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"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
No full textThe Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum is one of the most important first-hand accounts of life in fifteenth-century Turkey known to modern scholarship. It is the work of a Christian former slave of the Turks, writing after his return to the West. Although the author does not name himself, he can be identified as a
Dominican priest, Georgius de Hungaria, who died in Rome in 1502. His Tractatus is conceived as a work of anti-Islamic polemic, yet it contains a surprisingly unbiased appraisal of Turkish customs.
First printed c.1480 when European apprehension in the face of Ottoman expansion was at its height, the Tractatus was reprinted in numerous editions, and was widely used as a
source by other authors. Luther edited the text in 1530, using the positive account of Turkish customs and religious observance as a weapon in his polemic against the Roman
Catholic Church: if heathens could perform such exemplary works, who could fail to doubt the efficacy of works as a means of salvation?
Sebastian Franck in his German translation of the Tractatus went further: replacing Georgius' commentary with his own, he used the text to attack institutional religion as a
whole and to promote his concept of a non-dogmatic, spiritual Church of individuals united with each other only through their union with God -a Church which was not closed to Moslems or members of any other creed. This translation or adaptation, the Cronica der Türckey, marks Franck's decisive break with the Lutheran cause and the beginning of his lonely path as a 'spiritual individualist'. Franck reworked his translation of the Tractatus for his major geographical work, the Weltbuch of 1534.
This thesis concerns itself primarily with Franck's Cronica, providing the first modern critical edition of this text, in a near-diplomatic transcription with an extensive glossary. The thesis also includes transcriptions of the Tractatus; of Türckei, an anonymous translation of the Tractatus, and of relevant additional material from Franck's Weltbuch. None of these texts has been published in full in a modern edition.
In the Introduction Franck's Cronica is compared in detail with the Tractatus, highlighting the changes that occur in translation; the character and the significance of these changes are then discussed. It is established that Franck, whilst being unwilling to reverse any of Georgius' value judgements on Islam and Turkish culture, is highly selective in his choice of material for translation, and frequently gives the text new nuances and adds his own
comment. The question of the Tractatus' influence on Franck's further development as a writer and thinker is also raised.
The investigation then turns to Franck's use of the Tractatus material in his Weltbuch. His eclecticism becomes apparent in this text, in which Georgius' account is juxtaposed - but not synthesised - with material from other sources, often of lesser veracity and greater anti-Islamic bias. Franck's distortion of the Tractatus material to suit his own line of argument is clearly discernible: from the unique phenomenon presented in the Tractatus the Turks
become one more example of the general human tendency to externalise and dogmatise faith.
In addition, the transmission of Cronica and Türckei is examined, and the relationship between these two translations is clarified: Franck certainly used Türckei in writing his Cronica, but is unlikely to be the author of the anonymous work
The OPTIMICE method: how to improve the writing and translating of metadata
No full textThe OPTIMICE project devised a method that combines neural machine translation (DeepL) and human post-editing to improve the quality of article metadata (titles, abstracts, keywords, etc.) from French to English in the editorial process of journals. Their recommendations for writing and translating metadata in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) are intended to complement existing instructions to authors, and improve journal acceptance, referencing and international visibility of papers. Their method for translation is meant to be reproduced and transferred to various journals, languages and disciplinary fields. Dr Franck Barbin and Dr Katell Hernández Morin explained and illustrated the OPTIMICE method and the proper use of MT in support of scientific publications.
The presenters' PowerPoint slides can be accessed here: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=cdbb3af4-1f3e-442d-99ec-5979b99f8df2.
Here is the link to download their OPTIMICE guide and accompanying video: https://www.mshb.fr/actualites_mshb/un-guide-en-libre-acces-pour-traduire-en-anglais-les-metadonnees-des-articles-scientifiques/8541/
Artificios pasados. Nociones del Derecho medieval
No full textEn la larga historia de Occidente, el derecho fue y sigue siendo el medio por excelencia para la construcción institucional. A partir de montajes hechos de palabras, proferidas por quien tiene el poder para hacerlo, el derecho tiene la singularidad de promover existencia a lo que ellas enuncian. Esta capacidad de artificio que contiene el discurso jurídico se remonta a la
tradición latina, romana y medieval, que designaba al derecho como un arte, un saber sistemático y técnico que movilizaba su interpretación al servicio de la práctica. A partir de relevar la construcción técnica e histórica de ciertos artificios y operaciones jurídicas que tuvieron un lugar clave en el derecho europeo medieval y moderno y, que, en la actualidad, o bien ya no existen bajo forma jurídica o han cambiado radicalmente su sentido, proponemos una reflexión sobre la capacidad de intervención y producción de efectos del discurso jurídico. Focalizar en estos artificios del pasado nos ofrece una saludable distancia que hace más visibles las operaciones técnicas presentes en los textos a la vez que entrena la mirada para abordar las intervenciones del presente por fuera de todo efecto de naturalización.Entre el museo y el taller: recorriendo itinerarios jurídicos del pasado / Eleonora Dell’Elicine, Paola Miceli, Alejandro Morin (pp.11-17). -- Tyrannus. Usurpador y rey injusto en época visigoda / Céline Martin (pp. 19-36). -- Nota sobre la dignidad del hombre en el derecho romano medieval / Marta Madero (pp. 37-56). -- Las categorías doctrinales del proceso y la efectividad de la justicia penal en el tardomedioevo / Massimo Meccarelli (pp. 57-82). -- Atrocitas/Enormitas. Esbozo para una historia de la categoría de “enormidad” o “crimen enorme” de la Edad Media a la época moderna / Julien Théry (pp. 83-150). -- El eterno “renacer” de la costumbre / Paola Miceli (pp. 151-179). -- El nacimiento de la noción canónica de consanguinitas y su recepción en el derecho civil / Franck Roumy (pp. 181-208). -- Sicut cancer, amplius serperet in occulto. La herejía oculta en el derecho bajomedieval y tempranomoderno / Alejandro Morin (pp. 209-244). -- Propter vitandum scandalum. Historia de una categoría jurídica (siglos XII-XV) / Arnaud Fossier (pp. 245-307)
On the role of satellite communications for emergency situations with a focus on Europe
No full textInternational audienceIn this paper, we describe how satellite communications may contribute to disaster management. During emergency situations, satellite communications present many advantages in supporting or replacing a terrestrial infrastructure (if any) subject to destruction or saturation. However, devising the right deployment model deserves close scrutiny in order to fit the responders needs and sustain financial viability. After reading the paper, we expect that the answers to the following questions will be made clear: what are the roles of telecommunications in emergency situations? How can satellite technologies help? How to mitigate the cost of deploying and using satellite facilities? Who are the actors currently involved in emergency telecommunications and more specifically satellite-assisted emergency telecommunications
Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck. Du remède secret à la spécialité
No full textThe Grains de santé du Dr Franck. From secret remedy to patent medicine.
