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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2676.
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Bezuidenhout, Morné P. Cattin Giulio. "An Italian office book of the late thirteenth century /." Cape Town : South African Library, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41442614z.
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Howsam, Charlotte L. "Book fastenings and furnishings : an archaeology of late medieval books." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13105/.
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Throughout the late medieval period, books were an integral part of religious monastic life, and yet such objects have received little attention from an analytical archaeological perspective, despite the significant quantity of metal book fittings recovered from archaeological sites. This thesis explores the archaeological collections held by English Heritage together with published excavation reports, investigating late medieval book fittings, dating between the mid-eleventh and mid-sixteenth centuries, which have been archaeologically recovered from English monastic sites. This work presents the first typology of these artefacts and considers in detail the many and varied forms of late medieval book fittings. In order to contextualise and give a clear understanding of this material, this study investigates late medieval book production, monasticism, and the types of books housed within monasteries and the locations in which they were used and stored. This research goes on to examine the wider social and cultural contexts of book fittings within late medieval monastic society using pictorial and documentary evidence, and extant late medieval bookbindings and library catalogues, in conjunction with the archaeological material. The themes explored include the types of books on which book fittings were used, the influences of different monastic orders, their geographical distribution and the significance of their deposition, particularly as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. By undertaking these methods of investigation, it has become clear that, within the catalogue, different forms of book fittings and styles of decoration were more commonly used in certain regions and by particular monastic orders, and that significant numbers of books were destroyed and their fittings disposed of during the Dissolution in the 1530s both on and away from monastic sites. This research brings together both archaeological and historical approaches to the study of late medieval book fittings, creating an innovative and broad-based study of this particular form of material culture so leading to a new insight into the archaeology of late medieval books.
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Provvidera, Tiziana. "Giordano Bruno's Italian dialogues and late sixteenth century English book production." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324623.
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Marr, Alexander. "Architects, engineers and instruments : technology and the book in late Renaissance Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418788.
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Kitzinger, Beatrice. "Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10183.
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Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. Most also represent the theology of the Cross through their form and decoration, describing the soteriology of the crucifixion and anticipating its consummation at the end of time. As manufactured crosses recount the past and look forward to the eschaton, they concurrently function in the age of the Church, offering specific, contemporary points of access to all the larger cross-sign represents. In its multivalent identity, the cross’ status as the Church’s central sign reflects the Church’s own temporal position, simultaneously commemorating sacred history, functioning in the present day, and preparing for the Second Coming. Although rarely recognized, the Church-time form of the cross—which I term the “instrumental” cross—is often a discernable component of early medieval cross-objects and images. I argue that we can recognize the instrumental cross among the commemorative and proleptic aspects of the sign because a formal and conceptual language developed to articulate it. In its instrumental form, the cross becomes the sign of the Church in its role as mediator between Christians, Christ and the eschaton, affirming the indispensable place of man-made artwork in that project. The instrumental cross, in turn, signals the instrumentality of the many artworks into which it is incorporated. It plays a particularly important role in manuscripts. In the first half of the dissertation I define a class of visual strategies that communicate the instrumental identity of the cross. I treat works in many media in Chapter 1 and focus on manuscripts in Chapters 2–3. The second half of the dissertation concentrates upon the case studies of four complex, hitherto neglected gospel codices from ninth–tenth century western France. In each, the deep relationship between Church-time cross and gospel book drives a pictorial program that is crafted to define a specific codex as an manufactured instrument, made to integrate its community with the larger project of the Church for which the cross-sign stands.History of Art and Architecture
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Bain, Alexandra. "The late Ottoman En'am-» ¸serif, sacred text and images in an Islamic prayer book." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37329.pdf.
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Drzazgowski, Kyla Helena. "The imagined pilgrimage of Sir John Mandeville's late medieval Book of Marvels and Travels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62826.
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This thesis investigates two main topics: the medieval practice of imagined pilgrimage and a Middle English text called the Book of Marvels and Travels (1350s). While recent historical and literary scholarship has helped to uncover how English monastic audiences engaged in imagined pilgrimage, which is the act of going on a holy journey in spirit rather than in body, less work has been done to explore how secular English audiences turned to texts to undertake non-physical journeys. The focal point of medieval European pilgrimage, Jerusalem was largely out of reach for many medieval English men and women due to a variety of personal, political, and economic reasons. Imagined pilgrimage texts such as the Book fulfilled a need in readers for an alternative means to attain the same spiritual benefits that physical pilgrimage offered its participants. Employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the literary history of imagined pilgrimage, in this project I offer a new reading of the Book and investigate both the history of pilgrimage writing and the complex monastic and secular debates surrounding the shifting benefits, dangers, and definitions of physical and imagined holy travel. Presented by a narrator who identifies himself as a knight named “John Mandeville,” the Book provided its medieval English reader-pilgrims with the information needed to make imaginative pilgrimages to the Holy Land and the Eastern world that lies beyond it.Arts, Faculty of
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Lahey, Stephanie Jane. "Legal Book Collecting in Late Medieval Bristol: The Case of Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 40." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32766.
