and their marbles were compared to rivers or to seas. Were such descriptions merely conventional metaphors, or did they convey a more fundamental association of the floor with terrestrial creation, and, if so can the abstraction of the images be interpreted as disengagement—that is, as a visual defense against their use in idolatry? There was an apparent ideological opposition between the trope frequently expressed by Byzantine writers that sacred figures were distinguished by a spotless pallor, and the other trope that described the variety of colors provided by nature, as might be seen in plants or in the polychromatic stones of a pavement. The chapter also explores some of the possible motivations that lay behind the abstraction of portrayals of plants and animals in other media in medieval Byzantine art.Less
This chapter considers the question of the extent to which the unfigured intarsia floors of the medieval Byzantine churches and palaces were read by the Byzantines as abstract depictions of the earth and its rivers, that is, as symbols. These were frequently described by Byzantine writers as the earth, or as colorful flowering meadows, and their marbles were compared to rivers or to seas. Were such descriptions merely conventional metaphors, or did they convey a more fundamental association of the floor with terrestrial creation, and, if so can the abstraction of the images be interpreted as disengagement—that is, as a visual defense against their use in idolatry? There was an apparent ideological opposition between the trope frequently expressed by Byzantine writers that sacred figures were distinguished by a spotless pallor, and the other trope that described the variety of colors provided by nature, as might be seen in plants or in the polychromatic stones of a pavement. The chapter also explores some of the possible motivations that lay behind the abstraction of portrayals of plants and animals in other media in medieval Byzantine art.
Abigail Williams
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199255207
- eISBN:
- 9780191719837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255207.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter begins by exploring Whig perspectives on the Revolution a decade after 1688. By the end of the 1690s, it was possible to write simultaneously of the Revolution as a return to earlier ...
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This chapter begins by exploring Whig perspectives on the Revolution a decade after 1688. By the end of the 1690s, it was possible to write simultaneously of the Revolution as a return to earlier historical paradigms and as the beginning of a new era: to claim both historical precedent and inaugural status for 1688. The dual perspective was to reverberate throughout the public poetry of Queen Anne's reign, as writers debated the relevance and authority of pre-existing literary forms in relation to the celebration of contemporary affairs of state, and in particular the celebration of the victories of the War of the Spanish Succession. The chapter examines some of the verse produced in the context of these political debates, including poems on Blenheim Palace; Ambrose Philips's and Alexander Pope's pastoral wars, and the poems celebrating the Treaty of Utrecht.Less
This chapter begins by exploring Whig perspectives on the Revolution a decade after 1688. By the end of the 1690s, it was possible to write simultaneously of the Revolution as a return to earlier historical paradigms and as the beginning of a new era: to claim both historical precedent and inaugural status for 1688. The dual perspective was to reverberate throughout the public poetry of Queen Anne's reign, as writers debated the relevance and authority of pre-existing literary forms in relation to the celebration of contemporary affairs of state, and in particular the celebration of the victories of the War of the Spanish Succession. The chapter examines some of the verse produced in the context of these political debates, including poems on Blenheim Palace; Ambrose Philips's and Alexander Pope's pastoral wars, and the poems celebrating the Treaty of Utrecht.
Marina Umaschi Bers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199757022
- eISBN:
- 9780199933037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199757022.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter uses the metaphor of wireless hangouts to explore the teen’s desire to establish meaningful connections by providing an overview of the teen developmental tasks, in the cognitive, social ...
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This chapter uses the metaphor of wireless hangouts to explore the teen’s desire to establish meaningful connections by providing an overview of the teen developmental tasks, in the cognitive, social and emotional domains, and how those are negotiated through the use of social media. Wireless communication among teens has become the ubiquitous norm. This chapter assesses these wireless hangouts and how they can help or hinder a teen’s necessary quest to establish personal identity. Text messaging services, social networks, and online communication can be a vehicle for introspection, internalization, and self-discovery. Structuring online resources as a “palace in time,” to borrow Abraham Joshua Heschel’s term, is more effective than simply building wireless hangouts. With the proper framework, technologies like mobile phones, tablets, and ubiquitous internet access can be powerful tools for teen identity.Less
This chapter uses the metaphor of wireless hangouts to explore the teen’s desire to establish meaningful connections by providing an overview of the teen developmental tasks, in the cognitive, social and emotional domains, and how those are negotiated through the use of social media. Wireless communication among teens has become the ubiquitous norm. This chapter assesses these wireless hangouts and how they can help or hinder a teen’s necessary quest to establish personal identity. Text messaging services, social networks, and online communication can be a vehicle for introspection, internalization, and self-discovery. Structuring online resources as a “palace in time,” to borrow Abraham Joshua Heschel’s term, is more effective than simply building wireless hangouts. With the proper framework, technologies like mobile phones, tablets, and ubiquitous internet access can be powerful tools for teen identity.
