This thesis undertakes the first critical examination of the book collecting of Enriqueta Rylands (1843-1908). It combines archival history with collecting studies to investigate how Rylands's ...Nonconformist bibliophilia shaped the special collections of the John Rylands Library, Manchester (JRL). This study situates Rylands's collecting of rare books, manuscripts and prints with respect to Nonconformist and bibliophilic revivals at the turn of the twentieth century. It builds on the 'religious turn' in history and gender studies to challenge assumptions about the secular and masculine character of book collecting in the modern era.Engaging critically with Bourdieu's framework for cultural practice, I argue that Rylands was not emulating aristocratic practice in a bid for personal distinction but appropriating bibliophilic capital for socio-religious purposes. This new research reveals the JRL as a legacy of Rylands's ambition to imbue Nonconformity with dignity and to embed Nonconformist values in high culture. Using an archive-based collecting narrative and deep archival case studies, the thesis charts the contours of Rylands's Nonconformist bibliophilia. It asks how Rylands's religious outlook shaped her bibliophilic practices, and how her bibliophilic practices shaped her religious outlook. The research uses previously unstudied material from the internationally renowned special collections of the JRL to investigate these questions across domestic and institutional contexts. Case studies examine the bookplate Rylands commissioned for the JRL, Rylands's subscriptions to limited edition books for her private library at Longford Hall, her extra-illustration of a Book of Common Prayer, and exhibitions of English Bibles at the JRL. This archival research traces interplay between Rylands's appropriation of prestigious objects and practices, her efforts to establish the cultural worth of Protestant Nonconformity, and her gendered and classed social position.This investigation expands our understanding of the cultural legacies of the late-Victorian bibliophilic and Nonconformist revivals. It does so by examining archival evidence and historical context absent from masculinised histories of the JRL that centre John Rylands or library professionals. The study thereby contributes new evidence and perspectives to histories of libraries, collecting and cultural capitalism, and to histories of women participating in these male-dominated fields. Addressing the intersection of religious and book histories in Rylands's Nonconformist bibliophilia, this thesis adds to our understanding of the major socio-cultural changes taking place at the end of the long nineteenth century.
Nascido a 24 de agosto de 1933 na freguesia de Bonfim, Porto, José Augusto Fleming Torrinha ficou consagrado na área da Imunologia a nível nacional.Foi na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do ...Porto e no Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João que teve um percurso ímpar e digno de ser lembrado. Da docência à investigação, dos cargos diretivos à carreira médica, não há como escrever a História destas duas instituições sem destacar o seu nome. É hoje recordado pela sua nobreza de caráter e notável capacidade de diálogo.Fleming Torrinha faleceu a 30 de janeiro de 2014, deixando uma obra incontornável, que será ao longo deste trabalho relembrada e enaltecida.
Michael Schneider, asume la tradición de la Iglesia afirmando que “la vida de los santos constituye un lugar teológico”, desde esta perspectiva fundamentamos la siguiente tesina, donde nos proponemos ...realizar una reflexión pneumatológica, desde la biografía de San Luis Orione, cuya finalidad se encuadra primero desde el centenario de la llegada de este creyente singular a América latina (1921- 2021), segundo, desde la necesidad de seguir profundizando a nivel teológico el legado carismático orionita. En este sentido, existen tesis abordadas desde una perspectiva eclesiológica y pastoral, sobre el aporte carismático orionita a la vida de la Iglesia. San Luis Orione como el “estratega de la caridad” entendió a la perfección aquella intuición paulina, expresada en la primera Carta a la comunidad de Corintios: “que la fe, la esperanza y la caridad son válidas, pero la mayor de estas tres es la caridad” (1 Co 13, 13); por tal motivo, Benedicto XVI, propondrá a Luis Orione y a otros santos “como modelos insignes de caridad social para todos los hombres de buena voluntad (Deus Caritas Est, 40)”. Siguiendo la intuición de que “el Espíritu de Dios se manifiesta y actúa a través de la vida de las personas” nos preguntaremos sobre la respuesta que dio desde su impronta carismática a los emergentes de su tiempo ¿Puede, la misma, considerarse como una genuina expresión del Espíritu? Don Orione ¿tenía autoconciencia de ser un hombre guiado por el Espíritu? ¿Qué aporte puede ofrecernos la biografía de San Luis Orione para una pneumatología experiencial?
This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850. It is at the same time a history ...of the America of the period: its political style and character, political ambition and reputation, success and failure, and ideas and interests. The three statesmen make a startling contrast - Webster, the staunch New England defender of the Union, Clay, first a `war
hawk' and later a populist politician, and Calhoun, the foremost advocate of Southern separatism and slavery. Their political lives were intertwined during much of this period.
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