This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts ...from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest's ritual handbook, a bishop's pontifical and a copy of the enigmatic compilation now known as the 'Romano-German Pontifical' - Henry Parkes transforms liturgical sources into eloquent witnesses to the ecclesiastical history of early medieval Germany. He also presents the first comprehensive revision of Michel Andrieu's influential 'Romano-German Pontifical' theory, from the dual perspective of Mainz's cathedral of St Martin and its Benedictine monastery of St Alban. Challenging long-held assumptions about the geographies of Ottonian power, in particular the central role of Mainz and its archbishops, the book opens up important new ways of understanding how religious ritual was organised, transmitted and perceived.
Este estudio analiza un episodio de movimientos en masa generado en el contexto de una serie de temporales cuyas repercusiones se dejaron sentir en numerosos países europeos e incluso en la Costa ...Este de Estados Unidos, afectando también al norte peninsular y, muy especialmente, al territorio del Macizo Asturiano. En este ámbito el episodio consistió en cuatro temporales de nieve que se sucedieron entre el 14 de febrero y el 8 de abril de 1888, dando lugar a espesores nivales que alcanzaron los 9 m de espesor máximo en núcleos como Pajares (1000 m s.n.m.). El manejo de fuentes históricas en combinación con el trabajo de campo y las entrevistas realizadas entre la población, ha permitido esclarecer las circunstancias en las que algunos de estos eventos se dieron, estableciendo la tipología de 27 de los movimientos desencadenados y determinando que, el deslizamiento, fue el tipo de inestabilidad más común. Determinados condicionantes como la litología del sustrato y el abrupto relieve propio de las zonas más altas del Macizo, unidos a factores antrópicos como las modificaciones previamente realizadas en la topografía de determinadas áreas, influyeron en el desarrollo de los hechos. Sin embargo, los aportes de agua procedentes de la fusión nival, se muestran como el principal agente causal de este episodio de movimientos en masa en el que 28 eventos generaron daños materiales así como grandes retrasos en las comunicaciones, resultando fallecida una persona.
Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest ...industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial “conquistadors,” Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through in-depth ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being “unmade” at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a rich social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets—from multiracial “mestizo” populations to the notions of border “crossings” and “inspections,” as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez—Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides a critical understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community.
The genus
Cyrtogrammomma
Pocock, 1895 was proposed based on specimen samples from Monte Roraima, Guyana, and allocated in the family Barychelidae. However, the most recent cladistic analysis ...transferred
Cyrtogrammomma
to Theraphosidae. Herein, we amended the diagnosis and description of
C. monticola
, providing a redescription of the male, and new illustrations, including the description of a new cuticular structure consisting of thick and stiff setae on dorsal metatarsi I and II of females. Moreover, we diagnose, describe and illustrate a new species of
Cyrtogrammomma
from northeastern Brazil:
C. frevo
sp. nov
. In addition, we provide an identification key, new distribution records of the genus in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Pará, and Pernambuco, in Brazil, and the first record for the genus in caves.
Song of the Heart RAMÓN LÓPEZ VELARDE; MARGARET SAYERS PEDEN
05/2013
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Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This ...bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his poetry. Often called a "poet of the provinces," López Velarde gives us a glimpse into a slower and more gentle way of life. His poems present the contrast between city and hometown and between urban and pastoral landscapes. Through these contrasts runs the thread of religious faith, while urgency of language informs the entire body of his poetic production. Original, specially commissioned drawings by noted contemporary Mexican artist Juan Soriano complement the poems. This combination of poetry and art speaks to universal emotions; indeed the poetry of López Velarde belongs to everyone who sings the Song of the Heart.
Los temporales de nieve de 1888 generaron un daño sin precedentes en la historia reciente de Asturias. Esta investigación, basada en el análisis de fuentes históricas, indaga en la reacción de los ...grupos humanos que se vieron afectados, examinando tanto la respuesta ofrecida por las instituciones como las estrategias de adaptación y manejo del riesgo por parte de quienes habitaban en las áreas más damnificadas. Los resultados evidencian la mala gestión de la crisis por parte de las autoridades, que centraron sus esfuerzos en aliviar la situación de incomunicación con el exterior de la región y ofrecieron ayudas económicas insuficientes. En las áreas de montaña, sin embargo, rasgos como la cultura del trabajo comunal y la solidaridad vecinal evidenciaron su utilidad desde el punto de vista organizacional, mostrándose como el mecanismo paliativo más eficiente, única respuesta inmediata ante el desastre, capaz de llegar a la totalidad del territorio afectado.
Although much has been written on the German jurist Carl Schmitt's commentary on liberal democracy and parliamentarism, his analysis of monarchy and monarchism has remained overlooked. This article ...excavates Schmitt's analysis of monarchy and the monarchical principle articulated during the Weimar Republic. Although Schmitt never devoted a text to exploring monarchy as he did for other state forms, this article argues that the monarchical principle is nevertheless central to his account of political representation presented in his Constitutional Theory and can only be properly understood when contextualized in his shorter, contemporaneous writings. The article then explores the relationship between the monarchical principle and Schmitt's understanding of constituent power in the figure of the republicanized monarch.
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United ...States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines.
Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action.
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