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Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150)
No full textThis volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints' lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and sceondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Aelfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. By means of a comprehensive scrutiny of the Latin source-texts, including the often neglected Vitas Patrum, as well as of both the historical and manuscript contexts, this collection contributes to outline the late Anglo-Saxon sanctorale and to advance our knowledge of the literary culture and intellectual history of pre-Conquest England and beyond
La Prosa Anglosassone / Old English Prose
No full textOld English Prose is the fifth issue of the journal Germanic Philology, sponsored by the Italian Association of Germamic Philology (AIFG) and edited by P. Lendinara, C. Di Sciacca, J. Hill, L. Lazzari, and L. Vezzosi. The multifaceted volume consists of eleven original contributions by both established scholars and emerging Anglo-Saxonists, ranging from the ‘Alfredian’ translations to encyclopedic notes, from the anonymous Blickling and Vercelli homilies to Ælfric, from source-studies to Old English word-formation and syntax. Contents: M. Cesario, ‘Romancing the wind: The role of gales in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’; R. Cioffi, ‘Ne opige nan man to ðissere leasunge: Un controverso caso di intercessione mariana al momento del giudizio’; G. Cocco, ‘From wea to wela: Shipwreck as a foreshadowing of Christian salvation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre’; G.D. De Bonis, ‘Le Omelie Blickling nella produzione omiletica anglosassone’; K. Dekker, ‘The organisation and structure of Old English encyclopaedic notes’; M. Godden, ‘Alfredian prose: Myth and reality’; J. Hill, ‘Augustine’s tractates on John and the homilies of Ælfric’; O. Khalaf, ‘A study on the translator’s omissions and instances of adaptation in the Old English Orosius: The case of Alexander the Great’; L. Pezzarossa, ‘Reading Orosius in the Viking Age: An influential yet problematic model’; H. Sauer, ‘Vercelli Homilies and word-formation’; L. Vezzosi, ‘Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice’
Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses: New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography
No full textGlossing was a scribal practice in use since antiquity, but it was in the Middle Ages that it acquired a wider meaning and a different role, becoming one of the most widespread forms of literacy in the Germanic West, including the British Isles. Most of the essays collected in this volume focus on the late Anglo-Saxon period, that is a well-identified time-frame spanning from the Benedictine Reform to the eleventh century. As recent scholarship has convincingly established, the second half of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh saw the blooming of Anglo-Saxon scholarship and a remarkable advance in educational practices. Within this cultural resurgence, glossing undoubtedly played no small role and was particularly vital in centres such as Abingdon, Canterbury, and Winchester. In the contributions to the present volume, the relationship between glosses and the text they accompany is always explored on the basis of their manuscript context. The essays are devoted to both Latin and Old English apparatuses of glosses as well as to specific items of the Old Norse and Old Saxon glossarial production
Form and Content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscripts evidence
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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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