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A collection of essays that perceive Updike's America through the eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars, contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his resonance across the Atlantic.
Updike, John --- Apdajk, Džon --- Apdaĭk, Dzhon --- אפדייק, ג"ון --- أبدايك، جون --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Appreciation --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- American Author. --- Cross-cultural Influence. --- European Perspectives. --- European Scholars. --- Global Impact. --- International Readership. --- John Updike. --- Literature.
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The men and women that followed the sixth-century customs of Benedict of Nursia (c.480-c.547) formed the most enduring, influential, numerous and widespread religious order of the Latin middle ages. Their liturgical practice, and their acquired taste for learning, served as a model for the medieval church as a whole: while new orders arose, they took some of their customs, and their observant and spiritual outlook, from the Regula Benedicti. The Benedictines may also be counted among the founders of medieval Europe. In many regions of the continent they created, or consolidated, the first Christian communities; they also directed the development of their social organisation, economy, and environment, and exerted a powerful influence on their emerging cultural and intellectual trends.
This book, the first comparative study of its kind, follows the Benedictine Order over eleven centuries, from their early diaspora to the challenge of continental reformation.
James G. Clark is Professor of History, University of Exeter.
Christian religious orders --- Benedictines --- anno 500-1499 --- Monasticism and religious orders --- History --- History. --- Church history --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- Monasticism and religious orders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Benedictines. --- Christian Communities. --- Christianity. --- Church. --- Cultural Influence. --- Cultural influence. --- Latin. --- Medieval Europe. --- Middle Ages. --- Monastic Orders. --- Monastic order. --- Religious order. --- Social Organization. --- Social organization.
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In our multicultural society, faiths formerly seen as exotic have become attractive alternatives for many people seeking more satisfying spiritual lives. This is especially true of Buddhism, which is the focus of constant media attention-thanks at least in part to celebrity converts, major motion pictures, and the popularity of the Dalai Lama. Following this recent trend in the West, author James Coleman argues that a new and radically different form of this ancient faith is emerging. The New Buddhism sheds new light on this recent evolution of Buddhist practice in the West. After briefly reco
Buddhism --- Religious life --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) --- History --- Buddhism. --- Buddhism - United States - History - 20th century. --- Religious life - Buddhism. --- Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) - United States. --- Western Buddhism --- Asia --- practices --- beliefs --- social structures --- religion --- meditation --- Buddhist groups --- cultural influence --- spiritual appeal --- United States --- American culture --- contemporary spiritual practice --- ethics --- doctrine --- American Buddhism
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Socialistic brands are signs with unique characteristics acquired through their use in particular historical circumstances. It is considered whether, decades after the fall of the iron curtain, the shared historical pedigree justifies different treatment of these signs. The author attempts to answer the question of what would constitute as unfair appropriation of these brands and discusses the availability of legal remedies in such cases. The analysis of issues relating to socialistic brands is conducted on the basis of European and Polish law and jurisprudence. Trademark law and other fields of intellectual property law form the core of this consideration. The author additionally employs findings from branches of social sciences such as anthropology, sociology and semiotics, in order to shed light on the complex nature of the attractiveness of signs and how cultural connotations affect it.
Trademarks --- Trademark infringement --- Socialism and culture Poland. --- Law and legislation --- Infringement of trademark --- Intellectual property infringement --- Merchant marks --- Registration of trademarks --- Trade-marks --- Trade names --- Trade regulation --- Brand name products --- Business names --- Logos (Symbols) --- Service marks --- Criminal provisions --- Socialism and culture --- Culture and socialism --- Culture --- Poland. --- grounds of revocation and cancelation of of trademarks --- Trademark law --- socialism --- communism --- cultural influence --- semiotics --- public policy
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Essays on important topics in early music.
Music --- Musical instruments --- History and criticism. --- History --- Musical instruments, Medieval --- 78.15 Page --- 78.23 --- Instruments, Musical --- Organology (Music) --- Instrumental music --- History and criticism --- To 1500 --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Christopher Page. --- Cultural Influence. --- Early Music. --- Essays. --- Instruments. --- Medieval Music. --- Middle Ages. --- Music. --- Performance.
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The first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters.
