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Full-Text Articles in Cultural History
Talk This Way: A Look At The Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop And Christianity, Joshua Swanson
Talk This Way: A Look At The Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop And Christianity, Joshua Swanson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Christianity and Hip-Hop culture are often said to be at odds with one another. One is said to promote a lifestyle of righteousness and love, while the other is said to promote drugs, violence, and pride. As a result, the public has portrayed these two institutions as conflicting with no willingness to resolve their perceived differences. This paper will argue that there has always been a healthy conversation between Hip-Hop and Christianity since Hip-Hop’s inception. Using sources like Hip-Hop lyrics, theologians, historians, autobiographies, sermons, and articles that range from Ma$e to Tipper Gore, this paper will look at the conversation …
Reconciling The Past In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Haley V. Manis
Reconciling The Past In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Haley V. Manis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses the observations of Nancy J. Peterson on historical wounds as a springboard to discuss Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred and its use of both white and black characters to reexamine the origins of the historical wounds and why they are so difficult to deal with even today. Other scholarly works will be used to further investigate the importance of each character in the story and what they mean to the wound itself. Specifically, Dana is analyzed alongside the other main characters: Rufus, Alice, and Kevin. Though Dana’s relationships with these characters, Kindred’s version of the past can be …
The Reality Of Combat!: An Analysis Of Historical Memory In Broadcast Television, Kaleb Q. Wentz
The Reality Of Combat!: An Analysis Of Historical Memory In Broadcast Television, Kaleb Q. Wentz
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis is an analysis of the World War II television drama COMBAT!, which ran from 1962 to 1967, and how this program dealt with and addressed the national memory of the Second World War. The way in which the “Good War” is remembered has changed over time. In the years of the conflict and immediately following its conclusion, there was a sense of zealous patriotism surrounding the war, but as our culture changed, a more critical approach was taken.
This paper examines the way in which the show deals with its two main subjects – the American forces …
Review Of The Cambridge Companion To The Italian Renaissance, Ed. By Michael Wyatt., Brian Maxson
Review Of The Cambridge Companion To The Italian Renaissance, Ed. By Michael Wyatt., Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
The reviewed book's organization around themes reflects the domination of cultural history in the field of Renaissance Studies today.
Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This reviewed book offers a fascinating series of inquiries into the objects, architecture, and spaces in home interiors in early modern Italy, particularly in Florence, Venice, and Bologna.
Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This book reviewed rejects recent scholarship that has minimized the significance of the Italian Renaissance. Instead, it argues that the cities of Florence, Venice, and Milan enjoyed a distinct period of precocity over the rest of Europe between roughly 130--1500.
Review Of Reviving The Eternal City: Rome And The Papal Court, 1420-1447 By Elizabeth Mccahill, Brian Maxson
Review Of Reviving The Eternal City: Rome And The Papal Court, 1420-1447 By Elizabeth Mccahill, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Renaissance Of Empire In Early Modern Europe, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Renaissance Of Empire In Early Modern Europe, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This work offers a panoramic sweep of the use of Roman Imperial Iconographies and literary traditions from the 14th through 17th centuries.
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Mack provides a comprehensive examination of the content and circulation of rhetorical manuals published during the European Renaissance.
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This article focuses on a sliver of the individuals we now know as the Neo-Latinists, who viewed the vernacular as a vehicle for expression throughout the quattrocento.
Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson
Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Jacqueline Murray's Marriage in Premodern Europe collects a wide-ranging series of essays on marriage covering nearly four hundred years and almost the entire European Continent.
Review Of Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay Between Scholarly Reflection And Artistic Production, Brian Maxson
Review Of Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay Between Scholarly Reflection And Artistic Production, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This book reviewed deals with the investigation of conceptions of the medieval world called "Medievalisms". In addition, the book's contributors examine how early modern men and women perceived the medieval world and how these interpretations differed from our own in the twenty-first century.
Review Of Studies In Renaissance Humanism And Politics: Florence And Arezzo, By Robert Black., Brian Maxson
Review Of Studies In Renaissance Humanism And Politics: Florence And Arezzo, By Robert Black., Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
For nearly four decades Robert Black has published important books and articles on humanism, politics, and education in Renaissance Tuscany. Black published his first monograph, Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance,in 1985. Far more than a simple biography, the book is a treasure trove of information about Florence in the mid-Quattrocento. ...
Reviews Of Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated. Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata, Brian Maxson
Reviews Of Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated. Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Biondo Flavio was an erudite and prolific humanist writer who began his literary career in the 1430's and continued producing latin works until his death in 1463. Scholars have attributed Biondo with primary roles in the development of archaeology, topography, historical research, historical criticism, and historical periodization. His writings themselves influenced the content and approach of scholars across Europe for centuries.
Review Of Venice, Cita Excelentissima: Selections From The Renaissance Diaries Of Marin Sanudo. E, Brian Maxson
Review Of Venice, Cita Excelentissima: Selections From The Renaissance Diaries Of Marin Sanudo. E, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This fascinating new book, Venice, Cita Excelentissima, contains a series of translated excerpts from the diaries of the Venetian patrician Marin Sanudo (1466-1536). Sanudo wrote his vast diaries between 1496 and 1533. As early as Sanudo's own lifetime, historians used the richness and variety of these diaries as an unparalleled evidentiary source for early modern Venice. The depth of the diaries derives from Sanudo's personal access to govern ment records and, perhaps even more, his attention to detail and the wide range of topics that he deemed worthy of record. The importance of the diaries prompted a group of Italian …
Review Of Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, Eloquence Et Poésie À Florence Au Début Du Quattrocento, Brian Maxson
Review Of Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, Eloquence Et Poésie À Florence Au Début Du Quattrocento, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Laurence Bernard-Pradelle’s Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, e´loquence et poe´sie a` Florence au de´but du Quattrocento seeks to broaden Bruni’s appeal among readers of French. Toward this end, the book offers an extensive introduction to the life and works of Leonardo Bruni. It also includes new Latin editions of several of Bruni’s shorter works with facing-page French translations. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography. The volume’s primary interest for readers of English will be Bernard-Pradelle’s detailed and learned analysis of Bruni’s sources for the texts published in the volume