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The Sixteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The sixteenth annual meeting of the reactivated SAHS was held on Saturday, October 27, 1979, at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C.
Early Christmas At Emmanual Church, Bertha Louise Goetsch
Early Christmas At Emmanual Church, Bertha Louise Goetsch
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
I am of Swiss ancestry on both sides of the family. My paternal Grandfather Andreas Schifferly, b. 1811, was from Kt. Aargau. My mother was a Stalder from Lutzelfluh, b. 1851, and baptized by the eminent Jeremias Gotthelf, who was also a dear fried of the Stalder family, as well as their pastor. His novels were so much enjoyed by this family, and they carried them to the USA when they left Switzerland for Ohio, in 1853.
A Swedish American In Search Of His French Swiss Roots, Carl J. Olson
A Swedish American In Search Of His French Swiss Roots, Carl J. Olson
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Gentlemen:
I recently noted your name and address when looking up another item of interest in a local library book (reference section) entitled: "How to Find Your Family Roots," a 1977 publication, authorized by Beard-Demong.
From The Kansas Plains To The Kentucky Hills, Walter R. Wullschleger
From The Kansas Plains To The Kentucky Hills, Walter R. Wullschleger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The News Letters and Bulletin reached me today. I am delighted to have these fine periodicals. I had no idea that your find society was in existence.
The Meaning Of Symmetry, S. K. Heninger
The Meaning Of Symmetry, S. K. Heninger
Quidditas
(An Address Delivered to the 1979 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association)
The Use Of Thierry Of Chartres' Hexameron By Anonymi De Elementis And Robert Grosseteste, Richard C. Dales
The Use Of Thierry Of Chartres' Hexameron By Anonymi De Elementis And Robert Grosseteste, Richard C. Dales
Quidditas
The twelfth century in the intellectual history of western Europe was a time of great creativity and freedom and a time during which the rate of acquisition of exotic material was at a maximum. In spite of this, however, the sources of much twelfth-century scientific writing and the use of twelfth-century authors by later writers is little known. Although the editor of a twelfth-century text can sometimes point to the specific source of his author, more often he must simply indicate similar passages in other works or indicate the ultimate source (e.g., Aristotle or Plotinus), which could not possibly have …
A Medieval Spanish Collectanea Of Astronomical Instruments: An Integrated Compilation, Anthony J. Cardenas
A Medieval Spanish Collectanea Of Astronomical Instruments: An Integrated Compilation, Anthony J. Cardenas
Quidditas
The fame of Alfonso X, il Sabio, 1221-1284, rests principally upon the voluminous literary production of his Royal Scriptorium. Many of the original Alfonsine codices survive today and can be found in the libraries of England, France, Italy, and, of course, Spain.
Fools And Fool-Makers: Types Of Comic Characters In Renaissance Literature, Russell J. Meyer
Fools And Fool-Makers: Types Of Comic Characters In Renaissance Literature, Russell J. Meyer
Quidditas
A common impulse in studies of the comic figure, in the Renaissance as well as more recently, has been to seek a single feature which marks all such characters. Most sixteenth-century theorists agreed that both ugliness and surprise play major roles in the success of a comic figure, but their concern on the one hand with the rhetorical powers of laughter and on the other with the moral effects of comedy led them to accept principles which do not actually reflect the experience of comic literature. In their search for a single consolidating feature of all comic figures, the Renaissance …
Machiavelli's The Prince: A Lexical Enigma, Jeane Luere
Machiavelli's The Prince: A Lexical Enigma, Jeane Luere
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Italians today, especially Florentines, unreservedly venerate their native son, Niccolo Machiavelli, 16th century Italian political figure, along with Francesca Petrarcha, Dante Alighieri, and Michelangelo Buonarroti; they attach no stigma, no unfavorable connotation, to the adjective "Machiavellian," coined from the name so famous in literature and legend. An American abroad encounters this total veneration of Machiavelli with some bewilderment, for we are prone to attitudes like that of Thomas Babington Macaulay, who wrote, "We doubt whether any names in literary history be so generally odious as that of Machiavelli."
The Book Index: Plutarch's Moralia And John Donne, John Shawcross
The Book Index: Plutarch's Moralia And John Donne, John Shawcross
Quidditas
Thomas Carew's elegy on John Donne points up an important fact (and distinction); Donne little employed allusions to classical literature and learning such as authors like Edmund Spenser and John Milton did, much to the glee of teachers and the bane of students. But glosses on Donne's works also turn up relatively few contemporary or near-contemporary references to informational volumes, whether in English or in Latin. He knew Galileo's Siderus Nuncius, 1610, and he owned and used such works as Nicholas Harpsfield's Dialogi Sex contra Summi Pontificatus, Monasticae Vitae, Sanctorum, Sacrarum, Imaginum Oppugnatores, et pseudo-martyres, 1566, and …
Medieval And Renaissance Studies In The Rockies: The Evolution Of An Idea, Allen D. Breck
Medieval And Renaissance Studies In The Rockies: The Evolution Of An Idea, Allen D. Breck
Quidditas
For many years the most persistent lament in this part of the country was the absence of a proper forum for the sharing of scholarly study of one of the most significant periods of human history, that of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Annual meetings were generally at too great a distance for many of the members and failed to collect a sufficient number of Rocky Mountain people for conviviality and the sharing of knowledge and experiences. Some sort of organization was imperative.
