Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Banal may refer to: Of or pertaining to the ban (medieval) or banalit ...
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. [2] An example of such a sentence would be "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support – a statement of what those appropriate conditions are – the sentence is true but incontestable. [3]
Payment for the use of the banal mill, oven and press was usually in kind and proportional to use, e.g. every sixth loaf to the lord or one twentieth of the wine processed. This made the ban an important source of revenue, since it was tied to productivity and commodity prices, both of which rose throughout the thirteenth century while tenurial ...
These included the required use-for-payment of the lord's mill to grind grain, his wine press to make wine, and his oven to bake bread. Both the manorial lord's right to these dues and the banality-dues themselves are called droit de banalité. The object of this right was qualified as banal, e.g. the four banal or taureau banal.
The word is a borrowing from the French compound platitude, from plat 'flat' + -(i)tude '-ness', thus 'flatness'. The figurative sense is first attested in French in 1694 in the meaning 'the quality of banality' and in 1740 in the meaning 'a commonplace remark'.
Joe Moran's blog ("On the Everyday, the Banal, and Other Important Matters"). "The Anthropology of Everyday Life." The Book Show. ABC. A talk with Moran as a guest. "Queuing." Thinking Allowed. BBC. Moran talks with Laurie Taylor. "November in Berlin: The End of the Everyday." History Workshop Journal 57 (2004) 216-234. An article by Moran.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Banal nationalism refers to everyday representations of a nation, which build a sense of shared national identity. [1] The term is derived from English academic, Michael Billig's 1995 book of the same name and is intended to be understood critically. Billig's book has been described as 'the fourth most cited work on nationalism ever published'. [2]