The Avila of Saint Teresa : religious reform in a sixteenth-century city / / Jodi Bilinkoff ; with a new introduction

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820729803321
• Autore: Bilinkoff Jodi <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8014-5527-8; 0-8014-5528-6
• Edizione: [With a New Introduction]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 282/.46359
• Soggetti: Christian saints - Spain - Avila; Avila (Spain) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the 2014 Edition -- Additional Bibliographic Sources -- Abbreviations -- 1. The City Of Saint Teresa -- 2. Aristocratic Dominance and Monastic Foundation, 1480-1520 -- 3. Public Works, Private Goals, 1520-1540 -- 4. Toward a New Definition of Reform, 1540-1570 -- 5. Saint Teresa Of Jesus and Carmelite Reform, 1560-1580 -- 6. Avila after Saint Teresa, 1580-1620 -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped to shape the religious reforms for which the city's most famous citizen is celebrated. Bilinkoff takes as her subject the period during which Avila became a center of intense religious activity and the home of a number of influential mystics and religious reformers. During this time, she notes, urban expansion and increased economic opportunity fostered the social and political aspirations of a new "middle class" of merchants, professionals, and minor clerics. This group supported the creation of ; religious institutions that fostered such values as individual spiritual revitalization, religious poverty, and apostolic service to the urban community. According to Bilinkoff, these reform movements provided an alternative to the traditional, dynastic style of spirituality expressed by the ruling elite, and profoundly influenced Saint Teresa in her renewal of Carmelite monastic life. A focal point of the book is the controversy surrounding Teresa's foundation of a new convent in August 1562. Seeking to discover why people in Avila strenuously opposed this ostensibly innocent act and to reveal what distinguished Teresa's convent from the many others in the city, Bilinkoff offers a detailed examination of the social meaning of religious institutions in Avila. Historians of early modern Europe, especially those concerned with the history of religious culture, urban history, and women's history, specialists in religious studies, and other readers interested in the life of Saint Teresa or in the history of Catholicism will welcome The Avila of Saint Teresa. First published by Cornell University Press in 1989, this new edition of The Avila of Saint Teresa includes a new introduction in which the author provides an overview of the scholarship that has proliferated and evolved over the past 25 years on topics covered in her book. This new edition also include an updated bibliography of works published since 1989 that address topics and themes discussed in her book.

Playing with history : the historical approach to musical performance / / John Butt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955712503321
• Autore: Butt John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 9780511100598; 0511100590; 9781107125759; 1107125758; 9781280436451; 128043645X; 9780511176562; 0511176562; 9780511045509; 0511045506; 9780511157455; 0511157452; 9780511304514; 051130451X; 9780511613555; 0511613555; 9780511016639; 0511016638
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Musical performance and reception
• Disciplina: 781.4/311
• Soggetti: Performance practice (Music); Music - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Joining the historical performance debate; 2 Historical performance and truth to the work': history and the ; subversion of Platonism; 3 Historical performance and truth to the composer': rehabilitating intention; 4 Negotiating between work, composer and performer: rewriting the story of notational progress; 5 Historical performance at the crossroads of modernis and postmodernism
• Sommario/riassunto: Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors of the movement, while claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. He also asks whether the phenomenon of historically informed performance reflects changes in the culture of western music and how it, in turn, may have influenced that culture, particularly in regard to such issues as the status of the composer, the work, intentionality and notation.

Forgetting / / edited by Sergio Della Sala

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963631403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Psychology Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-97086-X; 1-136-97087-8; 1-282-62957-3; 9786612629570; 0-203-85164-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Current issues in memory
• Altri autori (Persone): Della SalaSergio
• Disciplina: 153.1/25
• Soggetti: Memory; Autobiographical memory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Forgetting: Preliminary considerations; 2 Forgetting: A historical perspective; 3 A new taxonomy of memory and forgetting; 4 Forgetting in memory models: Arguments against trace decay and consolidation failure; 5 Connectionist models of forgetting; 6 Synaptic plasticity and the neurobiology of memory and forgetting; 7 The functional neuroimaging of forgetting; 8 Sleep and forgetting; 9 Forgetting due to retroactive interference in amnesia: Findings and implications; 10 Accelerated long-term forgetting; 11 Aspects of forgetting in psychogenic amnesia12 Autobiographical forgetting, social forgetting, and situated forgetting: Forgetting in context; 13 The role of retroactive interference and consolidation in everyday forgetting; Author index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental ; and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the book d