Report On The 1979 Meeting Of The Association, Harry Rosenberg
Report On The 1979 Meeting Of The Association, Harry Rosenberg
Quidditas
The range of topics covered in the papers presented at Flagstaff in April amply testify to the extraordinary variety of life and thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The papers are a tribute, too, to the vigor of contemporary scholarly interest in these two great historical-cultural epochs. (This review, it should be noted, is based upon the full paper in some instances and in others on both the paper and the pleasure of having been present at the time it was delivered, yet there are also several papers reported here of which I have seen only an abstract.)
A Note On The Date Of The Expositio Super Regulam Of Hugh Of Digne, Delno C. West
A Note On The Date Of The Expositio Super Regulam Of Hugh Of Digne, Delno C. West
Quidditas
A challenging issue for medieval Franciscan history is how and why the Rule of St. Francis was modified so shortly after the founder's death in 1126. One of the earliest and most important expositions of the Rule was written sometime in the middle of the thirteenth century by the southern French Joachite-Franciscan and scholar, Hugh of Digne. It is remarkable that Hugh's writings have been little studied, since the friar was a central figure in the development of Franciscan Joachimism and served as an inspirator of the Spiritual movement. The Spirituals read his treatises with great respect and admiration. To …
The "Resurrection" Of Frederick Ii Of Hohenstaufen, James K. Otte
The "Resurrection" Of Frederick Ii Of Hohenstaufen, James K. Otte
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Those who visit Goslar, jewel of the Salian and Hohenstaufen emperors, will be introduced to one of the most beautiful and best preserved romanesque Pfalzen, which served the medieval emperors as regional residences. The stately throne hall received its present decor in the years 1879-97, when Herman Wislicenus created a series of huge murals depicting great events in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. The most romantic and prophetic of these paintings portrays Frederick Barbarossa. It is a visual expression of a popular medieval legend that envisioned the return of Kaiser Rotbart.
The Problem Of Distinguishing Religious Guilt From Religious Melancholy In The English Renaissance, Noel L. Brann
The Problem Of Distinguishing Religious Guilt From Religious Melancholy In The English Renaissance, Noel L. Brann
Quidditas
What is the essential difference between natural melancholy and the guilt-stricken conscience of the sinner? This is the question posed by Ben Jonson (1573-1637) in his poetic plain To Heaven:
Good, and great God, can I not thinke of thee,
But it must, straight, my melancholy bee?
It is interpreted in me disease,
Thaat, laden with my sinnes, I seeke for ease?
Here Jonson points up the perennial quandary of homo religioso. At stake in its solution is not only the health of the body, but also the salvation of the soul. For if spiritual guilt cannot be …
Closure In The Early Spanish Ballad, David William Foster
Closure In The Early Spanish Ballad, David William Foster
Quidditas
One of the hoariest cliches in traditional literary histories apropos the early Spanish ballad (i.e., the Romancero viejo of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) concerns poetic ending or closure: "[The early ballads] frequently end as abruptly as they begin, oftentimes seemingly unconcluded, a characteristic which gives them an air of mystery and special charm." The feature is often attributable to the general and specific origins of the texts in the fragmentation of longer epic poems and chronicles, or in the truncation of longer ballads. The most representative example is "Conde Arnaldos," one of the best of the early Spanish ballads …
Papers In Language And Literature Delivered At The 1979 Meeting Of The Association, John Boni
Papers In Language And Literature Delivered At The 1979 Meeting Of The Association, John Boni
Quidditas
The papers in language and literature covered, as might be expected, a broad range of interests: from Beowulf to Paradise Lost, from paleography to cultural change. The following is an attempt too summarize the content of each paper, staying as close as possible to the author's pattern of argument, and following the author's own words, directly or by paraphrase; the order here follows that of the program. Where only an abstract was available as a source of summary, this has been noted.
