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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Erudition"”.
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Circuit level synthesis for delta-sigma converters
… complicated art that requires a high degree of erudition in the field. With this in mind, this thesis presents work on an analog circuit synthesis tool to minimize analog circuit design time. Specifically, the author has designed and implemented a discrete-time, one-bit, oversampling …
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"In whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero": Milton and the Elizabethan tradition of Christian learning
… than any of the other authors treated. Milton's erudition was seldom of the documented or pinpointed variety, however, for Milton had so thoroughly absorbed and made his own the many related sources and analogues for every element of his epics that he seems to have used his erudition to clarify …
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Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics of Female Patronage
… and rewarded Du Bellay's poetic production; her erudition and literary tastes shaped Du Bellay's choice of forms. His more limited writing for Diane de Poitiers contrasts with the work he dedicated to Marguerite and reflects an equally careful attempt to match form to patron. Written in a period …
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Investigations into the nature of architectural space
… my architectural work. The focus has been erudition and learning, that centers on process rather than on the world of temporal phenomena. At first, the architectural object was but a way to work through some of the processes, although, I realized with surprise that the work itself had …
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My responsibility in the face of mass extinction
… and the commanded, those gifted as inherited erudition and in the suffering-with. Now facing the last structural violence, what is my responsibility?
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… and tropes to show both his literary erudition and to separate himself from his predecessors, allowing him to exert control over his poetics and the amator’s puella, who, for Ovid, is first and foremost a vaguely characterized poetic construct that enables his poetic success.
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The Quest for Knowledge: Religious Enquiry and Intellectual Discovery in the Works of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
… writings, Carvajal demonstrates her erudition and literary skills by representing an identity that is marked by plurality and diversity. She therefore set foot on the path to her autonomisation. Carvajal’s poetry, written in isolation in the attic of her uncle’s house, reflects an …
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The Show Must Go On: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)
… was harnessed in medieval Byzantium as a sign of erudition integral to the construction of elite identity. This suggests that the cultural ii i memory of the theater should be understood as an additional, heretofore unexplored, facet the Classicizing impulses of medieval Byzantine culture.</p> …
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Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… to a more original and pious form of Christian erudition compared to the Faculty’s curriculum. He also involved students and colleagues in this project by integrating religious perspectives into his teaching of arts and recruiting students to edit theological texts, thereby shaping an …
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The Wittelsbach Court in Munich: history and authority in the visual arts (1460-1508)
… exotic animals, and monuments of the patrons’ erudition as means of social communication and differentiation. The third chapter considers the dukes’ awareness as well as ‘manipulation’ of their genealogy and history as a forward-looking means for legitimating and realising their political …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… to include the emerging feminine virtue of erudition. This expansion of feminine virtue, which Ross has termed “learned virtue” and which I use throughout this thesis, was not only current in the intellectual circles in which these women participated but is also an idea that appears …
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Examen de la crítica de Karl Polanyi a la totalización económica de la vida humana
… beyond the limits of a mere exercise of academic erudition. It is important to explain whatthe economic totalization of human life we refer to in the title of the research means, as we intend to allude to an "anthropological danger" which constitutes one of the most crucial axes underneath the …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… and at times abstruse work, filled with occult erudition and containing a number of virtuoso pastiches of historical documents. In many ways it is a novel that pre-empts the literary styles of later, postmodernist writers; with its linked tales, mysticism, and overarching narrative about a …
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Biblical Criticism and Confessional Division from Jean Morin to Richard Simon, c. 1620-1685
This thesis aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of biblical criticism in the seventeenth century. Its central objective is to put forward a new interpretation of the work of the Oratorian scholar Richard Simon. It does so by placing Simon's work, above all …