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Barbarous Antiquity
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Author : Miriam Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Barbarous Antiquity written by Miriam Jacobson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Business & Economics categories.
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.
Barbarous Antiquity
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Author : Miriam Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-08-25
Barbarous Antiquity written by Miriam Jacobson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.
Romans Barbarians And The Transformation Of The Roman World
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Author : Professor Danuta Shanzer
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-28
Romans Barbarians And The Transformation Of The Roman World written by Professor Danuta Shanzer and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-28 with History categories.
One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an updated selection of the papers given on that occasion, complemented with a few others,. These 25 studies do much to break down old stereotypes about the cultural and social segregation of Roman and barbarian populations, and demonstrate that, contrary to the past orthodoxy, Romans and barbarians interacted in a multitude of ways, and it was not just barbarians who experienced "ethnogenesis" or cultural assimilation. The same Romans who disparaged barbarian behavior also adopted aspects of it in their everyday lives, providing graphic examples of the ambiguity and negotiation that characterized the integration of Romans and barbarians, a process that altered the concepts of identity of both populations. The resultant late antique polyethnic cultural world, with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that became increasingly permeable in both directions, does much to help explain how the barbarian settlement of the west was accomplished with much less disruption than there might have been, and how barbarian populations were integrated seamlessly into the old Roman world.
Barbarism Revisited
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Barbarism Revisited written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.
Barbarian Tides
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Author : Walter A. Goffart
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2006
Barbarian Tides written by Walter A. Goffart and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Europe categories.
Barbarian Tides radically subverts the grand narrative of a "Germanic" migration and reinvents the role of barbarians in the Later Roman Empire. Goffart sets out how the fragmented foreign peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity.
Barbarians In The Greek And Roman World
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Author : Erik Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-15
Barbarians In The Greek And Roman World written by Erik Jensen and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with History categories.
What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception—popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games—of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage?" Was the category fixed or fluid? How did it contrast with the Greeks and Romans' conception of their own cultural identity? Was it based on race? In accessible, jargon-free prose, Erik Jensen addresses these and other questions through a copiously illustrated introduction to the varied and evolving ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans engaged with, and thought about, foreign peoples—and to the recent historical and archaeological scholarship that has overturned received understandings of the relationship of Classical civilization to its "others."
Teutonic Antiquities
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Author : C. Chatfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
Teutonic Antiquities written by C. Chatfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with Germanic peoples categories.
Insights To Universal History
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Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
language : en
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Release Date : 2018-06-07
Insights To Universal History written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and has been published by Philaletheians UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Religion categories.
The power of names is great, and was known since the first men were instructed by the divine masters. As Solon had studied it, he translated the Atlantean names into names devised by himself. The so-called barbaric peoples, the physical and political representatives of the nascent Aryan race speaking a now extinct Aryan language that stood before this division of nations, had a higher civilization as a root race and its sub-races than has yet been found in the geological strata. We, who place the origin of the Pelasgians far beyond the Biblical ditch of historic chronology, have reasons to believe that the “most barbarous language” mentioned by Herodotus was simply the primitive and now extinct pure Aryan tongue that preceded the Vedic Sanskrit. Pelasgians were a remnant of an Atlantean sub-race. The Aeolic was neither the language of Æschylus, nor the Attic, nor even the old speech of Homer — it was Vedic Sanskrit. In old Greece barbarous names were sacred and it was unlawful to change them. Yet, the Greeks got in the habit of twisting primeval names. They even besmirched their noble ancestry by belittling their Hierophants as Troglodytes. Three Hierarchs represented Budhistical and Brahmanical power in Greece. While the political power of Sri-B’dho-Lemos or Triptolemos was formidable, the cave-dwelling Budhist Priests or Sroo-cula-dutæ, Lords of the Cave, who protected their secret doctrines from profanation, are today belittled as Troglodytai. Further examples of the profound Brahmanical influence in Greece are the Goghos or Cow-Killer that became Kakos, i.e., bad. Soo-Bhoo-ya or one engaged in abstract meditation became Sophos, i.e., Wise. Despatis or Land-Lord became Despotes, thus marking the transition from Oligarchic privilege to Democratic tyranny.
The Barbarian Challenge
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Author : Walter Pohl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10-31
The Barbarian Challenge written by Walter Pohl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-31 with History categories.
When barbarians took power in the provinces of the Western Roman Empire, the old stereotypes did not suffice to make sense of the situation. Romans faced the migrants with the help of an ancient, if only partly adequate, body of knowledge, but also curious for different explanations. Barbarians had to be distinguished and identified; their success needed to be explained. Christianity provided models for the rule of kings and peoples. Soon, the new rulers appropriated this discourse to legitimate the ethnic identities that helped to integrate their kingdoms. Gradually, the barbarian past became a resource of cultural memory that could be used for various political and social strategies. In this context, many of the texts about barbarians were transmitted. They do not establish a coherent narrative, but they do give access to a fascinating variety of different tales and contradictory interpretations. The studies assembled here explore this variety from different angles. They do not take ethnic identities as a point of departure. Rather, they show how new identifications of political actors and communities established themselves as a result of multiple efforts to make sense of a new and challenging situation.
Critical Dissertations On The Origin Antiquities Language Government Manners And Religion Of The Ancient Caledoniens Their Posterity The Picts And The British And Irish Scots
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Author : John Macpherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1768
Critical Dissertations On The Origin Antiquities Language Government Manners And Religion Of The Ancient Caledoniens Their Posterity The Picts And The British And Irish Scots written by John Macpherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1768 with categories.