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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Manuscript Studies"”.
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Moments of Revision: Thomas Hardy and the Modern Manuscript, 1890-1928
… first book-length study of Thomas Hardy’s poetry manuscripts. It argues that Hardy’s surviving verse drafts – produced during a pivotal period in the history of manuscript studies, the so-called ‘golden age’ of the transatlantic manuscript trade (1890-1929) – reflect significant historical …
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Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading <i>Yoshino ki</i>
… references, a meticulously designed parallel manuscript viewer with annotation features, and hands-on Python-based workbooks alongside ready-to-use digital tools for analyzing poems.</p> <p>By employing high-resolution digital scans under the Creative Commons licenses, the platform provides …
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An annotated edition of two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon, De Decem Ingeniis
… be demonstrated. A transcript I made of a Latin manuscript of DDI kept in Marsh’s Library Dublin and a version of the printed Latin edition, based on that published at Lyons in 1559, with variants from four other incunabula, are supplied in the Appendix for the reader’s convenience. I also …
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Symphonic Culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The Bande à Franck and Beyond
… through reception history, musical analysis, manuscript studies, and the composers' own writings, the dissertation will address three interrelated topics in each chapter. First, I explore how the bande à Franck understood the concept of "serious" music, and how this conception shaped Third …
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Hyperspectral image analysis for questioned historical documents.
… image processing to examine historical manuscripts and text. Major activities in palaeographic and manuscript studies include the recovery of illegible or deleted text, the minute analyses of scribal hands, the identification of inks and the segmentation and dating of text. This thesis …
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The Copying and Collection of Music in the Trouvère Chansonnier F-Pn fr. 24406
… with notation. Editors consistently prefer other manuscripts’ musical and textual readings to those of fr. 24406, because of the uniqueness of its readings and its supposed inaccuracy. In this thesis, I argue that modern editorial principles have biased scholarship against perceiving what fr. …
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Critical Approaches to Digital Video Composition and Media Literacy in Preservice Teacher and High School Contexts: Understanding Students’ Perspectives
<p>The first of the following manuscripts explores graduate-level preservice teachers’ responses to a critical digital video project in the context of a Disciplinary Literacies course. This study was particularly interested in the preservice teachers’ obstacles and collaborations they experienced …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… examines the text of In Cath Catharda and its manuscript tradition, while Part II (Chapters 3–4) situates the adaptation within the European scholarly context in which the Latin epic was read, studied and adapted into the vernacular. In Cath Catharda survives in seventeen manuscripts, yet …
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The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250
… composed by Bede c. 725–731. All surviving manuscript copies are Continental and date to the ninth century or later. Historical martyrologies were popular in ninth-century Francia. Thus far, most scholars have focussed on Usuard’s Martyrology (c. 850–879), which would eventually form the …
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An Interdisciplinary Investigation into Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice
… in eighteen eighth- and ninth-century Latin manuscripts. I then analysed the potential practicality of the ingredients listed in these remedies, asking: do they rely on products that could have been obtained in western Europe in this period? To assess the applicability of this medical …
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Emotions in Njáls saga and Egils saga: Approaches and literary analysis
… cognitive linguistics, anthropology, and manuscript studies, and is thus situated at the cross-section of these disciplines. To access the emotional depiction in the two sagas, I argue for the necessity of an approach from three angles: through the analysis of emotive words, bodily …
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The Invention of Rhythm
… values have been continuously brought to bear on studies of their respective versification, in fact producing, and perpetuating the mythological narrative, with negligable study of the linguistic and rhythmical patterns of their poems themselves.</p><p> It reconsiders their writing, in context of …
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Dickens and the Making of His Readings
… of adaptation, composition, and revision studies reveals an under-examination within these wider fields of the concept of self-adaptation. I offer close readings of Dickens’s self-adaptation within the prompt copies for the readings. I situate these recorded practices in the broader …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… being made, reproduced, edited, and circulated. Manuscript books are shown to function as loci for active and varied acts of interpretation as readers approached them as textual and material, but also visual and aural, objects. While the Christ-as-book metaphor can illuminate the dynamic role …
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Simple books for devout readers: Recovering a fifteenth-century middle English genre
… Object-Oriented Ontology. I collected fourteen manuscripts based on shared core features—portable size, small text box, textualis-leaning script, simple layout, primarily black ink with sparse yet helpful rubrication, and few or no illustrations. I argue that these books constitute a Middle …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… of the small corpus of earlier illustrated Brut manuscripts. In appearance, however, it is most like manuscripts containing illustrated tales of ancient military adventure, which I argue preserve the legacy of Greek paideia. The effect of combining these traditions is to imply Edward III’s wars …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
… of material culture, particularly as concerns manuscripts, also features prominently in this study. Within the burgeoning scholarship on Christianity outside of the Roman empire, the high degree of Sogdian involvement in Christian activities along the Eurasian trade routes has occasionally been …