D S Robertson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 304915 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D S Robertson |
| NOMBRES | D S |
| APELLIDO | Robertson |
| FIRMA | ROBERTSON D S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stirling |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1910 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Christopher Cotter and David Robertson of The Religious Studies Project
The Religious Studies Project is now a well-known fixture in the field, but it was not always as well-known as it is today. In this interview, Dr. Richard Newton from the Bulletin sat down with Dr. Chris Cotter and Dr. David Robertson to discuss their journey in creating the religious studies podcast from simple pub talk in 2010 to its current collection of some 300 episodes. In relaying their strides and struggles in this venture, Cotter and Rob…
Cicero
Reviewed by: Cicero: On Life and Death trans. by John Davie David Robertson John Davie (tr.). Cicero: On Life and Death. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 251. $16.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-964414-8. With an Introduction and Notes by Miriam T. Griffin. The surge in new translations of Cicero’s philosophical works in recent years continues with this contribution, which contains On Old Age, On Friendship, and…
Lost Alternatives to Council Housing? An Examination of Stirling's Alternative Housing Initiatives, c. 1906–1939
This article aims to examine possible alternatives to the first wave of council-house building in Scotland. Alternative approaches to deal with Scotland's housing problem are considered and the reasons for their failure to compete with council housing are considered. The Burgh of Stirling has been chosen because its politics suggest that it may have been less enthusiastic about building council houses and more amenable to exploring alternative so…
Knowing Your Place
This paper argues that the significance of place has for too long been overlooked within housing studies, rarely meriting more consideration than providing a descriptive backdrop. The emphasis on descriptive backdrop is due to place more often being examined and conceptualized in physical terms, rather than as a social construct. Only through understanding how place becomes bonded to a specific class-based identity can the explanatory potential o…
Local elites and social control
This article examines the role played by local councillors in constructing new housing in Scotland during the inter-war period. Rather than view local authorities as simply the objective agency of central government's ambitions to construct council houses, we argue that the self-interest and motivations of councillors have to be recognized as significant factors in this process. It is argued also that the concerns of private landlords were neithe…
The Housing Debate
Plato's Forms in Transition
Reviewed by: Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides David Robertson Samuel C. Rickless. Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 272. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-96456-9; $39.99 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-521-110488. This book is a fine example of analytic philosophy rigorously applied to the Platonic dialogues. As such, it is a model of disciplined philosophical writing on a …
Neighbourhood Identity
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
The Heirs of Plato
Reviewed by: The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.) David Robertson John Dillon. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $104.50 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-19-823766-2; $62.50 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-19-927946-3. Dillon’s reconstruction of the Early Platonists provides a helpful overview of the leading lights of the Old Academy (Speusippus, Xenocrates, [End Page 85] and Po…
A Landscape Transformed
In his newest book on American iron, Robert Gordon examines the history and industrial ecology of ironmaking in Connecticut's Salisbury district, once the most important iron-producing region in the United States. Metal smelting began in northwest Connecticut in colonial times. New England settlers, aided by colonial investors, effectively utilized the area's forest, water, and iron-ore resources, quickly establishing a national reputation for th…
Inconsistent Contextualism
does Michael P. Johnson characterize the scholarship of Professors Pearson and Egerton and my own biography of Denmark Vesey.1 Johnson avers that, by our having accepted uncritically the Official Report, we have reconstructed Vesey as the leader of a slave conspiracy that in fact never existed; by having exercised empiricism's will to truth, we have falsely emplotted Vesey's life and unwittingly perpetuated the Charleston city judges' fictive ver…
Community Planning
First paragraph: The Scottish Executive is determined to reform the way local government works. Government is keen to ensure that local councils and the statutory public bodies they work with better co-ordinate their activities. This is popularly articulated by Government through its use of the term 'promoting joined-up government' (Lloyd 1997). Ensuring better co-ordination, and thus achieving greater financial efficiency, is, however, only one …
Denmark Vesey
Housing Renewal, Urban Policy and Gentrification
