Showing papers on "Honour published in 1993"

Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature

Abstract: Introduction Aidos in Homer From Hesiod to the Fifth Century Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides The Sophists, Plato, and aristotle References Glossary Index of Principal Passages General Index.

Singapore, Struggle for Success

Abstract: Singapore: Struggle for Success is the definitive account of the events that resurrected Singapore—events that continue to shape the life of every Singaporean. Within a single generation Singaporeans underwent an extraordinary transformation. During three decades of violence and instability, Singapore was nearly torn apart by foreign occupation, political upheaval and communist urban revolution. Yet today this island state is a haven of tranquility and one of the most prosperous nations in Asia. How Lee Kuan Yew and his political colleagues persuaded the British government in the 1950s to take a gamble with home rule; how they outwitted the Communist in the 1960s; how they transformed an underdeveloped, disparate Chinese, Malay, Indian and Caucasian community from a state of poverty and political unrest into a thriving, modern nation of the 1990s—this is the theme of this meticulously researched and very readable work. Explaining Singapore’s transformation, the author describes the dramatic events that brought about the very best and the very worst in the leading personalities of the time: honour and treachery, courage and cowardice, selflessness and venality.

City, marriage, tournament : arts of rule in late medieval Scotland

Abstract: How was statecraft performed five centuries ago? Louise Fradenburg explores the evolution of arts of rule in Scotland under the reigns of James III and James IV, revealing the broad spectacle of a late medieval court on the brink of the Renaissance. "City" traces Edinburgh's emergence as a sovereign site of national politics under James III. "Marriage" centres on the 1503 wedding of James IV to Margaret Tudor. Fradenburg also analyzes the real and symbolic roles of queenship in a sovereign's search for the love of his or her subjects. "Tournament" focuses on James IV's 1507 tournament of the wild knight and the black lady, showing how acts of honour, valour, daring, and violence were used by medieval kings and queens to raise themselves to models of chivalric ideals. Reading a culture as text, Fradenburg analyzes a rich array of texts and events, combining them with sophisticated theoretical insights provided by literary, historical, psychoanalytic, feminist and anthropological scholarship.

Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates

Abstract: The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however, are true. Each trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacrilegious play. Out of their often pognant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultuous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies. Like cinema-verite, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world.

Religious plurality in Africa: essays in honour of John S. Mbiti

Abstract: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series. "

The Films of D. W. Griffith

Abstract: 1. Griffith, film theory and American culture 2. The shame of the cities: the urban drama at biograph 3. The female of the species: origins of the women's film at biograph 4. Mr Griffith's civil war: The Birth of a Nation and family honour 5. Art, Intolerance, and the work of the movies Notes Select filmography Select bibliography.

Fidelity & honour: The Indian Army from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

Abstract: From its beginnings under the East India Company to its status as one of the largest armies in the world, this book traces the evolution of the Indian army.

Data, description, discourse : papers on the English language in honour of John McH Sinclair on his sixtieth birthday

Abstract: Ten essays in which internationally renowned linguistic experts such as Michael Stubbs, Ron Carter and M.A.K. Halliday examine the use of computers in the study of language.

Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth

Abstract: In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth...women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honour the interconnection between people and the planet is heightened. Here is a collection of poems, prayers and writing from bestselling authors, leaders in spiritual thought and traditional offerings from people around the world.

Medieval Scotland: crown, lordship and community:essays presented to G.W.S. Barrow

Abstract: "Medieval Scotland" collects 13 essays specially written in honour of Professor Geoffrey Barrow. The contributors explore central themes in the development of the medieval Scottish kingdom. They analyze the interplay between Celtic and feudal influences; the political definition of the kingdom, crown-magnate relations; and the relationship between the local and national communities. A complete bibliography of Professor Barrow's own writings in also included.

George Green: Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work

Abstract: Family Background George Green's Education Cambridge Interlude Bromley House Library and the Essay of 1828 Sir Edward Bromhead the Publication of George Green's Further Investigations An Undergraduate at Cambridge A Fellowship at Caius College George Green's Family William Thomson and the Rediscovery of the Essay of 1828 "Honour in His Own Country". Appendices: The Mathematics of George Green Mathematical Papers of George Green "Memoir of George Green, Esq" Account by Sir E. Ffrench Bromhead, with Covering Notes Green Family Tree Time Charts of Mathematicians and Men of Science.

