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Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La panadera del “Libro de buen amor” y las otras panaderas de la poesía medieval castellana in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDesde que el hispanista francés Félix Lecoy llamase en 1938 la atención sobre las
peculiaridades de los papeles atribuidos a las mujeres en la obra de Juan Ruiz, numerosos
trabajos académicos se han dedicado a esclarecer en lo posible las coordenadas históricas
y literarias de esta presencia femenina en el Libro de buen amor, sobre todo en lo r…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La panadera del “Libro de buen amor” y las otras panaderas de la poesía medieval castellana in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDesde que el hispanista francés Félix Lecoy llamase en 1938 la atención sobre las
peculiaridades de los papeles atribuidos a las mujeres en la obra de Juan Ruiz, numerosos
trabajos académicos se han dedicado a esclarecer en lo posible las coordenadas históricas
y literarias de esta presencia femenina en el Libro de buen amor, sobre todo en lo r…[Read more] -
Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2023 Conference Proceedings in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe act of circulating research through zines invites participants into the “gift economy” of zine culture, where knowledge is shared within a system of reciprocal generosity and pleasure in opposition to hierarchical and capitalist forms of knowledge exchange. As zines cut through the often strict and inaccessible boundaries of traditional, pee…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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LF Murillo started the topic 2024 SEEKCommons Fellowship Opportunity in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoDear all,
I hope you’re well! I’m writing to let you know that applications are now open for the inaugural SEEKCommons Fellowship cohort.
The SEEKCommons Fellowship is funded by NSF and run by partners at University of Notre Dame, OEDP, and The HDF Group. The goal of the fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAn overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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Juuso Tervo deposited Uncanny Poetics of Education in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis paper was presented at “Encounters with the Uncanny in Education” seminar organized by Antti Saari, Jan Varpanen, and Johanna Kallio at University of Tampere. The seminar was part of their EnAct – Researching Environmental Activism and Self-Cultivation research project.
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Michelle Bastian deposited Topics in Environmental Humanities: Exploring Climate Solutions (2023-2024) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn 2023 we will be looking at the theme of ‘Exploring Climate Solutions’. We will develop an understanding of environmental issues such as green energy, food systems, reforestation and soil regeneration. To date, this course has been focused on work that diagnoses environmental problems, such as the extinction crises, long-term pollutants and…[Read more]
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Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited Call for Participation: AELAIWC2023 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCall for Participation.
The Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) organises The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023)Theme: Digital Humanities &…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Manuscripts Don’t Burn in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn 2023, a new museum opened in Tbilisi, at the Writer’s House of Georgia that previously house the Soviet Writers’ Union: The Museum of Repressed Writers. The museum honours the executed poets from Georgia’s Soviet past, poets whose identities Soviet authorities tried to destroy. This article examines the story the museum tells about Soviet l…[Read more]
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Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]
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Michelle Bastian deposited Is ‘long term thinking’ a trap?: Chronowashing, temporal narcissism and the time machines of racism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this provocation, I investigate the notion of long term thinking, as a notion of ‘sustaining time’, which identifies failures in dominant conceptions of time and proposes an alternative that is thought to be better suited for responding to current environmental crises. Drawing on close analyses of two examples, I argue for a deeper und…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe early modern use of vegetal terms to explain the origin and growth of ores was widespread in mining industry, alchemy, and natural philosophy. In the writings of authors from many different backgrounds, mineral veins were often described as ‘trees’ which moved upwards, bore fruits, and underwent a life cycle. Accordingly, the existence in ore…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited ‘Cliff Notes’ on the Circulation of the Gynecological Texts of Soranus and Muscio in the Middle Ages in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoBeyond the texts on women’s medicine associated with the name of a 12th-century female medical practitioner from Salerno named Trota (or the title, “Trotula”), the most widely circulated texts were those deriving from the ancient Greek *Gynecology* of Soranus (2nd century CE). In particular, the Latin translation/adaptation by Muscio (or Mustio),…[Read more]
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André Francisco Pilon deposited The “Anthropocene”: a strange ideology in the service of the status quo in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe evils that some researchers attribute to the “Anthropocene” are not the responsibility of all humanity; the main culprits, who have the political and economic power to shape the forms of production and consumption and define lifestyles, must be distinguished from the majority of the population, whose power to change things cannot be com…[Read more]
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