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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Paleography"”.
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Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity
<p>Research on women in medieval literature is abundant but often focused on broad questions of narrative and character development. Among the areas seldom examined is what I will term "female voice," a term that encompasses the thoughts and speech of women in literature. This project analyzes the …
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The Scribes and Correctors of Codex Vaticanus: A Study on the Codicology, Paleography, and Text of B(03)
In this thesis, I investigate the production of Codex Vaticanus (B[03]) through the lens of its scribes and earliest correctors. While this manuscript, which contains the Greek Old and New Testaments, is recognized as one of the most important witnesses for Septuagint scholars and New Testament …
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Paleografia e manuscritos: do passado ao contemporâneo.
… archives from being viewed from perspective of Paleography, diagnosing the relation between them. It is adopted the semi-structured questionnaire as technique of data collection and quantitative analysis as result of the profile of researchers, most female, age range between 20 and 60 years, and …
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An image-text model for effective retrieval of seventeenth-century Spanish American notary records
… Spanish words, curated and annotated by paleography experts, focusing on maximizing the alignment between image and text embeddings. This fine-tuning involved adjusting the model to capture the nuances of historical handwriting better. We employed the fine-tuned OCR model in KGSAR, a …
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Regional Mapping and Reservoir Analysis of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Basin
… limestone intervals within the Marcellus. The paleography of these intervals represents carbonate shoals along the basin margin (north and west) and over the peripheral bulge. The gamma-ray map between 100-180 API shows the net thickness of calcareous shale and gray shale. These intervals …
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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence
… historical linguistics, early modern rhetoric, paleography, women’s history and letter-writing, as well as for the Thynne family more specifically. Following the theoretical introduction and a short biography of the Thynne family, there are five analytical chapters. The first, Chapter 3, asks …
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… of Ardericus of Milan (circa 941-945). Paleography of the painted inscriptions within the scenes points loosely to the early eighth century as a date of execution, but this approach is limited by the damaged state of the frescoes. The history of the site seems to indicate that the …
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
This dissertation is an investigation into the social history of British Library Manuscript Additional 35157 (hereafter Add.35157), which is a late fourteenth-century copy of William Langland's alliterative poem Piers Plowman. Part one contains the text of the dissertation. In chapter 1 a general …
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A study of Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 232: John Lydgate's 'Life of Our Lady'
This thesis consists of a study of MS Hunter 232, or more specifically a study of the marginalia contained within Hunter 232. The study aims to shows the value of marginal annotations in gaining a fuller understanding of a particular manuscript or its users and shows the value of even context-free …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
Thomas Morley’s family background in Norwich and his later life in London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, …
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Dreaming in whispering groves: an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception
Dreaming In Whispering Groves is an investigation into the production, transmission and reception of the book-as-object with specific reference to nine eighteenth century novels over four centuries: Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures Of The Count de Vinevil; Pamela; David Simple; Amelia; Betsy …
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Collecting, communicating, and commemorating: The significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704
This thesis is about networks in seventeenth-century England: the making and re-shaping of networks of people and texts, and the ways in which they evolved and transformed. It focuses on the manuscripts collected by Dr Thomas Plume (1630-1704), vicar of Greenwich and archdeacon of Rochester, who …
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Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse
The aim of this thesis is to examine what a study of the visual presentation of the fourteenth-century poet-composer Guilluame de Machaut's songs can tell us that studying them simply as pre-defined works cannot. This has involved two distinct, but related fields of enquiry. Firstly, I have …
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Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI
Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI comprises a novel of my own creation, alongside a commentary that reflects on aspects of the creative process and aims to contextualise my work within the genre of Science Fiction. Pandatopia is set in a world where half the global …
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Publish and be blessed : a case study in early Pentecostal publishing history
This dissertation argues that a major factor in Pentecostalism's rapid world-wide growth was the emergence of a strong literary, as distinct from oral, tradition. From its earliest days the movement gave birth to a plethora of publications and publishing houses, mostly operating by faith, that …
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'Half fashion and half passion': the life of publisher Henry Colburn
This thesis focuses on some of the most significant and least understood aspects of the life of London publisher Henry Colburn (c.1784-1855). Its purposes are to correct the misinformation currently in circulation, to introduce new information, and to reassess Colburn‘s reputation and …
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The attrition of dogma in the legal press under Brezhnev : Literaturnaya gazeta (Second Section), 1967-1971
The purpose of this thesis is to establish the contribution of the Soviet weekly, Literaturnaya gazeta, to the debunking of official dogmas during the Brezhnev years. Launched in 1967, the second section of Literaturnaya gazeta has frequently been dismissed as a mere safety valve, highly controlled …
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by …