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We warmly invite proposals for papers for the conference Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, 1000-1350 to be held at Stockholm University on the 8-9 th September 2022. The conference is open to established and early career researchers as well as graduate students, and to scholars of the Middle Ages of all disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to historians, archaeologists as well as scholars of literature and art.
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Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquim - Annual Conference - Toronto - 2018
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The research project is an investigation into the philosophy of the phenomenon of hospitality in order to identify the extent to which these are founded in ancient and classical history. The research focuses on Classical Antiquity and specifically investigates the history and philosophy of the phenomenon of hospitality within Greco-Roman texts and contemporaneous religious writings. In so doing it demonstrates how authoritative and disciplined research can make a significant contribution to the emergent research area of hospitality studies. The resulting thesis details a variety of outcomes and conclusions related to the phenomenon of hospitality, and also provides a basis for further enquiry. The research outcomes support the view that modern hospitality management literature has largely ignored this area of investigation. The principal methodological conclusion is that robust textual analysis can be undertaken within hermeneutical phenomenology and enhanced using a derived hermeneutical helix. The principal investigative outcome is that the hospitality phenomenon in its broadest sense has been recorded since the beginning of human history and it embraces a wide range of activities beyond the commercial provision of food, drink and accommodation. In particular, the essence of the hospitality phenomenon, within Classical Antiquity, is characterised by a reciprocally beneficial two-way process that takes place within three distinct and separate contexts: domestic, civil and commercial, which can also be summarised and represented by dynamic visual models. The research project is an investigation into the philosophy of the phenomenon of hospitality in order to identify the extent to which these are founded in ancient and classical history. The research focuses on Classical Antiquity and specifically investigates the history and philosophy of the phenomenon of hospitality within Greco-Roman texts and contemporaneous religious writings. In so doing it demonstrates how authoritative and disciplined research can make a significant contribution to the emergent research area of hospitality studies. The resulting thesis details a variety of outcomes and conclusions related to the phenomenon of hospitality, and also provides a basis for further enquiry. The research outcomes support the view that modern hospitality management literature has largely ignored this area of investigation. The principal methodological conclusion is that robust textual analysis can be undertaken within hermeneutical phenomenology and enhanced using a derived hermeneutical helix. The principal investigative outcome is that the hospitality phenomenon in its broadest sense has been recorded since the beginning of human history and it embraces a wide range of activities beyond the commercial provision of food, drink and accommodation. In particular, the essence of the hospitality phenomenon, within Classical Antiquity, is characterised by a reciprocally beneficial two-way process that takes place within three distinct and separate contexts: domestic, civil and commercial, which can also be summarised and represented by dynamic visual models.
Journal of Hospitalityand Tourism Management
Modern Hospitality: Lessons From the Past2005 •
This article presents a summary of findings from a continuing investigation into the historical origins of hospitality in the ancient and classical worlds, focusing mainly on the Greek and Roman civilisations. After considering the etymology of hospitality, the article goes on to explore hospitality and mythology, hospitality and the household, public hospitality, commercial hospitality and hospitality in contemporaneous religious writings. The evaluation of the outcomes leads to the identification of five dimensions of hospitality (honourable tradition, fundamental to human existence, stratified, diversified and central to human endeavour) that have been evolving from the beginning of human history.
Advances in Tourism Research, Hospitality: A Social Lens
Dimensions of Hospitality: Exploring Ancient Origins2007 •
Hospitality has an ancient origin and honourable tradition. As more attention is being channelled towards seeking a greater understanding of hospitality, there is an increasing debate between academics working in the field of hospitality management and those from the wider fields of the social sciences. The hope has already been expressed that this is ‘a beginning from which the subject will grow and develop’ (Lashley & Morrison, 2000‚ p.xvi). The aim of this chapter, therefore, is to contribute to this debate by providing a summary of findings from a continuing investigation into the historical origins of hospitality. The chapter explores the origins of hospitality in the ancient and classical worlds, focussing mainly on the Greek and Roman civilisations. The time period up to 500 BC is generally referred to as the ancient world, and the time period from 500 BC to 500 AD is generally referred to as the classical world. After considering the etymology of hospitality, the chapter goes on to explore the pre history of hospitality, investigating religious and mythical writings. The chapter illustrates that hospitality began at home, and as cities and nation states evolved so did hospitality; the chapter then explores civic hospitality and commercial hospitality. The evaluation of the outcomes leads to the identification of five dimensions of hospitality, which have been evolving from the beginning of human history.
Thinking Through Tourism: Monograph of the Association of Social Anthropologists
Classical and Modern Hospitality: the Benedictine Case2009 •
The development of the anthropology of tourism is anchored in the anthropology of hospitality. Interdisciplinary research further highlights just closely these are related to other disciplines; in this case history and theology. Benefits are also to be gained from multidisciplinary analysis of hospitality and tourism. When investigating contemporary hospitality sometimes there is the opportunity contextualise the investigation in the past in order to more fully understand the present; this opportunity to explore the historical dimension is often ignored, overlooked or misunderstood by some hospitality researchers resulting in flawed rhetoric, and work with little or no empirical research. However, recent advances in hospitality research have included the development of the hospitality conceptual lens (Lashley et al. 2007) that offers a potential framework for organising and presenting data. It has also provided the basis for the development of the dynamic Host-Guest Transaction Model, which allows the hospitality transaction between the host and the guest to be illustrated and explored. More importantly the model also assists with the understanding of the underpinning complexity within hospitality relationships.
