When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, ...jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who suffered and died on crusade would continue to take the cross, in some cases over several generations. Indeed, as Nicholas L. Paul reveals inTo Follow in Their Footsteps, crusading was very much a family affair.
Scholars of the crusades have long pointed to the importance of dynastic tradition and ties of kinship in the crusading movement but have failed to address more fundamental questions about the operation of these social processes. What is a "family tradition"? How are such traditions constructed and maintained, and by whom? How did crusading families confront the loss of their kin in distant lands? Making creative use of Latin dynastic narratives as well as vernacular literature, personal possessions and art objects, and architecture from across western Europe, Paul shows how traditions of crusading were established and reinforced in the collective memories of noble families throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Even rulers who never fulfilled crusading vows found their political lives dominated and, in some ways, directed by the memory of their crusading ancestors. Filled with unique insights and careful analysis,To Follow in Their Footstepsreveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European nobility.
By attending closely to Jefferson's controversial clothing choices and physical appearance, as well as to his use of portraiture, architecture, and the polite refinements of dining, grooming, and ...conversation, Wilson shows in fascinating detail how Jefferson's self-presentation served his political agenda.
When we think of Thomas Jefferson, a certain picture comes to mind for some of us, combining his physical appearance with our perception of his character. During Jefferson's lifetime this image was already taking shape, helped along by his own assiduous cultivation. InJefferson on Display,G. S. Wilson draws on a broad array of sources to show how Jefferson fashioned his public persona to promote his political agenda. During his long career, his image shifted from cosmopolitan intellectual to man of the people. As president he kept friends and foes guessing: he might appear unpredictably in old, worn, and out-of-date clothing with hair unkempt, yet he could as easily play the polished gentleman in a black suit, as he hosted small dinners in the President's House that were noted for their French-inspired food and fine European wines. Even in retirement his image continued to evolve, as guests at Monticello reported being met by the Sage clothed in rough fabrics that he proudly claimed were created from his own merino sheep, leading Americans by example to manufacture their own clothing, free of Europe.
By paying close attention to Jefferson's controversial clothing choices and physical appearance--as well as his use of portraiture, architecture, and the polite refinements of dining, grooming, and conversation--Wilson provides invaluable new insight into this perplexing founder.
This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of ...logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity of Science Movement when these projects emigrated to the US in the 1930s and follows their de-politicization by a convergence of intellectual, cultural and political forces in the 1950s. Students of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle treat these as strictly intellectual non-political projects. In fact, the refugee philosophers of science were highly active politically and debated questions about values inside and outside science, as a result of which their philosophy of science was scrutinized politically both from within and without the profession, by such institutions as J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. It will prove absorbing reading to philosophers and historians of science, intellectual historians, and scholars of Cold War studies.
Europe from Below Tuuli Lähdesmäki; Katja Mäkinen; Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas ...
03/2021, Volume:
38
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In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European ...Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives are examined through field studies conducted in 12 countries between 2010 and 2018. The authors describe their approach as ‘ethnography of Europeanization’ and conceptualize the attempts at Europeanization in the European Union’s cultural policy as politics of belonging.
Background and AimEndovascular treatment of acute stroke necessitates fast transport across large geographic distances which influences the time to treatment and ultimately patient outcomes. While ...probabilistic models have been developed to postulate the influence of distance and processing times in drip and ship models,1 real life data on actual transport times and its influence on outcomes has been under studied in real-world populations. We retrospectively examined and analysed the transport registry of EVT treated patients across the large province of Saskatchewan.MethodsA linked registry based on medical records and Optimize database was used to capture the journey from home to hospital in patients who underwent EVT from Aug 2017 to Dec 2022 across Saskatchewan. Transport modality of the patients and whether they were directly presented to CSC, or first presented to a peripheral hospital PSC was determined and the patient’s geolocation was mapped using the google distance matrix API. Communities were classified as large urban, medium, and small population centers based on stats Canada classification. Association of functionally independent outcomes mRS 0-2 was examined for transport type, community size, and Kilometer distance from home to CSC, and some via PSC. Influence of each Km of distance during each transport was examined on the shift of outcome using ordinal logistic regression.Results303 patient that underwent thrombectomy over a 5 year period were examined of which 55% presented directly via EMS, 36% Transferred from peripheral sites, and 9% were in-patient treated. Compared to the direct presentation, the transfer patients did not have a significantly worse outcomes OR 0.8 p=0.382 (CI 0.16 - 0.7) as the direct patient, while the inpatients did worse overall OR 0.38 p=0.042 (CI 0.16- 0.97). Size of community the patient presented from or transferred from did not influence outcomes. In an adjusted analysis number of Km of transport did not have an influence on outcomes OR 1.00 p=0.827 (CI .99- 1.00).ConclusionsReal world geographic factors influence time to treatment, however patient specific factors play a great role in determining patient’s overall outcome during long transports. Factors such as collaterals, occlusion location, and initial aspects are more important than number of kilometers distance travelled or transfer from PSC alone. In an efficient transport system, centralized treatment at the CSC is a viable solution and does not preclude achieving functionally independent outcomes.Abstract O-006 Figure 1DisclosuresN. Kashani: None. A. Zhou: None. J. Ospel: None. N. Singh: None. A. Gardner: None. A. Persad: None. R. Otani: None. U. Ahmed: None. L. Peeling: None. M. Kelly: None.
Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it ...happen again. Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this link between the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration, and contemporary human rights activism in favor of seeing the 1970s as the era of genesis. Morsink forcefully presents his case that the Universal Declaration was indeed a meaningful though underappreciated document for the human rights movement and that the declaration and its significance cannot be divorced from the Holocaust. He reexamines this linkage through the working papers of the commission that drafted the declaration as well as other primary sources. This work seeks to reset scholarly understandings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the foundations of the contemporary human rights movement.
Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and ...nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space,Literary Indianshighlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production.Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focusing on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.
