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Bilingual Strategies in Fourteenth-Century Latin Sermons from Catalonia. Medieval Worlds|Rethinking Scholastic Communities in Medieval Eurasia - Volume 12. 2020 medieval worlds Volume 12. 2020|
No full textThis article discusses the phenomenon of bilingualism in medieval sermons by focusing on one of the most understudied areas of sermon studies – fourteenth-century Catalonia and Aragon. Specifically, I concentrate on Latin sermons, which remain largely underexplored, partly due to a certain historiographical bias that favours »national« languages over Latin. The main focus is on Dominican sermons from the Aragonia Province (which included Catalonia and Aragon). The main argument is that bilingualism in sermons was an editorial communicative strategy acquired and developed in an educational context, i.e. in how language was approached and learnt by bilingual users. To make my case, I first discuss the language training of the Dominicans from Aragon and briefly review some bilingual grammatical works in order to place the bilingualism of the sermons within a wider context of written (and spoken) multilingualism. Second, I address bilingualism and code-switching in sermons by analysing texts in which Latin is the matrix language, the most common type of sermon evidence preserved from this area. As in better studied areas, such as France, England, or Italy, the linguistic intermingling in fourteenth-century sermons from Catalonia covers all types of »macaronicity«, as categorised by Siegfried Wenzel. Thus, the paper will add to current debates that seek to understand medieval bilingualism (written and spoken) as a late medieval Europe-wide phenomenon by discussing hitherto unstudied and underexplored evidence in manuscripts that remains largely unknown to scholarship
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS. Schriften der Balkan-Kommission|Das ungarisch-albanische Wörterbuch von Zoltán László (1913)|
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Rethinking Buddhist Scholastic Communities Through a Socio-Historical Lens. Medieval Worlds|Ideologies of Translation II - Volume 12. 2020 medieval worlds Volume 12. 2020|
No full textMy early work on scholasticism initially focused on the Tibetan tradition, and later on scholasticism as a comparative category. This scholarship was based almost exclusively on the doctrinal writings of scholastics. While valuable in starting a conversation, in the intervening years I have realized that a more diachronic perspective that emphasizes the social and institutional aspects of scholastic communities is needed. This paper considers three moments in the history of Indian (and to a lesser extent Tibetan) monastic communities of learning: when they first came into being, when they were flourishing, and when they started to die out. Stability, writing, and a commitment to confronting rivals, I argue, are conditions without which Buddhist scholastic communities would not have emerged in India. Although much could be said about the character of these communities during their halcyon days, I focus on three practices that are important to scholastic identity in India and Tibet: debate, commentary, and prayer. Finally, I consider some of the internal challenges and external threats that these communities faced in their twilight
Schlussstrich unter die NS‐Verbrechen? Die verdeckte Lösung der Verjährungsfrage in Österreich. Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs|Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs Band 1 / 2020|
No full textThe timeframe for the prosecution of Nazi crimes was limited in Austria by extinctive prescription. Shortly before the last and most severe crimes became unpunishable in the early 1960s, the Austrian government faced heavy pressure from foreign governments and international organisations as well as groups of former victims and resistance fighters to extend or even abolish the limitation period for the most severe crimes. The measures considered for extending the timeframe for the prosecution of Nazi crimes raised legal questions, especially concerning the principle of non-retroactivity. However, the public, political and even academic debates were closely connected to the popular aim of finally putting an end to the preoccupation with the Austrian population’s participation in the atrocities committed. In the following paper, the Austrian discourse concerning an extension of the limitation period for Nazi crimes, the problem’s solution and its consequences will for the first time be examined from a legal as well as a historical perspective based on primary sources
Multilevel Schwarz preconditioners for singularly perturbed symmetric reaction-diffusion systems. ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
No full textWe present robust and highly parallel multilevel non-overlapping Schwarz preconditioners to solve an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of a system of steady-state, singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations with a singular reaction operator using a GMRES solver. We provide proofs of convergence for the two-level setting and the multigrid V-cycle as well as numerical results for a wide range of regimes
Wiener Episode des Schweizer Gesetzesautors Eugen Huber. Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs|Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs Band 1 / 2020|
No full textStooss brought Eugen Huber back from Halle an der Saale to Berne, where Huber dethroned him both as a law maker (ZGB versus StGB) and as a teacher. Nevertheless, Stooss made great efforts to secure a chair for Huber at the University of Vienna, where he had studied under Jhering. However, Huber declined the offer based on very meticulous deliberations. The details of this chain of events as well as Huberʹs thorough rationale are presented here to the public for the first time
