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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
Florence D. Richard letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 7, 1914
No full textFlorence D. Richard, the President of the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1914, sent this letter to Lucile Atcherson of the Franklin County Woman's Christian Temperance Union on August 7, 1914. Richard asserts that she and the other women of the temperance movement in Ohio would continue to support the suffragists. Richard tells Atcherson that she is glad the two organizations were supportive and on good terms, and affirms that she would continue to do all she could to support the cause of suffrage.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
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
The popular reformation in county Durham
No full textMuch recent historical writing has doubted whether the Reformation can be described as a genuinely popular movement, pointing out that in many regions the 'official’ reforms of 1529-1559 were simply imposed by the authorities from above, while Protestantism often made only slow and difficult progress at a popular level. The following study, therefore, aims at placing the unique and fascinating County Palatine of Durham within this debate about the causes, development and pace of religious change in the sixteenth century. It 'also aims, secondly, to examine the profound changes in the religious environment and popular mentalities brought about by the Reformation in Durham - with its defacement of protective symbols and abrogation of liturgical ceremonies - as the reformers attempted to displace the sacraments and ritualised visual effects of the old order with a Protestant emphasis on preaching and the word. In order to 6btain some purchase on the event, the opening chapter briefly examines the nature of the church and religious life in the diocese on the eve of the .Reformation, especially the bishopric's devotion to the cult of St. Cuthbert. The study proceeds by examining the region's response to the religious changes of the 1530s, and the county's unique and powerful contribution to the Pilgrimage of Grace with its peculiar blend of northern separatism, popular unrest, noble 'honour' and regional Catholicism. Subsequent chapters ~how in turn how Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of Durham (1530-1559) was able to maintain both conservative religious practices and the Catholic clergy during the latter part of Henry VIII's reign and that of Edward VI, by his political skill and careful use of patronage~ The penultimate chapter then explores the way in which Protestantism was imposed in the 1560s from London as a predominantly academic movement, through the efforts of a Calvinistically inspired cathedral chapter and reforming preachers like Bernard Gilpin. Finally, the study concludes by showing how the failure of the Northern Rising in 1569 enabled the crown to sweep away many of the forces that had preserved popular Catholicism during the previous decade - the Marian clergy, conservative local administration and bastard-feudal Catholicism of the Nevilles
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
Hermits, Hagiography, and Popular Culture: A Comparative Study of Durham Cathedral Priory's Hermits in the Twelfth Century.
No full textPhDThis thesis investigates the social and religious roles of two twelfth-century
hermits connected to Durham Cathedral Priory, Godric of
Finchale and Bartholomew of Farne, within the general context of
twelfth-century western European eremiticism. Chapter One is a
general discussion of the historiography of eleventh and twelfth-century
hermits, and introduces the main hagiographic materials to
be discussed. Chapter Two discusses the context of monasticism and
eremiticism in northern England, and analyses the Vitae of Gothic
and Bartholomew, particularly in terms of the problem of authority
and asceticism. Chapter Three begins the discussion of the miracle
cults at Farne and Finchale, raising the problem of popular interest in
hermits and holy sites. Chapter Four continues this discussion by
considering the large group of animal miracles at Farne and Finchale.
Through comparison with the hagiographic tradition of such stories
from their inception in Late Antiquity to the twelfth century, the
chapter considers the relationship between popular and educated
clerical elements in the Durham stories. Chapter Five considers the
hagiographic theme of the eremitical diet, and the hermit in the
wilderness, mainly through a comparison of Godric with a hermit,
Aibert of Crespin, from the Cambrai. Chapter Six discusses the theme
of eremitical clothing, and the social status of the hermit, comparing
Godric to an English hermit, Wulfric of Haslebury. Chapter Seven
considers the problem of hermits and women, and holy men and holy
women. Godric's relation to holy women, and the misogyny of
Durham's cult of Saint Cuthbert is considered through comparison
with the Life of Christina of Markyate. Chapter Eight concludes with
a final comparative discussion, of hermits and crowds, and discusses
the social function of twelfth-century hermits
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
Barabbas (Richard Fleischer, 1961): il percorso dell’uomo
No full textThis article aims at analyzing Barabbas (Richard Fleischer, 1961), a movie about Barabbas, the bandit who was freed instead of Jesus. The author manages to investigate the way the main character is depicted, and the significant differences between him and the typical protagonists of epic movies. Finally, she discusses the use of a specific mythical pattern and its relevance in shaping a successful plot and providing a penetrating vision of the man in Barabbas
Richard M. Sheirich research collection : materials about Richard Beer-Hofmann 1866-2002
No full textThis collection consists of Richard M. Sheirich’s materials pertaining to his research on Richard Beer-Hofmann’s private correspondence and works. In addition to the original papers, correspondence, notes, and photos of Richard Beer-Hofmann and his family that Richard M. Sheirich gathered, the collection contains Sheirich’s correspondence with Richard Beer-Hofmann’s daughter Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens, his and other scholars’ works on Beer-Hofmann, several photocopies of the original Beer-Hofmann papers, and Sheirich’s notes.Richard M. Sheirich's book, 'Der Briefwechsel mit Paula 1896-1937’ is available in the LBI Library.Richard M. Sheirich was born on October 9, 1927 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He studied German at Colgate University, Northwestern University and at Universität Hamburg, and earned a Ph. D. in German at Harvard University in 1965; his dissertation was titled “Die Historie von König David.”After teaching German at the University of California at Berkeley, Richard M. Sheirich became a faculty member at Pomona College in 1962 and retired from the same institution in 1996. Sheirich’s research interest was the Austrian literary movement Das Junge Wien and specifically Richard Beer-Hoffman’s work. He started working on Beer-Hofmann’s writings in the 1950s. His work in this field was the preparation of an inventory of the Richard Beer-Hofmann papers for Harvard University. As part of his research, Sheirich travelled to Vienna, Austria several times and conducted a long correspondence with Richard Beer-Hofmann’s daughter Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens. Alongside other smaller publications, the result of Sheirich’s research was the publication of Der Briefwechsel mit Paula, 1896-1937, Richard Beer-Hofmann’s correspondence with his wife Paula.Richard M. Sheirich died at his home in Claremont on Dec. 11, 2011.Richard Beer-Hofmann was a Viennese author, poet, dramatist and theater director.Processeddigitize
Self-directed work teams at Texas Instruments Defense Systems & Electronics Group
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 83).by Richard D. Rosson.M.S
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