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Harrod, Joseph C. [Verfasser]. "Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies / Joseph C. Harrod." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.
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BELLINI, FEDERICO ALBERTO. "Malinconia, degenerazione e abitudine in Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad e Samuel Beckett. Tre figure di rifiuto del lavoro." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1813.
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Questo studio riguarda le rappresentazioni letterarie del rifiuto del lavoro nei testi di Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad e Samuel Beckett. Nell'introduzione mi occupo della definizione del rifiuto del lavoro quale tema letterario e delle questioni metodologiche connesse a tale problema. Al fine di situare l'analisi del tema in un più ampio contesto, i tre capitoli successivi si concentrano ciascuno su un autore in relazione a un 'sottotema': rispettivamente malinconia, degenerazione e abitudine. Il rifiuto del lavoro in Herman Melville, e in particolare in "Bartleby", emerge come una reazione contro la malinconia e il Romanticismo. "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" di Joseph Conrad appare invece quale un modo di affrontare degenerazione e decadenza. Infine, l'abitudine si rivela un tema centrale dell'opera di Samuel Beckett: un'analisi delle fonti e dell'evoluzione di esso nelle sue opere offre una prospettiva d'interpretazione della sua produzione letteraria. L'ultimo capitolo affronta infine il modo in cui queste diverse traiettorie creative costituiscono diversi aspetti o fasi dello stesso fenomeno, e rappresentano manifestazioni di simili processi creativi.<br>This study concerns the literary representations of the refusal of work in the works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Samuel Beckett. In the introduction I deal with the definition of refusal of work as a literary theme and with the methodological issues of the chosen approach to the topic. In order to situate the analysis of the main theme in a broader context, each of the following three chapters focuses on one of the authors in relation to a sub-theme: melancholia, degeneration, and habit, respectively. The refusal of work in Herman Melville, and particularly in Bartleby, emerges as a reaction against melancholy and Romanticism. I read Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" as a way of approaching a theory of degeneration and decadence. Finally, I identify the centrality of habit to Samuel Beckett's oeuvre: an examination of the sources and evolution of this theme in his oeuvre, provides a more nuanced understanding of his aesthetic project. My final chapter addresses how these very different aesthetic trajectories function as different facets, or stages, of the same phenomenon, and as manifestations of very similar creative processes.
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Erving, George S. "Coleridge, Priestley, and the culture of Unitarian dissent /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9353.
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Roberts, Heulwen Mary. "Architect of empire: Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8969.
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New Zealand-born architect Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937) is largely forgotten in the country of his birth. Considering the importance of his public works in Bihar and Orissa, India (1912-1919) and his prominence as a school architect in New South Wales, Australia (1923-1937), recognition of his architectural achievements is long overdue.
This thesis takes as its premise the notion that early twentieth century architecture in colonial New Zealand, India and Australia was British, the rationale expounded by G. A. Bremner in Imperial Gothic– Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire (2013). My thesis argues that, considering Munnings’ colonial upbringing and English training, the styles he employed reflected his and his clients’ identity as British. It explores the extent to which Munnings adapted British styles, by incorporating features appropriate for colonial conditions. Drawing upon the work of Ian Lochhead on the achievements of Samuel Hurst Seager, my thesis considers the role played by Seager in mentoring Munnings and guiding his philosophy of architecture. Peter Scriver’s papers, ‘Edge of empire or edge of Asia’ (2009) and ‘Complicity and Contradiction in the Office of the Consulting Architect to the Government of India, 1903-1921’ (1996), also inform my analysis of Munnings’ work in India.
To enable an analysis of Munnings’ work, this study divides his career into chronological stages: Early experiences and training, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1879-1903 Architectural training, London, England, 1903-1906 Partnership with Hurst Seager and Cecil Wood, Christchurch, 1906-1909 Work with Leonard Stokes, London, 1909 Responsibilities and achievements, India, 1910-1918 Contributions and achievements, New Zealand, 1919-1923 Partnership with Power and Adam, Sydney, Australia, 1923-1937.
