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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Humanists"”.
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The plight of the humanists: a reinterpretation of the battle between the ancients and the moderns
… issue in the controversy. By 1600, the humanists were well established in the universities and applied the classical world view as an ideal for life. The humanists' emphasis on the classic world view along with their compatibility with scientific investigation strengthened their …
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Informal communication in the humanities: A qualitative inquiry
… of the study. The intent was to find out how humanists perceive informal communication, what impact it has on their research and how their research shapes their informal communication. Also explored were the differences and commonalities in the three disciplines.
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Ideal and practice : aspects of noble life in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
… what sixteenth and seventeenth century humanists thought about the role of the nobility in society; their views about the proper education of the nobility (including its expected cost) and way of life they considered appropriate to a nobleman. It then tries to consider how all these …
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Understanding value in digital humanities: a case study from a community oral history archive
… expectations make it necessary for digital humanists to demonstrate the value of their projects. While both quantitative and qualitative methods can be used, long-form qualitative approaches are rarely applied. My research makes an original contribution to the scholarly literature by using a …
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The Influence of the “Final Cause Doctrine” on Anatomists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Concerning Selected Anatomical Structures of the Head and Neck.
… humanism of Vesalius and others paralleling the humanists of art and literature. These controversies illustrate the ways in which the anatomists used the body to demonstrate function, uses, and causes from a higher source. Humanists advanced the social, philosophical, intellectual, literary, and …
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'n Ondersoek na persoonlike indekseerstelsels, insluitende gerekenariseerde stelsels, met spesiale verwysing na die indekseringsbehoeftes van individuele akademici in Wes-Kaapland
… to keep their documents at the workplace while humanists tend to keep their documents at home. Social scientists fall between these groups and keep some of their documents at the workplace and some at home. For scientists and social scientists Soper's observations were confirmed. Lack of data …
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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of modern public education : an analysis of the influence of Calvin and Ignatius in the sixteenth century
… are: the contrast between the approaches of the humanists and Jesuits to educational reform, an analysis of Calvin's presbyterian polity and theology of predestination, Ignatius' policy regarding the role of the Jesuits as compared and contrasted with Calvin's system, and the growing …
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Imagining a NeoFreudian Mind Interface: A Normative Model of Medical Humanities Research
… framework for increased collaboration between humanists and physicians and a foundation for two distinct modes of activist scholarship: product-based and process-based.
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world through the acquisition of universal knowledge. The physical configuration of such encyclopedic projects could be found in the …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… been cited as a symbol for the efforts of French humanists in the 16th century to realize a close union between music and poetry derived from the antique ideal of musiké. It arose from the ideas of the Pléiade, a French group of poets that led French Renaissance humanism to its climax in the mid …
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Rogier van der Weyden: A Netherlandish Artist and the Ferrarese Court
… By looking at the writings of contemporary humanists at the Ferrarese court and technical analysis of select paintings, it is evident that Cosmè Tura strove to emulate and incorporate aspects of Rogier van der Weyden’s northern manner, especially in his handling of oil paint, use of …
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The plague and European intellectual and literary development
… to single nations. Particularly with the humanists it is impossible to pin them down to one area of influence: they traveled from one country to another and felt at home in many places. First it will be explained briefly how the plague spread over wide parts of Europe as it is known to …
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Reading Law's Great Unread: Qualitative Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence and the New Empirical Legal Research
… of what law is? Inspired by the work of digital humanists, Bourdieu, and sociologists of literature, this dissertation explores how the methods of “distant reading” can be used to develop new classes of critical insights about law. After situating the project theoretically, this dissertation …
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: The Power of Story Telling and Story Hearing to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
… of masculinity the military inculcates. Medical humanists are aware of the power of narrative in its various forms—drama, novels, and memoir—to facilitate understanding between patients and health-care professionals and the necessary process of reentry into personhood and community that leads to …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… view, or as a weakness, by the civic humanists. Five thinkers from the Scottish Enlightenment--Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Millar--confronted this problem. First, they questioned whether some aspects of individualism constitute genuine problems at …
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Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602): a critical biography, and study of selected works
… one of France's leading late sixteenth-century humanists. Consequently, this has adversely affected the proper appreciation of Passer at as a literary critic and classical philologist, whose Latin scholarship enjoyed an impressive European reputation during his lifetime.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, …
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Cicero’s Incomplete Orator: The Transmission and Reception of the Mutilus Text
… two separate vulgate versions by early Italian humanists (Chapters 2 and 3). I present an edition of and commentary on a version of the text created by the early 15th c. schoolmaster Gasparino Barzizza, whose conjectures have long been praised by editors (Appendix A). I edit and classify the …
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Visualizing the Other: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Objectification of the Body in Biomedical Research Using Human Subjects
… subjectivity of human research subjects, medical humanists will be able to teach investigators how to cultivate a more capacious sense of respect for persons.
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Constructing History: The Visual Legacy of Pope Sixtus IV
… historical chronicles composed by the poets and humanists in his papal circle. Chapter II investigates the pope's attempts at self-promotion, and examines the way in which Pope Sixtus IV advertised his power through ambitious commissions at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Rome and at San …
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Sonifying Hamlet
… answers a call for such methods posed by digital humanists themselves for whom confrontation with the enigmatic is as potent a mode of knowing as scientific inquiry. Through its imbrication of the unnamable and the enumerated, <em>Sonifying Hamlet</em> attempts to support scholars by facilitating …
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