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This book is a retrospective volume on Latin American new media
arts, arising from the Cities in Dialogue exhibition that was held
in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the
Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014. There is also plenty of
detail about the other events that were held during 2014 and into
2015, including workshops, artist talks, Twitter galleries and the
Artist in Residence and his activities. One chapter is dedicated to
each artist and the works they presented at the exhibition: Brian
Mackern from Uruguay, Barbara Palomino from Chile, Marina Zerbarini
from Argentina, and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga from the US. There is
also an extensive chapter about the exciting new residence artwork
created by Artist in Residence Brian Mackern. Entitled This Too
Shall Pass// Affective Cartographies, this work is based on footage
obtained through a series of unplanned journeys along Liverpool's
urbanscape. The gathering of information and recording of sound and
visual material during these journeys is then remixed in this
artwork by different parameters (volume levels, transparencies,
zooms, fragmentations, crossfadings, speeds of timelines, etc.)
controlled by Liverpool's "socio economic historic curve" of the
last century. In this book you can find out about all of these
works, and other pieces by these artists. The book includes full
colour images throughout, including exclusive images of works in
progress, as well as excerpts of interviews with the artists. At
the back of the book you can find links to online resources,
including the art works themselves, audio interviews with the
artists, image galleries, and more.
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade brings together a rich and
diverse range of medieval sources to examine key aspects of the
growth of heresy and dissent in southern France in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries and the Church's response to that threat
through the subsequent authorisation of the Albigensian crusade.
Aimed at students and scholars alike, the documents it discusses -
papal letters, troubadour songs, contemporary chronicles in Latin
and the vernacular, and inquisitorial documents - reflect a deeper
perception of medieval heresy and the social, political and
religious implications of crusading than has hitherto been
possible. The reader is introduced to themes which are crucial to
our understanding of the medieval world: ideologies of crusading
and holy war, the complex nature of Catharism, the Church's
implementation of diverse strategies to counter heresy, the growth
of papal inquisition, southern French counter-strategies of
resistance and rebellion, and the uses of Latin and the vernacular
to express regional and cultural identity. This timely and highly
original collection not only brings together previously unexplored
and in some cases unedited material, but provides a nuanced and
multi-layered view of the religious, social and political
dimensions of one of the most infamous conflicts of the High Middle
Ages. This book is a valuable resource for all students, teachers
and researchers of medieval history and the crusades.
The Tao of Storytelling is a wisdom memoir that follows Claire
Taylor's transformational journey to discovering the hidden
treasure in her personal stories. Each of the 30 tales carries a
powerful message as well as practical exercises to help you
discover your treasure and transform your life. Claire believes
that the stories we tell about ourselves - whether or not we're
conscious of them - are the stories that we live by. These stories
can empower us or disempower us - but the good news is that once
you become aware of them you can become the author of your own
life. Growing up on a farm in Ireland, Claire Taylor discovered
that her family had bought into the myth of perfection. As a result
she became adept at keeping up appearances and was propelled into a
successful career in marketing and brand development. But she
craved authenticity and eventually found her calling as a
storyteller. She is now a writer, business consultant and
co-founder of The Story Mill, an organisation that encourages
businesses to engage in real conversations using the art of
storytelling. In The Tao of Storytelling she shares her story for
the first time.
Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain
underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence.
They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn
inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on
monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on
mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as
actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways.
Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon
and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history
and archaeology. Focusing on different approaches to and
interpretations of graffiti from a variety of sites and
chronological contexts, Baird and Taylor pose a series of questions
not previously asked of this evidence, such as: What are graffiti,
and how can we interpret them? In what ways, and with whom, do
graffiti communicate? To what extent do graffiti represent or
subvert the cultural values of the society in which they occur? By
comparing themes across time and space, and viewing graffiti in
context, this book provides a series of interpretative strategies
for scholars and students of the ancient world. As such it will be
essential reading for Classical archaeologists and historians
alike.
The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade brings together a rich and
diverse range of medieval sources to examine key aspects of the
growth of heresy and dissent in southern France in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries and the Church's response to that threat
through the subsequent authorisation of the Albigensian crusade.
Aimed at students and scholars alike, the documents it discusses -
papal letters, troubadour songs, contemporary chronicles in Latin
and the vernacular, and inquisitorial documents - reflect a deeper
perception of medieval heresy and the social, political and
religious implications of crusading than has hitherto been
possible. The reader is introduced to themes which are crucial to
our understanding of the medieval world: ideologies of crusading
and holy war, the complex nature of Catharism, the Church's
implementation of diverse strategies to counter heresy, the growth
of papal inquisition, southern French counter-strategies of
resistance and rebellion, and the uses of Latin and the vernacular
to express regional and cultural identity. This timely and highly
original collection not only brings together previously unexplored
and in some cases unedited material, but provides a nuanced and
multi-layered view of the religious, social and political
dimensions of one of the most infamous conflicts of the High Middle
Ages. This book is a valuable resource for all students, teachers
and researchers of medieval history and the crusades.
