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Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence
on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally
denied access to public educational institutions, and so also
denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars
have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply
anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however,
argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and
archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women
attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that
women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also
often exercised professional or communal leadership. Bringing
together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history
and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views:
firstly, the still-prevalent idea that women's intellectual
accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection
therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon,
Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with
material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric
and jewelry) for evidence of women's advanced capabilities. But in
doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic
view that women's accomplishments were somehow limited to the
vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at
work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions
(Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also
interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their
lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue.
Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring
thinkers in any language; they engage readily with women's
learnedness wherever it can be found.
This book, originally published in 1995, examines the evolution of
environmental policy in 6 OECD countries. Through numerous
examples, it contrasts the widely-varying political and regulatory
styles and their consequences for innovation. Two industry-specific
case studies provide a transnational perspective on the
co-evolution of technology and environmental policy. The book
concludes that innovation can be successfully harnessed by setting
credible, long-term environmental goals and ensuring that
regulatory instruments are grounded in flexibility, dialogue and
trust.
This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes
in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to
arise in rapidly industrializing countries, and that new principles
of sustainable production are more likely to bear fruit in
developing than in developed countries. The rising tide of
investment by multinational firms - who bring managerial,
organizational and technological expertise - is a major resource
for achieving this. Developing countries could steer such
investment towards environmental goals through coherent and
comprehensive policies for sustainable development.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of
physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics -
notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry,
and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual
implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both
physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new
applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has
to change in the light of what we learn from physics. This Very
Short Introduction explores the core topics in philosophy of
physics through three key themes. The first - the nature of space,
time, and motion - begins by considering the philosophical puzzles
that led Isaac Newton to propose the existence of absolute space,
and then discusses how those puzzles change - but do not disappear
- in the context of the revolutions in our understanding of space
and time that came first from special, and then from general,
relativity. The second - the emergence of irreversible behavior in
statistical mechanics - considers how the microscopic laws of
physics, which know of no distinction between past and future, can
be compatible with the melting of ice, the cooling of coffee, the
passing of youth, and all the other ways in which the large-scale
world distinguishes past from future. The last section discusses
quantum theory - the foundation of most of modern physics, yet
mysterious to this day. It explains just why quantum theory is so
difficult to make sense of, how we might nonetheless attempt to do
it, and why the question has been highly relevant to the
development of physics, and continues to be so. ABOUT THE SERIES:
The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press
contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These
pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new
subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis,
perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and
challenging topics highly readable.
This book, originally published in 1995, examines the evolution of
environmental policy in 6 OECD countries. Through numerous
examples, it contrasts the widely-varying political and regulatory
styles and their consequences for innovation. Two industry-specific
case studies provide a transnational perspective on the
co-evolution of technology and environmental policy. The book
concludes that innovation can be successfully harnessed by setting
credible, long-term environmental goals and ensuring that
regulatory instruments are grounded in flexibility, dialogue and
trust.
This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes
in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to
arise in rapidly industrializing countries, and that new principles
of sustainable production are more likely to bear fruit in
developing than in developed countries. The rising tide of
investment by multinational firms - who bring managerial,
organizational and technological expertise - is a major resource
for achieving this. Developing countries could steer such
investment towards environmental goals through coherent and
comprehensive policies for sustainable development.
The last 'Indian War' was fought against Native American children
in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools.
Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended
periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization"
take root while childhood memories of 'savagism' gradually faded to
the point of extinction. In the words of one official: 'Kill the
Indian and save the man.' This fully revised edition of Education
for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this
dispiriting effort, and incorporates the last twenty-five years of
scholarship. Much more than a study of federal Indian policy, this
book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth
living in a 'total institution' designed to reconstruct them both
psychologically and culturally. The assault on identity came in
many forms: the shearing off of braids, the assignment of new
names, uniformed drill routines, humiliating punishments,
relentless attacks on native religious beliefs, patriotic
indoctrinations, suppression of tribal languages, Victorian gender
rituals, football contests, and industrial training. Especially
poignant is Adams's description of the ways in which students
resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many
converted to varying degrees, but others plotted escapes, committed
arson, and devised ingenious strategies of passive resistance.
Adams also argues that many of those who seemingly cooperated with
the system were more than passive players in this drama, that the
response of accommodation was not synonymous with cultural
surrender. This is especially apparent in his analysis of students
who returned to the reservation. He reveals the various ways in
which graduates struggled to make sense of their lives and
selectively drew upon their school experience in negotiating
personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly dominated by
white men. The discussion comes full circle when Adams reviews the
government's gradual retreat from the assimilationist vision.
Partly because of persistent student resistance, but also partly
because of a complex and sometimes contradictory set of
progressive, humanitarian, and racist motivations, policymakers did
eventually come to view boarding schools less enthusiastically.
Based upon extensive use of government archives, Indian and teacher
autobiographies, and school newspapers, Adams's moving account is
essential reading for scholars and general readers alike interested
in Western history, Native American studies, American race
relations, education history, and multiculturalism.
Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped medieval and
later ideas of what it is to be English. Local and imperial,
insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and
culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of
Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of
insular identity from local communities to the entire archipelago,
laying open the continuities and disruptions in the sea's
relationship with English identity in a British context. Ranging
from the beginnings of insular literature to Victorian
medievalisms, the subjects treated include King Arthur's struggle
with muddy banks, the afterlife of Edgar's forged charters, Old
English homilies and narratives of migration, Welsh and English
ideas about Chester, Anglo-Norman views of the sea in the Vie de St
Edmund and Waldef, post-Conquest cartography, The Book of Margery
Kempe, the works of the Irish Stopford Brooke, and the making of an
Anglo-British identity in Victorian Britain. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Contributors: Sebastian Sobecki,
Winfried Rudolf, Fabienne Michelet, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Judith
Weiss, Kathy Lavezzo, Alfred Hiatt, Jonathan Hsy, Chris Jones,
Joanne Parker, David Wallace
**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An
epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of
non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton,
Evening Standard Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday
Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the
Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate
change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says
it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is
dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the
surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a
teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has
climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic
era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life
of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the
proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely
have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that
we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then
in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many
centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will
remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet
no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
From the indefatigable Wallace family, authors of "The Book of
Lists" and The People's Almanac series came 1981's "The Intimate
Sex Lives of Famous People." This compelling bestseller--with its
200 revealing profiles and 300 rare photos--just got better with a
dozen new entries.
Crime is a matter of interpretation, and never was this truer than
in he Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and
pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was --
and what was a crime. This collection undertakes a thorough
exploration of shifting definitions of crime and changing attitudes
toward social control in medieval Europe.
These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society
interacted and competed in interpreting and influencing mechanisms
for social control. Drawing on a wide range of historical and
literary sources -- legal treatises, court cases, statutes, poems,
romances, and comic tales -- the contributors consider topics
including fear of crime, rape and violence against women, revenge
and condemnations of crime, learned dispute about crime and social
control, and legal and political struggles over hunting rights.
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly
accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control
over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with
Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations
of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a
semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument.
"Fate, Time, and Language" presents Wallace's brilliant
critique of Taylor's work. Written long before the publication of
his fiction and essays, Wallace's thesis reveals his great
skepticism of abstract thinking made to function as a negation of
something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of
certain paradigms of thought-the cerebral aestheticism of
modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism-that abandoned
"the very old traditional human verities that have to do with
spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises to meet
the challenge to free will presented by Taylor, we witness the
developing perspective of this major novelist, along with his
struggle to establish solid logical ground for his convictions.
This volume, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert,
reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism
cited by Wallace. James Ryerson's introduction connects Wallace's
early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of his
later fiction, and Jay Garfield supplies a critical biographical
epilogue.
Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence
on many aspects of medieval culture. Medieval women were normally
denied access to public educational institutions, and so also
denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars
have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply
anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however,
argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and
archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women
attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that
women with such legal, social or ecclesiastical knowledge also
often exercised professional or communal leadership. Bringing
together contributors from the disciplines of literature, history
and religion, this volume challenges several traditional views:
firstly, the still-prevalent idea that women's intellectual
accomplishments were limited to the Latin literate. The collection
therefore engages heavily with vernacular writings (in Anglo-Saxon,
Middle English, French, Dutch, German and Italian), and also with
material culture (manuscript illumination, stained glass, fabric
and jewelry) for evidence of women's advanced capabilities. But in
doing so, the contributors strive to avoid the equally problematic
view that women's accomplishments were somehow limited to the
vernacular and the material. So several essays examine women at
work with the sacred languages of the three Abrahamic traditions
(Latin, Arabic and Hebrew). And a third traditional view is also
interrogated: that women were somehow more "original" for their
lack of learning and and dependence on their mother tongue.
Scholars here agree wholeheartedly that women could be daring
thinkers in any language; they engage readily with women's
learnedness wherever it can be found.
David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations
of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to
and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of
Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of
the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without
making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian
writer's work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily
concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was
chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity for himself as an
illustrious vernacular author. Chaucer recognised that both the
l>Filostrato/l> and l>Teseida/l> derived their basic
narrative capabilities from popular tradition analogous to that of
the English tail-rhyme romance. Following a detailed analysis of
Chaucer's translation practice in l>Troilus and Criseyde/l>,
Wallace concludes that it was Boccaccio's attempt to develop a
narrative art occupying the middle ground between popular and
illustrious, domestic and European traditions that Chaucer found so
uniquely congenial and instructive.
New Approaches to the Archaeology of Beekeeping aims to take a
holistic view of beekeeping archaeology (including honey, wax, and
associated products, hive construction, and participants in this
trade) in one large interconnected geographic region, the
Mediterranean, central Europe, and the Atlantic Facade. Current
interest in beekeeping is growing because of the precipitous
decline of bees worldwide and the disastrous effect it portends for
global agriculture. As a result, all aspects of beekeeping in all
historical periods are coming under closer scrutiny. The volume
focuses on novel approaches to historical beekeeping but also
offers new applications of more established ways of treating
apicultural material from the past. It is also keenly interested in
helping readers navigate the challenges inherent in studying
beekeeping historically. The volume brings together scholars
working on ancient, medieval, early modern, and ethnographic
evidence of beekeeping from a variety of perspectives. In this
sense it will serve as a handbook for current researchers in this
field and for those who wish to undertake research into the
archaeology of beekeeping.
These papers are the proceedings of the third international Exeter
symposium, and promote an interdisciplinary approach to the
understanding of the medieval mystical tradition in England. This
is an area of study which does not fruitfully lend itself to any
single academic discipline in isolation; here, theologians,
historians, literary crtitics, textual scholars, those engaged in
the study of semiotics and those involved in the practice of
psychiatric medicine exchange ideas and explore together the
differing aspects which engage them in this field of study.
CONTRIBUTORS: R. BRADLEY, R. ALLEN, R. COPELAND, M. MOYES, J. HOGG,
F. WOHRER, A. BALDWIN, S. DICKMAN, D. WALLACE
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