The "Messiah" performances offered at Trinity Church by its resident forces on Sunday afternoon and at Avery Fisher Hall by the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday evening could hardly have been more different, though both were attentive (in varying degrees) to scholarly notions of Baroque performance style.
There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey "made up" his narrative, perhaps through an "inordinate love of lying".
The notion that scholarly work might have its own intrigue and romance is very difficult for a novelist to illustrate.
Peters, who was not a historian, put forward a purportedly scholarly construction based on the notion, as Golda Meir famously put it, that there is "no such thing as a Palestinian people".
One professor of constitutional law, Wilson R. Huhn at the University of Akron School of Law in Ohio, said that recent scholarly research supported the Madisonian notion that direct democracy could sometimes crush the interests of a minority in society — in votes, for example, to ban same-sex marriage.
Halliwell (1986), Appendix 5 presents a succinct overview of the various scholarly approaches to Aristotle's notion of catharsis.
In North America, a substantial scholarly literature takes up the notion of modern motherhood as a contested cultural ideology, largely in the "unsettled" context of growing numbers of working mothers.
A number of recent scholarly studies have undermined the old notion that the epic is a central feature of all cultures, including oral cultures.
PAGE A21 RUDOLPH J. VECOLI, 81 The longtime director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, he argued in numerous scholarly articles and books against the notion that immigrants to the United States left their cultures behind and did their best to blend into mainstream American society.
And Dr. Gomez — who says he sees Dr. Seeman's article as part of a wave of scholarly work that "pushes back against the notion of concrete, specific connections between Africa" and its slavery-related diaspora — predicted that it would "cause a ripple" because "it was meant to cause a ripple".
