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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"History of scholarship"”.
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Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) and the History of Scholarship
This is the first major study of the English historian, antiquarian and lawyer Sir John Marsham (1602-85) and his intellectual world. It is principally concerned with the origins, development, and impact of his last, largest, and most elaborate book, the $\textit{Chronicus canon Ægyptiacus Ebraicus …
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Gender and Employment Status: The Impact On Marital Satisfaction
… on marital satisfaction have an extensive history of scholarship in the social science field, current studies have lacked clarity about the effects of gender and outside labor employment on marital satisfaction. A lack of consensus remains as to gender's effect on the marital union quality. …
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Conceptions of design in a culture of simulation
Design is a system of relationships in flux. Practitioners at Arup, a global design consultancy, negotiate a place for themselves within this system by using simulations to mediate their professional relationships. Simulations are spaces of exchange; they bridge between the technical domains of …
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The Exegetical Function of the Conductus in MS Egerton 2615
… contents. Interspersed within the liturgy of the Feast of the Circumcision (Feast of Fools) and the <em>Ludus Danielis</em>, this manuscript presents twenty conductus—newly composed, non-liturgical non-biblical Latin songs. The purpose of these songs has not been understood. This …
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Biblical Criticism and Confessional Division from Jean Morin to Richard Simon, c. 1620-1685
… 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 his Histoire critique du …
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Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
This thesis undertakes the first serious study of the extant corpus of imperial Greek periplographic literature. It focusses, in particular, on the way that these texts construct coastal space, arguing that they are bound together by a shared recognition of the shore as a symbol of the territorial …
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The Negative Motif of the Sea in the Old Testament
… he wrote the foundational work on the topic of the chaotic sea in the OT. He argued that Babylonian myth lies in the background of the OT passages that are negative about the sea. Chapter 3 brings into the conversation the rest of the major contributors in the history of scholarship on the …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
… decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of Ancient Greek poetry had been translated into Latin verse, often several times. This dissertation proceeds from the premise that this remarkable phenomenon …
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
… thesis examines the interplay between historical scholarship and politics in the Bohemian composite monarchy in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). During the turbulent events of the first half of the seventeenth century, Bohemia underwent major political, religious, and …
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C. G. Jung and Albert Einstein: From the physical to the psychical relativity of space and time
Despite Carl Gustav Jung’s acknowledgement of Albert Einstein’s influence on his thinking, and despite the significant number of studies into Jung’s interest in physics – and his collaboration with the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli – so far there has been no thorough investigation into the …
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Finality of Arbitral Awards: Comparing Approaches in Sharia Law and International Law
This study investigates the effect of the application of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia on the finality of arbitral awards on the basis of questions of law and public policy. International arbitration laws tend to circumvent the two issues by limiting the scope of their applicability. Based on the need …
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Investigating the Provenance, Organisation and Themes of Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81
… texts dealing with around fifty saints, all of them born or buried in Britain. Unusually among legendaries of its kind, it is laid out by category: martyrs, confessors and virgins. Many of the texts it contains are obscure and some are unique to it. It was first fully catalogued in 1940, and …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
This dissertation explores singular cases of reception of Cornelius Celsus’s De medicina between the tenth and the nineteenth century to revise accepted definitions of medical humanism and show how ancient texts spurred the development of medicine at intellectual and practical levels across ten …
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Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
This study examines the use of the covenant concept in second-century texts that address three primary social and rhetorical contexts for early Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. It argues that leading Christian writers consistently developed and applied a …
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The reception of John Chrysostom and the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe, c.1440-1600
This study retraces the principal moments of the Latin reception of John Chrysostom between c.1440 and 1600 and how they reflect on the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe. After a short Introduction to Chrysostom’s reception in medieval Europe and existing historiography on early …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
This dissertation investigates the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who …