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MacCormack (Sabine). Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity
No full textDierkens Alain. MacCormack (Sabine). Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 71, fasc. 4, 1993. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine — Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. p. 1067
Jerome's translation of the Book of Exodus Iuxta Hebraeos in relation to Classical, Christian, and Jewish traditions of interpretation.
No full textJerome's translation of the Bible from Hebrew into Latin is often ignored in discussions concerning his relationship with Classical, Christian, and Jewish literature. In addition, discussions about Jerome's erudition tend to collect references from Christian, Classical and Jewish literature in order to identify Jerome's sources rather than explain how he utilized his predecessors. However, recent scholarship on Jerome's commentaries has suggested that Jerome critically utilizes Christian, Classical, and Jewish informants. This dissertation demonstrates how Jerome also critically employs Christian, Classical, and Jewish learning in his translation of the Bible according to the Hebrew. Starting from a careful textual comparison between Jerome's translation of the Book of Exodus with the Hebrew and the Greek translations, the dissertation delineates three ways in which Jerome engages the Hebrew Bible. He interprets the Hebrew by itself, he may compare the Hebrew with the Greek versions, or he may rely on or respond to an exegetical tradition. Furthermore, Jerome's method of translation reflects the influence of a Classical philological model. According to this philological method, Jerome seeks to render the sense of the text rather than produce a slavishly literal translation. In addition, like the Classical commentators of his day, he initially concentrates on the semantics and syntax of the text before him. Only when the Hebrew is unclear does Jerome consider the other translations and exegetical traditions. Thus, I demonstrate that the Vulgate interprets the Bible from a Classical, Christian, and Jewish point of view and that Jerome integrates these traditions through a philological method. Therefore, Jerome's rendition must be understood as more than a plain translation. Rather, it should be read as a text that reflects the intellectual currents of its day. It must also be read as a Latin interpretation of Scriptures. The Vulgate must be treated as a work of Latin scholarship and Latin literature.PhDBiblical studiesClassical literatureLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsPhilosophy, Religion and TheologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129784/2/9624654.pd
In a parting sea: The apostolic tracks of Christian controversy in the lives of Athanasius, Jerome, and Rufinus, 325 to 411 A.D.
No full textThe imperial validation of Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine in 312 A.D., and the assertion of a universal Church heightened the contrasts between aspirations to imperial peace and unity and the realities of Christian controversy and eroding frontiers in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. This thesis argues that the holy man, rather than relinquishing his hold on the contemporary by way of ascetic retreat, strove for a more encompassing, vibrant unity, independent of territory. Whether monk or bishop, the holy man sought to preserve the continuity of the generations of faith from the past to the present and into the future. As importantly, he sought to affirm his place in that succession so that others not forget, or fail to see, his interventions in the historical movement of the faith. In a world of political and theological divisions, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, and two Latin monks, Jerome and Rufinus, retrieved not simply their connection to the apostolic faith--which Constantine envisioned his own conversion as potentially transcending--but also a powerful sense of that faith's survival through the narratives of their own lives. Athanasius, Jerome, and Rufinus found in religious controversy and monastic rivalry platforms for the vehement defense of an apostolic faith which endured on the human paths traced by exiles, journeys, and adoptive patriae. Their biographical lives, so distinguished by displacement, sea passages, and expatriation, reveal opportunities for inhabiting autonomous spaces within imperially legislated boundaries. In such spaces, Christian knowledge became a creative force reconfiguring language and landscapes to include an expansive reading public. All three individuals studied here tried to grasp the metamorphoses of time and ageing. Each discovered his own means of comprehending time's progressions by bridging historical and autobiographical narratives, creating thereby new conceptions of history itself. Ultimately, Athanasius, Jerome, and Rufinus vindicated old age. For the longest lived had the greatest understanding of how to refashion the old into the new and thus to direct a next generation of disciples into the future.PhDAncient historyBiographiesHistory, ChurchSocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/131306/2/9840628.pd
