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Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the crucified Christ
No full textThis chapter links the devotional translations made by Elizabeth I when still a Princess to a pre-Reformation tradition of Christ-centred piety, to Katherine Parr's Lamentacion of a Sinner and to the influence on Parr of Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Catholic martyr John Fisher. I argue that Parr and Elizabeth 'protestantized' and 'feminized' the medieval tradition within which they were writing and that their modifications to it had an important influence on many later sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English writers
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'Dedans la plie de mon fidelle affection': Familiarity and Materiality in Elizabeth’s Letters to Anjou
No full textThis chapter is a detailed analysis of the physical features of six holograph letters written by Elizabeth I to the Duke of Anjou. (New editions and translations of these letters by myself and Guillaume Coatalen appear elsewhere in the book from which this chapter comes.) I show how the these texts function within the genre of the 'familiar letter', mediating a complex political and personal situation for Elizabeth both in their verbal content and through physical markers such as handwriting, paper, folding, sealing and delivery. The chapter ends with full physical descriptions of each of the six letters
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Introduction
No full textAn introduction to the role played by women in early modern manuscript culture and a summary of the contents of the essays in the volume
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Introduction
No full textQueen Elizabeth I's contemporaries were in no doubt about her linguistic capabilities: from her childhood onward, family members, courtiers, tutors, ambassadors and visitors to England from abroad queued up to praise her facility in speaking and writing an impressive range of foreign tongues. The distinguished humanist scholar Roger Ascham claimed that Elizabeth was the brightest of his pupils, mastering Latin, Greek, Italian, and Frnch at an early age. The earliest letter of Elizabeth's to have survived, significantly, is not in English but in Italian: an address to Queen Katherine Parr showcasing in a single text, the 11-year-old princess's courtly politesse, affection for her stepmother, mastery of Italian, and elegant italic hand. One of her earliest literary works, a New Year's gift to her father Henry VIII for 1546, was a virtuosic translation of Katherine's Prayers and Meditations into Latin, French and Italian
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
“Six Holograph Letters in French from Queen Elizabeth I to the Duke of Anjou: Texts and Analysis”
No full textInternational audienceAn edition and analysis of six holograph letters in French from Queen Elizabeth I to the Duke of Anjou
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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