Jonathan Davies
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692924 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Davies |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Davies |
| FIRMA | DAVIES J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9411-6541 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 221 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Local History as Global Design
This chapter considers Josephus’ sprawling Jewish Antiquities as a specimen of universal history. A brief introduction establishes the basic elements of the text. The chapter then considers Josephus’ navigation of the distinction between ‘myth’ and ‘history’, a common issue among ancient universal historians, arguing that Josephus elides that distinction by simultaneously ‘historicising’ the spatium mythicum and ‘mythicizing’ the spatium historic…
A Very Stable Genius
ver the years, Flavius Josephus has had to endure more than his fair share of hostile moralising scholarship.Among the many grave defects which such scholarship has attributed to this author, the charge of vanity is prominent, alongside accusations of cowardice, sycophancy, and opportunism. 1 The perception of vanity derives, above all, from the fact that Josephus is one of the most autobiographically inclined of all the ancient historical writer…
Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Period
Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome
This monograph investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. Having surveyed the evolution of our conception of Josephus’ relationship to Flavian power, taken a broad account of issues of political expression and regime representation in …
Brexit and invasive species
The article addresses the issue of invasive non-native species in Britain and its proximate cultural and political implications. Notably, it charts the co-option of this issue by sections of the nationalist press since the escalation of the European migrant crisis in 2015 and their strategic metaphorical alignment of human and extra-human migration, particularly in the period surrounding the Brexit referendum. These reports serve as the basis for…
Voices from Southwark
Situated in the context of current examinations of inequality and underrepresentation in music education in the United Kingdom, this article offers perspectives on a community music school and outreach initiative based in Southwark, London, where King’s College London music students, mentored by an experienced local teacher, facilitate small group music-making for primary school children who would not otherwise have opportunities for collaborativ…
Taking Land Degradation Neutrality from concept to practice
Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Davies Part I Interpersonal and Ritual Violence: Student violence in 15th-century Paris and Oxford, Hannah Skoda The politics of transition: pillaging and the 1527 sack of Rome, JoAlle Rollo-Koster Death on the Danube, Miriam Hall Kirch Plague, propaganda and prophetic violence in 16th-century Lyon, Justine Semmens. Part II War: Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: toward a theory of early-modern warfare, Alan Jame…
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
Rethinking urban power and the local state
Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian approaches enjoy considerable influence in research on the mutations of neoliberal governance in cities. However, both are prone to treating coercion as the antithesis of power, leading them to downplay the coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards non-coercive power. The integral state rejects the power–violence dualism, depicting …
Violence and I talian universities during the R enaissance
Historians have recently begun to explore premodern academic violence and this study is the first survey of violence at Italian universities between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It seeks to address a series of questions. How frequent was violence? What forms did it take? What motivated it? What were the responses of the authorities? Examining these issues increases our understanding of masculinity and academic, social, and nationa…
The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga and the Jesuits, 1584–1630
Paul F. Grendler. The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xxi + 287 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9171–7. - Volume 63 Issue 1
A History of Florence, 1200-1575
Since the early 1950s, medieval and Renaissance Florence has been the focus of intense research by anglophone scholars attracted by the cultural, economic, and political significance of the city and by the richness of its archives and libraries. Although always sensitive to the important contribution made by Italian historians and, as we shall see, original in its own right, this book is, to an extent, a monument to much of this scholarship. John…
Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies - By Katherine Homewood
Theories of Urban Politics
Livelihood adaptation to risk
Development policies in the pastoral areas of Africa assume that pastoralists are poor. Using the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia as the focus of research this article challenges this depiction of pastoralism by exploring pastoral livelihood goals and traditional strategies for managing risk. Investment in social institutions to minimise the risk of outright destitution, sometimes at the cost of increased poverty, and significant manipulation of lo…
The Economics of Mobile Pastoralism
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) recently commissioned a series of reviews on the economics of pastoralism. Eight regional desk studies were conducted: (1) Southern Africa and the Horn, (2) West Africa, (3) East Africa, (4) North Africa, (5) South America, (6) Asia, (7) the Middle East, and (8) Europe. The studies sought to identify the contribution of pastoralism to domestic and global markets, by gathering productivity in…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local governance. As the 'partnership of partnerships' in a locality, the ability of the LSP to provide an arena for community leadership and joined up service delivery is vital to the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. Drawing on material from the national evaluation of LSPs, this paper assesses their progress. A theory of change (ToC) approach was adopted in the ev…
Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
Capitalisation, Commoditisation and Obligation among Ethiopia's Afar Pastoralists
