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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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«Кафский логос» Шильтбергера / “Caffa’s logos” of Schiltberger
This article makes a comparative analyses of the Caffa's description in the manuscripts of Hans Schiltberger’s essay and incunabula. Here were reviewed the Heidelberg’s, Baden’s, and Munich’s manuscripts from the late 15th century, and also three ...
A.G. Emanov
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Punctuation and text segmentation in 15th-century pamphlets
The use of punctuation in German incunabula is often described as arbitrary, irregular, and unsystematic (cf. Masalon 2014: 54–56). This concerns the inventory, frequency, and function of punctuation marks as well as pragmatic aspects such as how ...
Neumann Marko
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Romantic objects, Victorian collections: Scribal relics and the authorial body
Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic.
Tim Sommer
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The paper traces the events that led to the publication of the Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV – which the Dominican Giovanni Battista Audiffredi published in the context of the dispute with the French Francois-Xavier Laire ...
Lucrezia Signorello
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Religious Provenances of the Lost Incunabula Set of the Seminary Library in Plock
In the 19th century the following monasteries and monastic houses in the Płock diocese were suppressed: Augustinians in Ciechanów, Benedictines in Pułtusk, Bernardines in Ostrołęka, Przasnysz, Ratów, Skępe and Strzegocin, Dominicans in Płock, Conventual ...
Jolanta M. Marszalska
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The following notice is the first draft description of the incunable, the famous Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, written by German nobleman, cathedral dean and politician in the Electorate of Mainz, Bernhard von Breidenbach, which had been discovered in ...
Irina N. Buzykina +4 more
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This article studies the role of the earliest books printed in the Dutch vernacular in the religious practice of lay individuals and the devout home. Many of the texts disseminated in these early printed books have received little attention and scholars ...
Anna Dlabačová
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The article contains characteristics of incunabula from Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine (LNSLU) collection. The author provides sources from which the collection of 15th century prints gathered in LNSLU has been obtained: the ...
I. Kachur
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The Illustrated Incunable Short Title Catalog on CD-ROM (IISTC), now in its second edition, provides an unrivaled wealth of information on fifteenth-century printing and, as a computer database, allows for rapid searching that would not be possible with ...
Renaud Beeckmans
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