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The Campbells: lordship, literature and liminality
No full textThe Campbells have the potential to offer much to the theme of literature and borders, given that the kindred’s astonishing political success in the late medieval and early modern period depended heavily upon the ability to negotiate multiple frontiers: between Highlands and Lowlands; between Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, and, especially after the Reformation, with England and the matter of Britain. This paper will explore the literary dimension to Campbell expansionism, from the Book of the Dean of Lismore in the earlier sixteenth century, to poetry addressed to dukes of Argyll in the earlier eighteenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the literary proclivities of the household of the Campbells of Glenorchy on either side of what appears to be a major watershed in 1550; and to the agenda of the Campbell protégé John Carswell, first post-Reformation bishop of the Isles, and author of the first printed book in Gaelic in either Scotland or Ireland, Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (‘The Form of Prayers’), published at Edinburgh in 1567
Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower
No full textVol. 8, ed. D. E. R. Watt, 1987, xxxii + 410 pp; Vol. 2, ed. John and Winifred MacQueen, 1989, xxx + 528 pp; Vol. 5, ed. Simon Taylor and D. E. R. Watt, 1990, xxx + 520 pp; Vol. 6, ed. Norman F. Shead, Wendy B. Stevenson and D. E. R. Watt, 1991, xxxiv + 506 pp; Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press
Tentillum discharge in siphonophores.
No full text<p>A-C: <i>Nanomia bijuga</i> (redrawn from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Mackie6" target="_blank">[155]</a>, A: fig. 2, schematic of undischarged tentillum; B: fig. 3, schematic section through tentillum; Ca & b: fig. 4a & b, schematic of tentillum discharge; D–E: <i>Stephanophyes superba</i> (after <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Chun4" target="_blank">[151]</a>); D: pl. 4, fig. 4, undischarged tentillum; E: txt fig. 3, schematic section through tentillum at X-Y; F: txt fig. 4, discharged tentillum with captured copepod. Labels: at – artefact (not a natural cavity); ax – axis/axial canal (endodermal); cb – cnidoband; ce – entangled copepod; ela – ascending elastic strand; eld – descending elastic strand; elgv – ectodermal lamella with red gastrovascular cells; ell – looped elastic strand; gl – glandular cells; ha – haploneme; he – heteroneme; inv – involucrum; me – mesogloea; mf – muscle fibres (in ectoderm); pe – pedicel; rt – reticulate (supporting) cell; sk – sinker; sp – spongy ectoderm; st – stenotele; tf – terminal filament.</p
Scottish Chaucerianism in older Scots literature, c.1424-1513: a re-evaluation
No full textThis thesis takes a fresh view of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Chaucerian literature in Scotland, tracing its development from its earliest beginnings into an independent poetic tradition. In overview, this account provides a broader understanding of this body of writing as cohesive and dynamic, increasingly growing in confidence as it matures and evolves along distinct lines and revealing an awareness of itself as a native tradition in its own right as the later poets of the period respond to the work of the earlier ones.
Chapter 1 begins with The Kingis Quair (c.1424) of James I of Scotland (1394-1437), arguing that James’s poem undertakes the appropriation of an existing vernacular tradition represented by Chaucer. The Quair’s increasingly confident portrayal of the author as one who has access to Christian wisdom intersects with James’s implicit vernacular self-assertion in establishing a Chaucer tradition in Scotland.
Chapter 2 focuses on the mid-fifteenth-century poem, Richard Holland’s (d. in or after 1483) Buke of the Howlat (c.1448), which engages simultaneously with the Parliament of Fowls (c.1380-82) and The House of Fame (c.1375) as well as with the later fourteenth-century Scots poem John Barbour’s Bruce (c.1375). Holland’s narrative and thematic interest in the ugly owl relates to his sense of Scottishness as the Howlat indirectly proclaims the perspective of difference from which it answers the poetry of Chaucer.
Chapter 3 argues that a similar sense of alterity informs Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid (c.1440-1550) where it is made to assume the form of an implicit vernacular self-assertion. Chapter 3 also undertakes an original reassessment of both Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, which it contends represents a reworking of the use of the mixed form in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, and the Moral Fables, which it argues consists of a response to the storytelling genre in The Canterbury Tales.
Chapter 4 of this thesis considers a selection of texts by William Dunbar (c.1460?-1513x1530) which demonstrate his awareness of an established Chaucer tradition in Scotland. Yet, Dunbar, while explicitly recognizing the existence of this native Scottish Chaucerianism, nevertheless stands at a subversive angle to this body of writing despite drawing on the earlier writers in this thesis in his poetry.
Gavin Douglas’s self-conscious situating of himself within the Scottish Chaucerian tradition is the focus of Chapter 5, which examines the influence of The Kingis Quair on the Palice of Honour (c.1503), before turning to the parallels between his later vernacular translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, the Eneados (c.1513), and the experimental framing of reading experience in the poetry of Robert Henryson
Recreation and William Alexander’s Doomes-day (1637)
No full textArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC
Recommendations for equitable student support during disruptions to the higher education sector: Lessons from COVID-19
No full textNational Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education Research report
Disasters disproportionately impact marginalised groups. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption in higher education students’ experiences. We sought to understand how twelve universities across three countries endeavoured to support students to retain access to learning through COVID-19, particularly those from minoritised and intersectional backgrounds.Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, CI, Tahlia Fatnowna, Pauline Ross, Lisa Bricknell, William Mude, Janelle Wheat, Ryan P. Barone, Doreen E. Martinez, Deborah West, Sarah Jane Gregory, Jessica Vanderlelie, Tricia McLaughlin, Belinda Kennedy, Amanda Able, Philippa Levy, Kasia Banas, Florence Gabriel, Abelardo Pardo, Ian Zucke
Schematic representation of ten nematocyst types found in Siphonophora.
