166 research outputs found
Edwards (Owain Tudor). Matins, Lauds and Vespers for St. David’s Day, The Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge (Suffolk IP 12 3DF), 1990
No full textLambert Pierre-Yves. Edwards (Owain Tudor). Matins, Lauds and Vespers for St. David’s Day, The Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge (Suffolk IP 12 3DF), 1990. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 27, 1990. pp. 399-400
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth : the making of a Welsh prince
No full textLlywelyn ab Iorwerth (1173-1140) has long been considered one of the leading heroes of Wales. The life and rule of Llywelyn, known as Llywelyn the Great, is explored in detail in this thesis. The grandson of Owain Gwynedd, ruler of North Wales from 1137-1170, Llywelyn grew up during the period of turmoil following Owain’s death. After wresting control of Gwynedd from his rival family members in the latter decade of the 12th century, he proceeded to gain recognition as the foremost representative of Wales on the political stage.
Although viewed as a legendary hero in Welsh history, poetry and culture, Llywelyn's route to power is more complex than that. The thesis explores the development of the man from rebel and warlord, to leader and spokesman, to statesman, traces the expansion of his hegemony throughout Wales, and discusses the methods he used to gain and maintain power. Particular attention is paid to his use of family, marriage, allies, rivals and the church to achieve his goals. These insights can be derived from the surviving charters, letters, and other acta of Llywelyn and the Royal Chancery of England, the titles accorded therein, Welsh and English chronicles, as well as, occasionally, Venedotian Poetry. Finally, this thesis seeks to address the limitations on Llywelyn’s successes, in light of succeeding events and concludes with a discussion of Llywelyn’s legendary status in the modern world
What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1
No full textThis issue of Leadership marks our first full year as Co-Editors-in-Chief. As we highlighted in our introductory editorial (Edwards and Schedlitzki, 2023) we see our role as striving to develop the community of the journal in its endeavour to be a key, critical and contemporary voice for leadership studies. To continue this journey, and to help contributors frame and develop their work for submission to the journal, we have invited some of our Associate Editors to share their thoughts on the following questions:1. What do you look for in a strong article, suitable for submission to Leadership?2. What do you see as a critical contribution to leadership studies?3. Can you highlight and/or explore some past articles published in Leadership that exemplify your views?In this editorial we will hear from three of our associate editors - Brigid Carroll, Magnus Larsson and Owain Smolović Jones. As you will see below, they push us towards key thinking around criticality as an edge, encouragement to engage with the complexity of leadership as a phenomenon and promoting ideas around critical companionship. We hope that you enjoy the read
Truth and goodness : a minimalist study
No full textPhilosophers are often thought to be in the business of analysing concepts, in particular, concepts taken to be fundamental in human thought and practice: truth, goodness, beauty, knowledge, meaning, rightness, causation, to name just a few. But what can we expect from such analyses? Can we expect a comprehensive account of one concept in terms of one or more others? Can we expect to reduce these kinds of concepts to concepts which are taken to be more fundamental?
This study is concerned with a particular approach to conceptual analysis, minimalism, which, in general, offers very modest answers to these questions. Minimalist theories, by and large, hold that the strategy for analysing concepts ought not to go much further than the collection of some rather ordinary, ‘platitudinous’ thoughts about those concepts. Accordingly, minimalist theories do not often encourage ambitious pro jects of giving a comprehensive analysis of one concept in terms of another, where this process encourages the construction of such biconditional claims as ‘X falls under concept F iff
X falls under concept G’. Just how far we are to extend our analysis beyond the point of a collection of platitudinous principles is a point of contention between different types of minimalist theories.
This study has three main aims. Firstly, it aims to give a taxonomy of minimalist theories. Secondly, it aims to examine in detail the types of minimalist theories pertinent to the study of truth, and propose the best view
available. Thirdly, it aims to examine how the minimalist methodology may be extended to other normative concepts, taking the concept of goodness as
a case study
What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1
No full textThis issue of Leadership marks our first full year as Co-Editors-in-Chief. As we highlighted in our introductory editorial (Edwards and Schedlitzki, 2023) we see our role as striving to develop the community of the journal in its endeavour to be a key, critical and contemporary voice for leadership studies. To continue this journey, and to help contributors frame and develop their work for submission to the journal, we have invited some of our Associate Editors to share their thoughts on the following questions:
1. What do you look for in a strong article, suitable for submission to Leadership?
2. What do you see as a critical contribution to leadership studies?
3. Can you highlight and/or explore some past articles published in Leadership that exemplify your views
The mitochondrial genome of the Russian wheat aphid Diuraphis noxia : large repetitive sequences between trnE and trnF in aphids
No full textTo characterize aphid mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) features, we sequenced the complete mitogenome of the Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia. The 15,784-bp mitogenome with a high A + T content (84.76%) and strong C skew (− 0.26) was arranged in the same gene order as that of the ancestral insect. Unlike typical insect mitogenomes, D. noxia possessed a large tandem repeat region (644 bp) located between trnE and trnF. Sequencing partial mitogenome of the cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) further confirmed the presence of the large repeat region in aphids, but with different repeat length and copy number. Another motif (58 bp) tandemly repeated 2.3 times in the control region of D. noxia. All repeat units in D. noxia could be folded into stem-loop secondary structures, which could further promote an increase in copy numbers. Characterization of the D. noxia mitogenome revealed distinct mitogenome architectures, thus advancing our understanding of insect mitogenomic diversities and evolution
Aphid resistance in Medicago truncatula involves antixenosis and phloem-specific, inducible antibiosis, and maps to a single locus flanked by NBS-LRR resistance gene analogs
No full text© 2005 American Society of Plant BiologistsAphids and related insects feed from a single cell type in plants: the phloem sieve element. Genetic resistance to Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji (bluegreen aphid or blue alfalfa aphid) has been identified in Medicago truncatula Gaert. (barrel medic) and backcrossed into susceptible cultivars. The status of M. truncatula as a model legume allows an in-depth study of defense against this aphid at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. In this study, two closely related resistant and susceptible genotypes were used to characterize the aphid-resistance phenotype. Resistance conditions antixenosis since migratory aphids were deterred from settling on resistant plants within 6 h of release, preferring to settle on susceptible plants. Analysis of feeding behavior revealed the trait affects A. kondoi at the level of the phloem sieve element. Aphid reproduction on excised shoots demonstrated that resistance requires an intact plant. Antibiosis against A. kondoi is enhanced by prior infestation, indicating induction of this phloem-specific defense. Resistance segregates as a single dominant gene, AKR (Acyrthosiphon kondoi resistance), in two mapping populations, which have been used to map the locus to a region flanked by resistance gene analogs predicted to encode the CC-NBS-LRR subfamily of resistance proteins. This work provides the basis for future molecular analysis of defense against phloem parasitism in a plant model system.John Klingler, Robert Creasy, Lingling Gao, Ramakrishnan M. Nair, Alonso Suazo Calix, Helen Spafford Jacob, Owain R. Edwards and Karam B. Sing
Owain Glyndŵr and his project for the future device of Wales
No full textIn an article on the basis of diplomatic documents, personal correspondence and chronicles was reconstruct the project of the future device of Wales, which could be realized by Owain Glyndŵr if the Welsh struggle against English rule in Wales was crowned with success. The author comes to the conclusion that the ideas of the leader of the welsh revolt did not disappear to the pages of history, but were partially realized at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries through the creation of the University of Wales and the adoption of the Act of the Welsh Church, also through the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales of the referendum of 1997.В статье на основе дипломатических соглашений, личной переписки и хроник предпринята попытка реконструировать проект будущего устройства Уэльса, который мог быть реализован Оуайном Глиндуром в случае, если бы борьба валлийцев против английского господства в Уэльсе увенчалась успехом. Автор приходит к выводу, что идеи вождя валлийского восстания не исчезли в анналах истории, а были частично реализованы на рубеже XIX-XXвв. посредством создания Уэльского университета и принятия Акта о валлийской церкви, а также за счет учреждения в 1997 г. в результате референдума Национальной Ассамблеи Уэльса
Death, demons, and the medium of the message: exploring the exegesis of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 in the early church
No full textThis thesis will consider the reception history of 1 Samuel 28 in the early Church by analysing citations of the passage in detail, from the earliest Christian reference (Justin Martyr) to Augustine. Before approaching these sources, the study will set the context by considering Christian exegesis more broadly, and how Jewish writers understood 1 Samuel 28. The next chapter will consider those early Christian references to 1 Samuel 28 which believe that it was the real Samuel that was raised (namely Justin Martyr, Eusebius of Caesarea, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Diodore of Tarsus, Zeno of Verona, Ambrose of Milan, and Sulpicius Severus). The following chapter will consider those who argue that it was a demon in disguise that appeared (namely Tertullian, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrosiaster, and Jerome). Having considered both views, we shall then observe these differing readings in conflict by focusing on Origen’s interpretation of the passage and Eustathius of Antioch’s rebuttal of Origen’s reading. The thesis will conclude with a detailed study of Augustine’s exegesis of 1 Samuel 28, mapping how his understanding of the passage changes over time. Throughout this study we shall bring to light the particular history of the exegesis of this passage, and the important ideas, themes, and features, which typically appear as early Christians discuss it, from matters relating to Christ’s descent to Hades, to the regular references to Luke 16:19-31 and 2 Corinthians 11:14-15. In the process, this thesis will contribute to a wider understanding of the authors under consideration, examining their theological convictions on themes such as death, demonology, and how they approached Scripture
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