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Words and Images: Verstegan’s “Theatre of Cruelties”
No full textThe subject of the article is Verstegan’s “Theatre of Cruelties” (in its Latin and French versions, Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis and Théâtre des cruautez des hereticques de
nostre temps, published in 1587 and 1588 respectively), a booklet showing and illustrating the persecution of Catholics in painstaking and painful detail, and thereby seeking to promote the reader’s emotional response. After reminding us that the theatre-metaphor was employed in many fields of Renaissance science, Zacchi proceeds to reconstruct the compositional history of the
“Theatre of Cruelties”, which is read as a Catholic answer to the well-known Protestant martyrologies produced in England by John Foxe, Thomas Cooper and Jean Bodin. Much as it loses
itself in the particulars of Verstegan’s ‘visual rhetoric’, Zacchi’s reading never loses sight of the contemporary forces giving shape to his textual tactic – in particular, the Jesuits’ deployment of
theatrical techniques and pictorial policies as symbolic weapons on the religious battlefield of Europe
Searching for the Origins: Teutonic Past and Contemporary England in Verstegan’s Thought
No full textThe essay is introduced by a paragraph in which Restitution is shortly summarized. In order to define whether Restitution can be merely considered an antiquarian essay on Teutonic past, paragraph 3 investigates the main antiquarians’ theories about the origin of British population and the consequent implications for the ancient roots of Tudor’s dynasty. That analysis shows how every consideration on British past took into account the belonging of every authors to Protestant or Catholic party. Refusing the mainstream idea that Restitution is simply an antiquarian essay, in the fourth paragraph Vestegan’s essay slots into the Catholic thought of his times. It is finally concluded with the fifth paragraph in which the cultural and political relationship between Verstegan and other recusants in the years immediately preceding the composition of Restitution emerges. Those contacts connecting recusants in England and Flanders demonstrate how Restitution was conceived as a political pamphlet through which Verstegan wanted to assert the premiership of Catholicism in constituting both British and Saxon past of England
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
Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten: Between language and religion
No full textThe Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten (“Netherlandish Antiquities with the conversion of part of the same lands to the Christian faith, by St Willibrord, apostle of Holland, [...] and Flanders”), published in 1613, were evidently conceived of for a Netherlandish-speaking public. As the title itself explicitly declares, the 112 pages of this booklet mainly focus on an area roughly corresponding with that part of the coast of France which faces the Channel and with today’s Belgium and Netherlands the Low Countries, in the period between the fifth and the eighth centuries. The work, as Verstegan himself admits in his dedicatory preface , is a Netherlandish adaptation of some parts and certain themes of the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, which had been published eight years before. The aim of the article is to illustrate the contents of the Antiquiteyten – with special attention given to the field of Germanic studies – in order to better identify their place within Verstegan’s corpus of linguistic/polemical writings
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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