This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast
growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural
production: digital online culture. It focuses on the
transformations or continuations that cultural products and
practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online
performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other
genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin
American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory
positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they
circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is
located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical
strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product
of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin
American identity and culture.
Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain
underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence.
They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn
inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on
monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on
mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as
actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways.
Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon
and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history
and archaeology. Focusing on different approaches to and
interpretations of graffiti from a variety of sites and
chronological contexts, Baird and Taylor pose a series of questions
not previously asked of this evidence, such as: What are graffiti,
and how can we interpret them? In what ways, and with whom, do
graffiti communicate? To what extent do graffiti represent or
subvert the cultural values of the society in which they occur? By
comparing themes across time and space, and viewing graffiti in
context, this book provides a series of interpretative strategies
for scholars and students of the ancient world. As such it will be
essential reading for Classical archaeologists and historians
alike.
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Cathars in Question (Paperback)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. ANTONIO SENNIS is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
This volume explores one of the central issues that has been
debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the
extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a
specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the
practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work
interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o)
American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.
Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin
America and within Latina/o communities in the US are studied in
detail, with one each from Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, the
US-Mexico border, and the US. Each chapter explores how each artist
represents place in their works, and, in particular how traditional
place-based affiliations, or notions of territorial identity, end
up reproduced, re-affirmed, or even transformed online. At the same
time, the book explores how these net.artists make use of new media
technologies to express alternative viewpoints about the locations
they represent, and use the internet as a space for the
recuperation of cultural memory.
This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera',
in which the work's central character is an artist who is
uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how
three such operas (Pfitzner's Palestrina (1915), Krenek's Jonny
spielt auf (1926) and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1935))
contributed to the debate in early twentieth-century Germany about
the place of art and the artist in modern society, and examines how
far the artist-character may be taken as functioning as a persona
for the real composer of the work. Because of their concern with
the place of art within society, the works are also engaged with
inherently political questions, and each opera is read in the light
of the political context of its time: conservatism circa World War
I, Americanism and democracy, and the rise of National Socialism.
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Cathars in Question (Hardcover)
Antonio Sennis; Contributions by Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton, Caterina Bruschi, Claire Taylor, …
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The question of the reality of Cathars and other heresies is
debated in this provocative collection. Cathars have long been
regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox
Catholicism in the medieval West, even as a "counter-Church" to
orthodoxy in southern France and northern Italy. Their beliefs,
understood to be inspired by Balkan dualism, are often seen as the
most radical among medieval heresies. However, recent work has
fiercely challenged this paradigm, arguing instead that "Catharism"
is a construct, mis-named and mis-represented by generations of
scholars, and its supposedly radical views were a fantastical
projection of the fears of orthodox commentators. This volume
brings together a wide range of views from some of the most
distinguished internationalscholars in the field, in order to
address the debate directly while also opening up new areas for
research. Focussing on dualism and anti-materialist beliefs in
southern France, Italy and the Balkans, it considers a number of
crucial issues. These include: what constitutes popular belief; how
(and to what extent) societies of the past were based on the
persecution of dissidents; and whether heresy can be seen as an
invention of orthodoxy. At the same time, the essays shed new light
on some key aspects of the political, cultural, religious and
economic relationships between the Balkans and more western regions
of Europe in the Middle Ages. Antonio Sennis is Senior Lecturer in
Medieval History at University College London Contributors: John H.
Arnold, Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi, David d'Avray, Joerg
Feuchter, Bernard Hamilton, R.I. Moore, Mark Gregory Pegg, Rebecca
Rist, Lucy J. Sackville, Antonio Sennis, Claire Taylor, Julien
Thery-Astruc, Yuri Stoyanov
This volume explores one of the central issues that has been
debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the
extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a
specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the
practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work
interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o)
American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.
Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin
America and within Latina/o communities in the US are studied in
detail, with one each from Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, the
US-Mexico border, and the US. Each chapter explores how each artist
represents place in their works, and, in particular how traditional
place-based affiliations, or notions of territorial identity, end
up reproduced, re-affirmed, or even transformed online. At the same
time, the book explores how these net.artists make use of new media
technologies to express alternative viewpoints about the locations
they represent, and use the internet as a space for the
recuperation of cultural memory.
