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Writing and Reading Anti-Islamic Polemics in Byzantium: The Dialogue on the Faith of the Monk Euthymios with a Saracen Philosopher (Twelfth Century)
No full textThe Dialogue on the Faith, attributed to an unknown author conventionally known as Pseudo-Euthymios, is often regarded as an unoriginal patchwork of traditional apologetic and polemical arguments against Islam, compiled in the twelfth century. A closer analysis of its textual features (linguistic register, rhetorical structure, argumentative strategies) and manuscript tradition helps to shed light on the geographical and social milieu of its production and early circulation, its audience and its possible functions. This will contribute to a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of this text and open new avenues of approach to the literary genre of anti-Islamic controversies in late Byzantium
Luisa Andriollo, Constantinople et les provinces d’Asie Mineure, ixe-xie siècle, Administration impériale, sociétés locales et rôle de l’aristocratie
Full text linkÀ première vue, avec l’édition légèrement remaniée de la thèse de Luisa Andriollo, nous avons un exemple d’histoire de l’aristocratie byzantine, de géographie historique et d’histoire de l’administration. Toutefois, son ambition est bien plus grande car pour l’a. il s’agit de sortir des études partielles et limitées géographiquement et de « concilier microhistoire et histoire sociale et histoire politique globale » (p. 2). À l’aide d’études prosopographiques bien menées, elle cherche à montre..
Byzantium and Its Neighbours: Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue
No full textThe volume is partly inspired by the papers presented during the thematic session Byzantium and its Neighbours: Religious Self and Otherness in Dialogue at the 24th; International Congress of Byzantine Studies held in Venice/Padua in August 2022. Its primary focus lies in Byzantine polemics against religious others, especially Muslims, Jews, Armenians and Latins. The contributions cover a wide range of themes, including the repertoire of topoi and arguments developed by Byzantine polemicists against various opponents, the linguistic and rhetorical strategies employed in the works analysed, and questions of authorship and audience. The volume helps to elucidate aspects of the political and socio-cultural context in which this significant body of Byzantine literature was produced or received, while at the same time opening up new ways of approaching this typology of sources
La voce del padrone. La parola imperiale fra registrazione documentaria e rielaborazione letteraria (I sec. a.C. - VI sec. d.C.)
No full textIl presente lavoro intende tracciare continuità e mutamenti nelle pratiche di registrazione documentaria dell'azione e della parola pubblica imperiale dall'età di Augusto al VI secolo d.C. L'autore affronta preliminarmente alcune questioni metodologiche relative alla definizione del genere documentario in esame e delinea i criteri seguiti per la selezione di un corpus di fonti, di cui viene fornito un catalogo in appendice. Sulla base di questo materiale vengono ricostruite le dinamiche di circolazione e trasmissione dei documenti in esame, nelle loro evoluzioni diacroniche. Infine, viene proposta un'interpretazione della funzione di questi documenti, con particolare attenzione al loro significato storico-culturale in quanto testimonianze delle modalità di interazione e comunicazione pubblica fra il sovrano e i sudditi dell'impero.This paper aims at tracing evolutions in the documentary recording of imperial official action and public speaking from the age of Augustus to the sixth century AD. The author addresses methodological issues relating to the definition of the documentary genre under consideration, and outlines the criteria followed in gathering a corpus of relevant sources; a catalogue of attestations is provided in the appendix. On the basis of this material, the analysis moves on to reconstruct the changing patterns of circulation and preservation of documents recording imperial oral pronouncements and public performances. Finally, a historical interpretation of the function of these documents is proposed, with particular attention to their significance as witnesses to public interactions between Roman rulers and their subjects, within the framework of official imperial communication
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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