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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Samantha Chang replied to the topic Navigating Archives: FAQ for Archival Research in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoFor those struggling with organizing archival document photos and transcriptions, I recommend using Tropy as a research photo management tool. The tool allows you to enter metadata, add tags, enter transcriptions and annotations, and organize the photos into projects and lists. You can also group multiple images under one object and adjust colour…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Embellishing lute music: Using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEarly seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Review: Seán Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: National Conference Marking the Millennium of the Battle of Clontarf in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014-2014
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Barbara E. Dietlinger replied to the topic Navigating Archives: FAQ for Archival Research in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoMy dissertation made me discover quite a number of archives in Europe (especially the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany). Something that I wish somebody would have told me before is the temperature in the archives. Depending on the archive, it varies A LOT. I want to draw your attention to this helpful list compiled by Megan Cook.
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Compasso Geometrico e Militare (measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoData set of measures from Galileo Galilei’s Compasso Geometrico e Militare and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and Medicine, titled “Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the…[Read more]
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Celine Camps replied to the topic Tips and Strategies for Productivity in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThank you, Carla. I have gotten similar advice from a former Professor once: “Take a break when the writing is going well.” It sounds counterintuitive, but it actually helps me to stay motivated.
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Tips and Strategies for Productivity in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWhen I was a student, a scholar told me an incredibly simple strategy that has helped me so much. I used to work on my dissertation for hours, then stop when I was feeling blocked and figure that I would sort it out the next day. The problem is that the next day I might still be feeling blocked. This scholar said that each day, when he stopped…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoI was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.
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Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Online Lecture in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoOn July 11th, at 6pm, I will be giving a lecture on the Florentine academies (Disegno, Fiorentina, Crusca) as part of the online lectures series: “THE MEDICI AND THEIR ARCHIVES: ARTISTIC PATRONAGE AND DIPLOMACY”. If you are interested in the series you can register here: https://www.medici.org/map-online-lectures-series/
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Celine Camps replied to the topic Tips and Strategies for Productivity in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThank you for the suggestion, Barbara! I have found a similar app for my Iphone (called Flora) and love it. I have also found writing sessions with a friend/colleague to be very helpful. You set a time/date to meet on Zoom (or whichever program you prefer) and then we just write in silence together, checking in at predetermined intervals to keep…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBlogs might suggest some answers? https://blog.americansforthearts.org/
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Ashley "Aley" O'Mara replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoI’m curious about the outlook for careers in theater administration, given the pandemic. I’ve noticed layoffs and cancellations of job searches. Any sense of which areas of theater admin might recover soonest?
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Jessica Wolfe replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoAnother suggestion for Kristin Bezio: sometimes, university libraries are willing to foot the bill for a faculty member or graduate student at that university to order a scanned reproduction of one or more documents, so long as you promise to deposit it in the library collection once you have finished using it. You might see whether there are…[Read more]
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