Nihilisme, Crisis en Zingeving

The Medieval Review, 2024

Antiquity left significant fingerprints across the Byzantine Empire. From physical sites such as urban spaces, civic structures, and their corresponding entrance gates, to the imaginative and syllogistic realms of novels and other literary forms, the past was spread ubiquitously across the present. In her second monograph, Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Culture: Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE, Paroma Chatterjee sinuously foregrounds how the vestiges of pre-Christian culture--and particularly sculptural representations of mythic heroes and animals, as well as famed monuments from the empire’s polytheistic history--resonated throughout the Constantinopolitan zeitgeist. While scholarship has consistently addressed Byzantium’s unsteady relationship with objects of Christian devotion, and particularly the lives and deaths of icons, Chatterjee takes interest in the under-discussed, but captivating roles that pagan statues occupied in the visual culture of the empire. Substituting a traditional Introduction with Chapter 1 (titled “The Byzantine Statue: Problems and Questions”), Chatterjee begins by outlining that pagan statues exacted “an enduring and crucial effect in the visual discourse” of Constantinople (33). She deftly points out to readers that, despite the sheer weight of research centering holy images, such artworks were not the sole constitutive parts of the empire’s visual identity, and that at certain points in its history, pagan statues were perceived as carrying a cultural importance that was comparable, if not equal, to icons. This is a unique assertion, and it is satisfactorily explicated: the author is quick to clarify that while pagan statues were apprehended with proportional cultural significance, they departed from icons in that they inhabited a category of image that was “resistant to imperial control and interference” (39). She outlines that Christian images were explicitly tied to constructs of power and easily interpreted by imperial authorities, but pagan statues were tethered to more amorphous structures--those of thought. (continued on TMR website.)

AMBERD BULLETIN

Today, in addition to meeting domestic demand for electricity, Armenia also exports electricity to neighboring countries. This fact indicates that the sector can be of vital and strategic importance for the development of the national economy and increasing the economic competitiveness of the country. Therefore, the further development of the sector and the more effective use of existing competitive opportunities can be the best preconditions for promoting the country's economic growth, increasing economic competitiveness and ensuring national security. The paper addresses the current trends in the modern energy system of the Republic of Armenia and the possible risks and challenges arising from them, as well as the motivations for the development of the sector by the public and private sectors.

Плиска IX в. и Киев X в.: к сопоставлению столиц вождеств Крумидов и Рюриковичей, 2021

Плиска IX в. и Киев X в.: к сопоставлению столиц вождеств Крумидов и Рюриковичей // Электронный научно-образовательный журнал «История». 2021. T. 12. Вып. 9 (107) [Электронный ресурс]. URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840017060-5-1/ (дата обращения: 27.10.2021). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840017060-5 The paper suggests a historical and typological comparison of the two capitals of the chiefdoms: Old Bulgarian Pliska, the center of the Krumid polity of the 9th century, and Old Russian Kiev, the center of the Rurikid polity of the 10th century. In both cases, a new center was created on the site of an existing settlement and experienced “explosive” growth, which correlates with the development of a new centralized polity and the intensification of its military expansion. Bulgarian Pliska and Russian Kiev were typical residences of leaders such as Heorot of the Danish king Hroðgar, the “wooden palace” of the ruler of the Huns Attila and other similar capitals of different “barbarian kingdoms”. For about a hundred years they remained the centers of pagan chiefdoms, but Kiev retained its “capital” status in the Christian Old Russian early state of the 11th century, but Pliska in the Christian Old Bulgarian early state of the 10th century lost it to Preslav.

Fiore I., Lugli F. (eds.). Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 2023

The paper focuses on Greek epitaphs set up for dogs and attempts to demonstrate the kind of data that can be extracted from such texts. It analyses the texts of canine epitaphs and compares them not only to similar Latin inscriptions and literary evidence, but also to Greek funerary inscriptions set up for humans, as the structure of the canine epitaphs is often similar to the structure of human ones. Topics such as dog names and 'professions' are also touched upon in the paper, and it is concluded that dog owners seem to have named their dogs in a similar manner to how they have named their slaves and have adopted a pattern of expressing their grief over the loss of a pet from the epitaphs commemorating the deaths of dependent members of their households.

Dios y el Hombre - https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/DyH/index, 2023

Texto de la ponencia presentada por Alain Contat en el XI International Thomistic Congress: Vetera novis augere. The resources of the Thomist tradition in the current context, Angelicum, Roma, 2022, cuyo título original es Trois défis pour la métaphysique thomiste au XXI e siècle. En este artículo se discuten tres problemas de distinta índole (crítico, ontológico, epistemológico) que afectan a la metafísica tomista actual.

Jota, 2024