Claire Taylor Jones
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Martin Roland deposited Martin Roland, Das Stadtbuch von Waidhofen an der Thaya Verwaltungsschrifttum als Mittel städtischer Repräsentation in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDas Stadtbuch der niederösterreichischen Stadt Waidhofen an der Thaya aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts beginnt mit einer bemerkenswerten Initiale. Diese kombiniert Motive, die aus Notarssigneten stammen mit einem Vogel, der seit 1971 mit dem Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) identifiziert wurde.
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Foteini Spingou deposited Classicizing Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates’ De Signis in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited ‘हिंदी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’, ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावन’ व ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’: नई सांस्कृतिक-साहित्यिक दृष्टि की प्रस्तावना in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoबहुजन साहित्य और संस्कृति की अवधारणा ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आकार लेना शुरू किया है। अभी हाल (2016) में आए प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित तीन संकलन- ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’, ‘हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’और ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’- बहुजन साहित्यिक-सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन की प्रस्तावना और अवधारणा को सामने रखते हैं और इसे पल्लवित-पुष्पित तथा विकसित क…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Anja Ute Blode deposited Spotlight on the Periphery – the Marginalia in Codex AM 899 4to in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis contribution examines an early modern manuscript, AM 899 4to, from Sweden, which features the Stora Rimkrönikan (Erikskrönikan, Karlskrönikan og Sturekrönikan) from the Swedish Middle Ages. AM 899 4to is extensively annotated. It shows that the medieval texts were read and received in modern times. The various annotations are here for the fir…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Providing a voice to the dispossessed majority – Interview with Pramod Ranjan in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIn this interview with The Hindu, Pramod Ranjan shared his view on Dalits and OBCs in Indian newsrooms, Phule-Ambedkarism, Bahujan literature, Dalit literature, Mahishasura Movement and the role of myth in a caste-based society.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Unearthing history by reinterpreting myths and traditions ( Book Review By Ish Mishra) in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoBrahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :
The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoRecently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoSpanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La estrellica de La Lozana andaluza y una burla anticlerical sobre el papa León X in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoLa presencia de la sífilis en La Lozana andaluza, esencial para la comprensión de la obra y de predominante protagonismo en sus tramas, se suele explicar recurriendo no solo a la consciencia individual de su autor, Francisco Delicado1, como representante de otros muchos que al igual que él padecieron el mal francés en la Roma del Quinientos, sin…[Read more]
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Jonathan Beutler deposited «Fablar en otra cosa más aprovechosa»: El didactismo y la teología política en la tradición caballeresca: un acercamiento al discurso doctrinal de la Quinta parte de El Conde Lucanor in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoEl objetivo del presente trabajo investigativo es examinar el discurso teológico en la obra didáctica del prosista medieval y noble castellano Don Juan Manuel, en particular en la quinta parte de El Conde Lucanor, considerar el contexto cultural y sociopolítico en que se produjo, explorar sus pautas discursivas e indagar el texto desde la pe…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Mito y realidad en la vida de Mencía de Mendoza, Condesa de Haro (ca. 1421-1499) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoEspigando el diverso y abigarrado contenido del primer artículo dedicado a la biografía de Mencía de Mendoza, es bastante curioso el hecho de que su humilde y opaco autor, que no se atrevió a firmar la pieza, otorgase veracidad a una supuesta conversación entre la dama y su marido. Según este relato, en una de las ocasiones en que el noble guerr…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]
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Jonas Richter deposited German Names for Merels in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoMerels (also called Nine Men‘s Morris) comprises a family of traditional board games with ancient roots. Between medieval and modern times, merels saw an interesting onomasiological shift : Several European languages took up a new name for the game. This new name is sometimes claimed to have originated in German, but the details surrounding this n…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En la selva de las formas: Ideas y formas en los gabinetes de curiosidades de Thomas Browne (Claire Preston) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoSpanish abstract: Reseño aquí el capítulo “In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne’s Cabinets of Curiosity”, de Claire Preston, publicado en el libro de estudios mediáticos retrofuturistas ‘The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print’ (ed. Neil Rhodes y Jonathan Sawday, 2000). Los sabios y est…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Sobre la espiritualidad del ‘buen amor’ de Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, en los cancioneros cuatrocentistas castellanos in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoNo creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]
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Mark R. Stoneman deposited Bürgerliche und adlige Krieger: Zum Verhältnis zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Berufskultur im wilhelminischen Offizierkorps in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Mantische Prognostiken in der Bairischen Bildenzyklopädie in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPresentation about the divinatory texts in the Bairische Bild-Enzyklopädie.
Manuscripts:
Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS.B 200, http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=5281832
Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Rkp. Przyb. 35/64, http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=271106&from=FBC -
Marco Heiles deposited Mantische Prognostiken in der Bairischen Bildenzyklopädie in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPresentation about the divinatory texts in the Bairische Bild-Enzyklopädie.
Manuscripts:
Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS.B 200, http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=5281832
Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Rkp. Przyb. 35/64, http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=271106&from=FBC - Load More
