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George MacLeod’s open-air preaching: performance and counter-performance
No full textStuart Blythe uses the methodology of performance to analyse George MacLeod’s open-air preaching. He points out that MacLeod’s preaching was derived from a theology of the incarnation, and an understanding of the paradoxes and dichotomies of common human life. This preaching, Blythe suggests, was also a counter-performance in the context of outlooks and ideologies inimical to the gospel. The paper raises interesting issues related to preaching as performance, and the further question as to whether or not the life and work of the Church as a whole might now be better understood as a counter-performance.Publisher PD
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
The Life and Letters of the Lady Arbella Stuart
No full textLady Arbella Stuart, a woman nearly forgotten in history and literature and yet a woman who lived a full and exciting life which is well documented in her letters to her family, friends and royalty (both Queen Elizabeth I and James VI and I). Arbella Stuart was born in 1575 to Elizabeth Cavendish and Charles Darnley and was brought up by her maternal grandmother, Bess of Hardwick. She was educated from birth about her proximity to the throne (there was a chance she could have been queen when Elizabeth died) and the important role she had in life. There have been several biographies written about Stuart over the years and most recently an excellent text of her existing letters by Sara Jayne Steen which is the primary source of information for this thesis. This thesis examines Stuart’s tone, rhetoric and style in a selection of letters written over the course of her life, where possible using manuscripts viewed in the British Library and Hardwick Hall, as well as the published text. Part of what makes Stuart such an interesting subject is her ability to manipulate her reader and assume different personae, depending on whom she was writing to. The young Stuart writes passionately and often without thinking first, putting her thoughts on paper and then quickly sending them off to the Queen and her advisers. An older and wiser Stuart writes from James VI and I’s court and is very formal in her letters to the King. She is more relaxed when writing to her Aunt and Uncle and depicts court life in a lively informal fashion giving us a valuable insight into what life as a courtier would have been like at this time. Finally the thesis examines Stuart’s last letters written from imprisonment, the work of a desperate woman, fighting for her freedom. Stuart, like most of us, had a multi-faceted personality. She was at times an apparently submissive and subservient subject of the King; a well read and educated woman who adopted the guise of humility and deference to those in authority, the patriarchal order in place. This thesis will depict the many different sides to Stuart and give a brief overview of her exciting and turbulent life, told through her letters
Strategie matrimoniali e dote nelle campagne friulane in età moderna
No full textIn un saggio pubblicato in Italia nel 1987, Andre Burguiere, antropologo francese, offre una sintesi efficace sui risultati fino ad allora raggiunti dalle ricerche sulk farniglia in. antico regime e sulle prospettive di studio da essi aperti. L'autore si e soffermato in particolare sul sistema normativo inerente alle materie che più. da vicino toccavano la famiglia, occupandosi delle leggi e delle consuetudini che riguardava.no il matrimonio. Nel rapporto fra sistema. normativo e pratica si apriva un ampio ventaglio di comportamenti, che pero secondo l'affascinante analisi di Burguiere, per quanto riguarda le scelte, o meglio, le strategie matrimoniali, puo essere ricondotto a due tipologie fondamentali, definita l'una cooperante - quando il fine dei matrimoni era quello di cercare alleanze familiari che garantissero varie forme di collaborazione tra famiglie di pan status e dignita (quindi assumeva caratteristiche conservative) e l'altra di conquista, finalizzata alia promozione sociale della famiglia che la metteva in.pratica. Tra le due strategie sopra descrifte, c'era una infinita gamma di intennedie, determinate dalla relazione tra condizioni economiche, sociali, culturali, demografiche: si tratta delle pratiche che il presente studio vorrebbe indagare, cercando di individuarne e definirne le caratteristiche
nell'ambito di alcune zone della patria del Friuli, entita territoriale annessa alla Serenissima nel
1420.
L'ambito territoriale prescelto, rappresentativo delle campagne friulane, e costituito dalla Carnia e
da una parte della bassa pianura, la cui peculiarita era la presenza in loco di alcuni tribunali feudali:
tutte zone soggette a movimenti migratori.
In a paper published in Italy in 1887, Andre Burguiere, a French Anthropologist, offers a valid synthesis about the results of the research on family in Ancient Regime. The author dwelled upon the normative system, which regards the matters like marriage and inheritance. There was a large range of behaviour in the relationship between law and usages. According Burguiere studies, marriage chooses, or strategies, can be divided in two fundamental categories: the former is defined cooperation strategy (marriage aim was searching family alliances which guaranteed collaboration among same rank families), the latter is defined conquering strategy, which aim was social advancement. This dissertation looks into the intermediate practices between these two different marriage behaviours, in some zones in Friuli, a-region conquered by Venice on 1420. These zones are Carnia (mountain territory near Empire border) and some communities in the lowlands and,
-during ancient regime, there were several and widespread migrant flows that influenced marriage chooses. .
