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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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Beowulf retocado digitalmente [PDF]
, 2020 Spanish abstract: Una lectura intertextual de 'Beowulf' (2007), una película animada con captura de movimiento dirigida por Robert Zemeckis y escrita por Neil Gaiman y Roger Avary, basada en el poema anglosajón ́Beowulf ́.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA
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Rocznik SkrzatuskiThe article is an excerpt from Rev. Jakub Sitarz’s master’s thesis devoted to the question of whether it is possible to find Christological motifs in Tolkien’s Legendarium without overinterpretation. The abstract section of the thesis using the method of
Jakub Sitarz
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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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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics
Revista Alicantina de Estudios InglesesA. J. Bliss, in his authoritative and influential monograph on The Metre of Beowulf (1967), analysed l. 1563a, hē ġefēng þā fetelhilt, as a member of his group (4) of verses beginning with finite verbs.
Rafael Pascual
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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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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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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
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, 2002 Academic computing has long relied on supercomputers, such as Cray, to provide the computing power needed for complex scientific computations. Even though such computers in many cases supplied the computational power needed, such systems were also very ...
Sturgill, Jimmy, Goossen, Joshua
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