This thesis, the first comprehensive study of Munnings’ career, illuminates the extent of his architectural legacy in India, his significant contribution to school architecture in New South Wales, and asserts his place as an architect of the British Empire.
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Barnhart, Stephen H. "The nineteenth-century church history professors at Princeton Seminary a study in the Princeton theology's treatment of church history /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Daniel, Dafydd Edward Mills. "Conscience and its referents : the meaning and place of conscience in the moral thought of Joseph Butler and the ethical rationalism of Samuel Clarke, John Balguy and Richard Price." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:427a4657-7701-4c68-bb05-353100ee9a73.
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Joseph Butler's moral thought and the ethical rationalism of Samuel Clarke, and his followers, John Balguy and Richard Price, are frequently distinguished, as a result of: (a) Butler’s empirical method (e.g., Kydd, Sturgeon); (b) Butler's emphasis upon self-love in the 'cool hour passage' (e.g., Prichard, McPherson); (c) Butlerian conscience, where, on a neo-Kantian reading, Butler surpassed the Clarkeans by conveying a sense of Kantian 'reflective endorsement' (e.g., Korsgaard, Darwall). The neo-Kantian criticisms of the Clarkeans in (c) are consistent with (d) Francis Hutcheson's and David Hume's criticisms of the Clarkeans; (e) modern criticisms of rational intuitionism that follow Hutcheson and Hume (e.g., Mackie, Warnock); and (f) the contention that the Clarkeans occupied an uneasy position within 'post-restoration natural law theory' (e.g., Beiser, Finnis). (d)-(e) thus underpin the distinction between Butler and the Clarkeans in (a)-(c), where the Clarkeans, unlike Butler, are criticised for representing moral truth as the passive, and self-evident, perception of potentially uninteresting facts. This study responds to (a)-(f), by arguing that Butlerian and Clarkean conscience possessed more than one referent; so that conscience meant an individual's experience of his own judgement and God’s judgement and the rational moral order. As a result of their shared theory of conscience, Butler and the Clarkeans held the same theory of moral development: moral agents mature as they move from obeying conscience according to only one of conscience's referents, to obeying conscience because to do so is to satisfy each of conscience's referents. In response to (a)-(b), this study demonstrates that the Clarkeans agreed with Butler’s method and 'cool hour': natural considerations of individual judgement and self-interest were necessary aspects of the progress towards moral maturity in both Butler and the Clarkeans. With respect to (c), it is argued that Butler and the Clarkeans shared the same understanding of practical moral reasoning as part of their shared understanding of conscience and moral development. This study places limits upon proto-Kantian readings of Butler, and neo-Kantian criticisms of the Clarkeans, while making it inconsistent to divide Butler and the Clarkeans on the basis of Butlerian conscience. In answer to (c)-(f), Clarkean conscience shows that the Clarkeans were neither complacent nor ‘externalists’. Clarkean conscience highlights how the Clarkeans positioned themselves within the tradition of Ciceronian right reason and Thomistic natural law. Consequently, in both Butler and the Clarkeans, the intuition of moral truth was not the passive perception of an 'independent realm' of normative fact, but the active encounter, in conscience, with reason qua the law of God’s nature, human nature, and the created universe.
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Williams, James C. Williams. "THE ROAD TO HARPER’S FERRY: THE GARRISONIAN REJECTION OF NONVIOLENCE." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1465911514.
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Caland, Brigitte. "L'image de la femme et du couple dans trois œuvres de S.Y. Agnon : Agounot (Abandonnées/Suspendues), Sipour Pashout (Une simple histoire) Et Shira. Approche psychanalytique et influence freudienne." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014INAL0010/document.