No full text<p>Undischarged and discharged nematocysts included. A: anacrophore rhopaloneme (after fig. 22a–b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Weill1" target="_blank">[122]</a>); B: acrophore rhopaloneme (after fig. 23a–b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Weill1" target="_blank">[122]</a>); C: desmoneme spironeme (after fig. 26a–b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Weill1" target="_blank">[122]</a>); D: atrichous isorhiza haploneme (after fig. 4a–b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Werner1" target="_blank">[123]</a>); E: holotrichous isorhiza haploneme (after figs. 1a, 1b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-stman1" target="_blank">[124]</a> and fig. 7b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Werner1" target="_blank">[123]</a>); F: homotrichous anisorhiza haploneme (after fig. 41a–b <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Weill1" target="_blank">[122]</a>); G: microbasic mastigophore heteroneme (derived from fig. 29 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Carr7" target="_blank">[127]</a> and fig. 2a <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-stman1" target="_blank">[124]</a>); H: stenotele heteroneme (derived from fig. 17 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Carr7" target="_blank">[127]</a> and fig. 1d <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-stman1" target="_blank">[124]</a>); I: microbasic eurytele heteroneme (after pl. 1, figs. 6–7 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Carr9" target="_blank">[132]</a>); J: birhopaloid heteroneme (after fig. 83 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Weill1" target="_blank">[122]</a> and fig. 3d <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-stman1" target="_blank">[124]</a>).</p
Schematic representations of tentilla from more monoecious physonect siphonophores.
No full text<p>A: a: <i>Agalma elegans</i> (derived from pl. 7, fig. 17 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Kawamura2" target="_blank">[68]</a>); b: <i>Agalma elegans</i> larval tentillum (derived from pl. 9, fig. 9 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Fewkes1" target="_blank">[147]</a>); B: <i>Halistemma transliratum</i> (derived from fig. 7B <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Pugh14" target="_blank">[92]</a>); C: <i>Nanomia bijuga</i> (derived from pl. 19, fig. 10 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Bigelow1" target="_blank">[34]</a>); D: <i>Cordagalma ordinatum</i> (derived from pl. 3, fig. 7 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Carr8" target="_blank">[130]</a> and pl. 15, fig. 12 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Haeckel1" target="_blank">[26]</a>); E: a: <i>Frillagalma vityazi</i> (derived from fig. 6A <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Pugh15" target="_blank">[97]</a>); b: cnidosac of <i>F. vityazi</i> tentillum (12a) enlarged (from fig. 7 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Pugh15" target="_blank">[97]</a>). Labels: am – ampulla; an – anisorhiza; cb – cnidoband; cn – cnidocil; cs – cnidosac; el – elastic strand; he – heteroneme; inv – involucrum; is – isorhiza (some questionable are labelled ?is); mm – microbasic mastigophore; pe – pedicel; sk – sinker; st – stenotele; tf – terminal filament.</p
Physonect cormidia.
No full text<p>A: <i>Nanomia bijuga</i> cormidium (derived from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Kawamura2" target="_blank">[68]</a> pl. 7, fig. 10); B: <i>Physophora hydrostatica</i> a. diagram of posterior view of corm surface bearing 10 cormidia (derived from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Pugh12" target="_blank">[77]</a> figs. 12a, 16a); b. one cormidium exploded (derived from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Haeckel1" target="_blank">[26]</a> pl. 20, fig. 18 with two additional palpons added); C: <i>Dromalia alexandri</i> dorsal view of corm with many spirally arranged cormidial units, dorsal view (GMM); D: <i>Athorybia rosacea</i> lateral view of float with siphosomal horn and attached cormidia (derived from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone.0087737-Garstang1" target="_blank">[50]</a> txt fig. 45). Labels: b – bract; bl – bracteal lamella; cu – cormidial unit; gdf – female gonodendron; gdm – male gonodendron; gz – gastrozooid; p – palpon; pl – palpacle; pn – pneumatophore (float); sh – siphosomal horn; t – tentacle with tentilla; te - tentillum.</p
Calycophorans.
No full text<p>A. Typical prayomorph <i>Praya</i> sp., with two rounded bells and a very long siphosome bearing over 100 cormidia; tentacles are extended for feeding, each bearing 80–90 nematocyst batteries, giving <9000+ batteries in all (Steven Haddock © MBARI); B. Atypical prayomorph <i>Hippopodius hippopus</i> with several facetted nectophores enclosing central chamber; latter contains short stem with cormidia which lack bracts to facilitate complete stem withdrawal (Russ Hopcroft, UAF); C. Typical diphyid diphyomorph <i>Lensia conoidea</i> with two angular linearly aligned bells; stem extended for feeding and with many closely spaced cormidia; each has an elongate tentacle with 15+ tentilla (better shown in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737#pone-0087737-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3C</a>) for feeding (Rob Sherlock, MBARI); D. Typical clausophyid diphyomorph <i>Kephyes ovata</i> with two staggered bells and a partly contracted stem bearing cormidia with bracts (MBA); E. Another typical diphyid diphyomorph <i>Chelophyes appendiculata,</i> with stem partly withdrawn into hydroecium of posterior (smaller) nectophore (P. Schuchert, MHNG); F. Typical abylid diphyomorph <i>Abyla trigona,</i> with two linearly aligned facetted bells and stem withdrawn into hydroecium of posterior bell (P.R. Pugh, with permission) G. Typical sphaeronectid diphyomorph <i>Sphaeronectes pagesi</i>, with a single bell (representing larval nectophore retained) and stem with tentacles (with tentilla) extended for feeding (D. Lindsay, R. Minemizu, JAMSTEC).</p
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