This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera',
in which the work's central character is an artist who is
uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how
three such operas (Pfitzner's Palestrina (1915), Krenek's Jonny
spielt auf (1926) and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1935))
contributed to the debate in early twentieth-century Germany about
the place of art and the artist in modern society, and examines how
far the artist-character may be taken as functioning as a persona
for the real composer of the work. Because of their concern with
the place of art within society, the works are also engaged with
inherently political questions, and each opera is read in the light
of the political context of its time: conservatism circa World War
I, Americanism and democracy, and the rise of National Socialism.
Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand
narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the
order's founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican
learning and spirituality in the fourteenth, and a vibrant renewal
of monastic devotion by Dominican "Observants" in the fifteenth.
Dominican nuns are presumed to have moved through a parallel arc,
losing their high level of literacy in Latin over the course of the
fourteenth century. However, unlike the male Dominican friars, the
nuns are thought never to have regained their Latinity, instead
channeling their spiritual renewal into mystical experiences and
vernacular devotional literature. In Ruling the Spirit, Claire
Taylor Jones revises this conventional narrative by arguing for a
continuous history of the nuns' liturgical piety. Dominican women
did not lose their piety and literacy in the fifteenth century, as
is commonly believed, but instead were urged to reframe their
devotion around the observance of the Divine Office. Jones grounds
her research in the fifteenth-century liturgical library of St.
Katherine's in Nuremberg, which was reformed to Observance in 1428
and grew to be one of the most significant convents in Germany, not
least for its library. Many of the manuscripts owned by the convent
are didactic texts, written by friars for Dominican sisters from
the fourteenth through the fifteenth century. With remarkable
continuity across genres and centuries, this literature urges the
Dominican nuns to resume enclosure in their convents and the strict
observance of the Divine Office, and posits ecstatic experience as
an incentive for such devotion. Jones thus rereads the
"sisterbooks," vernacular narratives of Dominican women, long
interpreted as evidence of mystical hysteria, as encouragement for
nuns to maintain obedience to liturgical practice. She concludes
that Observant friars viewed the Divine Office as the means by
which Observant women would define their communities, reform the
terms of Observant devotion, and carry the order into the future.
This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast
growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural
production: digital online culture. It focuses on the
transformations or continuations that cultural products and
practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online
performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other
genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin
American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory
positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they
circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is
located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical
strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product
of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin
American identity and culture.
This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the
literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of
work known as 'electronic literature', comprising literary works
that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in
their enactment. Focussing on six leading authors within Latin(o)
America whose works have proved pioneering in the development of
these new literary forms, the book proposes a three-fold approach
of aesthetics, technologics, and ethics, as a framework for
analyzing digital literature.
This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection
of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions
to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary
perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a
representative selection of Latin American women writers who have
made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a
wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women
have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won
the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical
attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area;
others have made such telling contributions to particular strands
of literature that their names are immediately evocative of
specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with
testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known
for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de
Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite
their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose
fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in
its attention to writers from widely differing historical and
social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted
by the authors. Brigida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature
and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include
Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis
Gomez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos
Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies
teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His
publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus and
Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and
Fiction.
Investigation of heresy in south-west France, including a new
assessment of the role of Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade.
Heresy was a recurrent problem for the established church
throughout the middle ages, and it is here examined in the context
of the medieval duchy of Aquitaine. The author traces forms of
dissent there back to the influence of Balkan dualism, indicating
the vast spread of heretical ideas throughout Europe. She goes on
to offer an account of Catharism in north-western Languedoc, using
neglected evidence for its reception and rejection by the families
and towns of the county of Agen to shed light on heretical
adherence in the Languedoc more widely, in peace-time, during the
Albigensian Crusade, and under the Inquisition. Dr CLAIRE TAYLOR
teaches in the Department of History at the University of
Nottingham.
Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west
France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the
regions. The medieval county of Quercy in Languedoc lay between the
Dordogne and the Toulousain in south-west France; it played a
significant role in the history of Catharism, of the Albigensian
crusade launched against the heresy in 1209,and of the subsequent
inquisition. Although Cathars had come to dominate religious life
elsewhere in Languedoc during the course of the twelfth century,
the chronology of heresy was different in Quercy. In the late
twelfth century, nearby abbeys were still the main focus of
devotional activity; inquisitors' discoveries in the 1240s point to
the previous twenty years as the period when Catharism and also the
Waldensian heresy took a firm hold, most dramatically in its far
north. This study deals with the cultural and political origins of
the religious change. Its careful analysis offers a significant
re-evaluation of the nature and social significance of religious
dissidence,and of its protection and persecution in both the
history and historiography of Catharism. Dr Claire Taylor is
Associate Professor, School of History, University of Nottingham.
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