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Kasra Abdavi Azar
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbae024
Published: 28 November 2024
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) ABSTRACT Though largely a silent observer throughout his Vitae philosophorum, Diogenes Laertius comes to the fore in his proem to refute the popular belief in a barbarian origin of philosophy. This study examines his...
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Jonathan Skinner
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 377–388, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/40.4.377
Published: 01 October 2004
...Jonathan Skinner 2004 Abstract This article compares the poetry of Douglas Dunn of Scotland, and of Howard Fergus of Montserrat. It argues that both poets are “nationalist” and “barbarian” poets promoting cultural and political independence for their homelands by positioning themselves...
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Published: 09 June 2011
...This chapter uses the film The Barbarian Invasions (2003) to set the stage for a discussion of care of the dying. The film focuses on history professor Rémy (Rémy Girard) who is dying of cancer. The chapter argues that care of the dying is not merely a matter of deontological...
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Published: 24 March 2016
... on “encastellation” (the development of extensive internal fortifications) as a form of military security in early medieval Western Europe. It then considers how barbarian invasions and the wreckage they caused reshaped the political order and resulted in the fragmentation of Europe into smaller polities. It also...
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Published: 10 May 2022
... the meaning of the term yi, “alien” or “barbarian.” Using the designation yi has the effect of excluding the people referred to from the realm of manners, morals, reason, ritual, music, li, and wen. The chapter then describes how barbarian...
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Published: 25 July 2023
...This chapter traces the history behind the conquest of Italy and its shift from emperors to barbarian kings. The chapter begins by studying the fall of the Western Roman Empire and how it is understood in Western historiography. Scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries unabashedly...
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Published: 28 August 2011
... to analysis, as is the role of culture—Roman, Iberian, and even the culture of “barbarian” groups of northern Europe—in the fashioning of Christianity. Art aesthetic expression vs social cultural context Casas Bartolomé de las Cultural issues coastal culture and trade —“the Other” anthropological use...
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Published: 31 July 2015
... Hideyoshi ujiko Boshin War Meiji Restoration Tokyo Shōkonsha Myth of the War Experience shōkon ritual son’nō jōi (revere the emperor; expel the barbarian) Battle of Aizu Satsuma Rebellion Today on the way to the villa I passed through the temple grounds of Ueno. The two-story gate and most...
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Published: 24 December 2009
...This chapter examines the early insular history of Bede's Chronica Maiora in a universal context. It considers Bede's treatment of salvation history in the Chronica Maiora's account of the archipelago in the era of the Roman conquest and the barbarian invasions...
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Published: 08 November 2016
...Chapter 5 examines how Japan and Korea responded to the Ming-Qing transition with the rise of Manchu (later the Qing empire) power. The chapter shows the clear links between the Qing empire’s “barbarian” identity and its strategic consequences for the making of hegemony. Japan and Korea’s responses...
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Published: 20 June 2008
...This chapter addresses Hegel's problematic. First, it explains Hegel's notion of a prehistorical or prelegal stateless ethos. Hegel privileges two factors: the similarity of the natural being with an animal and the characteristics of the barbarian. Second, it isolates Hegel's hierarchy of societies...
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Published: 19 March 2019
... Gibbon’s “General Observations,” the author traces his rewriting of the Polybian scene. She argues that in the “Observations,” stadial theory assumes a katechontic role. Moreover, it is here that Gibbon reinvents the figure of the non-European barbarian. empire and imperialism accelerated empire building...
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Published: 19 March 2019
...In the first chapter of part four, the author shifts the focus to the German case of neo-Roman mimesis. This process paradoxically begins with the anti-Napoleonic movement’s self-description as barbarians. Focusing on the movement’s intellectuals’ and artists’ engagement with Tacitus’s Germania...
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Published: 06 November 2017
... large and diverse corpus. In particular, the chapter describes how an interest in the antithesis of Greek and barbarian animates much of Lucian’s work and discusses the series of Hellenized barbarians—both mortal and immortal—who populate Lucian’s comic dialogues. The chapter focuses as well on how...
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Published: 21 September 2023
...Anna Albrektson, Inverting the Barbarian: Estrangement and Excess in the Eighteenth-Century Medea In: Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750–1800. Edited by: Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh, Oxford University Press. © Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh...
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Published: 15 December 2023
... identification of Artemis, the goddess who in myth and cult occupies the boundary zone between the civilized and savage—specifically in this play between Greek and barbarian identities. It presents etiologies of not one but three different rites (in Athens/Attica), all of which may in fact be invented...
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Published: 15 December 1983
... administration; some had ancient origins from the days of persecution. This century was also an age of barbarian invasion and settlement in Gaul, in which the bishops, by and large, stood firm as protectors in the Roman tradition, although not as secular administrators (as their Merovingian successors would...
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Published: 22 May 1997
..., the second to the constitu tional settlement in which he came to be addressed as princeps, that is, ‘First Man in the State’-hence the term ‘Principate’ to express the nature of the new regime. For two centuries it flourished, but during the third century AD it was badly shaken by barbarian...
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Published: 08 June 1995
...0 08 06 1995 In 1482, about a decade after the appearance of the editio princeps, Cristoforo Landino’s edition of Horace was published in Florence. It was prefaced by a poem in asdepiads composed by Politian, in which he welcomed the liberation of Horace from the barbarian...
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Published: 30 January 2013
...The words “barbarism” and the “barbarian” are both accompanied by a seemingly negativity stemming from their connotations of violence, brutality, exploitation, and destruction as well as their opposition to the positive notions of culture, humanism, and particularly civilization. The rhetoric...