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Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
No full textSt Cuthbert's literary cult was conceived in the late seventh and early eighth century with the production of three vitae, most importantly Bede's prose Vita sancti Cuthberti. Over the ensuing centuries, the cult stimulated the production of a great wealth of hagiographic material: this thesis analyses the key Cuthbertine works that were written by his Church during a turbulent but also prosperous time, between the ninth century and the end of the twelfth. Each chapter takes as a specific focus one of these texts, using it as a basis for exploring a number of themes pertaining to the cult of St Cuthbert, wider developments in the cult of the saints, and the changing and variable uses of hagiographic and historical writing.
The first chapter takes the Historia de sancto Cuthberto as an example of a text combining property records with miracles, and written episodically over a period spanning more than a century, establishing the thesis' triumvirate of themes: the fluidity of texts and of the representation of saints, and the enduring power of the Cuthbertine Church. Chapter Two explores the multifaceted identity that the Cuthbertine Church sought to convey for itself in Symeon of Durhamâ s Libellus de exordio. The third and fourth chapters focus on two highly flexible and manipulated texts, Capitula de miraculis sancti Cuthberti and Brevis relatio de sancto Cuthberto, which appear in manuscripts together, and often amalgamated: they are used to examine how a saint's image could be changed, and to question our often static notion of a text' s identity. The final chapter takes Reginald's Libellus de admirandis beati Cuthberti virtutibus to compare the miracle profiles of all the Cuthbertine texts, contextualising them with formative studies in the cult of saints such as the work of Sigal (1985) and Vauchez (1981). The thesis ends by suggesting that Cuthbert's cult was still thriving at the end of the twelfth century, and continued to do so, in the semi-independent socio-political and cultural sphere of northern England and southern Scotland.
The discussions in these chapters are supplemented by four appendices: a table giving detailed synopses and a thematic breakdown of Reginald's Libellus, and a table categorising and comparing the miracles that appear in all these Cuthbertine works provide the basis for exploring Cuthbert' s changing miraculous persona; a map charting the locations pertinent to Reginald's Libellus shows the vibrant geographical extent of Cuthbert' s cult; a table of manuscripts illustrates the various permutations into which these texts may be worked
Free care for the elderly
No full textThe policy of free personal care for the elderly in Scotland was implemented in July 2002. Work on the costings of the exercise had been undertaken by the Care Development Group (CDG), a group established by the Minister for Health and Community Care, and chaired by Malcolm Chisholm. Research to assist in the costings was specially commissioned and the research papers were published by the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit: (CRU, 2001). The CDG's main conclusion with regard to costs was that the initial cost of the policy would be £125 million, rising to £142 million by year 3. (CDG, 2001) Even before the policy was implemented in Scotland, the question of cost had caused considerable debate. Doubts, for example, were expressed by David Lipsey and Joel Joffe, two of the members of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, who had produced a Note of Dissent (1999). In Lord Lipsey's view, "If it was affordable and if it was going to people who most needed it, yes great, free care would be a splendid policy. Unfortunately it is not affordable." One contribution to the debate on the cost of the policy in Scotland was a paper by Cuthbert and Cuthbert (2002), in which it was argued that the costs had been substantially underestimated. Recently, some members of the CDG have been quoted as saying that implementation of the policy could be too expensive: (Scotsman 12th October 2004). Nevertheless, the current state of the debate on costings is still unsatisfactory. The discrepancy between the cost estimates which have been produced by the CDG and ourselves is so large that it needs to be resolved. Moreover, the need for this resolution is heightened by two additional factors. First, the latest population projections by the Government Actuary’s Department indicate that there will be more old people in Scotland than was previously projected, which means that the effects of any underestimation of costs will be multiplied. Second, the Liberal Democrats have adopted free personal care for the elderly for the whole of the UK as a major part of their pre-manifesto3. The LibDem costings of £1.4billion for this policy for the UK appear to be broadly in line with the CDG costings for Scotland. So if the CDG has indeed underestimated its costings for Scotland there could be profound implications for the LibDem strategy. The main new information in this paper is derived from examining, in greater detail than in our previous paper, that part of the CDG’s work concerning the estimated costs of delivering free personal care in the community, as opposed to in residential and nursing homes. In the course of this critique we establish that there were flaws in the basic research commissioned by CDG, which meant that the numbers of elderly disabled people in private households in Scotland were seriously underestimated by the CDG, by a factor of more than 2. This mistake appears to account for a major part of the discrepancy between the CDG and Cuthbert and Cuthbert costings. In addition, in other parts of our critique we point to other areas where the methodology is suspect
Cuthbert B. Wolfe
No full textSeries 328 | Board of Pardons | Prisoners' pardon application case files | Cuthbert B. WolfeCase files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case. Cases illustrate the process of review by the board of cases of prisoners incarcerated in the Utah prison system to determine if they should be released before their regular sentence ended
Old Carnegie Library Marker (Obverse), Cuthbert, GA
No full textOld Carnegie Library Marker (Obverse), Cuthbert, GA.
This marker was erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and Randolph Historical Society, 2001 , in Cuthbert in Randolph County, Georgia.
It reads [ side 1] as :
The first formal meeting to organize a library association was held at Andrew College in April 1878 with Dr. A. L. Hamilton presiding. The thirteen members of the Cuthbert Library Club offered their book collections, and Judge John T. Clark offered space in his office for the headquarters. The Cuthbert Book Club, operating from 1905-1905, was the next library organization. In 1917, a library board consisting of Mrs. J. B. Bussey, Chair; Mrs. Julian B. Edings, Mrs. John D. Gunn, Mrs. Charlie Harris, Mrs. G. Y. Moore, A. A. Lockett, A. C. Moye, B. B. Teabeaut and E. C. Teel was appointed to work with the Cuthbert Woman´s Club to secure funding from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/4012/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Sing we and chant it [music] : (trio) : (women's voices) /
No full textCaption title.; For voices (SSA) and piano.; Pl. no.: B. 1176.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn2108666
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems
No full textCopyright @ 2013 The authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.The use of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals is increasing. Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of research into potential environmental impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment. A Royal Society-supported seminar brought together experts from diverse scientific fields to discuss the risks posed by pharmaceuticals to wildlife. Recent analytical advances have revealed that pharmaceuticals are entering habitats via water, sewage, manure and animal carcases, and dispersing through food chains. Pharmaceuticals are designed to alter physiology at low doses and so can be particularly potent contaminants. The near extinction of Asian vultures following exposure to diclofenac is the key example where exposure to a pharmaceutical caused a population-level impact on non-target wildlife. However, more subtle changes to behaviour and physiology are rarely studied and poorly understood. Grand challenges for the future include developing more realistic exposure assessments for wildlife, assessing the impacts of mixtures of pharmaceuticals in combination with other environmental stressors and estimating the risks from pharmaceutical manufacturing and usage in developing countries. We concluded that an integration of diverse approaches is required to predict 'unexpected' risks; specifically, ecologically relevant, often long-term and non-lethal, consequences of pharmaceuticals in the environment for wildlife and ecosystems
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