"A Growing Or Full Constant Light": A Reading Of Donne's "A Lecture Upon The Shadow", Diane Elizabeth Dreher
"A Growing Or Full Constant Light": A Reading Of Donne's "A Lecture Upon The Shadow", Diane Elizabeth Dreher
Quidditas
John Donne's "A Lecture Upon the Shadow" has given rise to extensive critical commentary, most of it devoted to the shadow imagery in the poem. However, no one, to date, has proposed a satisfactory explanation for the shadow's shift in meaning from the realm of natural phenomena to that of conjecture and imagination. Pierre Legouis has concluded that "the similitude does not hold good ... it is imperfect." Yet an acceptable explanation is possible and the similitude does hold good when the poem is considered in terms of its dominant structural pattern, the Bonaventuran meditation. In keeping with meditative practice, …
Immigrating To America, Andrew Christensen
Immigrating To America, Andrew Christensen
The Bridge
To get the proper backdrop for this article, let me quote a few statements from the introduction of an outstanding book on immigration to America, sponsored by the Rebild Society and written by Kristian Hvidt, the Chief Librarian of the Danish Parlimentary Library:
"In the course of the fifty years preceeding the outbreak of World War I in 1914, well over 300,000 Danes left their homeland to become immigrants; ninety percent of them settled in the U.S.A. The illuminating facts stated in human terms show that our grand and great-grandparents saw every tenth one of their countrymen leave their land …
Thirty Years Of Emigrating, Lis Jorgensen
Thirty Years Of Emigrating, Lis Jorgensen
The Bridge
Contemporary emigration is both like and unlike the earlier emigration of Scandinavia.
The emigrants came to North America in the nineteenth century largely because of overpopulation in their own countries creating famine or purely for economic reasons. In North America they could obtain free or cheap land and thus make a better living for their families. According to early accounts, however, they often suffered even greater hardships here than at home. One question that seemed to bother the Danish settlers was whether they had done the right thing in leaving the old country. They wondered if in their struggle for …
The Acculturation Of The Danish Immigrant, Enok Mortensen
The Acculturation Of The Danish Immigrant, Enok Mortensen
The Bridge
In the very first issue of The Bridge Dr. Otto Hoiberg had a perceptive article on the subject of acculturation. He suggested that a logical concern of the fledgling Danish-American Heritage Society might be to examine this process. I was particularly interested in his challenge because I have observed this process in myself and others for some sixty years, and for most of my adult life I have attempted to describe and to interpret this in lectures and in my books - not least in my stories and novels.
The Feilberg Letters: A Danish Family's Reflections On Canadian Prairie Life (Ii), Jorgen Dahlie
The Feilberg Letters: A Danish Family's Reflections On Canadian Prairie Life (Ii), Jorgen Dahlie
The Bridge
Readers of the previous issue of The Bridge (no. 3, 1979) will have made the acquaintance of the Ditlev and Julie Feilberg family. Their arrival in Saskatchewan some seventy years ago and their subsequent experiences in Canada have been documented in a series of letters sent to relatives in Denmark. In eloquent, often poignant language, the letters tell an absorbing story of the immigrant's hopeful expectations - and of the often harsh reality - in a new land.
Georg Strandvold: A Progress In Journalism, Olga Strandvold Opfell
Georg Strandvold: A Progress In Journalism, Olga Strandvold Opfell
The Bridge
A bronze plaque that honors Georg Strandvold's memory hangs in Rebild's Blokhus, succinctly summing up the influence he had in his time on thousands of Danish Americans: Skirbent og redaktor i i Amerika i 57 ar. Trofast talsmand for Danmark.
That long career was also versatile. During those 57 years Georg Strandvold wrote for the best known Danish newspapers in the U.S. - Norden, Nordlyset, Den Danske Pioneer, Ugebladet, Dannevirke, Bien - and worked on two American dailies, the Racine Journal and the Grand Forks Herald. For 31 years he also sat on the editorial staff of Decorah-Posten, the largest …
Hands Across The Sea: Soren Qvist In Danish And American Literature, 1625-1947, Otto M. Sorensen
Hands Across The Sea: Soren Qvist In Danish And American Literature, 1625-1947, Otto M. Sorensen
The Bridge
Anno 1632. Severinus Jani Qvist, pastor in Weilbye and Homme in Aarhus Bishopric, was innocently beheaded and his innocence afterwards established, and this transpired in such a way that the footprints of divine providence, as the precious stones of history, can clearly be perceived.
The Remigrants, Edward F. Sundberg, Gerda Sundberg
The Remigrants, Edward F. Sundberg, Gerda Sundberg
The Bridge
"Why did you emigrate to the United States?" Gerda asked.
Mr. R. let a smile play with his lips. " It was an accident," he said.
"Tell us about it," she encouraged.
He told the story of his emigration. Gerda and I listened. Our recording machine captured his words on a cassette tape.
"Now tell us about moving back to Denmark."
Gerda and I were interviewing in Denmark as a part of the research project, RIBBONS OF MEMORIES, an American-Scandinavian Ethnic Heritage Oral History Program.