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Alexandre Roberts deposited In Mecca’s Backyard in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoReview of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000, by Timothy Power (American University in Cairo, 2012).
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Alexandre Roberts deposited In Mecca’s Backyard in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoReview of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000, by Timothy Power (American University in Cairo, 2012).
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Review of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000, by Timothy Power (American University in Cairo, 2012).
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Alexandre Roberts deposited The paths and memories tying Antioch to its hinterland on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
Review of Ancient Antioch from the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest, by Andrea U. De Giorgi (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLine 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLine 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited The Terrible Bite of Fire: Metre, Sound Change, and Emendation in Beowulf 1122 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien’s proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova)'s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
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Alaric Hall deposited Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns: A Translation on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
Agnete Lothʼs edition of the longer version of Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns included an accompanying English paraphrase (by Gillian Fellows Jensen), but there has never been a full translation into English, much less of the shorter version as edited by Hugo Rydberg. We rectify that omission here, providing a normalized text of Rydbergʼs edition w…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Saxon unmet, Genesis B 313b ungemet, and unmetrical scribal forms in Germanic alliterative verse on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The adverb ungemete, unigmetes in Beowulf and elsewhere in Old English verse creates significant metrical problems. I revive and expand the proposal of Fulk (1992) to read this as *unmet. This restoration receives support from metrics and from the comparison with Old Saxon unmet of the same meaning, and the alteration to ungemet(e), etc., in the…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Mathematical Philology in the Treatise on Double False Position in an Arabic Manuscript at Columbia University on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This article examines an Arabic mathematical manuscript at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library (or. 45), focusing on a previously unpublished set of texts: the treatise on the mathematical method known as Double False Position, as supplemented by Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābī (tenth century?), and the commentaries by Aḥmad ib…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Eduard Sievers’ Altgermanisch Metrik 125 years on in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEduard Sievers’ Altgermanische Metrik remains a foundational work for Germanic metrical research, even 125 years after its publication in 1893. His impact on the field may be roughly divided into three broad approaches: 1) the impulse for the typological categorization and labelling of verses; 2) the four-position principle as the basis for a…[Read more]
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