Stacy Fahrenthold
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A new museum has opened in Tbilisi at the Writer’s House of Georgia: 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 literary and political history.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued that the potential for enjambment, which we understand as the effect that makes line breaks possible…[Read more]
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Mark R. Stoneman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Akın Sefer's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoByzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoByzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
Byzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić in the group
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Wer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]
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Will Hanley's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
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Salam Rassi deposited Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the int…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
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Salam Rassi deposited Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the int…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi deposited Alchemy in an Age of Disclosure: The Case of an Arabic Pseudo-Aristotelian Treatise and its Syriac Christian “Translator” in the group
Alchemy on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis article examines a little-known and unstudied alchemical treatise, The Epistle on Alchemy (al-Risāla fī l-ṣināʿa) attributed to Aristotle, purportedly translated from Syriac into Arabic by the Nestorian bishop ʿAbdīshōʿ bar Brīkhā (d. 1318). In particular, I investigate the Epistle’s discourse on the concealment and revelation of alchemical…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi deposited Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis book is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, this study examines the intellectual strategies he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish) criticisms. Bet…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi deposited Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis book is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, this study examines the intellectual strategies he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish) criticisms. Bet…[Read more]
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