Understanding the impacts of housing renewal policies has become an increasingly complex task. First, evaluation must recognise the changing urban context within which policies operate, notably the revitalisation of some inner-city areas through the process of gentrification. Secondly, and more importantly, housing renewal policies should be viewed in the wider context of urban policy. Yet competing frameworks are available for judging success in…
Sly and Able
Few political figures have had as long, as varied and as consequential a career in American history as Jimmy Byrnes. This master politician and self-made man served for half a century, as congressman and later as key New Deal senator fom his native South Carolina; as Supreme Court justice; as assistant president during the Second World War; as Truman's secretary of state in the early years of the Cold War; and, finally, as governor of South Carol…
Robert Grieve
The death of Robert Grieve marks the passing of an era. He represented a generation of planners who had a clear strategic vision of what was required for the future. While the main theme in Grieve's work within Central Scotland was dominated by the perceived need to move the Scottish economy away from what was viewed as a debilitating structure dominated by heavy engineering, towards one based on the production of consumer products, he was always…
The Assisi Fragments of the Apologia of Apuleius
The discovery and identification by G. Muzzioli of ten leaves from a Beneventan manuscript of the Apologia of Apuleius in the Biblioteca Comunale of Assisi (now numbered 706 in that library) was communicated to the Comitato Consultivo of the R. Istituto di Patologia del Libro on 30 March 1942, and published in the same year in the Institute's Bolletino , iv. 1 (1942), 13, 14
A Forgotten Persian Poet of the Thirteenth Century
I recently purchased a Persian manuscript, dated a.h. 981 (= a.d. 1573), containing the Dīvān of a poet named Ḍiyā-yi Fārsī. The manuscript, which is in good condition, contains 149 folios, each of fifteen lines, amounting in all to about 4,400 couplets: my knowledge of its contents is due to the kindness of Professor R,. Levy and Professor V. Minorsky, who have both examined its text
Epigram
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The date of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab
Since the publication of my article ( JRAS ., 1945, pp. 165 ff.) Dr. A. A. Hekmat has kindly sent me a copy of his book Jāmī , published at Teheran in 1941 (A.H. 1320). In view of Ṣāfīs evidence, he there (pp. 185 f.) dates the first daftar of the Silsilat al-dhahab between A.H. 873 (accession of Sulṭān Huṣayn) and A.H. 877 (Jāmi's pilgrimage). He also calls attention to a relevant passage in the poem itself, strangely overlooked by Ethé and by a…
The Date of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab
The date of the composition of Jāmī's “Chain of Gold” is usually given, for instance, by E. G. Browne in his Literary History of Persia , iii, p. 516, as a.h. 890. This is certainly the date of the second of its three daftar , for the poet states the fact plainly in its penultimate bayt , and the addition of 890 in figures in a few MSS., notably the famous Leningrad autograph, Rosen No. 80, adds nothing to this evidence. In very few MSS., however…
The Food of Achilles
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The Early Age of Greece
The End of the Supplices Trilogy of Aeschylus
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The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apvleivs. I
The later MSS. of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius have received little attention. Hildebrand's edition, the last to give an extensive apparatus criticus , appeared in 1842, and seven years later Keil announced his belief that all the MSS. which he had seen in Italy were derived from Laur. 68. 2 (F), the famous eleventh century MS., written at Monte Cassino, and now at Florence. Since Keil, all texts have been based almost exclusively on F, with ass…
Housing Renewal, Urban Policy and Gentrification
Understanding the impacts of housing renewal policies has become an increasingly complex task. First, evaluation must recognise the changing urban context within which policies operate, notably the revitalisation of some inner-city areas through the process of gentrification. Secondly, and more importantly, housing renewal policies should be viewed in the wider context of urban policy. Yet competing frameworks are available for judging success in…
Neighbourhood Identity
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Knowing Your Place
This paper argues that the significance of place has for too long been overlooked within housing studies, rarely meriting more consideration than providing a descriptive backdrop. The emphasis on descriptive backdrop is due to place more often being examined and conceptualized in physical terms, rather than as a social construct. Only through understanding how place becomes bonded to a specific class-based identity can the explanatory potential o…
The Early Age of Greece
The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apvleivs. I
The later MSS. of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius have received little attention. Hildebrand's edition, the last to give an extensive apparatus criticus , appeared in 1842, and seven years later Keil announced his belief that all the MSS. which he had seen in Italy were derived from Laur. 68. 2 (F), the famous eleventh century MS., written at Monte Cassino, and now at Florence. Since Keil, all texts have been based almost exclusively on F, with ass…
