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Anna Komnene and John of Epiphania’ s Histories: Quotation, Allusivity or Plagiarism?
No full textThis paper concerns the textual transmission and reception of John of Epiphania’s Histories, a fragmentarily preserved classicizing military-diplomatic narrative written in the 590s. Although no readers or editorial interest can be traced between the mid-seventh and twelfth centuries, renewed engagement with John’s Histories is evidenced during the Komnenian era in manuscript production and citation in court-centred historiography. In contrast to literary-cultural processes that typically preserve historical fragments as excerpts or summaries during the middle Byzantine period, the beginning of John’s Histories uniquely survives via a direct textual tradition transmitted in a twelfth-century codicological remnant (Vat. gr. 1065). More remarkably, a substantial near-verbatim quotation of this ostensibly obscure late antique work is embedded in the prologue to Anna Komnene’s Alexiad. The study assesses the implications of this intertextual relationship for both improving the received text and modern editions of John of Epiphania and for understanding Anna Komnene’s compositional technique and ambition
Images of kindness and happiness in illustrated stories for preschool and first primary years children (2002-2022)
No full textThis paper deals with depictions of kindness and happiness in illustrated stories for preschool and first grade children published during the period 2002-2022. Children's literature plays a key role in children's social and emotional development and maturation. Children's literary texts place the child reader in a living reality with the problems and conditions that prevail in it. Through selected books, it is sought to associate emotions with Children's Literature, as they are also a topic concerning various branches of Psychology. The depiction of emotions in works for preschool and early school-age children allows us to study the way psychological impressions are formed. Engaging with illustrated books encourages children to discover and understand emotions by resorting to their own experiences and adopting a different way of thinking. The content analysis of ten books on the themes of kindness and happiness and a case study on their use in kindergarten are used as a research method. The findings underline the importance of these children's books for the knowledge and management of emotions by children readers, pre-readers and all those involved in the process of producing books about kindness and happiness
A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy
No full textReview of the book A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy, by Raffaele De Benedictis, New York and London, Routledge, 2024, 251 pages, ISBN 9781032501925 (1st edition
Trois enseignements, deux intervenants, un texte hyperspécialisé à traduire : présentation d’un travail terminologique effectué en opérant un décloisonnement pédagogique avec des étudiants en traduction
No full textIn this article we present a terminology project carried out with students enrolled in the first year of a master’s course in specialised translation. The starting point was a text in English published by the Financial Times on a highly specialised subject, in this case the approval of bitcoin spot ETFs by the US market regulator in January 2024. Terminology research was carried out with the students with the ultimate aim of translating the text into French, by breaking down the traditional pedagogical barriers between 3 different courses taught by 2 lecturers, one a professional translator and the other a teacher-researcher at the university: (i) terminology database creation, (ii) corpus tools, and (iii) English-French financial translation. The aim of our project is to enable students to prepare a glossary that will be operational at the time of translation, including useful information on writing in the target language based on the use of a linguistic database (corpus) for an in vivo approach to terminology
Chaos Unveils the Secrets of Protein Folding Dynamics: A Novel Perspective on Levinthal's Paradox
No full textThis Perspective offers a novel viewpoint on the long-standing Levinthal paradox, proposing that chaotic dynamics provide a fundamental mechanism for proteins to achieve their functional forms within biologically relevant timescales. By exploring principles such as sensitive dependence on initial conditions, bifurcation, and strange attractors, chaotic dynamics offer insights into the protein folding process that challenge traditional views and open avenues for future research in bioinformatics, biotechnology, and therapeutic interventions
Όταν μιλά η πέτρα. Pedro Luis Ladròn de Guevara
No full textΗ παρούσα δημοσίευση περιλαμβάνει μια εισαγωγική προσέγγιση στην ποιητική συλλογή Cuando la piedra habla. Quando la pietra parla του Pedro Luis Ladròn de Guevara που εκδόθηκε το 2004 σε μετάφραση στην ιταλική γλώσσα από τον ποιητή Emilio Coco, καθώς και την ελληνική μετάφραση των ποιημάτων της συλλογής. Questa pubblicazione comprende un approccio introduttivo all’antologia poetica Cuando la piedra habla. Quando la pietra parla di Pedro Luis Ladròn de Guevara, pubblicata nel 2004 in traduzione italiana del poeta Emilio Coco, e la traduzione greca delle poesie che la compongono
Εικόνα της Συνάξεως των Αρχαγγέλων στην Ι. Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας Αγίου Όρους και το καλλιτεχνικό περιβάλλον της προέλευσής της
No full textIcon of the Assembly of the Archangels (Synaxis of the Archangels) in the Great Lavra Monastery of Mount Athos and the artistic environment of its originIn the Great Lavra Monastery of Mount Athos, an unpublished icon depicting the Assembly of the Archangels is kept. This depiction is particularly elaborate, presenting all the formal and symbolic elements established for illustrating the subject.The formulation of the iconographic theme of the Assembly of the Archangels is placed after the Iconoclasm, a time when most discourses and praises for the Angels were written, and it seems to have a Constantinopolitan origin. The oldest examples of this theme are found in monumental painting and date from the 11th century, while in portable icons, the theme appears from the 13th century.The iconographic and stylistic elements of Lavra’s icon indicate models from the first half of the 14th century, such as the paintings in the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Church of Agios Nikolaos the Orphan in Thessaloniki, which the artist seems to know wellHowever, the rare iconographic peculiarities and the direct artistic connection found between Lavra’s icon and similar depictions in monumental paintings in churches of medieval Serbia, such as Lesnovo and Mateić (today North Macedonia), lead us to confidently date the icon to the middle of the 14th century. The classical atmosphere exuded by the work and the emphasis on the spiritual content of the subject also suggest an artist familiar with and adopting the values seen in the aforementioned monuments of the mid-14th century.We do not consider it a coincidence that in the same period Saint Gregory Palamas, the main exponent of the Hesychastic movement, also monasticized in Lavra. The theme of the Assembly of the Archangels indicates the association of State and Church. However, the choice of the iconographic variation and the placement of Christ-Emmanuel in full body within a graduated mandorla, held by the Archangels, in Lavra’s icon directly refer to an artist who had connections with the Hesychasts of a major cultural and spiritual center of the empire, such as Thessaloniki or even the Great Lavra Monastery. The fact that Saint Gregory Palamas, a leading figure of Hesychasm, also resided in the Great Lavra Monastery during this period further supports this connection