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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Pre-modern"”.
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Perceptions of ringforts in pre-modern Ireland
… Ireland would have remained very aware of the presence of these monuments. Several centuries later, much land, particularly in the east of the country was appropriated by the Anglo-Normans and they too seemed to have viewed ringforts as important, albeit different, types of monuments. The goal …
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THE PLAN-NET AS A GEOMETRY FOR ANALYSIS OF PRE-MODERN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Limited Pre-Modern calculating skills favored geometry for design and layout. Technical limitations precluding durable, detailed measured drawings favored sequentially proportional steps transmitting information from design to construction. The Ancient Egyptian phrase "Casting the plan-net on the …
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On the Changes and Influences of the Absolute Truth of Neo-Confucianism in Pre-Modern China
… of the absolute truth of Neo-Confucianism in pre-modern China. First of all, Li of Neo-Confucianism attempted to replace the highest divine of Tian/Shangdi but actually became the amalgamation with the divine and the absolute truth. Through the resistance against Li by Chinese thinkers, the …
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The Human-Animal Boundary: Adding a New Perspective to the Pre-Modern History of the Nervous System
… investigations with those of the early modern period. My overall aim is accordingly to assert that the negotiation of the difference vs. the similitude between humans and animals is a neglected but fundamental aspect that needs to be taken into account for a more comprehensive history of …
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Speech and Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Traditional Chinese Scholarship
… of the ideological obstacles or peculiarly modern biases ordinarily preventing us from understanding writers of the pre-modern past as they understood themselves. As the upshot of the unfolding of modernity, our age is dominated by the systematic rejection (not merely a fateful …
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Russian national and religious identity during the later years of the Time of Troubles (1610-13)
… identity and whether it can be applied to a pre-modern society. I then examine primary sources, mainly letters between the towns or general proclamations, to ascertain how the writers describe themselves and their main inspirations. This dissertation challenges the modernist opinion that …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
… than a material, over many centuries along three predominant lines: as images of substance according to a pre-modern concept of matter and pre-modern notions of geology; marble's apparent ability to bear light due to its polish and occasional translucency; and the longue durée that colored marbles …
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How the World Views the Israeli and Hungarian migration policies
… differentiate the world into three categories, pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. Those would have different opinion on Israeli and Hungarian migration policies, but how does that perception vary? Three focus states would be the representatives for those types of state formation. Libya is for …
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Breastfeeding and Bodily Transformations
… body existing before and alongside biomedicine's present day interpretation of it. The second tier, taking up this challenge, investigates pre-modern European medical representations of the lactating body and recent autobiographical writings of breastfeeding women in terms of their positioning of …
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… to map the Muslim religious discourse that expressed this deliberate turn away from Jews, Christians, and others across pre-modern Islamic history. First, I argue that this discourse functions as a prism through which to view the interplay of religion and politics; a key function of both …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
The modern Chinese writer Yu Hua (1960-) uses and incorporates a wide variety of arguably postmodernist techniques and themes in his fiction. There are, however, parallels between these themes and techniques and various aspects of pre-modern Chinese literature and philosophy. Additionally, in an at …
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Nature, History, and the Sacred in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
… of a fourteenth century palace in the center of modern Delhi, Hindus and Muslims from various castes and communities come to deposit photocopies of letters petitioning saintly jinn (superhuman spirits) for fulfillment of their personal and spiritual needs, many of them forming relationships with …
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Cosmopolitan Subjects: An Anthropological Critique of Cosmopolitan Criminal Law and Political Modernity
… called a culturally-neutral global order? The present project, based on ethnographic fieldwork at the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague, uses the case of Dusko Tadic, the first subject of a properly cosmopolitan law, as a lens to raise the questions of how we should understand the new …
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Imitatio Naturae. El paisaje como referente en la arquitectura contemporánea.
… by illustrated vision: it is capable of both representing and signifying generalisable harmony of aesthetic, economic, emotional or cultural values. The result is provocation of an inchoative and rational desire for apprehension amongst he who perceives. For contemporary architecture, landscape …
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Art, Science, and Construction: Exploring the Boundaries of Modern Architecture in the Arabic Context, the Work of Sayed Karim and Rifat Chadirji
… context focused on its transformation into a modern discipline using locally determined evidence found in primary texts. It explores the changing boundaries of architecture and its relationship to other fields of knowledge, mainly science, mathematics, and art, to develop a reading of modern …
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Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda in British Literature of the First World War
… as a category as it exists under conditions of modernity, and how the contours of and changes in definitions and understandings of modern information become more visible, and are likely accelerated by, the complex information challenges brought about by the disruptions of the First World War. …
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The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication
… but its hermeneutic principles were co-opted by modernism and have now become further embattled by the turn away from modernism to philosophical hermeneutic approaches. Augustine’s hermeneutical principles of charity, hermeneutical humility through responsiveness to the Word, and the …
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Conversion and Apostasy: Egypt in Premodern and Modern Times
<p>This paper provides a holistic and comprehensive analysis of the concepts of conversion and apostasy in Egypt throughout history, including their historical, communal, social, and judicial aspects. The study begins by examining pre-Islamic conversions, followed by an analysis of the irregular …
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Colonialism and Empire: Are Reparations Owed by the United Kingdom to the Descendants of Slavery?
… work explores the ramifications of slavery for modern Britain, contrasting ancient and pre-modern institutions within the context of Britain’s former colonies (Williams, 1994). Modern attitudes to slavery are inspected, revealing the continuing manifestation of anti-black racism through …
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