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Nelson Goering deposited Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoReview of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon, by Megan E. Hartman, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £83.00, ISBN: 978-1-5015-1832-4
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Nelson Goering deposited Review of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoReview of Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon, by Megan E. Hartman, Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £83.00, ISBN: 978-1-5015-1832-4
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Sarah Middle deposited Survey: Using Digital Tools and Resources for Ancient World Research in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoMy CHASE-funded PhD in Classical Studies at the Open University, in which this survey played a crucial role, investigated Linked Ancient World Data usability. The survey took place during April-May 2018 and was aimed at anyone involved in Ancient World research, with any level of digital expertise. Questions related to participants’ experiences of…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Bofordar en el siglo XIII castellano: entre el entrenamiento militar y el espectáculo caballeresco in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoTal vez uno de los procesos más destacados de la historia de Europa en el siglo XIII sea la configuración de la primera época de esplendor de justas, torneos y todo tipo de espectáculos de riesgo. Aproximadamente entre los años 1170 y 1260, el Viejo Continente asistió a la explosión de estos encuentros, en los que brillaron con luz propia los no…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Bofordar en el siglo XIII castellano: entre el entrenamiento militar y el espectáculo caballeresco in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoTal vez uno de los procesos más destacados de la historia de Europa en el siglo XIII sea la configuración de la primera época de esplendor de justas, torneos y todo tipo de espectáculos de riesgo. Aproximadamente entre los años 1170 y 1260, el Viejo Continente asistió a la explosión de estos encuentros, en los que brillaron con luz propia los no…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, Amirhossein Vafa (eds.). Persian Literature as World Literature in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPersian literature used to be visibly worldly when Persian was a lingua franca in a vast space from Balkan to China. With the British colonialism in the India and the rise of nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Persian lost its status and became more national in various contexts. In Iran it only got worsened with sanctions,…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoA review of evidence for foot structure from early Middle English.
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, Counterpower & Global History. Medieval New Rome & Caucasia in a Critical Perspective in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited The Value of Egyptian Aramaic for Biblical Studies in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoBiblical Aramaic accounts for a small fraction within the two-testament Christian Bible. Studying it would seem therefore to present a modest value for biblical studies, and Egyptian Aramaic, a nonbiblical counterpart from the same historical era, even more so. The present article argues, however, that comparing Egyptian Aramaic with biblical…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhat was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited What Did Feeding the Dead Mean? Two Case Studies from Iron Age Tombs at Beth-Shemesh in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoFeeding the dead was an accepted cultural practice in the world of biblical writers. It is circumscribed by cultic considerations in passages such as Deut 26:14, but there are no texts that prohibit the placing of food inside tombs. Thus, the biblical writers tacitly acknowledged the practice, though feeding the dead is never explicitly prescribed…[Read more]
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in both popular and academic discussions. Discussions around the prospects of, and limitations to, ecological citizenship have mostly focused on the idea of political agency and the civic responsibility of individuals in relation to their environments, with…[Read more]
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Daniel Gorman replied to the topic Job: Contemporary Publishing Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Libraries in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis sounds like it was/is an interesting position. Were you looking specifically for people with library science degrees, or could people with other credentials apply? (History PhD candidate brainstorming alt-ac jobs over here!)
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Daniel Gorman replied to the topic Online Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSounds like an interesting conference. Were any sessions filmed for YouTube, Vimeo, or other streaming platforms?
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Meredith Warren deposited Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoPsalms write and express revelation, relationship, and response on and through the body; corporeal vocabulary, awareness of embodiment and somatic metaphors abound. This rhetoric draws people in through reference to common experience and uses somatic language to express thoughts and emotions which often escape conceptualisation, such as confusion,…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La época del Cancionero de Baena. Los Trastámara y sus poetas. in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoEl presente libro pretende establecer unas premisas básicas en el conocimiento que, desde la perspectiva historiográfica, puede realizarse del Cancionero de Baena, basándose en la inserción de gran parte de sus poemas en el contexto histórico en que fueron compuestos, además de acotar —hasta donde su autor le ha sido posible llegar— las biografía…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La época del Cancionero de Baena. Los Trastámara y sus poetas. in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoEl presente libro pretende establecer unas premisas básicas en el conocimiento que, desde la perspectiva historiográfica, puede realizarse del Cancionero de Baena, basándose en la inserción de gran parte de sus poemas en el contexto histórico en que fueron compuestos, además de acotar —hasta donde su autor le ha sido posible llegar— las biografía…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Making Meaning of Touch: Revelation and Sensorial Participation in Daniel 8–10 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThroughout Daniel 8–10, Daniel is touched five times by human-like figures. By these touch interventions, he receives both physical and emotional strength which allow him to continue participating in the revelatory experience. This essay argues that embodied participation marked by the sense of touch not only legitimates an authentic revelation b…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Alien and Degenerate Milk: Embodiment, Mapping, and Social Identity in Four Nursing Metaphors in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoUsing cognitive metaphor theory to examine the four NT nursing metaphors (1 Thess 2:5–9; 1 Cor 3:1–3; Heb 5:11–14; 1 Pet 2:1–3), this article demonstrates that the same nursing frame can be used quite differently. The work of separating the contributions of each input space and then running the blend demonstrates how each metaphor functio…[Read more]
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