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In Papirio: The Introduction and Acceptance of Paper in Medieval England, 1275-1400
No full textThis thesis investigates the production of English paper records and personal paper books between 1275 and 1400. This is an understudied yet distinctive period when the spread of paper in administrative centers led to the development of new writing practices. Generally, scholars have accepted a basic binary in the development of paper use in medieval Europe, ‘before’ and ‘after’ print. However, this study proposes two stages of paper adoption before the advent of printed books. Before 1400, paper use was characterized by writers adopting and experimenting with it in administrative tasks and personal books. By the fifteenth century, paper became more commonly used in commercial book production and was gradually accepted among the mainstream reading public. This important distinction is difficult to observe because of the rich surviving archival presence of post-1400 paper books that overshadow earlier examples. The premise of this thesis is that the fourteenth century was a formative period in the production of paper records and books anchored in the textual communities of clerks.
This thesis examines the specific professional contexts in which paper was used by institutions and experimented with by individual clerks. This led to changes in record-keeping and individual writing practices that can be identified in making first-generation paper books. The information gathered from studying early paper records, and this new corpus of pre-1400 paper books shed light on the writing practices of clerks who produced and used them. The picture that this study provides highlights the writing habits and personal motivations of the writers and has led to new discoveries, including the authorship of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 33
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400
Get PDFIn this monograph the dialogue production between 1200 and 1400 is presented in a detailed repertory. Building on this material, the author describes four genres of dialogue (didactic, polemical, introspective and philosophical dialogues), locating them in the literary tradition.; Readership: All those interested in the literature of Late Antiquity and the (Latin) Middle Ages in Western Europe , as well as classical philologists and specialists on Renaissance literature and manuscript libraries
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Rosier, Bernard de (1400–75)
No full textInternational audienceJurist and ecclesiastic, author of an important corpus of political and legal texts, active in the service of the church, as a university professor and diocesan administrator, Bernard de Rosier (1400–75) is remembered by diplomatic historiography as the author of the Ambaxiatorum brevilogus (1435–36), generally considered to be “the first textbook of diplomatic practice written in Western Europe” (G. Mattingly). Rosier also wrote an account of Pierre de Foix's 1427–30 legation to Aragon, on which he served as secretary, and a treatise on the office of papal legate
Highlights from the Permanent Collection: American and European Art, 1400-1945
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Highlights from the Permanent Collection: American and European Art, 1400-1945," which opened August 18, 1990, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
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