the subject content of a specific curricular unit (the Middle Ages) within a specific subject (history) in two Swedish primary schools. Aim and Purpose We offer close readings of three multimodal texts used in classroom teaching, including a textbook
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Designing Multimodal Texts about the Middle Ages
Eva Insulander, Fredrik Lindstrand, and Staffan Selander
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 1–14 (14 total)
The Social-Legal Rights and Political Activity of Albanian Women in the Late Middle Ages (Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries)
Ermal Baze
their authority. Any treatment of the history of Albania in the Middle Ages must begin with the clarification of the terms “Albania” (in Greek: Albanos , Arbanites ; in Latin: Arbanum , Albanum ; in Serbian: Raban ) and “Albanensis” (Albanian) (in
Ad Fontes Digitales!?
Margins of Representation When Incorporating Medieval Sources into a German Digital History Textbook
Andreas Willershausen
. The selected sources are all medieval texts. This choice was motivated by the fact that according to assessments by medievalists and educators, the Middle Ages are (despite their popularity in extracurricular historical culture ( Geschichtskultur
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 132–156 (25 total)
Virtus as a Political Concept in the Middle Ages
Silke Schwandt
The article deals with the semantic career of virtus as a political concept in the Middle Ages. It traces the different aspects of meaning assigned to this word in four medieval texts, namely St. Augustine's City of God, the Regula Pastoralis of Gregory the Great, the Via Regia of Smaragdus of St. Mihiel, and the Policraticus of John of Salisbury. Using quantitative methods, I analyze the employment of virtus with a focus on its relevance in the political discourse, and I also address the shift in meaning and argumentative capacity that the term undergoes over time. In the end, virtus can be shown to be a highly flexible yet strongly functional term that plays an important role in the conceptions of medieval societies.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 71–90 (20 total)
The Symbolic Body and the Rhetoric of Power
Laura Verdi
In this article I will discuss the human body, both physical and social, as an instrument of political and aesthetic power and will analyze the processes of its social construction, starting with the notion of Corpus Mysticum Christi as the metaphoric organizational structure of consensus to power. From the Low Middle Ages to the present day, we will observe how the treatment of the body has evolved and how present-day show business and politics make use of charisma, from typically conceived 'concentrated stardom' to a conception of 'diffused stardom'. Both models are given aesthetic significance and rhetorical amplification, thus resulting in images of power and a means of social control. The conclusion of the article examines how power relations are currently being affected in a social environment that is highly influenced by the media and how, no matter which era is being discussed, the existence of the social body still depends on the physical body.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 99–115 (17 total)
The Way a Language Changes
How Historical Semantics Helps Us to Understand the Emergence of the English Exchequer
Ulla Kypta
The article argues that it is not only useful to study the changing meanings of concepts, but also to analyze the way these concepts changed their meaning over time. As a case study, I analyze the transformation of the language of the earliest surviving accounts of the yearly auditing process in England, the pipe rolls from the twelfth century. The language changed gradually and continually, without guidance or a plan. It is highly likely that the language was learned while the pipe rolls were written. Thus, the clerks could easily close their circle. This led to a strong sense of belonging and self-consciousness, which can be affirmed by other contemporary sources, and which laid the foundation for the accounting procedures that became a long-lasting organization.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 29–47 (19 total)
Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond: experiences since the Middle Ages, edited by Johnson, Christopher H., David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher and Francesca Trivellato
Sean Ó’ Dubhghaill
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Aug 2013
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 413–414 (1 total)
Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker
Violence and Medieval England
Sara M. Butler
In The Better Angels of Our Nature , Steven Pinker puts forward a vision of the Middle Ages that is both grim and fearsome. He writes that “medieval Christendom was a culture of cruelty” in which “brutality” was “woven into the fabric of daily
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 29–40 (12 total)
Three Concepts of Tyranny in Western Medieval Political Thought
Cary J. Nederman
Europe (and one in North America). It contains a feature important for this article that distinguishes it from comparable volumes, namely, a substantive examination of ideas of tyranny from the Latin Middle Ages. 7 Other recent literature on the subject
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–22 (22 total)
The Incitement to Fieldwork
Ward Keeler
—necessarily culturally, not solely personally, inflected—highlight contrasts between what a middle-class, middle-aged white Western male is likely to seek out of his later life and what a middle-aged Southeast Asian male might wish to pursue, by way of contrast. In the
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 80–101 (22 total)