Inconsistent Contextualism
does Michael P. Johnson characterize the scholarship of Professors Pearson and Egerton and my own biography of Denmark Vesey.1 Johnson avers that, by our having accepted uncritically the Official Report, we have reconstructed Vesey as the leader of a slave conspiracy that in fact never existed; by having exercised empiricism's will to truth, we have falsely emplotted Vesey's life and unwittingly perpetuated the Charleston city judges' fictive ver…
Community Planning
First paragraph: The Scottish Executive is determined to reform the way local government works. Government is keen to ensure that local councils and the statutory public bodies they work with better co-ordinate their activities. This is popularly articulated by Government through its use of the term 'promoting joined-up government' (Lloyd 1997). Ensuring better co-ordination, and thus achieving greater financial efficiency, is, however, only one …
The Assisi Fragments of the Apologia of Apuleius
The discovery and identification by G. Muzzioli of ten leaves from a Beneventan manuscript of the Apologia of Apuleius in the Biblioteca Comunale of Assisi (now numbered 706 in that library) was communicated to the Comitato Consultivo of the R. Istituto di Patologia del Libro on 30 March 1942, and published in the same year in the Institute's Bolletino , iv. 1 (1942), 13, 14
The Food of Achilles
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The End of the Supplices Trilogy of Aeschylus
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The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apvleivs. II
In my previous article I argued that certain of the later MSS. of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, and especially those which I call Class I., are to a large extent descended from a lost copy of F, made before the rent was torn in Book VIII., and therefore before the writing of φ; and I inferred that it was likely that the evidence of these MSS. would prove a valuable addition to that of φ in places where F is now illegible. In the following pages …
Lvcivs of Madavra
Except Goldbacher and Dee, most critics have held the latter part of the last book of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius to be almost entirely autobiographical; and many have taken the same view of the first chapter of the first book. Rohde, in particular, has championed this theory, and incidents of the last book are freely included in biographies of Apuleius
The Beasts, Birds and Bees of Virgil . Royds, T. F
The End of the Supplices Trilogy of Aeschylus
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The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apvleivs. I
The later MSS. of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius have received little attention. Hildebrand's edition, the last to give an extensive apparatus criticus , appeared in 1842, and seven years later Keil announced his belief that all the MSS. which he had seen in Italy were derived from Laur. 68. 2 (F), the famous eleventh century MS., written at Monte Cassino, and now at Florence. Since Keil, all texts have been based almost exclusively on F, with ass…
The Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses of Apvleivs. II
In my previous article I argued that certain of the later MSS. of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, and especially those which I call Class I., are to a large extent descended from a lost copy of F, made before the rent was torn in Book VIII., and therefore before the writing of φ; and I inferred that it was likely that the evidence of these MSS. would prove a valuable addition to that of φ in places where F is now illegible. In the following pages …
Thucydides and the Greek Wall at Troy
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The Early Age of Greece
The Food of Achilles
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The Date of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab
The date of the composition of Jāmī's “Chain of Gold” is usually given, for instance, by E. G. Browne in his Literary History of Persia , iii, p. 516, as a.h. 890. This is certainly the date of the second of its three daftar , for the poet states the fact plainly in its penultimate bayt , and the addition of 890 in figures in a few MSS., notably the famous Leningrad autograph, Rosen No. 80, adds nothing to this evidence. In very few MSS., however…
The date of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab
Since the publication of my article ( JRAS ., 1945, pp. 165 ff.) Dr. A. A. Hekmat has kindly sent me a copy of his book Jāmī , published at Teheran in 1941 (A.H. 1320). In view of Ṣāfīs evidence, he there (pp. 185 f.) dates the first daftar of the Silsilat al-dhahab between A.H. 873 (accession of Sulṭān Huṣayn) and A.H. 877 (Jāmi's pilgrimage). He also calls attention to a relevant passage in the poem itself, strangely overlooked by Ethé and by a…
A Forgotten Persian Poet of the Thirteenth Century
I recently purchased a Persian manuscript, dated a.h. 981 (= a.d. 1573), containing the Dīvān of a poet named Ḍiyā-yi Fārsī. The manuscript, which is in good condition, contains 149 folios, each of fifteen lines, amounting in all to about 4,400 couplets: my knowledge of its contents is due to the kindness of Professor R,. Levy and Professor V. Minorsky, who have both examined its text
