Hey urban historians and members of UHA; who is going to UHA Pittsburgh this October? I need to brainstorm up an appropriate panel chair for a transportation politics panel. Any thoughts? @histodons@histodon#histodons#urbanism@urbanists.social #urbanhistory
At last, it's publication day for the 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection in the Modern Languages Open journal edited with an intro by yours truly -- and all available Open Access.
Allow me to share each paper in this thread as they get published one by one.
First up,
“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
by David Miranda-Barreiro
Abstract
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. [...] Drawing on studies on state nationalism (Billig 1995) and Spanish nationalism (Taibo 2014, Delgado 2014) this article examines not only Camba’s own views but the response from contemporary scholarship to his texts.
The Picturesque and the Beastly: Wales and the Absence of Welsh in the Journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808)
by Kathryn Walchester
Abstract
[...] The journals written by lady’s companions, Eliza and Millicent Bant, in 1806 and 1808 respectively, present a complicated view, one in which multifarious and often negative versions of Wales compete, but overall where linguistic otherness is not evident. [...] The Bant sisters’ lack of comprehension and their representation of its linguistic otherness is, I suggest, instead played out through a representation of Wales as complex, multifarious and impossible to comprehend. Wales is simultaneously “beastly” and “picturesque”, a place of industry and nature, beauty and squalor.
This leaves me with just my own #introduction to the whole special issue.
Abstract
This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.
Happy reading, y'alls. (For convenience, I will later post the link to the complete bundle.)
The so-called ‘Tellus’ relief from the Ara Pacis is my all time favourite relief. The details are mesmerising with so much layered symbolism built in from the infant twins to the vegetation.
The Augustan style often calls for abundance to be on full show and this relief captures that idea in spades.
A skilful and jaw-dropping relief not to be missed!
#otd 1024 Emperor Henry II died. He was buried in Bamberg and has been resting in the marble high tomb created by Tilman Riemenschneider since the 15th century. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons
On this day in 1830, Henry Barton died aged 84. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Nun's Cross graveyard, Killiskey, Co. Wicklow, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/bart1830
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"He [#Zeus] made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried."
Fulgentius, Mythologiarum Libri III
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture of Zeus-Iupiter, #AsiaMinor, 2nd - 3rd century CE