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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet started the topic FLDH 2023 Webinar Series: June Webinars in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoDear all, Please join the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in June for the next three webinars, part of its 2023 Webinar Series: Latin America and Caribbean Edition. More information below:
Using Social Media to Explore Haitian History – Rendering Revolution
Friday, June 16, 2 p.m EDT
Dr. Siobhan Meï, Lecturer, Uni…[Read more]
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Mike Rifino started the topic New Issue: JITP No. 22! General Issue: Looking Again in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIssue Twenty-Two: General Issue: Looking Again
Issue Editors:
Courtney Dalton, Cornell University
Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Rifino, The Graduate Center, CUNY
We are thrilled to announce Issue 22, our latest published issue on CUNY’s instance of Manifold! Read peer-reviewed and open-access articles that feature new con…[Read more]
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Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited The Grammar of Ornamentation: An Egyptian Predynastic Decorative Continuum in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoTags made of mudstone are predominantly found in ancient Egyptian Predynastic cemetery contexts. This study examines the symbolism and significance of mudstone tags that are crescent-shaped and/or feature the recurved horns of hartebeests. The use of syncretic imagery on these tags provides evidence for the fluidity of artistic perceptions in…[Read more]
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Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited The Grammar of Ornamentation: An Egyptian Predynastic Decorative Continuum in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoTags made of mudstone are predominantly found in ancient Egyptian Predynastic cemetery contexts. This study examines the symbolism and significance of mudstone tags that are crescent-shaped and/or feature the recurved horns of hartebeests. The use of syncretic imagery on these tags provides evidence for the fluidity of artistic perceptions in…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited King of Brexitland in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoKing of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary Texts in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoHighlights recent research on the cognitive-social media and big data analytics Presents transdisciplinary research on big data analytics Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and praxis of big data analytics
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Neurochemical Effect on Creativity of the Romantic Writers: A Theoretical Framework of Econeurochemical Critical Reading in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAll the living beings are neurobiologically driven beings. Creative writers and artists are no exception to it. We as literary critics, think that creative writers and artists are also living beings and they are mostly driven by neuro-chemical reactions in the brain. In the world of neurology, each body and the parts of the body are the cause of…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]
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Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Debating the Deuteronomic Centralisation Formula in 11th Century Palestine in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAbū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto». La revelación mística de un cristianismo alejandrino desnudo de fabulaciones y leyendas. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more] -
Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto». La revelación mística de un cristianismo alejandrino desnudo de fabulaciones y leyendas. in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more] -
Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more] -
Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]
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Alejandro Quintero deposited The Many Faces of God: Astrotheology of the Bible in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAngels, as mythical beings, appear and disappear suddenly throughout Biblical Texts, without any clear explanation of their origins or metaphysical ranks. Whether they are considered circumstantial theophanies or entities with granted self-existence and specific divine functions; such metaphysical entities have a vital presence in the religious…[Read more]
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Jake Benson started the topic “Taking the Past into the Future”: Hybrid Symposium, 11–12 May 2023 in the discussion
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoTaking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts
Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm BST
University of Edinburgh
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature…[Read more] - Load More