This paper on the Afar pastoralists of north-eastern Ethiopia examines their livelihood goals to understand how they view the institutions that are central to their existence. The paper examines the choices made in allocating livestock resources to accumulate different forms of capital. Using qualitative and quantitative research the paper considers the value of internal livestock exchange for accruing insurance and the impact that such value has…
Capitalisation, Commoditisation and Obligation among Ethiopia's Afar Pastoralists
This paper on the Afar pastoralists of north-eastern Ethiopia examines their livelihood goals to understand how they view the institutions that are central to their existence. The paper examines the choices made in allocating livestock resources to accumulate different forms of capital. Using qualitative and quantitative research the paper considers the value of internal livestock exchange for accruing insurance and the impact that such value has…
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Paul F. Grendler. The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx + 592 pp. 13 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-8018-6631-6. - Volume 56 Issue 3
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 2: The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson (Second Edition)" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Understanding Policy Transfer
At the same time that comparative and international political scientists have been confronting the problems of analysing state behaviour under conditions of uncertainty, state‐centred political scientists are attempting, somewhat belatedly, to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty which underpins modern governance. Yet despite similar research agendas these disciplines have continued to speak past each other. This article contends t…
Marsilio Ficino
Following the death of Marsilio Ficino on i October 1499 the Ufficiali dello Studio discussed whether they should attend his funeral in view of Ficino's ties with the Studio fiorentino, the University of Florence. These ties dated back to at least 1451 when Ficino was a student of logic at the Studio. He continued to study philosophy and medicine there throughout the 1450s, acquiring a good knowledge of Aristotle and Averroes. Ficino was still de…
Understanding Policy Transfer
At the same time that comparative and international political scientists have been confronting the problems of analysing state behaviour under conditions of uncertainty, state‐centred political scientists are attempting, somewhat belatedly, to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty which underpins modern governance. Yet despite similar research agendas these disciplines have continued to speak past each other. This article contends t…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local governance. As the 'partnership of partnerships' in a locality, the ability of the LSP to provide an arena for community leadership and joined up service delivery is vital to the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. Drawing on material from the national evaluation of LSPs, this paper assesses their progress. A theory of change (ToC) approach was adopted in the ev…
Rethinking urban power and the local state
Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian approaches enjoy considerable influence in research on the mutations of neoliberal governance in cities. However, both are prone to treating coercion as the antithesis of power, leading them to downplay the coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards non-coercive power. The integral state rejects the power–violence dualism, depicting …
The Economics of Mobile Pastoralism
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) recently commissioned a series of reviews on the economics of pastoralism. Eight regional desk studies were conducted: (1) Southern Africa and the Horn, (2) West Africa, (3) East Africa, (4) North Africa, (5) South America, (6) Asia, (7) the Middle East, and (8) Europe. The studies sought to identify the contribution of pastoralism to domestic and global markets, by gathering productivity in…
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Davies Part I Interpersonal and Ritual Violence: Student violence in 15th-century Paris and Oxford, Hannah Skoda The politics of transition: pillaging and the 1527 sack of Rome, JoAlle Rollo-Koster Death on the Danube, Miriam Hall Kirch Plague, propaganda and prophetic violence in 16th-century Lyon, Justine Semmens. Part II War: Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: toward a theory of early-modern warfare, Alan Jame…
Taking Land Degradation Neutrality from concept to practice
Butor and the Power of Art
Marsilio Ficino
Following the death of Marsilio Ficino on i October 1499 the Ufficiali dello Studio discussed whether they should attend his funeral in view of Ficino's ties with the Studio fiorentino, the University of Florence. These ties dated back to at least 1451 when Ficino was a student of logic at the Studio. He continued to study philosophy and medicine there throughout the 1450s, acquiring a good knowledge of Aristotle and Averroes. Ficino was still de…
Understanding Policy Transfer
At the same time that comparative and international political scientists have been confronting the problems of analysing state behaviour under conditions of uncertainty, state‐centred political scientists are attempting, somewhat belatedly, to deal with the increasing complexity and uncertainty which underpins modern governance. Yet despite similar research agendas these disciplines have continued to speak past each other. This article contends t…
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 2: The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson (Second Edition)" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
Paul F. Grendler. The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx + 592 pp. 13 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $49.50. ISBN: 0-8018-6631-6. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Jacob Burckhardt's Social and Political Thought
Capitalisation, Commoditisation and Obligation among Ethiopia's Afar Pastoralists
This paper on the Afar pastoralists of north-eastern Ethiopia examines their livelihood goals to understand how they view the institutions that are central to their existence. The paper examines the choices made in allocating livestock resources to accumulate different forms of capital. Using qualitative and quantitative research the paper considers the value of internal livestock exchange for accruing insurance and the impact that such value has…
Capitalisation, Commoditisation and Obligation among Ethiopia's Afar Pastoralists
