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Cults of political martyrs in late medieval England
No full textPhDA number of prominent men who lost their lives during political struggles were
posthumously venerated as martyrs in later medieval England. This dissertation aims
to recreate some of the context - religious and cultural as well as political - in which
these cults developed, and to chronicle and evaluate the activities and representations
which they produced.
It will be argued that political martyrdom formed part of a distinctive religious
culture in which suffering for a cause could be highly valued as a form of martyrdom.
The three cases studied here bring us in contact with different aspects of late
medieval English society. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (d. 1322) was regarded
posthumously as Christi miles, and represented ideas linked to knighthood and
chivalry, treason and betrayal. Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York (d. 1405), was
portrayed in contemporary hagiographic sources as pastor populi, representing the
ideal ecclesiastical shepherd, dedicated to justice in both religious and political
affairs. King Henry VI (d. 1471) was seen as a pious victim already in his lifetime,
represented in the hagiography as an innocent, Job-like, child-martyr.
Cults of political martyrs formed an organic part of late medieval lives, which
were commnunal and private, local and regional, devotional and social. They
demonstrate the flexibility with which religious symbols - chastity, martyrdom, virtue
- formed part of political language, and were available to people at different levels of
society, and with different degrees of access to liturgy, clerical assistance and power
of patronage. These cults - created rather than imported - offer us an insight into
fourteenth and fifteenth century English society, its modes of thoughts, belief,
worship, as well as political culture and language
Martyrs in the making : political martyrdom in late medieval England /
No full textMapping martyrdom -- Martyrdom in religious ideas and practices -- Martyrdom between orthodoxy and heterodoxy -- Metaphorical use of martyrdom -- Thomas Earl of Lancaster : Christ's knight -- From condemnation to cure : cult chronology -- Lancastrian affinities -- Chivalry -- Justice and injustice -- Archbishop Richard Scrope : shepherd of the people -- Cult chronology : saint or martyr? -- The bishop's roles -- Scrope and the city of York -- King Henry VI : glory of innocence -- Cult chronology : from Chertsey to Windsor -- Posthumous popularity -- A holy innocent -- The political idiom of suffering -- A death worth a martyr's crown : other martyrs and their cults -- Kings, bishops, barons -- Conclusion -- Cult creation -- Cult purposes -- Martyrdom : old versus new -- Shared and distinctive traits -- The English church.Includes bibliographical references and index.Mapping martyrdom-Martyrdom in religious ideas and practices-Martyrdom between orthodoxy and heterodoxy-Metaphorical use of martyrdom-Thomas Earl of Lancaster: Christ's knight-From condemnation to cure: cult chronology-Lancastrian affinities-Chivalry-Justice and injustice-Archbishop Richard Scrope: shepherd of the people-Cult chronology: saint or martyr?-The bishop's roles-Scrope and the city of York-King Henry VI: glory of innocence-Cult chronology: from Chertsey to Windsor-Posthumous popularity-Royal imagery-Protector against the plague-Patron of learning-A holy innocent-The political idiom of suffering-A death worth a martyr's crown: other martyrs and their cults-Kings-Bishops-Barons-Conclusion-Cult creation-Cult purposes-Martyrdom: 'old' versus 'new'?-Shared and distinctive traits-The English church
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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