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11. An Arrangement of Silence
Get PDFThe importance of silence for contemplation in the medieval monastery is well known. This chapter examines an alternative silence - that of withholding information. Like many letter collections of the twelfth century, those ascribed to Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) may have presented a selective image of their author. The lacuna in the documentation of Anselm’s first political exile raises the question of the extent to which monastic silence and the act of letter collecting are intertwined. Thus I analyse the arrangements of two such letter collections from the perspective of a ‘macro-text’ - an independent narrative. More specifically, I argue that these collections render an image of Anselm that idealizes silence as the virtue of an archbishop living in a state of monastic renunciation.</p
Synchronization Overhead in SOC Compressed Test
No full textTest data compression is an enabling technology for low-cost test. Compression schemes however, require communication between the system under test and the automated test equipment. This communication, referred to in this paper as synchronization overhead, may hinder the effective deployment of this new test technology for core-based systems-on-a-chip. This paper analyzes the sources of synchronization overhead and discusses the different trade-offs, such as area overhead, test time and automatic test equipment extensions. A novel scalable and programmable on-chip distribution architecture is proposed, which addresses the synchronization overhead problem and facilitates the use of low cost testers for manufacturing test. The design of the proposed architecture is introduced in a generic framework, and the implementation issues (including the test controller and test set preparation) have been considered for a particular case
An Arrangement of Silence:Shaping Monastic Identity in Anselm of Canterburyʼs Letter Collections
No full textConsidering the Values of the Past:Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery
No full textMedieval Nostalgia
Get PDFFrom the perspective of the history of emotions, this chapter discusses nostalgia as a culturally constructed, yet transhistorical, emotion. The point of departure is a range of texts produced within various historical cultures of Early and Medieval Christianity. They will demonstrate how religious cultures have actively shaped the experience of emotions like nostalgic retrospection. In the period between 200 and 1300, texts relating to asceticism and monasticism reveal vast changes in mentalities towards reminiscence. Whereas retrospection was initially deemed highly undesirable as part of a harmful thought or passion known as acedia, feelings of dislocation and longing for the past were ultimately exploited as a reparative, and comforting, emotion to redirect one’s past longings towards God as an attachment figure. A common thread in religious texts is the interwoven nature between the home and the family, focusing especially on the latter. This leads to the conclusion that premodern Christianity made little distinction between grief, homesickness, and nostalgia. These cultural-psychological and history of emotions perspectives to nostalgia highlight the significance of taking stock of nostalgia’s social and cultural contexts while also addressing the persistence of these contexts through time. For the pervasive legacy of Christianity in Western cultures allows us to identify with these historical manifestations of nostalgia, contributing to the emotion’s transhistoricity.</p
Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery
No full textTransformerende troost. De omgang met emotionele banden in twaalfde-eeuwse monastieke teksten
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Quality Assessment of Printable Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites Manufactured in Two Different Printing Facilities
No full textOver the past few years, several studies have shown the potential of three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) for applications in building and civil engineering. However, only a few studies have compared the properties of the fresh printing material and the quality of the printed elements from different printing facilities. Variations in the manufacturing conditions caused by the mixing procedures, the pumping device and the nozzle shape and/or dimensions may influence the quality of the printed elements. This study investigates the differences in the fresh and hardened properties of a printing material tested in two different printing facilities. The pump pressure and temperature experienced by the printing material during the printing session are monitored real-time. Hardened properties are measured for the printed elements, such as the bending capacity, the apparent density, and the air void content. The research shows that two different printing facilities may result in printed elements with relative differences in flexural strength and volumetric density of 49% and 7%, respectively.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Materials and Environmen
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