After a short history of secrets remedies, the author presents the "Grains de santé du Dr Franck". She tells about their compound and indications, about their owner (Dr Audin-Rouvière) and its misunderstandings with the medical Academy because of the name of "Dr Franck". Finally, the author presents the evolution of this secret remedy to a patent medicine, sold buy Troncin laboratory.Après un bref rappel de l'histoire des remèdes secrets, l'auteure présente « Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck » : leurs composition et indication, leur propriétaire le Dr Audin-Rouvière, ses démêlés avec l'Académie de médecine au sujet du nom du Dr Franck, et enfin l'évolution du remède secret vers la spécialité vendue par le laboratoire Troncin.Raynal Cécile. Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck. Du remède secret à la spécialité. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 95ᵉ année, n°359, 2008. pp. 263-274
Le projet OPTIMICE : une optimisation de la qualité des traductions de métadonnées par la collaboration entre acteurs du monde scientifique et traduction automatique
No full textThe OPTIMICE project, which stands for optimising machine translation of metadata and its integration into the editorial chain, aims at devising a method – transferrable to other journals and disciplinary fields – that combines neural machine translation (DeepL) and human post-editing to improve the quality of article metadata (abstracts, keywords, etc.) from French to English in the editorial process of journals. A team of translation researchers who are also translators worked on four journals edited by the Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR), in collaboration with the editorial comittees and the MSHB (Maison des sciences de l’Homme en Bretagne). The translation of the paper metadata by their authors and by machine translation was comparatively assessed. A survey on translation practices among researchers in HSS was led, and recommendations for writing and translating metadata were formulated for the organized integration of the methodology within the editorial process
L'avenir des négociations collectives
No full textInternational audienceUne table ronde a été organisée par la Revue Interdisciplinaire Management, Homme(s) & Entreprise, la RIMHE, le 17 juin 2014 à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Paris V Descartes sur les négociations collectives. Elle était animée par Marc MORIN, Professeur en économie et sciences des organisations à l’ISC de Paris. Quatre intervenants ont bien voulu répondre à son invitation : Franck BIETRY, Maître de Conférences HDR en sciences de gestion à l’IAE de Caen, Jacques FREYSSINET, Professeur émérite en économie à l’Université de Paris 1 et Président du Conseil scientifique du Centre d’Études sur l’Emploi, Jacques ROJOT, Professeur émérite en sciences de gestion à l’Université de Paris 2, Fondateur et past-rédacteur en chef de la Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines et Président de la CIDEGEF, Christian THUDEROZ, Sociologue, Professeur des Universités à l’INSA de Lyon et chercheur au Centre Max Weber. Leurs échanges ont été enregistrés3 et des extraits ont été sélectionnés et retranscrits pour, une fois relus par leurs auteurs, être présentés dans cet article
Effect of gravity on clustering patterns and inertial particles attractors
No full textIn this contribution we study the clustering of inertial particles using a periodic kinematic simulation. The systematic Lagrangian tracking of particles makes it possible to identify the particles’ clustering patterns for different values of particle’s inertia and drift velocity. The different cases are characterised by different pairs of Stokes number St and drift parameter ϒ. For the present study 0 ≤ St ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ ϒ ≤ 2. The main focus is to identify and then quantify the clustering attractor - when it exists - that is the set of points in the physical space where the particles settle when time goes to infinity. Depending on gravity or drift effect and inertia values, the Lagrangian attractor can have different dimensions varying from the initial three-dimensional space to two-dimensional layers and one-dimensional attractors that can be shifted from an horizontal to a vertical position
ASSIGNING COMPLEX VIBRATION-TUNNELING SPECTRA USING FRANCK-CONDON FINGERPRINTS
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il 61801We propose Franck-Condon fingerprinting as a method to assign complex vibration-tunneling spectra. The electronic excited state of Thiophosgene () is our prototype case. Assignment of its spectrum has proven to be difficult because large tunneling splittings and near-degenerate vibrational frequencies. The dispersed fluorescence spectrum of each unkown vibration-tunneling state reveals its wavefunction character onto the known vibrational progressions in the ground states. This Franck-Condon fingerprint allows us to assign several vibration-tunneling states of in the electronic excited state. These assigned transitions could be fitted by an effective vibration-tunneling Hamiltonian within measurement uncertainty
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