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“To the honour and worship of Almighty God and his saints:” Lay Patronage at All Saints’ Parish Church, Bristol
Get PDFCountless objects across England were destroyed, leaving comparably few traces of late medieval art, architecture, and religious practice for examination today. Written documents, however, were not an active target of the Reformation. In some cases they are the best resource available for understanding and imagining the appearance, importance, and role of parish churches in the late medieval era. They provide glimpses of very personal relationships between the laity and the churches they used, and help to discern some of the ways in which benefactors could actively shape the interiors of these buildings to assert their authority within the community, and obtain prayers for salvation after death. Additionally, the laity helped form the congregation’s sensory perception of the Mass through donations of objects that engaged sight, touch, and sound. This will be demonstrated through the use of primary source texts written in fifteenth century English and accompanying modern translations of those texts, surviving artistic and architectural elements, and secondary interpretations of medieval documents. Original fifteenth century wills, churchwarden accounts, and inventories can be extremely thorough and difficult to follow; therefore, this research requires careful close reading of a high volume of documents spanning decades. Constructing a visual narrative based solely on written word is challenging, yet ultimately rewarding in cases in which a church’s religious art objects do not survive. Doing so can lead to significant revelations about the realities of late medieval religion.
Building Girls\u27 Capacity in Philadelphia - Meaningful Access to Participatory Action Research and Platforms of Feminist Standpoints
No full textThe partnership of feminist theory and participatory action research (PAR) aims at democratizing the relationship between \u27subjects\u27 of research and researchers in order to advance non-hierarchical social activism. However, there is still a gap between theorization and analysis of the manifestations of feminist participatory action research, particularly that which concerns girls and women of color. Feminist action research can dismantle this disparity by building spaces where voices have potential roles in affecting change; transforming personal experiences into politicized knowledges and standpoints. But how do radical epistemologies lead to social change? How do ─in the words of bell hooks─ radical spaces support marginality as a space of resistance? This project examines these questions by looking at how Girls Justice League (GJL) ─a non-profit organization committed to building girls capacity─ goes about carrying out participatory action research in the City of Philadelphia. As a meta analysis of efforts that support situated knowledges, this research project uses a qualitative approach ─including two semi-structured interviews with GJL board members, a personal-narrative-oriented focus group, and an analysis of GJL\u27s reports─ to understand GJL\u27s effort to build girls and women\u27s capacity through feminist PAR. The study finds that the PAR strategies that GJL follows are linked directly to their three-fold mission statement, which provides a useful framework to understand the implementation of resistance into radical spaces. Building girls capacity through a unique structure, approach, and practical implementation of feminist PAR is an empowering stepping stone into paving the way for social change. GJL\u27s model shows the urgency to replicate feminist PAR in other social justice organizations, institutions, and academic settings as a way of building access to inter-disciplinary research-oriented participatory forums
Note from the Davis Fellow
No full textThis note from Michael Fischer, the 2018-2019 Davis Fellow, provides a brief recap of the semester and points to the many contributions that the CENFAD community has made to this edition of Strategic Visions.
Book Review: Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
No full textBrandon Kinney, a graduate student at Temple University, reviews Marc Gallicchio\u27s book Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945.
Book Review of Jeffrey A. Engel\u27s, "When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War"
No full textBook Review of Jeffrey A. Engel\u27s, "When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Book Review of Jeremi Suri\u27s "The Impossible Presidency. The Rise and Fall of America\u27s Highest Office"
No full textBook Review of Jeremi Suri\u27s "The Impossible Presidency. The Rise and Fall of America\u27s Highest Office
Book Review of Meredith Hindley\u27s "Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II"
No full textBook Review of Meredith Hindley\u27s "Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II
Book Review of Stephen Kinzer\u27s "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire"
No full textBook Review of Stephen Kinzer\u27s "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire