Where Three Worlds Met

Davis‐Secord, Sarah

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“…As Sarah Davis Secord asserts: the semiannual military incursions from Ifrīqiya were several times halted by truces that were officially concluded between embassies traveling between Syracuse and Qayrawān as ships could also travel (commerce) without meriting record from textual sources. 102 Two conclusions can be drawn as we consider the three abovementioned islands in a comparative perspective. The first has to do with the rather complex mix of isolation and connectivity as defining geo-political characteristics of insular spaces.…”

Section: From Cyprus To the Balearics (Via Sicily) And Back Againmentioning

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“…Both literary, documentary and material evidence witnessed to a contiguity between Sicily and Constantinople. 86 One should however notice that this has less to do with geography (after all Cyprus is closer to the "City" than Syracuse) than with its close fiscal link with Constantinople based on grain transport. 87 Therefore, ease of communication between the capital and the island should comes as no surprise for Sicily acted as economic interface at the intersection of the eastern and western Mediterranean.…”

Section: From Cyprus To the Balearics (Via Sicily) And Back Againmentioning

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“No Island is an Island”: The Byzantine Mediterranean in The Early Middle Ages (600s-850s)

Zavagno¹

2020

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Large islands of the western and eastern Byzantine Mediterranean are often caught in a historiographical vacuum because they are regarded as isolated and marginal places at the peripheries of Constantinopolitan empire. In fact, although literary and sources dismiss them simply as places of exile or distant military outposts along maritime frontiers, archaeology and material culture have recently shed light on the role they played as "spaces of connectivity". This is due not only to their strategic locations along the commercial shipping routes crisscrossing the Mediterranean but also because islands often presented peculiar adaptive administrative strategies molded by the military and political exigencies of the hour. In fact, this paper will argue that archaeology and material evidence (like coins, lead-seals and above all ceramics) as paired with the rather scarce literary and documentary sources give us enough evidence pointing to a certain degree of economic prosperity on the abovementioned islands during the period under scrutiny as they continued to play an important role in the political, fiscal, administrative and religious structures of the Byzantine empire. Indeed, this paper will also try to show that a resilient insular economy paired with the continuity on local production of artefacts entailed by the persistence of levels of demand on the part of the local secular and religious elites and regular if not frequent regional and sub-regional contacts with other areas of the Mediterranean (Carolingian or Muslim) as well as remaining part and parcel of the a Byzantine political, sociocultural and economic "coastal" koiné.

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Section: From Cyprus To the Balearics (Via Sicily) And Back Againmentioning

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Section: From Cyprus To the Balearics (Via Sicily) And Back Againmentioning

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“No Island is an Island”: The Byzantine Mediterranean in The Early Middle Ages (600s-850s)

Zavagno¹

2020

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Art and Spirituality in the Covid-19 Epoch: An Exploratory Reading of Ben Okri’s Poetry

Ratau¹

2021

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Covid-19 has infected approximately 160 million people globally since its first occurrence in China in 2019. Consequently, the whole world has been negatively impacted, with numerous people losing their lives, jobs and loved ones, including breadwinners in families. With the prevalence of the pandemic also came various views on the challenges that came with it. Literature cannot be left out of the modes that are providing an understanding of the negative impact of Covid-19 on the world. Therefore, this paper explores the poetry of the Nigerian poet, novelist and essayist, Ben Okri, in light of his thematisation of spirituality. By spirituality, it is meant the ‘recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself’, the times and situation(s) in which one exists’. In this paper, Okri’s poetry is considered as an essential index into how ‘the spiritual’ is conceived and articulated, even in times of pandemics. The paper adopts the Hermeneutical Approach as a theoretical lens through which Okri’s poetry may be best viewed and understood. The Hermeneutical Approach essentially entails the analysis of texts in order to develop insight or thoughtful wisdom. Furthermore, the paper proffers that Okri’s poetry is invested with a spiritual temper that makes it relevant as it encourages and makes and keeps ‘awake’ a spiritual sensibility in the people during the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis is undergirded by a predetermined set of themes, namely; race, identity, healing, spirituality, thought and consciousness that Okri poeticises about and subsequently interrogates in his poetry. In the process, Okri’s poetry also encourages spiritual renaissance and the awakening of consciousness, by tempering in a reader the inalienable fact that to change or shape reality, people ought to do it themselves. Okri’s poetry challenges people to define themselves and defy all false definitions of themselves made by others. Ultimately, the paper explicates that Okri’s poetry is charged with pointed rebuke of people’s apparent apathy towards issues such as freedom, equality and transformation (all of which belong to the great stream of ‘the spiritual’), of which he submits that people ought to take charge of how these three important entities come about and exist in society.

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Teachers’ beliefs of pre-service German teachers about student self-assessment

Stephan Schicker

2024

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The aim of the research is to investigate beliefs of Austrian and Czech preservice teachers of German about student self-assessment (SSA). In the first part ofthe paper important theoretical and empirical findings on and principles of SSA and about teachers’ beliefs are discussed. After the description of the research designthe data analysis is presented. Results show that only a minority of trainee teachers participating in this survey have experienced SSA as students themselves and that even fewer have been able to implement SSA as teachers in their classroom. Moreover, it was verified that most of the trainee teachers have theoretical knowledge about student self-assessment. If one looks at the statements of the individual pre-service teachers as a whole and assign them to a growth mindset (=self-assessment skills can be learned with suitable training) or a fixed mindset (=self-assessment skills are only mastered by certain particularly reflective students), it is evident that although 43.8% cannot be classified and 9.4% make statements that can be assigned to both mindsets, 28.1% of the prospective teachers can be assigned to a growth mindset and 18.8% to a fixed mindset. Didactically, it would be desirable if it were clearly accentuated that self-assessment skills can be learned through suitable didactic training.

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Where Three Worlds Met

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“No Island is an Island”: The Byzantine Mediterranean in The Early Middle Ages (600s-850s)

“No Island is an Island”: The Byzantine Mediterranean in The Early Middle Ages (600s-850s)

Art and Spirituality in the Covid-19 Epoch: An Exploratory Reading of Ben Okri’s Poetry

Teachers’ beliefs of pre-service German teachers about student self-assessment

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