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Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur
No full textLe Morte d'Arthur was completed by Thomas Malory between 1469 and 1470 during the reign of Edward IV. Two versions survive to the present day. The first, a print edition, was edited and produced by William Caxton in 1485. The second, known as the Winchester Manuscript, was discovered in 1934 at Winchester College and was "written by two professional scribes working together some time during the years 1470 to 1483" (Malory's Arthurian Manuscript: The Basics). There is much debate over the way in which these two versions relate to each other, and many of the differences between the Caxton and Winchester texts—as noted by Peter J.C. Field—"are scribal errors in which one is (often obviously) wrong and the other right" (New Arthurian Encyclopedia 295). Field observes, however, that certain drastic and deliberate changes are made—the most notable being the shortening of the Roman War narrative in the Caxton version. Scholars continue to debate whether Caxton or Malory authorized these alterations, and this discussion is significant for the purposes of The Crusades Project, because many of the notable references to crusade and imperial conquest are affected by these alterations.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Robbins Library website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-01-26.</p
'Oh Death!': Death, Dying, and the Culture of the Macabre in the Late Middle Ages
No full textFrom the preface - "The popular lines at the beginning of this booklet keenly illustrate several of the key concepts present in a discussion of death-culture in the late Middle Ages. At its essence, the culture of the macabre represented a kind of dialogue between those mortals who would all, someday, face death, and that inevitable, undefeatable force that took their life. Medieval culture fixated on those physical aspects of death that strike modern people as viscerally disturbing: images of physical deterioration, paralysis, burial, and decay are all things that we sanitize and cloister away behind the walls of hospitals, hushed and dimly lit funeral homes, and the silence of graveyards. While our culture, in its increasing secularism, and in its sanitization and silencing of death, is radically different from that of the European Middle Ages, the survival of such images as those depicted in the Appalachian song demonstrates the continuity, albeit uncomfortable, between the macabre culture of the late Middle Ages and our own."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Robbins Library website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-01-26.</p
Supplemental Materials for "Future Sequon Finder - A novel approach for predicting future N-linked glycosylation sequons on viral surface proteins"
No full textJava Program PackagesfutureSequonFinder— This program as the main program used to predict the emergence of sequons, and is thoroughly described in the manuscript.ifvDataCleaner - This is the program used to filter the HA nucleotide sequence datasets that were used for site-specific mutation frequency analysis.MultipleSequonFinder - This program was used to determine when specific glycosylation sequons first emerged in the H1N1 swine dataset.Phylogenetic TreesThis folder contains the newick files encoding phylogenetic trees for the human H1N1 and H3N2 analysis strains referenced in the manuscript. The H1N1 swine tree contains all swine analysis strains and an additional ≤25 strains per year for context.Supplementary PDB FilesThis folder contains all PDB files generated by Alpha Fold for the related strains immediately preceding glycosylation events that Future Sequon Finder would analyze. The human H1N1, H3N2, and swine H1N1 structures are included here.Influenza_Analysis_SequencesThis Excel spreadsheet contains details for all influenza analysis strains (those strains that either directly precede a sequon addition event or have obtained a new sequon). Their names, nucleotide sequences, database, phylogenetic group, analysis group, and host species are all included.</p
Fiction, or Imaginative Truth: Poetic and Dramatic Modes in Hyam Plutzik's Horatio
No full textIntroduction: "The name Hyam Plutzik is familiar to any student of the English Department at the University of Rochester, especially those with an interest in creative writing. Two of the creative writer’s most frequent haunts bear the name: one is the Plutzik Reading Series, which each year brings several acclaimed poets and novelists to campus for intimate readings with an audience of students, faculty, and community members; the other is the Hyam Plutzik Library of Contemporary Writing where, in the Jarold Ramsey Study, the Department’s creative writing workshops meet to discuss students’ own poems and stories.I was one such student: in my final semesters, my concentration was poetry. I finished a creative thesis shortly before graduating in 2010. Subsequently I moved to New York where, for the following year, I pursued the other of my two greatest literary fascinations by exploring the Downtown theatre scene, while poetry receded to the background and thus continued a pattern. Throughout my undergraduate term my interest swung like a pendulum between poetic and dramatic projects as if the two would have little to do with one another, and I have continued to fret over them as if I had to make a choice to pursue one to the exclusion of the other. Which was the more useful to me personally? Which mode held the greatest pleasures and deepest truths? Such was the climate of my thinking in July 2011, when I first read Horatio. This was my first acquaintance with the poetry of a man whose name was a kind of byword signifying the strong tradition of poetry and literature at Rochester: his final and most expansive work, the one which earned him his highest recognition in the form of finalist status for a Pulitzer prize. Since reading it, and in the course of the present writing, the map of my personal literary landscape has begun to change."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-21.</p
Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development
No full textLatin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant features and developments in the region’s economic history from independence through 2022.In approachable language, the book introduces readers to relevant New Economic History concepts and explains important characteristics of Latin America, such as the region’s high volatility, rapid urbanization experience, the continued prominence of commodities, and its culture of informality. The volume provides explicit connections between culture, politics, and economics over five distinct time periods. Readers will learn how Cinco de Mayo featured in foreign debt repayments in the nineteenth century, how novels like Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude reflected on the expansion of railroads during a period of export-led growth, and how a United States federal reserve interest hike in 1979 sent the region into the Lost Decade. When considered collectively, the region’s economic trajectory demonstrates that development does not always accompany economic growth.This is an accessible introductory text with clear definitions and discussions of relevant economic concepts, which will be a valuable resource for students of Latin American economic, cultural, and political history.Routledge: Taylor & Francis Groupebook ISBN: 9781003283843</p
Claude Bragdon: Senior Thesis
No full textIntroduction: "A man of many talents, Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was an architect, artist, writer, philosopher, and stage designer. Bragdon's work in these varied fields interrelated and overlapped, tied together by his theosophical belief in creating and communicating beauty. After a successful career as an architect in Rochester, NY, Bragdon entered the world of stage design in 1919, at the age of 53, by consenting to design a traveling production of Hamlet for actor-producer and personal friend Walter Hampden. Bragdon's arrival in the world of theater came at a time when significant changes in staging techniques were on the horizon."This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-09.</p
Darwin, Spencer and Morgan: Great Minds of Evolution
No full textStudents in two of Professor Robert Westbrook's courses in American intellectual history, "The American Mind, 1600-1865" (History 267) and "The American Mind, 1865-1990" (History 268), use manuscript materials as part of a research assignment. This assignment, called "Other People's Mail," requires that students transcribe a document and write an introduction to it, placing the document in its context and suggesting the ways in which it bears on significant themes in the course.Please Note: All rights regarding the papers rest with the authors. The images of the manuscripts may not be reproduced without obtaining prior written permission from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-08.</p
The Comradeship of Whitman
No full textStudents in two of Professor Robert Westbrook's courses in American intellectual history, "The American Mind, 1600-1865" (History 267) and "The American Mind, 1865-1990" (History 268), use manuscript materials as part of a research assignment. This assignment, called "Other People's Mail," requires that students transcribe a document and write an introduction to it, placing the document in its context and suggesting the ways in which it bears on significant themes in the course. The student essay along with transcriptions of the documents and images of the originals letters, have been digitized and included. Individual scanned page images are supplied, along with them compiled into a PDF together for convenience.Please Note: All rights regarding the papers rest with the authors. The images of the manuscripts may not be reproduced without obtaining prior written permission from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.This document was adapted from a webpage hosted on the Rare Books, Special Collections, and Manuscripts website, before being converted into a static document and uploaded to URRR on 2024-10-03.</p
Zoonotic Disease
No full textZoonotic Disease DatasetZoonotic diseases are infections that spread between people and animals. This dataset contains information to investigate the correlation between climate variables (temperature, precipitation) and zoonotic disease in different countries across different years. The data is clean and does not have missing values.Dataset Variables:Country: region from where data was collectedYear: year when data was collectedTemperature: collected in degrees Celsius Precipitation: collected in millimeters (mm)Zoonotic Cases: number of zoonotic infections Population Density: number of people per kilometer square of countryUrbanization Rate: percentage of country's population living in urban areas</p
Business Revenue Growth
No full textBusiness Revenue Growth DatasetThe Inc. 5000 is Inc. Magazine’s annual list of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States. This dataset was compiled by measuring each company's percentage revenue growth over a four-year period.</p