Winckelmann, Morrison and the aspirant gentleman.pdf

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019

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Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1999

2018

This volume accompanied the exhibition open in the Upper Library at Christ Church from 26 June to 26 October 2018. Like many antiquarians of his day, the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) first learned about the ancient world through immersion in literature. As a teacher then librarian in his native Germany, Winckelmann encountered the classics primarily through literary texts, as well as the souvenirs—coins, gems and figurines—that Grand Tourists and other travellers had brought north from their visits to Italy. Once he arrived in Rome, where he rose to prominence at Prefect of Antiquities in the Vatican, Winckelmann studied the remains of Greek, Graeco-Roman and Roman art on a larger scale. Through personal contacts, letters and other writings, Winckelmann influenced his and subsequent generations of scholars, aesthetes, collectors, craftsmen and artists both within and beyond Italy.

Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2002

This paper is concerned with the reporting and display of curiosities of nature at the meetings of The Royal Society during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is argued that these activities cannot, as some historians have maintained, be viewed as a mere opportunity for the entertainment of the Fellows. Instead, the reports and exhibitions fulfilled multiple roles, including the promotion of inquiry, education, polite discourse, as well as entertainment, aspects that were intimately connected during that period. Some of the individual and collective interests involved in the reporting and display of curiosities of nature at the Society are also discussed. It is argued that these interests should be considered within the broad context of the culture of curiosity at The Royal Society in this period.

2020

Candidate Declaration I, Leif Bjarne Hammer, hereby certify that this MLitt dissertation, which is 14 997 words in length, has been written by me, and that it is the record of work carried out by me, and that it has not been submitted in any previous application for a higher degree. Date 18.08.2020 Leif Bjarne Hammer Note to the Reader At the time of researching and writing this dissertation, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the closure of the physical spaces of the St Andrews University Library, the Bodleian Libraries, and the Queen's College archives. This has restricted the possibility of pursuing certain lines of enquiry, and of consulting certain works that are not available digitally.

Choice Reviews Online, 2008

Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, 2020

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Script and Print, 2017

In this essay I examine the manuscript catalogues of a modest personal library. The catalogues are of interest not only for their mix of literature, theology, history and science, but also for the evidence they contain of private borrowing in the 1720s and 30s.

Journal of British Studies, 2021

people was likely quite common. In addition, directly countering often-repeated claims that the more remote the space the more gendered it became (the lady in the tower motif), Weikert reveals that gender is perhaps one of the least important categories identifying both access and control over spaces. As she states, status trumped gender most of the time. This relegation of gender to secondary-category-status also appears in the ways in which people before the Norman Conquest made wills and their strategies for making bequests. Weikert discovered that, when one looks not only at the testator but also at the recipient, the identification of soft goods with women becomes far less assured. Women might have dominated as bequeathers of textiles, but the people to whom they bequeathed such items were both male and female, and those who received soft goods clearly were expected to pass them on to the next generation of heirs and inheritors. Similarly, the transmission of most other material objects and of land did not depend on gendered categories but instead on the specific concerns of the individual writing the will, a conclusion that Weikert admits is "rather poststructural" (186) but reprioritizes the individual and dismisses the kind of group-think presumptions of earlier scholars. Authority, Gender and Space is not a perfect book, but, then again, no book is. It is highly technical and as a result can be a bit tedious to read, especially the very long chapter on access analysis of medieval buildings. The comparison of English and Norman structures could be viewed as problematic because the buildings assessed do not share a common timeframe. English wills from the pre-Conquest period have no Norman or post-Conquest parallels, so it is impossible to determine whether the nuncupative system used by the Normans and Anglo-Normans was equally ungendered in its bequests. The main connection among the literary texts discussed in the final chapter seems to have been specifically the kinds of words and descriptions of rooms, places, and spaces utilized by their authors, but there was little else to connect them. It was difficult for me to contemplate a comparison of the descriptions of Heorot and the chamber to which Wealhtheow and Hrothgar retire in Beowulf and Baudri's description of the luxurious bedchamber of Countess Adela of Blois. Nevertheless, what Weikert does in this chapter is reinforce the lack of connection between gender and authority that she found in the access analysis and the wills. She does so, however, in a more subversive way by challenging the relevance of literary depictions of male figures such as Hrothgar and Eadwig as becoming feminized by their abandonment of male "public" spaces in order to cavort with the women in their more "private" bowers. Adela's husband does not appear in Baudri's work, but it can be assumed that this "daughter of the Conqueror" (as she is famously identified) had already symbolically emasculated her husband by the splendor of her surroundings and their worldly luxury, which implied that Adela held the reins of authority in Blois. In short, this is a very important book that could radically alter the ways in which historians, especially, view the medieval social landscape. It is worth reading and definitely worth spending time digesting and processing.