All aspects of the writing of history and ancillary disciplines.
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Un manuscrito medieval aragonés inédito en la biblioteca de UCLA: la Ordenación de la cofradía de San Julián de Teruel (BETA manid 5960) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoThis paper describes a catalogued but rare manuscript (call number 170/307) held by the Charles Young Research Library at UCLA, in which one can find the by-laws of a barely known medieval confraternity, located in the city of Teruel and devoted to St. Julian.
Most of these by-laws were written around 1402, although it does also…[Read more]
Ian Wilson deposited History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis essay offers an introduction to select disciplinary developments in the study of history and in historical study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses first and foremost on “cultural history,” a broad category defined by nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in anthropology and sociology, literary theory and linguistics, and other fie…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Notes on Richard E. Palmer’s ‘Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer’ in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 months agoNotes on the book Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer—a book by Richard E. Palmer (Evanston: Nortwestern UP, 1969). Part I: On the Definition, Scope, and Significance of Hermeneutics; Part II: Four Major Theorists (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer); Part III: A Hermeneutical M…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Antiquarianism as Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano’s Method,” History & Theory 53(2): 212-233. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis essay uses Arnaldo Momigliano’s genealogy of antiquarianism and historiography to propose a new method for engaging the past. The Italian historian Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) traced antiquarianism from its advent in ancient Greece and later growth in Rome to its early modern efflorescence, its usurpation by history, and its transformation…[Read more]
Danielle Fosler-Lussier started the topic Women in Music– Historiography in the discussion
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoI’m prepping a new graduate seminar for autumn on the historiography of women in American music, broadly construed. We will use local and online primary source collections, but I also want to make sure we get into key readings in the field, both as examples of excellent history and a variety of different methods/approaches. Would anyone like to…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Reading Ruins Against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality,” Culture, Theory, & Critique (2012) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThe ruins of church-mosques, museums, and ancient cities inform material culture as allegories inform spiritual life, invoking transcendence amidst desacralization. Drawing on Benjamin, Jameson, and Koselleck to advance our understanding of the functioning of ruins across time, this ethnography of ruins engages with the paradoxes generated by…[Read more]
Francesco Luzzini deposited Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between. Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 months agoIn the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of G…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Pedro I y la propaganda antipetrista en la génesis y el éxito de la poesía cancioneril castellana, I in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months agoEs bien conocido que la Relación sumaria de la Historia verdadera del Rey Don Pedro (PhiloBiblon BETA Texid 3377) es una de las obras de mayor complejidad analítica en toda la literatura hispánica de finales de la Edad Media y comienzo del Renacimiento. No solo en lo que concierne a su laberíntico entramado ecdótico, del que se han ocupado inve…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16thto the 18thcenturies in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoSince its first attempts to understand natural phenomena, early modern science devoted great attention to the problematic issue of the origin of springs. This essay examines the lively debate that emerged from the studies on fresh water during the years spanning from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. By focusing on the…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Multa curiosa. Vallisneri’s Early Studies on Earth Sciences in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoIn 1687, after he graduated in Medicine, young Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) returned in the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. In those years he mainly served as general practitioner; nevertheless, he also devoted many studies to various aspects of the natural sciences. He performed many observations, accurately reporting them in seven “Quaderni”…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Antonio Vallisneri e la questione dei vermicelli spermatici: un’indagine storico-naturalistica in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoThis paper deals with the identification of the microscope used by the Italian physician and naturalist Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730) during his research activity. The investigation was structured in three phases: a) a first text analysis on published and manuscript sources, looking for information about the microscope(s) used by Vallisneri; b)…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Reseña de Bajo Pérez, Elena. Vocabulario y fe. Los grupos étnico-religiosos de la Edad Media y la primera modernidad. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoLos estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Reseña de Bajo Pérez, Elena. Vocabulario y fe. Los grupos étnico-religiosos de la Edad Media y la primera modernidad. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoLos estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Reseña de Bajo Pérez, Elena. Vocabulario y fe. Los grupos étnico-religiosos de la Edad Media y la primera modernidad. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoLos estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Rightful King of Castile and León (1369-1388) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoSpaniards often feel surprised when they visualise the renowned drawing reproduced below, ascribed (erroneously as it seems, but that is another story) to Lucas Cornelisz van Kunst, the successful Dutch painter of the Tudor era. A brief glance to John of Gaunt’s portrait suffices to notice the distinctive coat of arms of the English members of t…[Read more]
Gavin Robinson deposited Social-Political Animals: Humans and Non-Humans in Early-Modern Society in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 year agoSpeculation about how the social history of early-modern England could be made more sophisticated by including animals.
Olalekan Adigun posted an update in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoI posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent to two Research Institutes, one in Abuja (Nigeria) and the other in New York (USA). Despite the fact that Lagos (where I live) to Abuja is just about 300 km by road, I haven’t got a response, let alone have any assurance that my mail is being attended to. But, I have since gotten a r…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La utopía política en la literatura castellana del siglo XV: el ‘Libro de los Pensamientos Variables’ (BNM, ms. 6642) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoUn poco antes de fallecer, recién rebasada la mitad del siglo XV (1454), el monarca castellano Juan II se atrevió a exponer en breves palabras la tremenda carga que suponía para
cualquier mortal el ejercicio del poder regio, es decir, lo que habitualmente se conoce con el modismo de «el peso de la púrpura»: “Naciera yo fijo de un labrador e fuera…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Las cortes literarias hispánicas del siglo XV : el entorno histórico del “Cancionero general” de Hernando del Castillo (1511) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoImpreso en 1511, el ‘Cancionero general’ de Hernando del Castillo representa
la más extensa e importante recopilación de poesía de cancionero en lengua
castellana. En ella hay más de mil obras pertenecientes a más de 150 poetas,
muchos de los cuales han permanecido en el más profundo anonimato. La tesis
pretende concretar el número total…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La historiografía humanista en los albores del siglo XVI: la Crónica d’Aragón de Lucio Marineo Sículo, traducida al castellano por el bachiller Juan de Molina (Valencia, Joan Jofré, 1524) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoLa presencia de hombres de letras italianos en la Península Ibérica durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516) constituye uno de los factores principales para el despegue del Humanismo hispano (Gómez Moreno, 1994). De entre tantos nombres ilustres, quizá sean Pedro Mártir de Anglería y Lucio Marineo Sículo los más conocidos, en especial…[Read more]
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