Epigram
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Assisi Fragments of the Apologia of Apuleius
The discovery and identification by G. Muzzioli of ten leaves from a Beneventan manuscript of the Apologia of Apuleius in the Biblioteca Comunale of Assisi (now numbered 706 in that library) was communicated to the Comitato Consultivo of the R. Istituto di Patologia del Libro on 30 March 1942, and published in the same year in the Institute's Bolletino , iv. 1 (1942), 13, 14
Robert Grieve
The death of Robert Grieve marks the passing of an era. He represented a generation of planners who had a clear strategic vision of what was required for the future. While the main theme in Grieve's work within Central Scotland was dominated by the perceived need to move the Scottish economy away from what was viewed as a debilitating structure dominated by heavy engineering, towards one based on the production of consumer products, he was always…
Housing Renewal, Urban Policy and Gentrification
Understanding the impacts of housing renewal policies has become an increasingly complex task. First, evaluation must recognise the changing urban context within which policies operate, notably the revitalisation of some inner-city areas through the process of gentrification. Secondly, and more importantly, housing renewal policies should be viewed in the wider context of urban policy. Yet competing frameworks are available for judging success in…
Sly and Able
Few political figures have had as long, as varied and as consequential a career in American history as Jimmy Byrnes. This master politician and self-made man served for half a century, as congressman and later as key New Deal senator fom his native South Carolina; as Supreme Court justice; as assistant president during the Second World War; as Truman's secretary of state in the early years of the Cold War; and, finally, as governor of South Carol…
Denmark Vesey
Community Planning
First paragraph: The Scottish Executive is determined to reform the way local government works. Government is keen to ensure that local councils and the statutory public bodies they work with better co-ordinate their activities. This is popularly articulated by Government through its use of the term 'promoting joined-up government' (Lloyd 1997). Ensuring better co-ordination, and thus achieving greater financial efficiency, is, however, only one …
A Landscape Transformed
In his newest book on American iron, Robert Gordon examines the history and industrial ecology of ironmaking in Connecticut's Salisbury district, once the most important iron-producing region in the United States. Metal smelting began in northwest Connecticut in colonial times. New England settlers, aided by colonial investors, effectively utilized the area's forest, water, and iron-ore resources, quickly establishing a national reputation for th…
Inconsistent Contextualism
does Michael P. Johnson characterize the scholarship of Professors Pearson and Egerton and my own biography of Denmark Vesey.1 Johnson avers that, by our having accepted uncritically the Official Report, we have reconstructed Vesey as the leader of a slave conspiracy that in fact never existed; by having exercised empiricism's will to truth, we have falsely emplotted Vesey's life and unwittingly perpetuated the Charleston city judges' fictive ver…
The Heirs of Plato
Reviewed by: The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.) David Robertson John Dillon. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $104.50 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-19-823766-2; $62.50 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-19-927946-3. Dillon’s reconstruction of the Early Platonists provides a helpful overview of the leading lights of the Old Academy (Speusippus, Xenocrates, [End Page 85] and Po…
Plato's Forms in Transition
Reviewed by: Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides David Robertson Samuel C. Rickless. Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 272. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-96456-9; $39.99 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-521-110488. This book is a fine example of analytic philosophy rigorously applied to the Platonic dialogues. As such, it is a model of disciplined philosophical writing on a …
Neighbourhood Identity
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Knowing Your Place
This paper argues that the significance of place has for too long been overlooked within housing studies, rarely meriting more consideration than providing a descriptive backdrop. The emphasis on descriptive backdrop is due to place more often being examined and conceptualized in physical terms, rather than as a social construct. Only through understanding how place becomes bonded to a specific class-based identity can the explanatory potential o…
Local elites and social control
This article examines the role played by local councillors in constructing new housing in Scotland during the inter-war period. Rather than view local authorities as simply the objective agency of central government's ambitions to construct council houses, we argue that the self-interest and motivations of councillors have to be recognized as significant factors in this process. It is argued also that the concerns of private landlords were neithe…
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