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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Continuité et innovation littéraire en Angleterre au XIIe siècle : la prédication de la militia Christ [PDF]

, 2001
International audienceEnglish literary historians of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have for long sought evidence for the continuity of the Old English literary tradition in the texts known collectively as the Katherine Group and in related texts ...
Morrison, Stephen
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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« Qui sème peu récolte peu » : Chrétien de Troyes au champ romanesque [PDF]

, 2009
Chrétien de Troyes ouvre son Conte du Graal sur une étonnante métaphore de l’écrivain semeur en train de répandre ses graines romanesques. Cette représentation paysanne d’un auteur qui travaille le texte comme on travaillerait la terre permet alors de ...
Franceschini, Baptiste
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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Krebs, Verena.   Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft and Diplomacy with Latin Europe.   [Book Note Review]

African Christian Theology
A Book Note short review of Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft and Diplomacy with Latin Europe, by Verena Krebs (Cham, Switzerland:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Kenosi MOLATO
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‘Matters of Household Proffit’: Sixteenth‐Century Manuscript and Print Exchanges in Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1477☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin by analysing the title page, dedicatory epistle, catchwords, and headers of MS Codex 627, which imitates an edition of Hugh Plat's Delights for ...
Aylin Malcolm, Margaret C. Maurer
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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