El rol de los kurakas en la estructura inca y colonial, bajo la visión de las crónicas y visitas (Siglo XVI y principios del XVII)
Get PDFLa realización del estudio de los cambios producidos en el lenguaje político es uno de los medios para entender los problemas que la traducción causó en documentos escritos tempranamente como las crónicas del siglo XVI y las visitas a comienzos del siglo XVII. Los elementos de análisis en este estudio son en sí mismos de lenguaje que luego del proceso de traducción al español y de su registro en escritura por parte de extranjeros permite conocer la transformación del rol de los Kurakas en las épocas inca y colonial en los que esta tesis se enmarca. De igual forma estos parámetros constituyen la base sobre la cual se sustentan estudios relacionados a la sucesión, genealogía, funciones económicas como la producción, distribución y tributación, funciones políticas y social-ideológicas del poder. La metodología empleada durante el presente estudio se basa principalmente en la extracción de información lingüística relacionada con aspectos de la concepción del poder en la época inca, es decir de sí mismos, como en la época colonial, lo que es la visión del otro, registrada en documentos escritos tempranamente llámense crónicas y visitas del siglo XVI y comienzos del XVII
Conversations across time and space: classical traditions in the Andes
Get PDFOna June night in 1557,Gonzalo Femández de Oviedo, courtier, soldier, imperial official, man of letters and historian, lay on his deathbed, clasping in his hands the key to the fortress of Santo Domingo of which he had been commandant, alcaide, duringthe preceding thirty four years. 2 His life had been long and event ful. In his youth, he had served in the household ofthe Infante Don Juan, son of Ferdinand and Isabel, at whose side he witnessed the capture of Granada. After the lnfante's premature death in 1498, Oviedo spent sorne time in Italy. Long afterwards, he was still exchanging letters with sorne ofthe eminent Italians whom he had met during those years
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
Guadalupe: Political authority and religious identity in fifteenth-century Spain.
No full textThis thesis traces the emergence of a new kind of authority in Guadalupe, Spain, and demonstrates how political shifts at the important Marian shrine were linked to changing ideas about the state and religious minorities in late medieval and early modern Spain. Competition for power among factions in Guadalupe, new definitions of correct Christian practice, and the changing nature of Guadalupe' s relationship with the Crown came together in a new way with the arrival of the Inquisition in 1485. The presence of this royal institution accelerated the course of these changes and resulted in the consolidation of monastic temporal and spiritual authority in Guadalupe under the aegis of the newly-united Spanish Crown. Monastic records, municipal ordinances, trial records, and Inquisition files form the basis of the dissertation. Conflicts within the monastery, among different groups of tradesmen, and between descendents of Jewish converts and so-called "Old Christians" thwarted the monastery's attempts to gain more effective control over Guadalupe. Yet these local concerns reflected questions at issue across the peninsula, including the appropriate extent of local control, the place of royal control in local communities, and the role of minority religious populations. In 1485 the friars shifted the terms of the local debate by requesting the Inquisition. The Inquisitors distilled the village' s conflicts into a binary opposition between Old Christians and descendants of Jewish converts, known as "New Christians," or conversos. By the mid-sixteenth century, the friars in Guadalupe had parlayed royal favor into more absolute control over the village. Local conflicts typical of late-medieval Europe were transformed by widespread participation in the Inquisitorial court into the building blocks of the early modern state. Debate over the place of New Christians played a key role in this shift. Conversos held a variety of political and economic roles in town and engaged in a range of religious practices gleaned from Christianity and Judaism. Evidence from Guadalupe suggests that many conversos redefined "Christianity" and "Judaism" based on constantly shifting contextual clues. This depended in part on the shifting status of individual conversos, and political changes in Guadalupe heralded a change in religious attitudes also.PhDHistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/105154/1/9635617.pdfDescription of 9635617.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
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
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
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