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How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to
communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America,
China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book
explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community
development. Academics and practitioners from six continents
discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to
change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions
while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement.
Investigating the theory and practice of 'cultural democracy', this
book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music,
muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.
A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles
brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously
little-known text. Known in Latin as Urbanus magnus, it is a
complex and illuminating text which covers an array of topics
related to social mores in the Middle Ages, including: how to be a
good and moral citizen, how to dine courteously, how to maintain
standards of hygiene, how to regulate your diet, and how to run
your household. Often described as one of the earliest 'courtesy
texts', this translation will reveal a text which cannot be easily
categorised in any genre but is relevant widely for anyone with an
interest in medieval life. An expansive text of enormous breadth,
this translation will provide scholars new insight in areas such as
social hierarchy, citizenship, morality, friendship, family ties,
household administration, food consumption, standards of etiquette,
and much more.
A translation of The Book of the Civilised Man by Daniel of Beccles
brings to light the social and cultural life of medieval people in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through a previously
little-known text. Known in Latin as Urbanus magnus, it is a
complex and illuminating text which covers an array of topics
related to social mores in the Middle Ages, including: how to be a
good and moral citizen, how to dine courteously, how to maintain
standards of hygiene, how to regulate your diet, and how to run
your household. Often described as one of the earliest 'courtesy
texts', this translation will reveal a text which cannot be easily
categorised in any genre but is relevant widely for anyone with an
interest in medieval life. An expansive text of enormous breadth,
this translation will provide scholars new insight in areas such as
social hierarchy, citizenship, morality, friendship, family ties,
household administration, food consumption, standards of etiquette,
and much more.
How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to
communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America,
China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book
explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community
development. Academics and practitioners from six continents
discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to
change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions
while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement.
Investigating the theory and practice of 'cultural democracy', this
book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music,
muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.
How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do
we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more
dirty and unhygienic than us - as novels, TV, and film would have
us believe - but how much truth is there in this notion? This book
seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining
medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through
the lens of a medieval Latin text entitled The Book of the
Civilised Man - or Urbanus magnus - which is attributed to Daniel
of Beccles. Urbanus magnus is a twelfth-century poem of almost
3,000 lines which comprehensively surveys the day-to-day life of
medieval society, including issues such as moral behaviour,
friendship, marriage, hospitality, table manners, and diet.
Currently, it is a neglected source for the social and cultural
history of daily life in medieval England, but by incorporating
modern ideas of disgust and taboo, and merging anthropology,
sociology, and archaeology with history, this book aims to bring it
to the fore, and to show that medieval people did have standards of
behaviour. Although they may seem remote to modern 'civilised'
people, there is both continuity and change in human behaviour
throughout the centuries.
How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do
we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more
dirty and unhygienic than us - as novels, TV, and film would have
us believe - but how much truth is there in this notion? This book
seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining
medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through
the lens of a medieval Latin text entitled The Book of the
Civilised Man - or Urbanus magnus - which is attributed to Daniel
of Beccles. Urbanus magnus is a twelfth-century poem of almost
3,000 lines which comprehensively surveys the day-to-day life of
medieval society, including issues such as moral behaviour,
friendship, marriage, hospitality, table manners, and diet.
Currently, it is a neglected source for the social and cultural
history of daily life in medieval England, but by incorporating
modern ideas of disgust and taboo, and merging anthropology,
sociology, and archaeology with history, this book aims to bring it
to the fore, and to show that medieval people did have standards of
behaviour. Although they may seem remote to modern 'civilised'
people, there is both continuity and change in human behaviour
throughout the centuries.
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Freedom? (Paperback)
Kevin Ryan, Fiona Whelan
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R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle
between abstraction and ideal - the first exemplified by Isaiah
Berlin's contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the
second by Philip Pettit's neo-republican conception of freedom as
non-domination. Located within the realm of lived experience
however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific
constraints and takes the form of cultural practices. In this
contribution to the Sireacht series, the collaborative platform Two
Fuse examine the practice of freedom in the context of neo-liberal
enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by
power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an
equality of inequality. Responding to this situation, Two Fuse look
to socially-engaged art with a view to exploring possibilities to
reimagine the practice of freedom, paying particular attention to
the 2016 performance Natural History of Hope by Fiona Whelan,
Rialto Youth Project and Brokentalkers.
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