المؤلفون: Hunt, John M.

المصدر: Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture; 2024, Vol. 53, p237-247, 11p

مصطلحات موضوعية: WITCHCRAFT, RUMOR, DEVIL, EXTINCT cities, MAGIC, WITCHES, EIGHTEENTH century

مصطلحات جغرافية: VENICE (Italy)

مستخلص: In early modern Venice, men and women regularly visited wells and remote islands to summon the Devil. This practice, rooted in traditions established in the Middle Ages, continued into the eighteenth century. One popular form of this tradition involved witches opening up a portal to Hell in the deserted wells of the city. Witnesses to these conjurations testified that they could smell sulfur, see hellfire and smoke, and hear the groaning of the damned when the witches performed their magical rites. The Devil himself appeared to talk to the witch who summoned him, usually to give her advice on elections to the Great Council or the location of hidden treasures. Using trials from the Venetian Inquisition, this essay examines women's involvement in the political life of the city, maintaining that through their expertise in magic and knowledge of rumor, they played a larger role in the early modern state and knew more of its secrets than we have credited them with having. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Roach, Joseph

المصدر: Eighteenth-Century Studies; Winter2024, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p245-247, 3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: REVOLUTIONS, SEDITION, RUMOR, HURRICANE Katrina, 2005, NATURAL law

مصطلحات جغرافية: LOUISIANA

المؤلفون: Luskey, Brian P.

المصدر: Reviews in American History; Mar2023, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p40-47, 8p

مصطلحات موضوعية: AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865, RACE, POLITICAL culture, ANTISLAVERY movements, RUMOR

People: LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865

مستخلص: David S. Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. [2] Reynolds immerses us in Lincoln's immersive cultural experience and argues that Lincoln was adept in "traversing a culture's idioms" and sought to direct "the many cultural forces in America that tended toward conflict, fragmentation, and... chaos" with an eye toward achieving "order, justice, and fairness" (pp. xv, xx, xvi). White has made a habit of doing creative research to produce insightful work that embeds Lincoln and the history of his administration in the contours of popular and political culture.[8] There will be thousands more biographies of Lincoln, but I suggest flipping the Lincoln archive for non-biographical purposes. [Extracted from the article]

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المؤلفون: Bowler, Rebecca

المصدر: Modernism/Modernity; Jan2023, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p111-127, 17p

مصطلحات موضوعية: COMFORT food, PLEASURE, STORY plots, RUMOR, BANJO, COMMON decency, FOOD habits

مصطلحات جغرافية: HARLEM (New York, N.Y.)

People: MCKAY, Claude, 1890-1948

المؤلفون: Burton, Antoinette, Wilson, Kathleen, Smith, Matthew J., da Silva, Daniel Domingues, Sidbury, James, Brown, Vincent

المصدر: Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History; Winter2022, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p1-23, 23p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ANTISLAVERY movements, INSURGENCY, SLAVERY, IMAGINATION, HISTORY of cartography, STATE power, REVOLUTIONS, COLONIES, RUMOR

مستخلص: Like words, numbers produced during the chaotic and disorienting events were the products of aspiration, fear and rumor".5 As Brown notes, "historical sources are never transparent reflections of what happened, how, and why; nor, in the case of the Jamaican uprisings, are they merely the literary phantasms of the colonists' imaginations".6 Nonetheless -- and even if "Tacky" himself is not fully knowable -- "Tacky's Revolt is forever entangled with their fears and fantasies. Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt demonstrates, somewhat ironically, that Tacky was not the most consequential leader of the enormous uprising that shook Jamaica during the Seven Years' War. Empire of Violence: Jamaica and the British Imperial Orderin the long Eighteenth CenturyKathleen Wilson Stony Brook University It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to participate in a forum on Vincent Brown's remarkable and illuminating study, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. [Extracted from the article]

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المؤلفون: Denson, Ryan

المصدر: Journal of Late Antiquity; Fall2022, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p494-518, 25p

مصطلحات موضوعية: DEMONOLOGY, RUMOR, CHRISTIAN eschatology, POWER (Social sciences), INVECTIVE, CARICATURE