The Wounding Song: Honour, Politics and Rhetoric in Maltese Għana

Abstract: Abstract: This article examines Maltese għana, extemporized song duels between men characterized by double entendre and wit. It traces the evolution of għana froma largely peripheral rural phenomenon which emphasized youthful bravado and cheekiness, to a largely ‘folkloric’ singing practiced by men often in urban working class contexts. The current practice and siting of għana in working class contexts whilst representing ‘folklore’ generates particular tensions. On the one hand due to għana’s competitive nature, and the singers’ desire to excel and become virtuosos, men must preserve their honour at all costs. On the other hand social and singing conventions, as well as the somewhat grudging recognition by the middle classes, means that singers have to preserve their unity as otherwise they would give għana a bad name, and thus lower their collective esteem by society. Għana can be seen as a ritual of inversal, enabling its practitioners to comment about the contradictions in the tensions in Maltese society and its various identities, especially through strategic code switching from Maltese to English. Repetitions in the songs highlight the tensions between insiders/outsiders, lower/upper class, illiterate/unschooled, Maltese/foreigner, etc. Finally the article suggests għana enables individuals to temporarily transcend their marginalised social position by becoming virtousos and to demonstrate that inspite of the demands of a modern nation state which emphasises literacy, social mobility, education, etc., they are more able than their social betters. Għana is the rhetoric and weapon of the weak, the weapon of ‘indigenous’ ‘folklore’ against the manufactured ‘Folklore’ of the nation state.

Beyond liberal education : essays in honour of Paul H. Hirst

Abstract: Introduction 1.Good Teaching 2.Truth and Liberal Education Liberal Education and Vocational Preparation 3.Paul Hirst's Structure, or The Uses and Abuses of an Overworked Concept The Curriculum: The Timeless and the Timebound Curriculum and the Mirror of Knowledge 4.Moral and Religious Education: Hirst's Perception of Their Scope and Relationship 5.Wittgenstein's Speculative Aesthetics in its Ethical Context The Arts, Well-being and Education 6.Education, Knowledge and Practices

The European Face of Social Security: Essays in Honour of Herman Deleeck

Abstract: The methodology of poverty measurement the impact of social security policy paradigms the European perspective.

Humanitarian action and peace-keeping operations

Abstract: It is an honour and a privilege for me to address this Conference devoted to a topic of great importance to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). As a humanitarian organization, whose mandate it is to provide protection and assistance for victims of armed conflicts and which is operational worldwide, the ICRC has been directly concerned with many peace-keeping missions undertaken by the United Nations.

Calderón and the Politics of Honour

Abstract: The relationship of the theatre's honour-vengeance code to the prescriptions of Christian morality has over the years attracted considerable attention, and the comparison of one with the other has led many to the logical conclusion that no Christian dramatist worthy of the name could possibly have been recommending — as has been claimed by those innocent enough to believe that art seeks to promote what it depicts — the slaughter of the innocent or even the not-yet-guilty. However, to bring into confrontation two such opposed value systems is by itself, perhaps, too starkly polarized an exercise to provide the basis for an adequate understanding of the contortions of honour as they are depicted in Calderon's wife-murder plays, and therefore of the authorial attitudes possibly inscribed in them. That they should have been condemned by some contemporary churchmen as harmful and praised by others as highly moral in itself reveals the difficulty of measuring their ‘enormes crueldades’1 by the yardstick of the ...

Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution

Abstract: Part 1 Providence Change War Honour. Part 2 Sin Oppression Judgement Individual Responsibility Collective Guilt Justice. Part 3 Covenant The Law The Gospel The Poor The Magistrate Blood. Part 4 Faith Truth Mercy Prayer Work. Part 5 The Church.

Commonsense knowledge: A challenge to research

Abstract: It is an honour for me to give the 1992 Radford Lecture. Bill Radford is one of the educational researchers on whose shoulders I have stood. His classic study of Australian school leavers was an invaluable base for some of the early work I did on disadvantage and inequality in education. His remarkable achievement in persuading Queensland to give up external examinations for Year 12 and for university selection set a goal I and many others have tried for nearly twenty years to emulate but, as yet, with nothing like his success. I remember, personally and more importantly, the wise words he offered me from time to time and the impish smile that went with them. It was as if he knew that sometimes I would reject them because of the institutional caution they contained. The extent of the educational crises that we, as educators, are now facing in Australia's umversities, and the gloom and despair associated with them were not evident when I chose tonight's topic. Had it been, I suspect I would have tried to address a different topic.