Images of the Germanic Comitatus

The heroic ethic of the Germanic Comitatus was central to the lives of the Anglo-Saxons. Dignity and power was represented by bands of brave young warriors, who paid tribute to their Chieftain with gifts with bravery in battle. A glorious reputation was of primary importance to the Anglo-Saxons and they frequently exhibited their powers as warriors on the battlefield

Law and the Crime of Practicing Popular Medicine in Early Modern Society

Research into the ecclesiastical court records of Northwest England suggests that legal accusations initiated by the community were spontaneous demonstrations of fear that increased during periods of social dislocation, principally when large numbers of children died at any one time in a particular community. There is evidence to suggest that the cunning folk were caught up in these community outpourings of anguish and were often held responsible by members of the community for causing the misfortune. The primary documents consulted for this investigation provide an important historical source. They offer an insight into a little understood social account of the widespread affairs and popular form of treatment that contributes a unique perspective of popular medicine and the connection with the supernatural world, while offering an insight into the lives and mentalities of villagers and townspeople of early modern England

Regulating Women: The ‘Mass Media’ of Early Modern Society?

People in early modern England went to great lengths in court to protect themselves from the wrath of the female tongue and crimes of speech increased fourfold in England between 1580 and 1680. This paper explores legal attempts to regulate and censor the speech of women. It examines the processes of cultural transmission in Cheshire as represented in petitions and court documents during the decade of 1660 to 1670 and charts the attempts of ruling bodies to regulate the behaviour of ‘unruly’ women to prevent them from informing the community at large through issuing prohibitive petitions and by publishing them. Evidence of censorship of the female voice is derived from hundreds of manuscripts from the Chester Consistory Courts and Quarter Sessions Courts. These archival sources have been closely read and organised and the readership is respectfully invited to enter the fascinating world of Nantwich townsfolk as they are brought to life - larger than life, on this historical canvas, as the intricacies of their lives and the attempts to censor female behaviour unfold during an investigation of their actions, language and private lives

Law and the Crime of Practicing Popular Medicine in Early Modern Society

Research into the ecclesiastical court records of Northwest England suggests that legal accusations initiated by the community were spontaneous demonstrations of fear that increased during periods of social dislocation, principally when large numbers of children died at any one time in a particular community. There is evidence to suggest that the cunning folk were caught up in these community outpourings of anguish and were often held responsible by members of the community for causing the misfortune. The primary documents consulted for this investigation provide an important historical source. They offer an insight into a little understood social account of the widespread affairs and popular form of treatment that contributes a unique perspective of popular medicine and the connection with the supernatural world, while offering an insight into the lives and mentalities of villagers and townspeople of early modern England

Identifying the correct children for inclusion in school-based intervention programs: are teacher perceptions of childhood aggression influenced by child ethnicity?

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 15-18).In order to determine whether Euro-American teachers over-perceive aggression in African-American children, peer ratings of aggression were obtained via a modified version of the Revised Class Play (Masten, Morrison, & Pellegrini 1985) for 134 Euro-American, 178 African-American, and 101 Hispanic children in second and third grades who had been nominated by their teachers for inclusion in a school-based intervention program targeting aggression. Differences in peer ratings of aggression as a function of the rated child's ethnicity were examined, as was whether or not these differences were moderated by ethnic composition of the classroom. Contrary to prediction, a significant main effect was yielded for ethnicity [F(2,266) = 3.587, p < .05] such that African-American children received higher peer ratings of aggression than did their other ethnicity peers. This was true regardless of whether the child's peers shared his or her ethnicity status within the classroom. It was concluded that Euro-American teachers did not over-nominate African-American children given that peers of every ethnicity also viewed the teacher nominated African-American children as more aggressive than nominated children of different ethnic subgroups. The discussion highlights the need to explore alternative explanations for the over-representation of African-American children in aggressive samples as well as the need to consider school-based universal prevention programs

The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change: How Do We Make a Quantum Leap to Sustainability?

Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien will discuss climate change in the context of globalization and its implications for equity and human security, including the types of responses that can lead to an equitable and sustainable future. Drawing on recent IPCC reports, they argue that "bending the curves" calls for more than technical solutions -- it calls for challenging some key assumptions about social change. The adaptive challenge of climate change may, in fact, call for the transformation of science itself, including the role that the social sciences play in integrated global change research.Ohio State UniversityMershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent Web Pag