This paper on the Afar pastoralists of north-eastern Ethiopia examines their livelihood goals to understand how they view the institutions that are central to their existence. The paper examines the choices made in allocating livestock resources to accumulate different forms of capital. Using qualitative and quantitative research the paper considers the value of internal livestock exchange for accruing insurance and the impact that such value has…
Livelihood adaptation to risk
Development policies in the pastoral areas of Africa assume that pastoralists are poor. Using the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia as the focus of research this article challenges this depiction of pastoralism by exploring pastoral livelihood goals and traditional strategies for managing risk. Investment in social institutions to minimise the risk of outright destitution, sometimes at the cost of increased poverty, and significant manipulation of lo…
The Economics of Mobile Pastoralism
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) recently commissioned a series of reviews on the economics of pastoralism. Eight regional desk studies were conducted: (1) Southern Africa and the Horn, (2) West Africa, (3) East Africa, (4) North Africa, (5) South America, (6) Asia, (7) the Middle East, and (8) Europe. The studies sought to identify the contribution of pastoralism to domestic and global markets, by gathering productivity in…
Evaluating Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local governance. As the 'partnership of partnerships' in a locality, the ability of the LSP to provide an arena for community leadership and joined up service delivery is vital to the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. Drawing on material from the national evaluation of LSPs, this paper assesses their progress. A theory of change (ToC) approach was adopted in the ev…
Theories of Urban Politics
The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga and the Jesuits, 1584–1630
Paul F. Grendler. The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xxi + 287 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9171–7. - Volume 63 Issue 1
A History of Florence, 1200-1575
Since the early 1950s, medieval and Renaissance Florence has been the focus of intense research by anglophone scholars attracted by the cultural, economic, and political significance of the city and by the richness of its archives and libraries. Although always sensitive to the important contribution made by Italian historians and, as we shall see, original in its own right, this book is, to an extent, a monument to much of this scholarship. John…
Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies - By Katherine Homewood
Violence and I talian universities during the R enaissance
Historians have recently begun to explore premodern academic violence and this study is the first survey of violence at Italian universities between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. It seeks to address a series of questions. How frequent was violence? What forms did it take? What motivated it? What were the responses of the authorities? Examining these issues increases our understanding of masculinity and academic, social, and nationa…
Rethinking urban power and the local state
Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian approaches enjoy considerable influence in research on the mutations of neoliberal governance in cities. However, both are prone to treating coercion as the antithesis of power, leading them to downplay the coercive modalities of neoliberalism. This paper applies the Gramscian theory of the integral state to correct the bias towards non-coercive power. The integral state rejects the power–violence dualism, depicting …
Development Process Resilience and Sustainable Development
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or tra…
Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Davies Part I Interpersonal and Ritual Violence: Student violence in 15th-century Paris and Oxford, Hannah Skoda The politics of transition: pillaging and the 1527 sack of Rome, JoAlle Rollo-Koster Death on the Danube, Miriam Hall Kirch Plague, propaganda and prophetic violence in 16th-century Lyon, Justine Semmens. Part II War: Rethinking the Peace of Westphalia: toward a theory of early-modern warfare, Alan Jame…
Taking Land Degradation Neutrality from concept to practice
Brexit and invasive species
The article addresses the issue of invasive non-native species in Britain and its proximate cultural and political implications. Notably, it charts the co-option of this issue by sections of the nationalist press since the escalation of the European migrant crisis in 2015 and their strategic metaphorical alignment of human and extra-human migration, particularly in the period surrounding the Brexit referendum. These reports serve as the basis for…
Voices from Southwark
Situated in the context of current examinations of inequality and underrepresentation in music education in the United Kingdom, this article offers perspectives on a community music school and outreach initiative based in Southwark, London, where King’s College London music students, mentored by an experienced local teacher, facilitate small group music-making for primary school children who would not otherwise have opportunities for collaborativ…
Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome
This monograph investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. Having surveyed the evolution of our conception of Josephus’ relationship to Flavian power, taken a broad account of issues of political expression and regime representation in …
Local History as Global Design
This chapter considers Josephus’ sprawling Jewish Antiquities as a specimen of universal history. A brief introduction establishes the basic elements of the text. The chapter then considers Josephus’ navigation of the distinction between ‘myth’ and ‘history’, a common issue among ancient universal historians, arguing that Josephus elides that distinction by simultaneously ‘historicising’ the spatium mythicum and ‘mythicizing’ the spatium historic…
A Very Stable Genius
ver the years, Flavius Josephus has had to endure more than his fair share of hostile moralising scholarship.Among the many grave defects which such scholarship has attributed to this author, the charge of vanity is prominent, alongside accusations of cowardice, sycophancy, and opportunism. 1 The perception of vanity derives, above all, from the fact that Josephus is one of the most autobiographically inclined of all the ancient historical writer…
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