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La thèse se propose d’étudier, à l’aide d’une approche psychanalytique, trois œuvres de S.Y. Agnon, prix Nobel de littérature en 1966, dans lesquels le thème du trio amoureux, un couple et l’objet de désir ou d’amour extérieur à ce couple, occupe une place centrale : Agounot (Abandonnées), une histoire courte écrite en 1908 alors que l’auteur n’a que 21 ans, Sipour Pashout (Une simple histoire), un récit entre novella et roman publié en 1935 et Shira, un long roman que l’auteur ne semble pas pouvoir terminer, dont certains passages paraissent dans la presse vers la fin des années 1940 mais qui sera publié en 1971 à titre posthume par la fille d’Agnon, en charge de l’œuvre, et ce, à la demande de son père. Chaque histoire est traitée séparément puis, par comparaison, la recherche tente d’évaluer l’influence freudienne à travers l’évolution des personnages, leurs comportements, la dynamique du couple, leurs rêves, leurs réactions face au manque provoqué par l’absence de l’être aimé. Ce travail aborde également la relation ambivalente d’Agnon à la psychanalyse<br>Through psychoanalytical approach, the thesis examines the image of the woman and the couple in three works of S.Y. Agnon, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which the couple and an object of desire occupy a central place : Agunot, a short story written in 1908 when the author is only 21 years old, Sipur Pashut a two hundred page novel written in 1935 and Shira a long novel that Agnon is unable to finish. Although some chapters appear in the press in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, the novel itself was published posthumously by the author’s daughter according to her fathers will in 1971. After analyzing each story separately, the thesis evaluates by comparison the Freudian influence in the structure of each story, the behavior of the characters, the dynamic within the couple, their dreams as well as the void caused by the absence of the beloved person. This thesis also analyzes Agnon’s ambivalence towards psychoanalysis
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Lander, Katja. "Josef Samuel Bloch und die Österreichisch-Israelitische Union : Initiativen zur Begründung einer jüdischen Politik im späten 19. Jahrhundert in Wien /." Saarbrücken : [Universität], 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36957475g.
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Gamar, Tetyana. "KAMMARMUSIK AV JOSEPH RHEINBERGER : EN STUDIE KRING KONSERT (SUITE) OP.149 FÖR VIOLIN, CELLO OCH ORGEL." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1904.
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Examensarbetet handlar om min instudering av Joseph Rheinbergers Konsert (Suite) för violin, cello och orgel. Förutom en kort biografi över Rheinberger och en översikt över hans kammarmusik behandlas olika aspekter på kammarmusikaliskt spel som t. ex. tempoval och frågor rörande artikulation och intonation. Jag tar också upp hur orgelns registrering realiseras så nära Rheinbergers egna anvisningar som möjligt med tanke på hur olika akustiska förutsättningar påverkar samspelmässiga aspekter. Instuderingsarbetet har gett mig nya erfarenheter vad beträffar kammarmusikspel med orgel, speciellt med tanke på styrkeförhållanden mellan orgeln och övriga instrument i ensemblen samt andra akustiska förhållanden som hörbarhet och tydlighet.<br><p>Program:</p><p>JOSEPH RHEINBERGER: KONSERT (SUITE) OP.149 FÖR VIOLIN, CELLO OCH ORGEL.</p><p>Medverkande:</p><p>Olga Gamar (cello), Vladimir Gamar (violin), Tetyana Gamar (orgel)</p>
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Dunham, Laura Grace. "The Domestic Architecture of Collins and Harman in Canterbury, 1883 – 1927." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Art History, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9399.
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This thesis explores the domestic designs produced in Canterbury, New Zealand, by the architectural firm of Collins and Harman between 1883 and 1927. Architects John James Collins (1855 – 1933) and Richard Dacre Harman (1859 – 1927) were partners in the firm founded in Christchurch by William Barnett Armson (1833 – 1883) in 1870. Like many New Zealand architects practicing at the turn of twentieth century, Collins and Harman worked amidst a climate of major social and economic transformation, yet they managed to navigate these transitions with their personal connections and respected positions within the local architectural profession.
From Collins and Harman’s surviving architectural drawings and office records, the firm’s ability to design residences in accordance with its clients’ wishes is evaluated. The methods with which they carried out designs, transacted business and secured future clients are also considered. The social standing of the firm’s clientele is emphasised to highlight the tight-knit nature of architectural patronage in Canterbury during this period. In order to assess the firm’s contribution to the development of domestic architecture in New Zealand, the local architectural profession, the firm’s reputation, and the effects that its built designs had on its clients and the local community are also investigated.
