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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Translatio"”.
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
Translatio studii et imperii stood as the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… Chapter 3 presents a reading of merveille and translatio in the Queste del Saint Graal and the Mort le roi Artu alongside the 2007 Marvel event Civil War. I read these works as reactive events which work to preserve the expanded universe rather than to end it. The second part reads vernacular …
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Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art through Poetry: The Development and Implementation of an Abstract Ekphrasis
… Chapter Three includes the essay “Twombly, Translatio and Contemporary Indirect-Ekphrasis” and the accompanying creative work “Footsteps: Poems to the Sea after Cy Twombly”. This structure reflects how, through a performative research approach, the creative and the critical-exegetical works …
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Agiografia, politica e società nella Bretagna medievale: edizione e confronto delle diverse vitae di san Macuto
… from 1144 to 1163), and an anonymous tale of translatio reliquiarum (BHL 5124). The first main objective is to provide new critical editions for each component of the hagiographical dossier; it is a fundamental work because for two of them (BHL 5119 and BHL 5120) there have been no attempts to …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
… corpus of vernacular Irish adaptations and loose translations of Latin epic and Classical mythological narratives produced in Ireland during this period. I situate these Classical adaptation texts within a broader intellectual milieu and argue for points of contact between them and other medieval …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… the surrounding steppe. In the third chapter, “Translatio Botanicae,” the relationship between the city of St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (established in 1724) and the idea of Siberia as a site of scientific investigation are presented and explored as a powerful complex …