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The Book of the Judgements of Calatarama: A Case Study of a Medieval Spanish Geomancy

open access: yes, 2022
Manuscript MS 5-2-27 of the Biblioteca Colombina at the Cathedral of Seville, Spain, contains a single text, the Libro de los juysios de calatarama, the “Book of the judgements of calatarama.” Identified as a translation of a Hebrew translation of an ...
Finan, Alicia Jessie Cameron
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Early medieval studies. 6.

open access: yes, 1973
Lectures /given at the Helgö symposium, September 1972, arranged in collaboration by the Early medieval centre on Helgö, with Comité exécutif des recherches sur les origines des villes and Arbeitsgemeinschaft für SachsenforschungIntroduction / Wilhelm ...
Kungliga vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien (Suède)aut(FrPBN)11870359   +1 more
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Parution : Tribal Medievalisms (Studies in Medievalism XXXIV)

open access: yesModernités médiévales
Karl Fugelso (dir.), Studies in Medievalisms XXXIV, Tribal Medievalisms, coll. Studies in Medievalism, D.S. Brewer, 2025. Essays address queer medievalisms in and around Gwen Lally's historical pageants and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness; Robert Glück's 1994 novel Margery Kempe; and forms of gender tribalism in and around Josephine Butler's ...
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The Sea-salt Industry in Medieval Scotland

open access: yes, 2012
Until the nineteenth century in Scotland, salt was the only bulk food-preservative available. A producer of salt on a non-domestic scale by at least the beginning of the twelfth century, Scotland was exporting it by the later fourteenth century and ...
Oram, Richard
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Computational stylistics and medieval texts

open access: yes, 2022
This entry gives a survey of the application of computational stylistics to medieval texts. Computational stylistics, alternatively stylometry, is an umbrella term for a set of computer algorithms that quantify and statistically harvest a document’s ...
Klemettilä, Hanneleeditor   +3 more
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

The spiral stair or vice: Its origins, role and meaning in medieval stone castles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis addresses a neglected area of castles studies - the spiral stair. It studies the origins, evolution, placing, structure, role, significance and meaning of spiral stairs in medieval stone castles between 1066 and 1500, so covering the rise ...
Ryder, Charles
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