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Telling the Story in the Middle Ages
Much of our modern understanding of medieval society and cultures comes through the stories people told and the way they told them. Storytelling was, for this period, not only entertainment; it was central to the law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the primary mode of delivering news. The essays in this volume raise and discuss a number of questions concerning the strategies, contexts and narratalogical features of medieval storytelling. They look particularly at who tells the story; the audience; how a story is told and performed; and the manuscript and social context for such tales. Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer, Department of French, Barnard College; Kathryn Duys is Associate Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of St Francis; Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French, Montclair State University.
Portrait of a Nation
A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible. As the author asserts, for almost five centuries the cultural habits of Ecuadorian citizens have constituted a stumbling block for individual economic success. Still, he concludes, people's cultural values are not immutable: inconvenient customs can be changed or influenced by the economic success of immigrants. This is the challenge that Ecuador faces in the twenty-first century.
Measure of the Earth
In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world's first international, cooperative scientific expedition.Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind's oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. In Measure of the Earth, award-winning science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro tells the full story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator for the very first time.It was an age when Europe was torn between two competing conceptions of the world: the followers of René Descartes argued that the Earth was elongated at the poles, even as IsaacN...
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A Life of Picasso
A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.
Measuring the New World
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
Zwischen Mythos und Geschichte
Die mehrfach komparatistisch angelegte Arbeit legt den Akzent auf die Untersuchung französischer und italienischer Mittelalterdiskurse von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. „Mythos“ und „Geschichte“ werden zunächst als zwei verschiedene Modi des Vergangenheitsbezuges theoretisch profiliert. Diese Unterscheidung wird in ihrem Erkenntnispotenzial anhand einer historischen Figur mit Tendenz zur Mythisierung (Jeanne d’Arc) und eines literarischen Mythenkomplexes mit Tendenz zur Historisierung (Matière de Bretagne) erprobt. Die europäische Jeanne- und Artusliteratur des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts erweist sich als ästhetischer, nationaler und erinnerungskultureller Bezugspunkt der Romania. Leitfrage ist dabei, inwiefern die Konjunktur des Mittelalters von Binnenstrukturen geprägt ist (medienspezifisch, chronologisch, nationalspezifisch) und inwiefern dabei unterschiedliche Privilegierungen eines Erinnerns als „Mythos“ oder als „Geschichte“ eine Rolle spielen, auch im Vergleich mit der Mittelalterkonjunktur in Deutschland und England/USA.
La terre dans l'espace. La démesure de l'univers de la préhistoire à aujourd'hui
CINQUANTE SIÈCLES, c’est le temps qu’il a fallu pour comprendre non seulement que la Terre flottait dans l’espace, mais que cet espace était peuplé d’une myriade d’astres dispersés dans un quasi-vide cosmique de dimensions inimaginables. À plus de 5000 ans d’âge, l’astronomie demeure étonnamment actuelle et vivante. Dans La Terre dans l’espace, l’astrophysicien Jean-René Roy décrit comment les astronomes sont parvenus à positionner la Terre, le système solaire et la Voie lactée dans l’immensité cosmique. Il nous amène de l’âge de pierre au GPS, montrant comment nous avons découvert notre environnement sidéral, comment nous avons imaginé où se situe la Terre dans l’espace, et comment nous avons établi l’interaction de notre planète avec le reste de l’univers. L’auteur communique et partage son émerveillement devant cette continuelle et insatiable curiosité de l’humain face à l’immensité cosmique où nous apparaissons comme un curieux accident. L’ouvrage est richement illustré de plus de 150 images, plusieurs provenant des meilleures archives.
Le livre maritime au siècle des Lumières
Textes issus d'un colloque tenu à Brest en novembre 2002. Deux parties : études sur l'édition du livre maritime en France et en Angleterre ; études sur la diffusion des connaissances maritimes par le livre. S'attache notamment aux traités de construction navale, aux manuels d'astronomie nautique, aux atlas, aux livres médico-pharmaceutiques, aux bibliothèques embarquées par les voyageurs...
