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A bibliography of Jacob Abbot with a biographical and critical introduction
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1941. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Monasticism without frontiers : the extended monastic community of the Abbot of Cluny in England and Wales.
… so called because of their relationship to the abbot of Cluny in Burgundy, have been estimated to have numbered over seven hundred foundations at one time, distributed throughout France and in England, Wales, Scotland, Lombardy, and Spain. To date Cluniac studies have tended to concentrate on …
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Saints' lives and typika: the Constantinopolitan monastery of Panagiou in the eleventh century
… disciple and designated successor of the Lavriot abbot Athanasius. In Chapter Two I identify the texts that can be related to the monastery in the early eleventh century: the Typikon of Panagiou which provided the model for the Petritzonitissa Typikon and two biographies of Athanasius the …
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Eugippius of Lucullanum: A Biography
… the life of Eugippius of Lucullanum, abbot of the monastery of St Severinus. We must rely upon written sources for the majority of our information about Eugippius' career as biographer and abbot, and we have three texts from which we must reconstruct the details of his vocation. The …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… Valley region of France. The poetry of Baudri, abbot of Bourgueil from approximately 1078-1107 and archbishop of Dol from 1107 until his death in 1130, exemplifies this trend. Baudri’s determinedly Ovidian collection contains 256 poems, several of which are addressed to nuns and to boys subject …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… with the Abbey of St.-Denis as rebuilt by the Abbot Suger (1081-1151). Suger aspired to glorify both the Abbey of St.-Denis and the Crown of France. He positioned himself centrally in the cultural environment so as to forge a reality of those aspirations. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, leader of the …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… This thesis builds on the works of Richard H. Abbot and Terry L. Siep by applying and expanding their respective arguments—that Congressional Northern Republicans viewed their Southern allies with disdain—to Mississippi. Scalawags created a unique brand of Southern Republicanism that fused free …
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Humour in vernacular hagiography from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England
… translated by the tenth century monk and abbot, Ælfric of Eynsham, anonymous lives contemporary to him, and, lastly, a sampling of narratives from the earliest manuscript of the thirteenth century collection known as the South English Legendary. In order to identify literary humour this …
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Recepción de las instituciones romanas en la biografía de Alonso Antonio de San Martín, hijo de Felipe IV
… and adoptive parents , and its activity as abbot of Alcalá la Real, Bishop of Oviedo and Cuenca. Once we finalized the staff iter prelate, we discuss some legal institutions from the Roman law in force in his biography: illegitimate filiation; waiver of the irregularity by birth and natalium …
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The Creative Void
… prayed for Olioll and a miracle resulted. The abbot said, "Let us go to him and bow down before him; for at last, after long seeking, he has found the nothing that is God...”</p>
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… from the Grammar and Glossary of the Anglo-Saxon abbot AElfric, next to the Modern English-Latin entries of the printed dictionary. Nowell's glosses could not have been used to look up Old English words, and show his interest in the relationship of Modern English to Old English. His interleaved …
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'The Book of Mutual Love' of Adam of Perseigne: A translation with a revised critical edition and commentaries (France)
… Mutual Love by the Cistercian Adam of Perseign (abbot 1188-1221), is based on the edition by Gaetano Raciti, but presents a revised form of that edition and includes both notes on the revisions and a commentary on the translation. It is supplemented with a full bibliography of known studies on …
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‘Arabic Astrology’ in Early Medieval England? A Re-Examination of Prognostics and Planetary Knowledge in Three Winchester Manuscripts, c. 1023-1060
… and administrative responsibilities of an abbot could suggest that prognostics may have been consulted in specific circumstances. This research adds nuance to previous studies of the history of astrology, proposing that prognostics may have enabled a subtle expansion of what came to …
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Assessment of environmental degradation in Northern Ghana: A GIS based participatory approach
… in participatory research earlier proposed by Abbot et al. (1998) and modified by Williams and Dunn (2003) to assess the impacts of landmines in Cambodia. Using the DPSIR (Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework of the European Environmental Agency as an assessment framework, …
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Communities, Institutions and Flood Risk: Mobilising Social Capital to Enhance Community Resilience
… in the Teign Estuary of South Devon (Newton Abbot, Teignmouth and Shaldon). All three communities were vulnerable to tidal flooding and links between the communities and institutions responsible for managing flood risk (FRM framework) were analysed. In the analysis, a specific form of social …
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Marketing a foreign language : the case of French in South Africa
… they should learn English ("through reading"). Abbot (1981: 12) called this random teaching of a foreign language "TENOR (teaching English for no obvious reason "'. Similarly, the question as to why South Africans should be taught French or any other foreign language needs to be answered. If …
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Le Français en Afrique du sud :étude portant sur la province du cap occidental
… they should learn English ("through reading"). Abbot (1981: 12) called this random teaching of a foreign language "TENOR (teaching English for no obvious reason)". Similarly, the question as to why South Africans should be taught French or) any other foreign language needs to be answered. If …
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African Americans in North Dakota 1800-1940
<p>African Americans were present throughout the duration of white settlement and have been involved in every stage of North Dakota's history from 1800 to 1940. However, historians generally have neglected the existence of black people in North Dakota's past. This study examined the participation …
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Regulation of Cell Migration by Integrin -Mediated Adhesion
The second project focused on identifying new molecules involved in regulating integrin-mediated adhesion during cell migration. The technique of mammalian cDNA expression cloning was used to identify regulators of cell-substratum adhesion. Through this approach, a cDNA with homology to RACK1, a …
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Cross-Cultural Exchange and The Infinite Place
All places in the world have multiple levels of existence. Of these, we can establish a fairly clear distinction between the specific and the universal. Within the uniqueness of a place's specific, local qualities can be found the common universals that they represent. Here lies the shared …
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