The Past in the Present: A Multidisciplinary ApproachFabio Mugnaini, Pádraig Ó Héalaí, Tok Freeland Thompson editpress, 2006 - 296 pages La fluidità del rapporto passato/presente in Europa costituisce il perno centrale di un progetto di ricerca voluto dalla task force di esperti di cultura, arti e studi umanistici del Coimbra Group riunitasi in un congresso tenuto a Galway (Irlanda) nel 2004. Questo libro, in lingua inglese, scaturisce da quella proficua opportunità di dialogo interdisciplinare e approfondisce il tema del ruolo delle tradizioni in un mondo in cambiamento. Filosofia, storia, arte, letteratura, religione, educazione, linguistica, folclore ed etnologia europee, vengono a contatto per tracciare alcune delle linee attraverso cui è possibile oltrepassare la frontiera tra passato e presente e cominciare a edificare le fondamenta di una identità europea. |
Contents
Editorial foreword | 9 |
A womans voice through the centuries Hildegard of Bingens music today | 15 |
Maura Laverty Irish tradition and optimism | 41 |
Perceiving reality indirectly The seduction of technology | 57 |
Saints of the past saints of the present | 67 |
Childrens funerary rites in Ireland A compensatory dimension | 87 |
The special role of music in judeosephardic culture | 107 |
Alternative medicine as tradition in a changing world | 119 |
Political manifestations of a siege inheritance on the Island of Ireland | 169 |
Folklorism nostalgia and cultural heritage | 187 |
Heritage versus the past | 197 |
Linguistic change maintaining traditional items and a model of a polylectal repertory and grammar | 209 |
Ideology and the learning of Celtic languages | 235 |
Ålandic seafaring as cultural heritage identity symbol and marketable product | 259 |
a survey on the return of the past in present day urban festivals in Italy and elsewhere | 267 |
Authors | 291 |
a window of wonder An intergenerational collaborative learning project in a curricular context | 131 |
Pilgrimage as an example for the past in the present | 157 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbess adults Åland Åland Islands Ålandic Anglo-Irish Agreement areas aspects Baronio Bingen Bobi Jones Breton burial Catholic celebration Celtic languages century child Christian church Coimbra Group concept context cultural heritage curriculum death developed dialectal Dublin example festival Flavia Domitilla folklore folklorists Gaelic Gallonio Galway Gerineldo Giannelli Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard’s music human identity interpretation Irish knowledge Laverty learners learning linguistic linked liturgical Living Scenes Mariehamn markers Maura Maura Laverty medicine medieval Medieval Music melodies modern native speakers Nereus and Achilleus Northern Ireland Ó Súilleabháin 1939 past perspective pilgrimage political polylectal present province of Siena reference relevant religious repertory role Rome rules rural saints sense shaman ships siege Siena social society songs standard Italian Symphonia tion tourists town tradition Tuscan Ulster Unionist University Welsh