City Of Kings Research Articles

The 2021 excavation on the Zhengjiahu cemetery in Yunmeng, Hubei

Abstract Situated southeast of the Chuwangcheng (City of the Chu kings) site, Zhengjiahu cemetery is a significant burial ground occupied throughout the Warring States and Qin-Han periods. Excavation in Area C was conducted in 2021. During the excavation, two noteworthy Qin culture tombs were uncovered—tombs M274 and M234. These tombs yielded a wooden gu-rod with extensive text and painted burial containers. The wooden gu-rod, remarkable in its form and abundant in content, is important for the study of the social history and ideology of the late Warring States period. Additionally, the discovery of painted burial containers bridges a gap in our current understanding of Qin and Han painting media and genres. These artifacts offer indispensable data for researching burial customs and rituals, along with the religious thought of the Qin migrants from Guanzhong.

A look at the life of the inhabitants of the estate in Rusovce in the first half of the 20th century

After the forced annexation of the Principality of Nitra, which was ruled by Prince Pribina, to the Principality of Moravia, a relatively powerful Great Moravian Empire was established in the Central European Danube area. After its disintegration in 906, its eastern part, the Principality of Nitra, gradually became part of the multinational Hungarian state. Although it took centuries to form, it eventually disintegrated in 1918 as well. In the history of the Hungarian state, the Slovaks have always played an important role. Even the Slovak Bratislava was its capital between 1538 and 1848. It was the seat of the Hungarian parliament and all the highest state and church authorities. It was also the coronation city of the Hungarian kings. Rusovce is part of Bratislava. It is dominated by the monumental building of the manor house, the seat of the former manor, whose last noble owners were the Lónyai family until 1945. The wife of the Hungarian Prince Elemir Lónyai was Princess Stephanie of Belgium, the widow of the AustroHungarian Crown Prince Rudolf of Habsburg-Lorraine. The article presents a glimpse into the life of this family and also peeks into the operation of the Rusovce estate in the second quarter of the 20th century, as retold by the maid of this aristocratic couple in her memoirs in 1999.

Edificación del antiguo Correo y Telégrafo de Lima. Historia de un patrimonio edificado

El Correo Central de Lima, o antiguamente llamado Correo y Telégrafo de Lima, es un patrimonio poco conocido, en parte porque hoy en día se le da una variedad de usos, sumado a que las últimas generaciones de la población no han llegado a emplear este servicio. Esto último a causa directa del avance de la tecnología y la era digital. Por esos motivos indicados, el objetivo de este trabajo es revalorar su importancia histórica y el diseño arquitectónico que ostentó originalmente, el cual con el tiempo se ha ido modificando, sin que ello signifique la pérdida de su valor. Para ello, se recurrió al empleo de fuente primaria, tanto en imágenes como en información, que es la base de este estudio.
 La conservación del patrimonio es una obligación social, desde el campo de la historia se puede contribuir a esa noble gesta. Un monumento como éste, que ha superado los vaivenes del tiempo, no solo debe ser valorado per se, su complejidad puede aportar a seguir conociendo el devenir de la antigua Ciudad de los Reyes.

Religion and immigration

A documentary focused on the cult of the Crucified Christ, known to a Peruvian community living in Italy as the “Lord of the Miracles.” History of this devotion stretches back to 1651, in the outskirts of Lima (known as La Ciudad de los Reyes –“the city of kings”– in viceregal Peru).
 Today this image of the Christ –originally painted by an Angolan slave– is venerated throughout October in Peru as well as in every nation where Peruvian immigrant communities have formed around the so-called “Brotherhood of the Lord of the Miracles.” Rome’s is considered the most significant such community because of its presence in the Eternal City and its proximity to Saint Peter’s successors.
 The video documentary presents the history, religious ways and lived anthropology of an immigrant community in diaspora. We seek to express the meaning the cult holds among the faithful, according to what its prominent members have described and lived. We observe the religious observances’ character, their various key moments and the social as well as symbolic importance they hold for Peruvian immigrant communities in Italy’s capital city.

Lima festeja a la Inmaculada (1656): texto criollo y poderes urbanos

Analysis of the festivities of the Immaculate Conception celebrated in Lima in 1656, from the account written by Diego de Leon Pinelo Gutierrez. This Creole text reinterprets in baroque terms the cult of the Immaculate Conception in the City of Kings. Through it we can study these lengthy festivals, which involved the participation of the city’s most important institutions and corporate bodies, mobilizing considerable resources and people. Thus, the text is conceived as a political and religious exaltation of the city of Lima, typical of the festive genre and of the chorographic literature, which also connects with the emerging Creole discourse.

Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora ed. by Regine Ostine Jackson (review)

Reviewed by: Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora ed. by Regine Ostine Jackson Carolyn Cooper Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora. Edited by Regine Ostine Jackson New York: Routledge, 2011. 348 pp. $132.95. Edited by Regine O. Jackson, this trans-cultural, multi-disciplinary collection on Haitian migrant communities comprehensively delineates the complexities of “glocalization” over several generations and in disparate directions. As Jackson posits in her lucid introduction, “Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora aims to interrupt the continuity of scholarship on diaspora where binary oppositions – between diaspora and territory, or identity and place – have become commonplace.” Arguing instead for the simultaneity of “here” and “there,” Jackson proposes a reconceptualization of diaspora as a “metageography” that “opens up a space to challenge bounded perspectives on place and to accentuate discontinuous spaces.” Indeed, Haitians dispersed in the Caribbean, North America and Europe wrestle with the politics of place and displacement. Gina Ulysse’s lyrical evocation of the “past that is now archived in our bodies” emblematizes the reverberant preoccupations of Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora. Bodies travel, carrying with them the inscriptions of history. Memories, both personal and communal, transcend spatial boundaries. The subtitle of Ulysse’s poetic reflections, “Coffee Memories, Peasant Food and the Vodou Some of Us Do,” intimates the primacy of food culture and religion as potent markers of identity. A vagrant scent or a fragment of song can evoke home, destabilizing one’s sense of locatedness in diaspora. The essays in Part I, “Lateral Moves,” examine the unsettling complications of migration within the Caribbean: Jamaica, Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the Bahamas. They acknowledge the role that social variables such as color and class play in determining the degree of acceptance of Haitian migrants in often-reluctant host societies. Matthew Smith’s historically grounded essay, “From the Port of Princes to the City of Kings: Jamaica and the Roots of the Haitian Diaspora,” the first chapter of the collection, privileges the “illustrious exiles” who sought refuge in Jamaica in the 19th century. The political elites Boyer, Soulouque and Geffrard did not all fare the same. Smith reports the contempt with which Soulouque was dismissed by the racist proprietor of lodgings at which he sought accommodation: “I won’t keep a house for black men… [End Page 290] I would despise myself to have a black king. As for that black beast and his black women – Bah! … Queen Victoria is my king.” The animosity of this proprietor prefigures the disdain that future generations of Haitians would be forced to endure across the Caribbean, especially those deemed “low-class” and of the “wrong” color. Paul Brodwin’s “The Dialectic of Marginality in the Haitian Community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies” documents the precarious spaces inhabited by undocumented migrants. Similarly, the Haitians in the Dominican Republic who are the subjects of Samuel Martinez’s essay suffer multiple oppressions. Deploying the metaphor of the onion, Martinez exposes the layers of abuse that these alienated migrants are forced to endure. Marginalization is a recurring trope in the collection, as evidenced in Yanique Hume’s revisionist essay, “On the Margins: The Emergence of a Haitian Diasporic Enclave in Eastern Cuba.” Contesting conventional conceptions of the experience of diaspora, Hume argues that, “the almost exclusive emphasis placed on transnational flows between home and host societies impedes an examination of diaspora as a condition of dwelling.” Conversely, Hume offers a “redemptive reading” of the ways in which Haitian migrants in Cuba have settled themselves into hyphenated definitions of home. Despite the persistent marginality of their location, both geographic and ideological, they reclaim their collective identity as a vibrant community, not just an “agricultural outpost.” Ermitte St. Jacques’s essay, “Between Periphery and Centre in the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Practices of Haitian Migrants in the Bahamas,” foregrounds hierarchies of marginality. St. Jacques pointedly observes that, “[t]he destinations that form the geography of the Haitian diaspora demarcate central places as Miami and marginal locations as Nassau that correspond to their position within global and regional geo-political hierarchies.” The Bahamas is imagined as a transit point to more favorable destinations. But those Haitians who do choose to settle in the Bahamas find themselves trapped on...

The Anonymous Lima Census of 1860

The Anonymous Lima Census of 1860

City of kings

City of kings

"Wrinkled Deep in Time": The Alexandria Quartet as Many-Layered Palimpsest

This passage, imaginatively fused with Lawrence Durrell's own approach to the novel, begins to illuminate one significant aspect of The Alexandria Quartet. It is a highly complex work, rich in allusions to the past-to history, legend, and myth. Durrell not only incorporates in its atmosphere an impressionistic feeling of ancient Alexandria but also reveals the many ages of the city (of kings, of God, of man) still existing as a symbolic reality within the historic present.2 The Quartet, in fact, can be seen as a sort of palimpsest-allusion beneath allusion, legend under legend, each revealing a possible level of meaning or effect.3 All this enriches and deepens the texture of the work, giving a sense of world enough and time-Time immemorial as Durrell puts it. Durrell has, however, created more than a poetic novel of allusions. The Quartet is carefully designed to include many different elements of the Alexandrian, and Western, past. It is imbued with the spirit of the city founded by Alexander, ruled by Cleopatra, idealized by Plotinus. It holds deep memories of an even older Egyptian civilization, and it