R. W. Maslen
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198119913
- eISBN:
- 9780191671241
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198119913.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The second chapter considers the impact on Elizabethan fiction of the story-collections of William Painter, Geoffrey Fenton, and the little-known fabulists who worked alongside them. By the 1560s, ...
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The second chapter considers the impact on Elizabethan fiction of the story-collections of William Painter, Geoffrey Fenton, and the little-known fabulists who worked alongside them. By the 1560s, the animal fable was a relatively domesticated genre: classical precedent and a long fabular tradition in English had effectively drawn its teeth. Continental prose fiction, on the other hand, was wild. Its early translators handled it as if it were an expensive and highly dangerous exotic beast which needed to be kept at bay with every editorial control at their disposal. The 1560s brought two major shipments: William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure, which appeared in two volumes in 1566 and 1567, and Geoffrey Fenton's menagerie of Franco–Italian romantic thrillers, the Tragicall Discourses of 1567.Less
The second chapter considers the impact on Elizabethan fiction of the story-collections of William Painter, Geoffrey Fenton, and the little-known fabulists who worked alongside them. By the 1560s, the animal fable was a relatively domesticated genre: classical precedent and a long fabular tradition in English had effectively drawn its teeth. Continental prose fiction, on the other hand, was wild. Its early translators handled it as if it were an expensive and highly dangerous exotic beast which needed to be kept at bay with every editorial control at their disposal. The 1560s brought two major shipments: William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure, which appeared in two volumes in 1566 and 1567, and Geoffrey Fenton's menagerie of Franco–Italian romantic thrillers, the Tragicall Discourses of 1567.
Kathryn Talalay
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195113938
- eISBN:
- 9780199853816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195113938.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
From London, Philippa went to Istanbul and Beirut to give a series of concerts and meet old friends. Then, by personal invitation, Philippa proceeded to Addis Baba to see Haile Selassie, who had ...
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From London, Philippa went to Istanbul and Beirut to give a series of concerts and meet old friends. Then, by personal invitation, Philippa proceeded to Addis Baba to see Haile Selassie, who had organized a short reception in her honour in the Throne Room of his new Jubilee Palace on Christmas Day. On New Year's Day, 1958, Philippa traveled from Addis to Khartoum. From Khartoum she travelled again to Uganda for a series of performances. But possibly the best part of her stay in Uganda was her visit to the famed Queen Elizabeth National Park on the western fringe of the country. While the West African tour had been a success for Philippa, it was also a soul-searching journey for her. The kaleidoscopic and wearing tour had come to an end and Philippa had been opened up to Africa's complexity and beauty.Less
From London, Philippa went to Istanbul and Beirut to give a series of concerts and meet old friends. Then, by personal invitation, Philippa proceeded to Addis Baba to see Haile Selassie, who had organized a short reception in her honour in the Throne Room of his new Jubilee Palace on Christmas Day. On New Year's Day, 1958, Philippa traveled from Addis to Khartoum. From Khartoum she travelled again to Uganda for a series of performances. But possibly the best part of her stay in Uganda was her visit to the famed Queen Elizabeth National Park on the western fringe of the country. While the West African tour had been a success for Philippa, it was also a soul-searching journey for her. The kaleidoscopic and wearing tour had come to an end and Philippa had been opened up to Africa's complexity and beauty.
Stacy L. Kamehiro
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832636
- eISBN:
- 9780824868864
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832636.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical ...
