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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Textual Community"”.
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Chivalric Culture and the Librairie du Louvre's Textual Community, 1368-1477
… claims that the Librairie formed the center of a textual community consisting of the king's relatives, other aristocrats, non-elites, and their book collections. It contends that this community utilized books to transmit chivalry and, by extension, knightly masculinity. This dissertation argues …
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"Our Father Isaac": Reading the Sahidic Testament of Isaac in an Egyptian Monastic Context
<p>This dissertation argues that the textual community of fourth or fifth century monastic Egypt read <em>Testament of Isaac</em> as an ascetical regimen in order to transform themselves into children of Isaac. <em>T. Isaac</em> highlights three particular dimensions of Isaac's character from the …
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Imagination Movers: The Creation of Conservative Counter-Narratives in Reaction to Consensus Liberalism
… in 1953. I do this by using the concept of textual communities. A textual community is a group of people led by a privileged interpreter—someone such as Russell Kirk—who translates a text, for example Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, for followers. What happens in a textual …
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Securing Their Place: The Ba'alawi, Prophetic Piety and the Islamic resurgence in Indonesia
… on Prophetic piety, expanding the Ba'alawi textual community to include local scholars, and the projecting of a new form of Prophetic authority in a hadithi framework.
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"From backburner to forefront: Critical recollection and commitment to literary community in women beat memoirs"
… tell similar tales. Compiled, these works form a textual community-exposing collective memories and establishing a publicly creative presence. These works share common themes and events but there is one over-arching message that shines: women Beats yearned for self-expression during the artistic …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
… flow of political order. By analysing the wider textual community of Sigebert’s chronicle in Normandy, the thesis addresses Robert of Torigni’s (1106-1186) Chronography, the Mortemer continuation, the Ourscamp continuation, and John of Salisbury’s (1120-1180) Historia Pontificalis. Norman and …