136 research outputs found
Biblical Scholarship in Louvain in the 'Golden' Sixteenth Century
No full textAntonio Gerace dealt with the development of biblical scholarship in Louvain by analysing with seven authors who worked in the first part of the Sixteenth century and who are strictly linked to the Louvain milieu. In chronological order, they include Nicholas Tacitus Zegers (c.1495–1559), John Henten (1499–1566), Cornelius Jansenius ‘of Ghent’, Adam Sasbout, John Hessels (1522–1566), Thomas Stapleton, and Francis Lucas ‘of Bruges’. Each author offered key-contributions that can effectively show the development of Catholic biblical scholarship in that period. This can be divided into three main thematic areas: 1) Text-criticism of the Latin Vulgate; 2) Exegesis of the Scriptures; and 3) Preaching of the Bible. Somehow, these three areas represent the ‘study flow’ of the Scriptures: the emendation of the Vulgate, aimed at restoring the text to a hypothetical ‘original’, and the philological approach to the Greek and Hebrew sources allowing for a better comprehension of the Bible. Such comprehension becomes the basis of commentaries made with the intention of explaining the meaning of the Scriptures to the faithful in the light of the Tradition. Furthermore, the Church needed to preach the Scriptures and their contents to the Catholic flock in order to safeguard them from any ‘heretical’ influence. Therefore, several homiletic works appeared so that priests could prepare their sermons appropriately. Therefore, Gerace divided his work into three parts, each devoted to one of the three research areas, following the ‘study-flow’ of the Scripturesedition: 1status: Publishe
What is the Vulgate? Girolamo Seripando's notes on the Vulgate
No full textBefore the issue of the Insuper decree (1546), by means of which the Council Fathers
declared the Vulgate to be the ‘authentic’ Bible for Catholic Church, Girolamo Seripando
took few notes discussing the need of a threefold Bible, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew,
as he stressed in the General Congregation on 3 April 1546. Only Rongy (1927/28),
Jedin (1937) and François/Gerace (2018) paid attention to this document, preserved at
the National Library in Naples in a manuscript of the 17th century (Ms. Vind. Lat. 66,
123v–127v). In this article, the author offers the very first transcription of these notes
together with the analysis of Seripando’s sources, providing a new primary source to
early modern historians
Francis Lucas ‘of Bruges’ and Textual Criticism of the Vulgate Before and After the Sixto-Clementine (1592)
No full textThis article deals with to the little known but very influential Leuven biblical scholar Francis Lucas ‘of Bruges’ (1548/9–1619). In particular, it traces the change of methodology in Lucas’ textual critical activity, due to publishing of the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate (1592), intended by the Vatican as the definitive text of the Vulgate. The author shows how Lucas was a realist and adapted his scholarly activities in the field of textual criticism to the contemporary ecclesiastical policies and sensitivities through the analysis of Lucas’ works.sponsorship: KULeuven/Fscirestatus: Publishe
Organellar proteomics: the prizes and pitfalls of opening the nuclear envelope
No full textProteomic studies have the potential to comprehensively define the composition of organelles but are limited by the organellar cross-contamination that arises during subcellular fractionation. Comparative proteomics of organellar subfractions can mitigate these problems, as demonstrated by a recent study involving the nuclear envelope
Energy- and temperature-dependent transport of integral proteins to the inner nuclear membrane via the nuclear pore
No full textResident integral proteins of the inner nuclear membrane (INM) are synthesized as membrane-integrated proteins on the peripheral endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and are transported to the INM throughout interphase using an unknown trafficking mechanism. To study this transport, we developed a live cell assay that measures the movement of transmembrane reporters from the ER to the INM by rapamycin-mediated trapping at the nuclear lamina. Reporter constructs with small
Involvement of the lamin rod domain in heterotypic lamin interactions important for nuclear organization
No full textThe nuclear lamina is a meshwork of intermediate-type filament proteins (lamins) that lines the inner nuclear membrane. The lamina is proposed to be an important determinant of nuclear structure, but there has been little direct testing of this idea. To investigate lamina functions, we have characterized a novel lamin B1 mutant lacking the middle approximately 4/5 of its alpha-helical rod domain. Though retaining only 10 heptads of the rod, this mutant assembles into intermediate filament-like structures in vitro. When expressed in cultured cells, it concentrates in patches at the nuclear envelope. Concurrently, endogenous lamins shift from a uniform to a patchy distribution and lose their complete colocalization, and nuclei become highly lobulated. In vitro binding studies suggest that the internal rod region is important for heterotypic associations of lamin B1, which in turn are required for proper organization of the lamina. Accompanying the changes in lamina structure induced by expression of the mutant, nuclear pore complexes and integral membrane proteins of the inner membrane cluster, principally at the patches of endogenous lamins. Considered together, these data indicate that lamins play a major role in organizing other proteins in the nuclear envelope and in determining nuclear shape
Un anello ebraico in bronzo da Porto Torres (sec. IV-V e.v.), e l'epigrafe di Anabatia rinvenuta a Gerace (sec. XIV), con una nota su una lucerna funeraria ebraica da Licata (secc. IV-V e.v.)
No full textThe study presents a number of new archaeological discoveries of Jewish artifacts and proposes a new reading of an already known inscription. Perani, author of Part I, describes a recently discovered Jewish bronze ring from Porto Torres, Sardinia, dating to late antiquity (4th-5th centuries e.v.), relating to similar Jewish rings, discovered in Sicily and Sardinia in the past. Colafemmina, author of Part II, presents his reading of the inscription of Anabatyya found in 1990 in Gerace, province of Reggio Calabria. Finally, M.S. Rizzo and A. Toscano Raffa describe a recently discovered Jewish funerary lamp with menorah from late Roman period (4th-5th centuries), just found in Licata (Sicily)
Realization of high-Q/V photonic crystal cavities defined by an effective Aubry-André-Harper bichromatic potential
No full textWe report on the realization of high-Q/V
photonic crystal
cavities in
thin silicon
membranes, with resonances around 1.55 μm wavelength. The cavity designs are based
on a recently proposed photonic
crystal implementation of the Aubry-André-Harper bichromatic potential,
defined from the superposition of two one-dimensional lattices with a non-integer ratio
between their periodicity constants. In photonic crystal nanocavities, this confinement mechanism
is such that optimized figures of merit can be straightforwardly achieved, in particular
an ultra-high-Q factor and diffraction-limited mode volume. Several silicon membrane photonic crystal nanocavities
have been realized with measured
Q-factors in the 1 × 106 range, as evidenced by resonant scattering. The
generality of the proposed designs and their easy implementation and scalability make
these results particularly interesting for realizing highly performing photonic nanocavities on
different material
platforms and operational wavelengths
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