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Four Chinese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Anxiety in Their Colophons to the Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經
Religions, 2023 Many scholars of Buddhism believe that Buddhists (particularly Mahāyāna Buddhists) regularly reproduce scriptures for merit in general, regardless of their content.
Ruifeng Chen
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsA monk at his desk, copying a manuscript, is a typical image associated with the Middle Ages, but what about the women? According to a recent estimate more than 10 million hand-written manuscripts were produced in the Latin West (the Roman Catholic part ...
Åslaug Ommundsen +3 more
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Manuscript Studies, 2022 :This article presents the colophons of a Buddhist text, the Questions of King Milinda, as seen in manuscripts found mainly in Central Thailand. Through a survey of over seventy Pāli palm-leaf manuscripts and a Thai samut khoi (folding book), the ...
E. Ooi
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Trends in Statistical Codicology, 2021 In a note∗published some ten years ago in the ‘Gazette du livre médiéval’1, I announced a research project set within the framework of my doctoral thesis Étude sur le formulaire latin des colophons de manuscrits occidentaux (IIIe–XVIe siècle).
Lucien Reynhout
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Description: Its meaning, epistemology, and use with emphasis on information science
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 13, Page 1532-1549, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This study examines the concept of “description” and its theoretical foundations. The literature about it is surprisingly limited, and its usage is vague, sometimes even conflicting. Description should be considered in relation to other processes, such as representation, data capturing, and categorizing, which raises the question about what it
Birger Hjørland
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Science, method and critical thinking
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 16, Issue 10, Page 1888-1894, October 2023., 2023 Science understands that we only can reach the truth of the World via creation of models. The method, based on critical thinking, is embedded in the scientific method, named here the Critical Generative Method. Abstract Science is founded on a method based on critical thinking.
Antoine Danchin
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 Tokai Village is a home to the first commercial nuclear power plant in Japan, and Nuclear Power Plants are directly adjacent to residential districts there. This study investigates the context of this situation by looking back around 1960 when the plants were built and clarifying the development project ideas, and decision‐making processes that were ...
Yasuyo Inui
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THE PROPERTIES OF DIGITAL HISTORY
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 86-106, December 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article offers a definition of digital history that focuses on the core affordances of the personal computer and the process by which those properties come to be exploited. I begin by outlining the two properties of computers that I argue define digital history: they process data and (as Janet H.
STEPHEN ROBERTSON
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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