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Saint Christopher in medieval Spanish literature
No full textThe thesis explores the legend of Saint Christopher as presented in four fourteenth- and fifteenth-сеntury manuscripts, the oldest extant Castillan accounts. Chapter One outlines the legend's origins in fourth-century Eastern Mediterranean culture, and its trajectory as far as its appearance in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, commenting on the changes made to content and emphasis as the account evolved. The focus narrows in Chapter Two, where the transmission from Latin to Castillan is considered in detail, and comparisons drawn between the four vernacular accounts. Chapter Three and Four deal with thematic aspects of the legend as they appear in Spanish, including an exploration of die nature of Christopher in his dual portrayal as saint and monster, and the notions of fear, power and voice as they are depicted in the texts. The four medieval Spanish accounts are edited and presented here (three of them for the first time) in an appendix, complete with critical apparatus
AM Keynote 1: Christopher L. Thompson
No full textChristopher L. Thompson is President and CEO of Brand USA, the nation\u27s public-private partnership dedicated to increasing international visitation to the United States through marketing and promotional efforts. In this role, Chris is responsible for accelerating the organization’s efforts to build and execute effective marketing strategies to increase U.S. travel exports, create jobs, strengthen the economy, and help enhance the image of the United States with people all over the world. Under Chris\u27 leadership, Brand USA has nearly tripled its partnership network and more than doubled its partner contributions and program offerings
Performance of gravel aggregates in superpave mixes with 100/95 angularity
No full textThe current aggregate requirement for aggregate angularity that the NYSDOT requires for their Superpave Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) is 100/98. With this requirement, many of the gravel quarries in New York State cannot meet that specification. As a result, quarries that are further away from the job site have to transport the aggregates which in turn increases the cost of construction. This paper investigates a multitude of test methods to determine whether the NYSDOT can further lower their Superpave aggregate angularity requirement. Also, this paper delves into "grade bumping".M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes abstractby Christopher L. Ericso
The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
Christopher Hughes letter to Margaret Hughes
No full textLetter from Christopher Hughes to his daughter Margaret in Baltimore; letterhead illustrated with a city view of Stockholm
L-infinity-ALGEBRAS OF LOCAL OBSERVABLES FROM HIGHER PREQUANTUM BUNDLES
No full textTo any manifold equipped with a higher degree closed form, one can associate an L-infinity-algebra of local observables that generalizes the Poisson algebra of a symplectic manifold. Here, by means of an explicit homotopy equivalence, we interpret this L-infinity-algebra in terms of infinitesimal autoequivalences of higher prequantum bundles. By truncating the connection data on the prequantum bundle, we produce analogues of the (higher) Lie algebras of sections of the Atiyah Lie algebroid and of the Courant Lie 2-algebroid. We also exhibit the L-infinity-cocycle that realizes the L-infinity-algebra of local observables as a Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau-type L-infinity-extension of the Hamiltonian vector fields. When restricted along a Lie algebra action, this yields Heisenberg-like L-infinity-algebras such as the string Lie 2-algebra of semisimple Lie algebra
Christopher Dawson
No full textInspired with Jude P. Dougherty’s works in which he stresses the overruling importance of the classical, humanistic education and the central place and role of religion in the Western culture, the author presents Christopher Dawson’s analysis of the Western civilization and his demonstration of the central role of Christianity in it. The author traces the premises on which was based Dawson’s opinion that modern Western man might be absorbed by his technical inventions, to the point of losing his soul
Abandoned U.S. Published Patent Applications (Jan. 1, 2000 to July 1, 2017)
No full textU.S. Published Patent Applications from January 1, 2000 to July 1, 2017 that were "truly" abandoned, identified by Christopher Cotropia and David Schwartz. "Truly" abandoned, coding methodology, and analysis available in Christopher Cotropia and David Schwartz, "The Hidden Value of Abandoned Applications to the Patent System", 61 Boston College L. Rev. 2809 (2020)
A version of the Goldman-Millson theorem for filtered L-infinity-algebras
No full textIn this paper we consider L-infinity-algebras equipped with complete descending filtrations. We prove that, under some mild conditions, an L. quasi-isomorphism U : L -> (L) over tilde induces a weak equivalence between the Deligne-Getzler-Hinich (DOE) infinity-groupoids corresponding to L and (L) over tilde, respectively. This paper may be considered as a modest addition to foundational paper [10] by Ezra Getzler. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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