Economic and moral visions of relic circulationGiven this intense interest in contextualizing relics for their viewers and guiding or limiting access to them, it is surprising that so many central medieval monasteries (and some cathedrals) would choose to remove their relics from those contexts and send them out into the world. Our sense of the importance...
(Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages)Liturgical frameworks for relic circulationWhen the monks of Gigny came to Cluny in 1158 with their relics of St. Taurinus, they were welcomed with an impressive display of the wealth and power of their mother house. Abbot Hugh of Cluny had ordered the entire village to go out to meet the relics and launched an intensive preparation campaign...
(Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages)Relic circulation and the landscapeFields, houses, pastures, cities, villages, ridges, valleys And the entire region for this reason, remain full with gifts. Thus what we read concerning Christ, is restored in [Amandus]: Mountains and hills will chant praise to you And the trees of the woods applaud at your coming. [Isaiah 55:12]'...
(Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages)The mobile relicIt is by now a common observation that a relic does not interpret itself; to be powerful or meaningful, it had to be encased or embedded in symbolic and Relics and their companions as travelers 83 physical layers of meaning, what Cynthia Hahn has termed “the reliquary effect”.9 At home in...
(Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages)The push: academic mobilityAs discussed in earlier chapters, higher education has been marked in recent years by a growth in international connectedness (Skyrme & McGee, 2016). Opportunities to study' abroad started in the 1980s, as rich universities began to offer large scholarships as part of their aid programmes (77?r Economist,...
(The Impact of Higher Education Ranking Systems on Universities)Student mobilityStudent mobility is another factor, which may affect UK universities (Marginson, 2017). Non-EU international student numbers may reduce by 30 to 40%, which would cut into institutional incomes (Marginson, 2017). Applications to UK universities from continental EU students, starting university from September...
(The Impact of Higher Education Ranking Systems on Universities)Government disinformation in war and conflictRhys Crilley and Precious N. Chatterje-Doody ‘The first casualty when war comes’, wrote US Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917, ‘is truth’ (Knightley 2004), and research has shown that through the ages, war and conflict have always been marked by the use of lies, propaganda, and what we now...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)Disinformation matters in war and conflictIn what is considered one of the foundational texts for understanding modern war and conflict, Clausewitz notes that a ‘great part of the information obtained in war is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character’ (Clausewitz 2017, 46). Yet,...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)Circulations: how conspiracy theories exist and travel in today’s media ecosystemConspiracy theories have been around for many centuries. They were transmitted orally, in written and visual forms, and later also in various printed documents (flyers, newspapers, and books) as new technologies emerged (Butter 2014; Byford 2011; Pipes 1997; Thalmann 2019). While hard to precisely quantify,...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)Qualitative Intellectual capital mobilityAnother effect of globalisation is human capital mobility through knowledge and information transfers. One of the reasons is that international/multinational companies have subsidiaries, partners and agencies in different countries. They need skilled and experienced international employees and rotation...
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