While their major public and commercial designs are included in general surveys of New Zealand architecture, Collins and Harman tend to be overlooked as domestic architects in comparison with better-known contemporaries such as Samuel Hurst Seager and Cecil Wood. In catering to the requirements of a diverse clientele, the firm adopted varied approaches in its designs, which illustrate a more complex evolution than the linear progression usually found in standard architectural historical methodologies. Divided chronologically into four distinct periods, the thesis focuses on key commissions to chart the firm’s development over forty-four years within the context of the evolution of domestic architecture in Canterbury. The diversity in its domestic work engendered by the firm’s professionalism demonstrates that Collins and Harman made a substantial and vital contribution in the development of domestic architecture in Canterbury.
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Dowse, Richard J. "The Laie Hawaii Temple: A History from Its Conception to Completion." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3352.
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The Laie Hawaii Temple majestically overlooks the beaches of Oahu and has stood as an emblem of the Latter-day Saint faith to the world since 1919. Although the structure is iconic and highly significant to Latter-day Saints, a comprehensive history of the Laie Hawaii Temple has never been published. This thesis provides such a history from the conception of the temple until its dedication. The history of this particular temple is important for several reasons. At its dedication, the temple in Laie became the fifth operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first dedicated temple outside of the state of Utah (following the exodus) and outside of North America. It was also the first temple built in one of the missions of the Church. It was a pioneering temple as one of the first that catered to a large number of patrons from different cultures speaking different languages. Its multi-cultural, multi-lingual integration is something that would not be seen in other temples for several decades. Over the years, the temple and the attractions built around it have drawn millions of other visitors as well. Its location has made it an internationally recognized edifice and a valuable tool for the Church to introduce its message to the world. This history is also compelling because of what the temple in Laie, Hawaii represents in terms of the Latter-day Saint conception of the doctrine of the "gathering." As the first temple built outside of the traditional centers of Mormon colonization, this temple became an early prototype of a method of gathering that does not appear to begin taking hold Church-wide until the mid-twentieth century. Ahead of its time in other ways, the temple was built in a place where, according to the thinking of the time, Church membership was not yet sizable enough to warrant a temple. This thesis explains why the temple was built in Hawaii. These aspects of the temple's history produced ramifications that continue to impact the Church today, nearly 100 years later. As with many temples, a folk history of oral tradition has developed around the story of the Laie Hawaii Temple. This thesis will also provide a review of the historical record and offer clarity in sorting through that tradition.
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Osorio, Soto María Eugenia. "La subjetividad oculta : la representación del amor en obras de sor Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Soledad Acosta de Samper /." Stockholm : Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies, Stockholm University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1363.
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Müller, Bettina [Verfasser], and Josef [Akademischer Betreuer] Brüderl. "Addressing issues of unit nonresponse and sample attrition in a relationship and family panel / Bettina Müller ; Betreuer: Josef Brüderl." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1149509872/34.
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Dofková, Jekaterina. "Avantgarda 20.-30. let - Praha a Moskva." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-242846.
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The relationship between Czech and Russian avantgarde has not been properly examined, therefore the aim of this research was to understand the real facts and uncover “ the blind spots“ connected with the specific development of avantgarde architecture in Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. A comprehensive and moreless thorough detailed reconstruction of the interwar period has been created with the help of comparative and historiographic analysis. This period used to be interpreted quite contrarily under the political pressure of the Soviet regime. The thesis analyses the influence of the political regime on architecture, determines the reflection of the events in the Soviet Union on the opinions of Czechoslovak architects by means of testimonies about mutual contacts, mutual criticism and cooperation in the sphere of architecture. The thesis brings and concludes new information regarding Czech architects who were designing and working in the Soviet Union. The research is based on archive documents, articles from specialized contemporary magazines and debates between Czech and Russian architects.
