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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L. Risden [PDF]
, 2015 Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L.
Houghton, John
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40, October 1, 2024.Study of the dynamic processes that occur when the magnetic nanoparticles are exposed to an AC magnetic field in different scenarios: in colloids, in vitro (within intracellular vesicles) and simulations. Aligned structures parallel to the field when the magnetic field is on are observed and a fast disassembly of such structures occurs upon field ...
Yilian Fernández‐Afonso +11 more
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A Contemporary Voice Revisits the Past: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2007 Heaney’s controversial translation of Beowulf shows characteristics that make it look like an original work: in particular, the presence of Hiberno-English words and some unexpected structural features such as the use of italics, notes and running titles.
Silvia Geremia
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Threatening as a sociocultural–conceptual communicative act
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 491-502, September 2024.Abstract The present article revisits threatening discourses from the perspectives of anthropological linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, speech act theory and pragmatics. On the basis of linguistic data from 11th‐century Britain (Old English), 14th‐century Norway (Old Norse), 19th‐century Ireland (Early Modern Irish English and Modern Irish), 20th ...
Arne Peters
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 75-96, March 2024.Abstract Since 2001, beetles have killed two‐thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state ...
Tom Özden‐Schilling
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'Beowulfo', 'Geatas' and 'Heoroto': An Appraisal of the Earliest Renderings of Beowulf in Spain
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2009 Back in 1934, Beowulf entered the Spanish editorial world. Manuel Vallvé published in Barcelona a retelling of this Old English poem not intending it for scholars or professors, but rather for children.
Eugenio M. Olivares Merino
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The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy [PDF]
, 2016 The late, great paleographer Malcolm Parkes used to opine that 'the greatest mistake a paleographer makes is to forget the nature of the text being copied'. The axiom is a powerful one that has relevance not simply for the sub-discipline of paleography
Smith, Jeremy
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High performance Beowulf computer for lattice QCD [PDF]
, 2002 We describe the construction of a high performance parallel computer composed of PC components, as well as the performance test in lattice QCD.Comment: Lattice 2001 (Algorithms and Machines) 3 ...
E.B. Gregory +14 more
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