John Stuart Mill: a liberal socialist?
No full textEsta dissertação tem como propósito investigar a possibilidade de conciliação entre socialismo e liberalismo no interior da obra milliana, buscando compreender o que John Stuart Mill, considerado um liberal clássico pela literatura canônica, teria querido dizer quando se autodeclara socialista e partidário de um \"socialismo qualificado\" em sua Autobiografia (1873). Trata-se de examinar, então, qual era o entendimento do autor acerca do socialismo e do liberalismo a partir do contexto social e linguístico de sua época para, com base nele, inteligir o modo como essas concepções se articulam de forma a compor um mesmo ideal de sociedade. Com vistas a esse fim, buscou-se traçar o processo que levou Mill a conceber uma possível transição do capitalismo ao socialismo e as razões que o teriam feito eleger certos ideais liberais e socialistas em detrimento de outros. A pesquisa baseia-se sobretudo na análise dos textos Princípios de economia política (1852, 3ª ed.), A Liberdade (1859), Autobiografia (1873) e Capítulos sobre o socialismo (1879), além de menções pontuais a outros textos e cartas do autor.This dissertation aims to study the possibility of a conciliation between socialism and liberalism in the work of John Stuart Mill, trying to understand what the author, who is considered a classical liberal by the canonical literature, intended to say when he declared himself a socialist and a partisan of a \"qualified socialism\" in his Autobiography (1873). We are particularly interested in examining what the author understood of socialism and liberalism taking into consideration the social and linguistic context of his time in order to understand how these conceptions interact with each other to form the same ideal of society. In this way, we tried to trace the process that took Mill to conceive a possible transition between capitalism and socialism and the reasons why he elected certain socialist and liberal ideas instead of others. Above all, this research is based on the analysis of Principles of political economy (1852, 3rd ed.), On Liberty (1873), Autobiography (1873) and Chapters on socialism (1879), besides other punctual mentions to other texts and letters written by the author
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No full textThere was a change in the author names in the published article. The new list should read: David W. Cleary1,2, Vanessa T. Devine3, Denise E. Morris1, Karen L. Osman1, Rebecca A. Gladstone4, Stephen D. Bentley4, Saul N. Faust1,5, Stuart C. Clarke1,2,6 1Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. 2NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. 3Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine and Clinical Translational Research Innovation Centre, Londonderry, UK. 4Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK. 5NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, University Hospital Southampton Foundation NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. 6Global Health Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.</p
John Stuart Mill\u27s \u27On Liberty\u27
No full textOn today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by professor Dale E. Miller to discuss the life and philosophy of the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose 1859 essay “On Liberty” is a classic text — maybe the classic text — defending the principles of free expression.
Miller is a professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of J.S. Mill: Moral, Social, and Political Thought
Gli autori di Giles Calvert: religione, politica e commercio di libri nella rivoluzione inglese
No full textQuesta tesi indaga lo sviluppo delle idee radicali della Rivoluzione inglese attraverso l'attività del libraio Giles Calvert. Sulla base di una ricostruzione del "catalogo" delle pubblicazioni a lui
riconducibili, viene ripercorsa, nella prima parte, la sua carriera dal 1639 al 1663, collocandola nel contesto della crisi politica degli anni '40 e '50 e dello strutturarsi del nuovo mercato della stampa.
In essa, si delineano le caratteristiche e le fasi principali del suo commercio di libri e pamphlet, gli interessi dominanti e gli autori principali che ne caratterizzano la vicenda. Dopo essersi affermata come veicolo della propaganda antipresbiteriana nel momento della spaccatura nel fronte puritano che aveva sostenuto il Parlamento, la bottega libraria di Calvert, divenne un centro per il dibattito, la sperimentazione intellettuale e la concreta attività di personaggi, gruppi e movimenti che dalla metà degli anni '40 sostennero mutamenti radicali dal punto di vista religioso, politico e sociale, sino a identificarsi per un periodo con la pubblicistica quacchera. La vastità di rapporti, che emerge da un'indagine sulle reti di relazioni in cui Calvert fu coinvolto, mostra come la sua attività editoriale, rimanendo costantemente aperta a quanti si opposero a qualunque forma di commistione tra poteri civili e religiosi, mise in comunicazione esperienze religiose, sociali e culturali differenti, promovendo di fatto l'evoluzione delle idee, delle prospettive e delle proposte pratiche.