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Agudelo, Ochoa Ana María. "Devenir escritora. Nacimiento y formación de las narradoras colombianas en el siglo XIX (1840-1870)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/79174.
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El objetivo del presente trabajo es reconstruir el surgimiento y emergencia de la figura de la narradora colombiana en el siglo XIX a partir de esos dos casos, específicamente de dos obras concretas: Cuadros de la vida privada de algunos granadinos, copiados al natural para instrucción y divertimento de los curiosos, de Josefa Acevedo de Gómez, publicado en 1861, y Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana, de Soledad Acosta de Samper, editado en 1869. Se trata de conjuntos de relatos que responden a un interés específico congruente con el proyecto de nación, objetivo que sumado a las problemáticas que abordan y a las propuestas estéticas implícitas son una manifestación de la dinámica entre la esfera del poder y la vida intelectual y artística neogranadina del periodo en que son escritos, publicados y leídos. Si bien el conjunto de la obra de cada una de las autoras es de una magnitud importante y comprende diversidad de géneros —literarios y no literarios— la presente investigación se centra en su narrativa, puesto que en una época de primacía del género poético, considerado el adecuado para la lectura y escritura femeninas, la elección de la narración revela simultáneamente una ruptura y un cambio en las necesidades de expresión de esas autoras.<br>The aim of this study is to reconstruct the rise and emergence of the figure of the narrator in Colombian nineteenth century from two concrete works: Cuadros de la vida privada de algunos granadinos, copiados al natural para instrucción y divertimento de los curiosos, by Josefa Acevedo de Gómez, published in 1861, and Novelas y cuadros de la vida suramericana, by Soledad Acosta de Samper, published in 1869. This collections of stories that address a specific interest consistent with the national project, a goal added to the problems addressed and the aesthetic implied are a manifestation of the dynamics between the sphere of power and intellectual and artistic life of New Granada the period in which they are written, published and read. While the whole work of each of the authors is of significant magnitude and diversity of genres, including literary and nonliterary, this research focuses on the narrative, because in an era of primacy of the poetic genre, considered appropriate for female literacy, the choice of the narrative simultaneously reveals a break and a change in the expression of those requirements authors.
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Hedlund, Simon. "“The Kingdom of God cannot be inherited by ἀρσενοκοῖται! (1 Cor 6:9)” : Who are they, and why is Paul condemning them?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nya testamentets exegetik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254533.
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This paper will look at the interpretation and translation of ἀρσενοκοῖται (1 Cor 6:9) in the list of people who will not inherit the kingdom of God. The word is mentioned in 1 Cor 6:9-10, and it has been translated in ways going from “homosexual”, “men who lay with men” and “sodomite” to “a man who lets others use himself or who uses others for debauchery” and “pedophile”. By looking at the views on sexuality, and male same-sex sexuality in particular, pertaining the Greco-Roman society and the Jewish culture contemporary to Paul, and also paying attention to the textual context as well as the context of the congregation in Corinth, the study has its aim set on finding what the word might have denoted to the first readers in the congregation in Corinth, and to Paul. The goal, then, is not to find a translation of the word ἀρσενοκοῖται that is literal, but to find one that is as close to a dynamic equivalent as is possible. This goal will, hopefully, be attained by giving the translation to the modern reader that is the one most likely to connote the same ideas and emotional connotations as the Greek word did in its original context. As the meaning of words change with time and context, there is a need for a translation that can bridge the gap created by that shift of meaning. Building that bridge in the case of ἀρσενοκοῖται is the goal of this paper. When the meaning, or meanings, that is found most likely to have been attained by the ancient readers is found, there will be a critical evaluation of some of the modern translations (and some a bit older) of the word in 1 Cor 6:9 to see if there already exists a translation that can be said to reach the goal of dynamic equivalence, given the meaning that is found most plausible in this paper. The study will argue that that is not the case, and therefore also propose a new translation, one that is argued to be closer to dynamic equivalence than those that has been evaluated. This translation is ”Men who sexually exploit men to gain social powers”.