Results 21 to 30 of about 6,783 (202)

Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 251-269, July 2023., 2023
Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 295-317, June 2023., 2023
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
wiley   +1 more source

Hester Pulter's Psalmic Poems

Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 364-383, June 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay examines the use of psalm structures, rhetoric, and poetics in the devotional poetry of Hester Pulter, a mid‐seventeenth‐century Royalist manuscript poet. Scholarship has shown the adaptability of the voice of the psalms, how it is amendable to both an ‘I’ and a ‘we’ simultaneously.
Nikolina Hatton
wiley   +1 more source

'n Perspektief op die nuwe Psalmomdigting

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2000
A perspective on the new versification of the Psalter in Afrikaans. The envisaged versificaion of all 150 psalms in Afrikaans has been completed. The aricle focuses on the following aspects: the Psalter as a song book; the Psalter as a poetry book; the ...
C. A.J. Vos
doaj   +1 more source

Jan Kochanowski’s Psalter – a Source of Polish Poetry and Mirror of the Human Mind

The Biblical Annals, 2023
The article deals with Jan Kochanowski’s Psałterz Dawidów [David’s Psalter], published in 1579. This paraphrase of the biblical Psalter, intensely lyrical in its spirit, was inspired by George Buchanan’s Latin poetic paraphrase of the Psalms, which is ...
Elwira Buszewicz
doaj   +1 more source

A failing anthropology of colonial failure: following a driver's uniform found at Amani research station, Tanzania

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 167-189, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The remains of Amani, a century‐old scientific laboratory in Tanzania, are quintessential modern relics. When anthropologists turn to such infrastructures of, originally colonial, knowledge‐making, their own implication with the object of their study – and with its epistemological and political‐economic origins and order – becomes part of the ...
P. Wenzel Geissler
wiley   +1 more source

Het Psalter als meerstemmige Thora

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
Psalm 1 is generally called the ‘introduction’ to the whole Psalter. At the same time this Psalm is defined as ‘Torah Psalm’ in a narrow sense. By this definition only a few psalms in the Psalter are really Torah Psalms.
Kees Waaijman
doaj   +1 more source

Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife

The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 248-262, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d.
Justin Willson, Ashley Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Dekoracje irlandzkich psałterzy

Vox Patrum, 2013
A particularly interesting question in medieval Irish literature, is decorating Psalters. Since the Biblical psalms were very popular among the Anglo-Saxons, they were often copied and decorated also in Ireland.
Ryszarda Maria Bulas
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical image of the world in the London Psalter Maps from the 13th century [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2021
The subjects of this paper are two maps from the 13th century Psalter, found in London. These are the Psalter World Map and the Psalter List Map. Both maps are designed in the shape of a circular disk, modeled on medieval mappae mundi T-O type. The first
Grčić Mirko
doaj   +1 more source