The Peru of Chocano and Vallejo

Jose Santos Chocano and C6sar Vallejo are Peruvian poets of striking contrast. In Perui the strong impact of the environment creates the outline of a man of the coast and a man of the sierra, each clearly and sharply delineated. Chocano and Vallejo are both Peruvians, yet their poetic personalities evolved from opposing Peruvian leavening forces, from their individual reactions to the molding and shaping by two diametrically opposite areas within the same country. Their poetry is as contrasting as the mild sands of the coastline and the abrupt cordillera of the Andes. Chocano was born in Lima, and was a true limeiio to the heart. Lima, a beautiful, glittering jewel, set on the Pacific coastline and rising from desert-like surroundings; Lima, the Daughter of the Conquest, the City of Kings; Lima, proud, frivolous, conservative, romantic, sensual, the capital of Perricholism-Chocano captured her spirit and always saw life through her eyes. Lima had no roots in an indigenous past because it was Spanish sap which nourished this decorative Iberian transplant. The coming of the Republic did not mean a new governing class and its writers never felt themselves linked to the populace of Perui, for whom they felt only scorn. Thus the literature, lacking in native roots, was usually mere imitation. Indeed subordination to the spiritual residues of the Colony has continued into the 20th century. Chocano inherited all this nostalgia for the times of the viceroys. Of Spanish family, his spiritual and intellectual formation belong to Lima. Cisar Vallejo was born into an environment the complete antithesis of everything that surrounded Chocano. Santiago de Chuco, Vallejo's birthplace, is an Andean village in the northern sierra of Perii, situated 10,500 feet high in the midst of bleak crags and peaks and sultry valleys. This is a land of mountain solitude and cosmic sadness, with poverty and isolation as its very essence. Vallejo spent his childhood and early youth in a primitive world of towering mountains and scanty population withdrawn from the mainstream of national life, softened only by family love. Born of humble stock, his ancestry makes him the complete mestizo: his two grandfathers were Spanish, his two grandmothers, Indian. The poverty he knew as a child accompanied him to his death. Indeed his life as a serrano, in contact with an imposing and unyielding Nature and with men of the earth, flows through all his work. Chocano pours out his verses of torrential pomp with the soul of a limeio; Vallejo, in bare and often grotesque manner, utters the protest and grief of the serrano. These opposing views are clearly evident in those poems which express a mood of nostaliga. Contrast the nostalgic emotions of the following excerpts. Chocano writes:

City of Shepherd Kings. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. Ancient Gaza V. By Ernest J. H. Mackay and M. A. Murray.

<i>City of Shepherd Kings</i>. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. <i>Ancient Gaza V</i>. By Ernest J. H. Mackay and M. A. Murray.

CITY OF SHEPHERD KINGS, By Flinders Petrie, KT., andANCIENT GAZA Vby E. J. H. Mackay and Margaret A. Murray. 42 pages, 50 plates + 2 in colour British School of Egyptian Archaeology (Bernard Quaritch), 1952. Price, £2 10s.

CITY OF SHEPHERD KINGS, By Flinders Petrie, KT., andANCIENT GAZA Vby E. J. H. Mackay and Margaret A. Murray. 42 pages, 50 plates + 2 in colour British School of Egyptian Archaeology (Bernard Quaritch), 1952. Price, £2 10s. - Volume 27 Issue 105

Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 1868-1951

Arnold Sommerfeld was one of the most distinguished representatives of the transition period between classical and modern theoretical physics. The work of his youth was still firmly anchored in the conceptions of the nineteenth century; but when in the first decennium of the century the flood of new discoveries, experimental and theoretical, broke the dams of tradition, he became a leader of the new movement, and in combining the two ways of thinking he exerted a powerful influence on the younger generation. This combination of a classical mind, to whom clarity of conception and mathematical rigour are essential, with the adventurous spirit of a pioneer, are the roots of his scientific success, while his exceptional gift of communicating his ideas by . spoken and written word made him a great teacher. I was not a pupil of Sommerfeld, but met him for the first time in later life. Yet from this moment our friendship was firmly established. The picture of his personality which I carry with me and shall try to describe in these pages is drawn on this background of personal contact. I have further at my disposal a charming autobiographic sketch, which he wrote in 1919 for the Academy of Vienna, with an appendix probably added in 1950, and several obituary articles, of which those written by Heisenberg and von Laue are the most remarkable.1 Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, on 5 December 1868. His father, Dr Franz Sommerfeld, was a medical practitioner devoted to science and a passionate collector of natural objects like minerals, amber, shells, beetles, etc. Königsberg—now a Russian town with another name—was the capital and coronation city of the Prussian kings and had developed a specific atmosphere of erudition and culture. It was Immanuel Kant’s place of birth and permanent home.

The Economics of Potsdam

When the Potsdam declarations were made public, Anne O'Hare McCormick (in her column in the New York Times of August 4, 1945) commented: “The scale and novelty of the great experiment is breathtaking. Stalin, Truman and Attlee may be remembered longer than the original Big Three, the war-leaders, because their names are affixed to this document.”The general public, on this side of the Atlantic, is as yet hardly aware of the full implications of the Potsdam declarations. The economic consequences of Potsdam have been widely debated in Britain, but they have received little attention in this country. Yet, the plan decided upon in the former city of the Prussian kings is due almost entirely to American initiative. In the words of Raymond Daniell:

The City of the Early Kings

The City of the Early Kings