<br>Denna uppsats undersöker översättningen och tolkningen av ordet ἀρσενοκοῖται, det ord som avslutar 1 Kor 6:9 och är del av en lista över dem som inte kan ärva Guds rike (6:9-10). Ordet har översatts på olika sätt genom tiderna, med förslag som sträcker sig från “homosexuella”, “sodomiter”, “män som ligger med män” till “en man som låter utnyttja sig eller utnyttjar andra till osedlighet” och “pedofiler”. Genom att titta på hur sexualitet, och främst då manlig homosexualitet, sågs i den grekisk-romerska och judiska kontexten på Paulus tid, samt studera ordets litterära kontext och församlingens kontext i Korint, är målet att utröna vad ἀρσενοκοῖται bar med sig för betydelser och konnotationer för Paulus och de första mottagarna i Korint. Vad ett ord betyder är inte alltid statiskt över tid och rum utan förändras ofta, om än gradvis. Det riskerar därför att uppstå en klyfta mellan det som ordet från början innebar samt uppfattades som att det innebar, och hur det uppfattas idag. Den här uppsatsens mål är att överbrygga den klyftan för ἀρσενοκοῖται genom att ta reda på vad det grekiska ordet innebar i sin ursprungliga kontext och sedan ge en översättning som på bästa möjliga sätt ger en modern läsare konnotationer som i högsta möjliga grad stämmer överens med de konnotationer som de antika läsarna fick när de mötte ordet. Detta innebär alltså att målet inte är att ge en bokstavlig översättning av ἀρσενοκοῖται, utan en dynamisk ekvivalent översättning, där läsaren så långt det är möjligt får möjligheten att uppfatta det de första läsarna uppfattade. När den, eller de, meningar det är mest troligt att ordet bar med sig i sin ursprungliga kontext är konstaterade, kommer en kritisk utvärdering utifrån den slutsatsen göras av ett antal moderna översättningar (och några lite äldre), för att se om det finns en existerande översättning som uppnår dynamisk ekvivalens. Det kommer visa sig att så inte är fallet, och en ny översättning kommer därför att föreslås: ”Män som sexuellt utnyttjar män för att vinna social makt”.
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Hopkin, Shon David. "Joseph ben Samuel Tsarfati and Fernando de Rojas : Celestina and the world of the go-between." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3898.
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Joseph ben Samuel Tsarfati, one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the Italian Renaissance, first translated the Spanish work Celestina (1499) by Fernando de Rojas into Hebrew in 1507. At present, only Tsarfati’s introductory poem to his translation remains. This study seeks to answer the questions: What may have been Tsarfati’s motivation to translate Celestina into Hebrew so soon after its Spanish composition? How might a Jewish audience in Rojas’s day have understood his work? In response to these questions, this study will primarily concern itself with the similarities between Rojas’s and Tsarfati’s historical situations and the literary interests that they expressed in their works, interests that could have drawn Tsarfati to translate Rojas’s work. Close readings of sections of Celestina, as well as an overview of Tsarfati’s two hundred and thirty-poem corpus and close readings of several of these poems, make up the most important part of this study’s analysis.
Through this analysis, I argue that both Rojas and Tsarfati stood as transitional figures during a period of literary change, which allowed them to explore and exhibit similar themes and interests in their works. Their works thus served as a type of “go-between,” moving their audiences from the attitudes and behaviors of one era into those of a new era. Additionally, and more importantly, both men found themselves at the nexus, or point of contact, between two cultures. Rojas – as a converso serving as a lawyer and leader of a Christian community – and Tsarfati – serving as a Jewish physician to the pope – were both in a position to feel the heavy pressures of the dominant culture and to communicate with their Jewish culture in ways that subverted that pressure and power. Both Rojas and Tsarfati were fascinated with the power of language to conceal and reveal meaning and to exert influence. As men of their time, both saw romantic love as having true, intrinsic value, but at the same time used it as a metaphor for the false hope offered by the dominant culture.<br>text
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Meyerhöfer, Dietrich. "Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach. Sammler – Stifter – Wissenschaftler." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-13B0-E.
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