Catalan literature --- Classicism in literature. --- Classical literature --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- History and criticism. --- Classical influences. --- Translations into Catalan --- Classical Tradition. --- Crown of Aragon. --- Cultural Influence. --- Iberia. --- Imitation. --- Literacy. --- Literary Tradition. --- Literature Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval Catalan. --- Medieval Letters. --- Translation.
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The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, better known as the ABRSM, has influenced the musical lives and tastes of millions of people since it conducted its first exams in 1890. This ground-breaking history explores how the ABRSM became such a formative influence and looks at some of the consequences resulting from its pre-eminent position in British musical life. Particular emphasis is given to how free the ABRSM has been to impose its musical view of things and to what extent its exams respond to the circumstances and musical preferences of its customers. The book's exploration of how the ABRSM has negotiated music's changing social, educational and cultural landscape casts fresh light on the challenges facing music education today. David Wright's comprehensive history of the ABRSM from its origins in 1889 to the present day represents a significant and original investigation. Not only is it the first extended account of the ABRSM, but it sets the institution and its work firmly within its historical and cultural context. The ABRSM's exams were exported all across the Empire, and this study shows how both exams and examiners made a telling cultural contribution to the idea of the 'British World'. It relates the exams to changing historical perceptions about musical education as well as to attitudes about the value of music as a social and recreational activity. By demonstrating the impact of the Board's commercial success in dominating the grade exam market, the book shows how this has had significant consequences for the organization of British musical training and for the formation and sustaining of a particular sort of British musical culture. Before his retirement, David Wright was Reader in the Social History of Music at the Royal College of Music, London.
Music --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Instruction and study --- Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain) --- ABRSM --- Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music (Great Britain) --- History. --- Social aspects --- ABRSM. --- British Musical Training. --- Cultural Influence. --- Music Education. --- Music Exams.
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First full-lengthinvestigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose.
Elizabeth --- Elisabeth --- James --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- Genealogy. --- History --- Jacobus --- Jakob --- Jacques --- Well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland, --- C., --- Jacobo --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Cultural Influence. --- Elizabethan Era. --- European Royalty. --- Historical Manipulation. --- Legitimacy. --- Monarchy. --- Royal Genealogy. --- Shakespeare. --- Succession.
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Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes 'primarily because of their victimhood.'
Political culture --- Idealism --- Heroes --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Intellectual life. --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Animism --- Monism --- Personalism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Materialism --- Realism --- Transcendentalism --- Intellectual life --- Russian culture. --- Russian media. --- Soviet culture. --- Soviet ideology. --- contemporary culture. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural influence. --- cultural symbolism. --- cultural transformation. --- martyrdom. --- nationalist nostalgia. --- political discourse. --- post-Soviet culture. --- post-Soviet discourses. --- sacrifice ideology. --- sacrificial language. --- victimhood.
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The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertaining exploration of the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives-culturally, economically, and aesthetically. Entomologist and writer Gilbert Waldbauer describes in loving, colorful detail how many of the valuable products insects have given us are made, how they were discovered, and how they have been used through time and across cultures. Along the way, he takes us on a captivating ramble through many far-flung corners of history, mythology, poetry, literature, medicine, ecology, forensics, and more. Enlivened with personal anecdotes from Waldbauer's distinguished career as an entomologist, the book also describes surprising everyday encounters we all experience that were made possible by insects. From butterfly gardens and fly-fishing to insects as jewelry and sex pheromones, this is an eye-opening ode to the wonder of insects that illuminates our extraordinary and essential relationship with the natural world.
Beneficial insects. --- aesthetic influence. --- anklets. --- baubles. --- beeswax. --- bracelets. --- bugs. --- butterfly gardens. --- candles. --- cultural influence. --- dyeing cloth. --- ecology. --- economic influence. --- engaging. --- entertaining. --- entomology. --- flora and fauna. --- fly fishing. --- forensics. --- historical. --- history. --- ink. --- insect performers. --- insect pets. --- insects. --- jewelry. --- literature. --- medicine. --- mythology. --- natural world. --- nature. --- paper and ink. --- poetry. --- retrospective. --- sealing wax. --- sex pheromones. --- shellac. --- silk. --- valuable products.
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