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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023 Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) and the Religious Life of his Time
History, Volume 108, Issue 379-380, Page 3-19, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In this article the scholar, preacher and bishop Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) is taken as a vantage point to look at the religious life of his time. He had personal involvement with the nascent university of Paris, the earliest beguines of the Low Countries, the crusades against heretics and Muslims, and the first friars.
ROBERT BARTLETT
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Translation‐Induced Interrogative Relativizers and Stability in Icelandic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 1-32, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Throughout the history of Icelandic, invariant particles, which do not inflect for semantic or syntactic features of the antecedent, are the typical markers of relative clauses (Þráinsson 2007). Another, putatively foreign strategy—relativization with interrogative–relative pronouns—is archaic in Modern Icelandic, but is frequent between the ...
Christian D. Brendel
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Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 195-215, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper sets out to explore how hybrid organizations managed their established institutional complexity in the past, and what place was there for accounting in this endeavor. The paper draws on a historical case study of how a social entity operated in 14th–16th‐century Venice.
Maria Lusiani +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 358-376, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The fifteenth‐century Italian humanists applied their ideas on translation and textual scholarship not only to classical texts, but also to Scripture. One problem they encountered was the rendering of biblical passages in their patristic translations.
Annet den Haan
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2023 Il presente contributo si occupa dell’interazione tra retorica e diritto, e di come la prima sia stata fautrice della nascita dell’istituto processuale della querela inofficiosi testamenti.
Alessandro Cassarino
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Malefactores fecerunt insultum. Una rapina e le sue conseguenze agli inizi del XIV secolo
Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie, 2020 Il contributo analizza un rotolo documentario, conservato presso l’Archivio di Stato di Mantova, che tramanda la vicenda che coinvolse Simone de Frondonis, mercante milanese e membro del Terz’Ordine della stessa città.
Francesco Bozzi
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