Reviews & Products: BIBLE. Revelation

مستخلص: This article examines the sections of the sixth-century Secret History of Procopius of Caesarea where the emperor Justinian, and occasionally his wife, Theodora, were portrayed as demons, further giving special consideration to the three instances where Justinian was referred to specifically as the "Lord of the Demons" (ἄρχων τῶν δαιμόνων). I argue that Procopius's depiction of the demonic Justinian was fundamentally the result of a synthesis of contemporary rumors and apocalyptic thought, imbued with a literary flourish, while the term "Lord of the Demons" also had a more distinct resonance in the Secret History and in the roughly contemporary commentary by Oecumenius on Revelation , wherein it is used by both authors to refer to an Antichrist-like figure in a position of political power. The demonic Justinian was, then, a figure befitting of a political invective, yet rather than being a simple caricature premised solely on inversions of the emperor, it was the manifestation of a complex confluence of political discontent, as well as aspects of Christian demonology and eschatology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Seager, Nicholas

المصدر: Eighteenth-Century Studies; Spring2023, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p481-483, 3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: CONSPIRACY theories, PRACTICAL politics, PROROGATION of Parliament, BRITISH history, RUMOR

مستخلص: John McTague, Things That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2019). Things That Didn't Happen: Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743 by John McTague (review) In the I History i , Defoe recounts the failed 1708 Jacobite invasion of Scotland, an episode which is the subject of one of McTague's best chapters. [Extracted from the article]

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المؤلفون: Olmsted, Kathryn S.

المصدر: Reviews in American History; Jun2022, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p201-207, 7p

مصطلحات موضوعية: RUMOR, GOSSIP, MASCULINITY, MASCULINE identity, HELPING behavior, OFFENSIVE behavior, GENDER role, GRAPHIC novels, SOCIAL norms

مستخلص: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joe McCarthy, and attorney Roy Cohn were among the most villainous figures in mid-century U.S. politics. Christopher M. Elias, Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation. Elias analyzes the paradox of the participation of McCarthy, Hoover, and Cohn in this burgeoning effort to ruin the careers of men who failed to live up to a certain constricted version of masculinity. Elias describes Roy Cohn, who completes his trio of "gossip men", as constructing a "gold-collar" masculine identity, as opposed to Hoover's white-collar and McCarthy's blue-collar versions (p. 117). [Extracted from the article]

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المؤلفون: Ruben, Bruce

المصدر: American Jewish History; Apr2022, Vol. 106 Issue 2, p177-201, 25p

مصطلحات موضوعية: REFORM Judaism, PRAYERS, RELIGIOUS symbols, SYNAGOGUES, AMERICAN Jews, RITES & ceremonies, RABBIS, RELIGIOUS experience, RUMOR

مستخلص: In the weeks leading up to the Cleveland Conference, Lilienthal, now a moderate Reformer, advocated for the liturgy using citations from traditional legal texts to justify the proposed changes.[81] At Cleveland, Wise was appointed head of the committee to formulate a uniform American liturgy.[82] The commission, made up of Rabbis Wolf Rothenheim and Isadore Kalisch in addition to Wise himself, met in Wise's library for over thirty-eight sessions. In the mid-nineteenth century, a group of immigrant rabbis, including Isaac Mayer Wise and Max Lilienthal, believed that they could unite the majority of American Jews around moderate Reform. 55 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 22. 56 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 51. 57 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 52. 58 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 53. 59 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 53. 60 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 165-66. 61 Wise, I Reminiscences i , 213. Wise declared: "We can never expect a union of the American synagogues with German prayers and hymns, which in a few years will be obsolete in our midst."[108] Following the first meeting in Cleveland in June 1870, Welsch, one of the Sulzer cantors, sent a letter in September to Wise offering "to convene a meeting of I Hazanim i favorable to modern Synagogue music, to agree upon a selection of compositions for the American synagogue.". [Extracted from the article]

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المؤلفون: Bourbonnais, Nicole

المصدر: Journal of Women's History; Winter2021, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p1-10, 10p

مصطلحات موضوعية: CONTRACEPTION, ACTIVISM, ABORTION, MATERNAL-child health services, STATE power, MEDICAL personnel, RUMOR, FEMINISM