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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes
ABSTRACT Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen in the West.
Jon McGinnis
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A propos de etxenika: y a-t-il en topnymie basque des traces du numéral archaïque ika? [PDF]
Se analiza la formación de los números en euskera, que se cree que vienen de cinco fuentes diferentes. Actualmente "uno" en euskera se dice "bat", pero antiguamente se decía "ika".
Orpustan, Jean Baptiste
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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texte issu d'une conférence prononcée à l'Université du Québec à Montréal en 1999. Une version légèrement modifiée en a paru en ligne en 2006, aux Editions de l'ENS de la Rue d'Ulm: http://www.presses.ens.fr/PDF/ECMonline.pdf (p.
Morsel, Joseph
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Paléographie statistique pour décrire, identifier, dater. . . Normaliser pour coopérer et aller plus loin ? [PDF]
Les initiatives TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) et MUFI (Medieval Unicode Font Initiative) multiplient les potentialités des transcriptions et invitent à interroger le processus même d’une opération pourtant commune dans les études médiévales ...
Stuzmann, Dominique
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Our objective is twofold: 1) to point out the convenience of incorporating some possible neologisms or other words found in Aquinas’ Commentary on John in future editions of lexicons or in new works devoted to Medieval Latin; 2) to reflect on the ...
Pablo Adrián Cavallero
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Les autorités religieuses dans l'islam médiéval. Essai [PDF]
à paraître dans ouvrage collectif sous ma directionThe aim of this « essai » is a reflection on the statute of religious authorities in medieval Islam. What is the foundation of the authority in Islam?
Aigle, Denise
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