Routledge Resources Online: The Renaissance World
Dwelling and Hospitality in Renaissance England2023 •
From the Old Testament to Heidegger and beyond, the concept of “dwelling” has been a loaded one. It often carries political connotations, designating which people rightfully belong to a place and what their position is within the social structure of that place. This was very true in England throughout the early modern period. While the terms “dwell” or “dwelling” might be applied to many sorts of abode as inhabited by people from very different social classes, they took on a particular discursive life in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. To properly dwell was linked to social order and obligation. Those who dwelt lived in houses that were, or appeared, old. More importantly, those houses functioned in old ways. Throughout the early modern period, dwelling was tightly associated with the provision of hospitality. Hospitality did not mean entertaining your friends; in fact, it could be quite the opposite of such activity. Entertaining was private, individual, and socially lateral. Hospitality, though, was public, communal, and socially extensive, reaching those of a rank well below that of the house-owner as well as those above him. It applied to the passing stranger and the tenant more than to the neighbor; it was linked to, although not equivalent to, charity. Hospitality could reify social hierarchy exactly because it incorporated persons from a range of social groups. The centrality of hospitality to dwelling lead to what might be termed an anti-architectural turn in the early modern discourse of dwelling, where a house designed as an impressive, integrated whole was denigrated in comparison to a house whose plan had involved adapting, over time, to use as a place of hospitable welcome. The dwelt house was structurally arranged to provide a proper stage for hospitality’s performance. Its plan centered on the Hall where, in theory, the owner would be seated at the “high” end, bathed in light from the only large window, watching the distribution of food to household and guests carefully seated according to rank. In practice this sort of hospitality was largely a thing of the past, but the house of hospitality had a strong hold on the social imagination, determining the plan of domestic interiors and dividing those who dwelt in a house from those who merely built.
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2015 •
This paper aims to illustrate how Venice confronted the problem of receiving – board and accommodations – of the many foreigners in transit within the city beginning in the 14th century. Some groups of foreigners found their permanent residence in demarcated areas within the city, but apart from these non-migratory “nations”, there was a continual movement of foreigners in transit, or directed toward the Holy Land or in passing due to commercial activity. Merchants, diplomats, and skilled artisans crowded into the city. At the base of hotel accommodations were the taverns, of state or Venetian patrician ownership, let out for rent. Severe legislation, from the point of view of the social services controlled their sanitation and their management. As a dynamic crossroads of people and goods, from the 14th century the Venetian Republic had to face the problem of offering myriad people adequate accommodations, and, later, even touristic facilities. Merchants of all races and creeds, but...
Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth
Monastic Hospitality: the Enduring Legacy2007 •
Hospitality research continues to broaden through an ever-increasing dialogue and alignment with a greater number of academic disciplines. This paper demonstrates how an enhanced understanding of hospitality can be achieved through synergy between social anthropology with philosophical and practical theology. It extends O’Gorman’s (2005; 2007) investigation of textual evidence of hospitality within Classical Antiquity (generally accepted as the period between 770 BC – 529 AD) and O’Gorman’s (2006) focus on the provision of monastic hospitality as prescribed by St Benedict’s Rule (c. 530 A.D) that revealed the illuminatory capacity of critical historical investigation, and the continuity of hospitality management practices over the last 1,500 years. The research reported on in this paper develops those studies by exploring the hospitality relationship within the modern monastery. It is an empirical investigation combined with the author’s considerable previous knowledge and experience of monastic life.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
) Wild foods, woodland fuels, and cultivation through the Ceramic and Early Historical periods in Araucanía, Southern Chile (400 CE- 1850 CE)2023 •
Informe Iberoamérica 2023: América Latina y Europa, más allá de la Cumbre
América Latina y la Unión Europea: oportunidades, riesgos y necesidad de una relación renovada2023 •
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
A propos d'un lapidaire prakrit2021 •
2022 •
European Societies
Nudging gender desegregation: a field experiment on the causal effect of information barriers on gender inequalities in higher education2018 •
Green Medical Journal
A Rare Case of Chronic Intracerebral Foreign Body2020 •
2017 •
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Effects of non-vanishing dark matter pressure in the Milky Way Galaxy2021 •
Proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP2017)
Machine Detector Interface for the e+e- Future Circular Collider2018 •
British Journal of Dermatology
Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform naevus and limb defects (CHILD) syndrome without hemidysplasia2015 •
arXiv (Cornell University)
Near-sphere lattices with constant nonlocal mean curvature2017 •
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
A combined chemical and phytoremediation method for reclamation of acid mine drainage–impacted soils2019 •