La seconda parte, basata sulla lettura dei libri e pamphlet del periodo e l'analisi delle polemiche in cui si inserirono, prende in esame le idee degli "autori di Giles Calvert", concentrandosi su quattro momenti. Nel primo, il decollo della sua impresa editoriale, nel quadro della battaglia per la tolleranza del 1645-47, corrisponde alla "costruzione" dell'"autore radicale", che sperimenta e
divulga un'idea non autoritaria e aperta del libro. Al centro del secondo momento sta il confronto
e il dibattito di ministri del clero, predicatori meccanici e mercanti dinanzi alla definitiva sconfitta del re, al suo processo e alla sua esecuzione: allora la posizione religiosa di superamento delle "forme", condivisa dagli autori di Calvert, dà luogo a differenti opzioni rispetto alla possibilità di realizzazione terrena di ideali di giustizia legati a prospettive millenaristiche, e da questo confronto nascono sia il tentativo dei diggers che l'esperienza dei ranters. In terzo luogo, si analizzano gli aspetti del problema della "libertà", come emerse nel corso dei dibattiti animati dalle aspettative riformistiche che circondarono il Rump Parliament nel 1651-52, quando la bottega di Calvert costituì un luogo di organizzazione per la propaganda a favore della più ampia tolleranza e della legittimità dell'ormai affermatasi funzione pubblica della stampa. La ricerca si conclude con il 1653. Il filo che lega coerentemente le esperienze diverse degli "autori di Calvert" intorno al principio di una netta separazione tra Stato e Chiesa emerge pienamente allora come una terza via e un'alternativa politica e religiosa sconfitta nel confronto tra quintomonarchisti e ministri del clero moderati, che caratterizzò la vicenda del Bareboné's Parliament.
This thesis investigates the development of the radical ideas of the English Revolution through an
examination of the activity of the bookseller Giles Calvert. On the basis of the reconstruction of
the "catalogue" of the publications attributable to him, the first part of the thesis presents a
systematic survey of Calvert's career between 1639 and 1663, contextualising it within the
political crisis of the 1640s and 1650s and the emergence of the new print market. In this way the
phases and characteristics of his commerce in books and pamphlets are defined, as well as the
main topics and major authors featured in the printed matter itself. The take-off of Calvert's
activity coincides with the crucial breach in the Puritan front that had been supporting Parliament.
At that time Calvert's bookshop had been openly used as a vehicle for anti-Presbyterian
propaganda, and it subsequently became a thriving centre for the debate, intellectual
experimentation, and activity of individuals, groups, and movements that had been advocating
radical changes in religion, politics, and society since the latter half of the 1640s, finally
identifying itself with Quaker pamphleteering in the mid-1650s. An inquiry into the social
networks in which Calvert involved himself suggests that his vast editorial activity was always
open to opponents of any form of mixed civil and religious powers, and that it promoted the
evolution of ideas, perspectives, and practices by providing an outlet for different religious, social, and cultural experiences.
The second part of the thesis examines the ideas of "Giles Calvert's authors", and is based on the
reading of books and pamphlets from the period and on an analysis of the polemics in which they
played a part. This section focuses on four main moments. The first is set in the context of the
struggle for religious tolerance between 1645 and 1647, when the flourishing of Calvert's book
publishing corresponded with the "construction" of the "radical author" who experiments with and
propagates a non-authoritarian and open idea of the book. At the core of the second moment are
the confrontations and debates between ministers of the clergy, "mechanic" preachers and
merchants in light of the definitive defeat, trial, and execution of the king. At that time the
interpretation of religion as transcendence over "forms", which was shared by Calvert's authors,
gave place to a range of speculations about the possibility of obtaining the earthly realization of
the ideals of justice tied to millenarian expections. The social efforts of the Diggers and the moral "credos" of the Ranters emerged from these confrontations. In the third moment, certain aspects of the problem of "liberty" are analysed as they emerged througout the course of debates spurred by the reformist expectations surrounding the Rump Parliament of 1651-52. In this period, Calvert's bookshop was an organizing point for propaganda favouring greater toleration and the
legitimization of the already established public function of the press. The concluding moment of
this research is the year 1653: the interconnections between the different experiences of "Calvert's
authors" regarding the principle of a sharp separation between State and Church clearly emerge as
a coherent "third way" and a defeated political and religious alternative in the midst of the
confrontation between the Fifth-Monarchists and the moderate clergy, which characterised the
setting of the Barebone 's Parliament
La red de la racionalidad: emoción y lenguaje. Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Análisis del discurso y semiótica de la cultura: perspectivas analíticas para el tercer milenio Tomo I. Num. 24 (2002) Vol. 9 enero-abril
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