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This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical analysis of Kalākaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, ‘Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum, drawing them together in a common historical, political, and cultural frame. These cultural projects were part of the monarchy's effort to promote a national culture in the face of colonial pressures, internal political divisions, and declining social conditions for Native Hawaiians. The book interprets the images, spaces, and institutions as articulations of the complex cultural entanglements and creative engagement with international communities that occur with prolonged colonial contact. Nineteenth-century Hawaiian sovereigns celebrated Native tradition, history, and modernity by intertwining indigenous conceptions of superior chiefly leadership with the apparati and symbols of Asian, American, and European rule. The resulting symbolic forms speak to cultural intersections and historical processes, claims about distinctiveness and commonality, and the power of objects, institutions, and public display to create meaning and enable action. The book pursues questions regarding the nature of cultural exchange, how precolonial visual culture engaged and shaped colonial contexts, and how colonial art informs postcolonial visualities and identities.Less
This book offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalākaua, who ruled the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. The book provides visual and historical analysis of Kalākaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, ‘Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum, drawing them together in a common historical, political, and cultural frame. These cultural projects were part of the monarchy's effort to promote a national culture in the face of colonial pressures, internal political divisions, and declining social conditions for Native Hawaiians. The book interprets the images, spaces, and institutions as articulations of the complex cultural entanglements and creative engagement with international communities that occur with prolonged colonial contact. Nineteenth-century Hawaiian sovereigns celebrated Native tradition, history, and modernity by intertwining indigenous conceptions of superior chiefly leadership with the apparati and symbols of Asian, American, and European rule. The resulting symbolic forms speak to cultural intersections and historical processes, claims about distinctiveness and commonality, and the power of objects, institutions, and public display to create meaning and enable action. The book pursues questions regarding the nature of cultural exchange, how precolonial visual culture engaged and shaped colonial contexts, and how colonial art informs postcolonial visualities and identities.
Woody Register
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195167320
- eISBN:
- 9780199849710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167320.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Hippodrome was the largest theater in the world when it opened in 1905 on a block-long stretch of Sixth Avenue between Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets in Manhattan. It was ideally suited to ...
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The Hippodrome was the largest theater in the world when it opened in 1905 on a block-long stretch of Sixth Avenue between Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets in Manhattan. It was ideally suited to this tight integration of location, method, message, and product. Thompson designed his mammoth novelty as a great showplace for the millions of New Yorkers who frequented the city's department stores, who filled his coffers at Luna Park, and who, in his mind, had thus far been priced out of the “best” Broadway theaters. Thompson intended the Hippodrome to be more than just a theater for all the people. He designed it as a kind of permanent world's fair exhibition palace, which would showcase a new sense of common purpose and possibility for urban Americans and move fun from the edge to the center of the metropolis.Less
The Hippodrome was the largest theater in the world when it opened in 1905 on a block-long stretch of Sixth Avenue between Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets in Manhattan. It was ideally suited to this tight integration of location, method, message, and product. Thompson designed his mammoth novelty as a great showplace for the millions of New Yorkers who frequented the city's department stores, who filled his coffers at Luna Park, and who, in his mind, had thus far been priced out of the “best” Broadway theaters. Thompson intended the Hippodrome to be more than just a theater for all the people. He designed it as a kind of permanent world's fair exhibition palace, which would showcase a new sense of common purpose and possibility for urban Americans and move fun from the edge to the center of the metropolis.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195065831
- eISBN:
- 9780199854899
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195065831.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
Monarchs do not leave the office until they are decisively forced out through death or through an internal palace revolt. This palace revolt may be in the form of ultimatums, the resignations of top ...
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Monarchs do not leave the office until they are decisively forced out through death or through an internal palace revolt. This palace revolt may be in the form of ultimatums, the resignations of top officers, or the action of the board of directors. By looking at a specific monarch this chapter argues that one can infer the characteristics that distinguish monarchs from other types of retiring chief executives. Thus, in the examination of Bruce Henderson from the Boston Consulting Group, five common themes or characteristics of monarchs' exit emerged. Further, several examples of corporate monarchs are reviewed to provide a wide spectrum of executive profiles that challenge the simplicity of several common misconceptions—including the common assumption that all monarchs are male.Less
Monarchs do not leave the office until they are decisively forced out through death or through an internal palace revolt. This palace revolt may be in the form of ultimatums, the resignations of top officers, or the action of the board of directors. By looking at a specific monarch this chapter argues that one can infer the characteristics that distinguish monarchs from other types of retiring chief executives. Thus, in the examination of Bruce Henderson from the Boston Consulting Group, five common themes or characteristics of monarchs' exit emerged. Further, several examples of corporate monarchs are reviewed to provide a wide spectrum of executive profiles that challenge the simplicity of several common misconceptions—including the common assumption that all monarchs are male.