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From the late-thirteenth through late-fifteenth centuries, among the most frequently produced and widely disseminated books in England were unofficial, common law statute-based miscellanies known as Statuta Angliæ or ‘statute books’. In ca. 1470, a large format, de luxe, yet highly standardized, version of this codicological genre emerged; likely produced on a speculative basis, it survives in approximately two dozen exemplars. This thesis takes as its focus a member of this latter group: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 40 (ca. 1460– 70). After reviewing current scholarship on these codices—examining several key issues and clarifying previous descriptions to enhance our understanding—it endeavours to establish a likely provenance for MS Richardson 40, exploring the ways in which both the manuscript and the broader genre resonate with the life of the proposed patron, Philip Mede (d. 1476), merchant, twice MP, and thrice Mayor of Bristol.
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Blake, Thomas Hughes Jr. "Royal materials: the object of queens in Late Medieval English romance." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5717.
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As historicist as it is materialist, my dissertation both reads the fictional queens portrayed in romance against the fraught positioning of historical queens such as Isabella of France, Anne of Bohemia and Margaret of Anjou, and traces the ambivalent function in late medieval English society of objects including the sacring-bell, the Lollard bible and the royal sword. Merging the traditionally historicist field queenship studies with typically postmodern fields like thing theory and sound theory, I investigate how queens in late medieval romances coopt, queer and reconfigure material objects of masculine power. Each chapter examines a literary queen typically dismissed by subject-oriented ontologies as insubstantial. Analyzing romances that include Richard Coer de Lyon, Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Malory's Morte D'Arthur and the Marian romance of "The Child Slain by Jews" from the Vernon Manuscript, I argue for the overlooked significance of literary queens as figures whose circulation illuminates the construction of medieval masculinities. Through contact with charged material objects that are pivotal to romance plots, queens query patriarchal materials, exposing their underlying "thingness" and malleability. Whether tracking the disturbing afterlife of a church bell used to exorcise the hero's queen mother in Richard Coer de Lyon, or analyzing links between the "Britoun book" that rescues Chaucer's Custance and Anne of Bohemia's vernacular books, my chapters tell a new story about the foreign queens of late medieval English romances by showing how they blur boundaries between male and female, subject and object, West and East, priest and parish, Christian and Jew, orthodox and heterodox, mother and child.
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Rogers, Janine. "Gender and the literature culture of late medieval England." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35053.
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This dissertation explores the impact of gender ideologies held by medieval readerships on the production of books and circulation of texts in late medieval England. The first chapter explores how the professional book trade of late medieval London circulated booklets of Chauceriana which constructed masculinity and femininity in strict adherence to the courtly love literary tradition. In the second chapter, I demonstrate that such a standardized representation of courtly gender could be adapted by a readership removed from the professional book trade, in this case the rural gentry producers of the Findern manuscript, who present a revised vision of femininity and courtliness in their anthology. This revised femininity includes several texts which privilege the female speaking voice. The third chapter goes on to investigate the use of the female voice in one particular genre, the love lyric, and asks if the female lyric speaker can be associated with manuscripts in which women participated as producers or readers. Finally, the fourth chapter turns to masculinity, examining how the commonplace book of an early 16th century grocer, Richard Hill, contains selections from didactic and recreational literature which reinforce the ideals of masculine conduct in the merchant community of late medieval London. The dissertation concludes that manuscript contexts must be taken into account when reading gender in medieval English literature.
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Day, Emma. "Sokemen and freemen in late Anglo-Saxon East Anglia in comparative context." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/239350.
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The dissertation is an investigation into sokemen and freemen, a group of higher status peasants, in tenth- and eleventh-century East Anglia (hereafter and throughout the dissertation referred to as less dependent tenants). The study considers four themes. The first concerns the socio-economic condition of less dependent tenants. Previous commentators have focused on, for example, light or non-existent labour services and a connection with royal service and public obligations, but the reality may have been more complex. The second theme considers the distribution of the group across East Anglia. The third and fourth themes consider, respectively, the reliability of the Domesday evidence for less dependent tenants and how far the eastern counties differed from the rest of England. It has been argued that the significant number of less dependent tenants recorded in the eastern counties in Domesday Book indicates that region's unique social structure. This view increasingly has been questioned. The dissertation uses a partially retrogressive approach, combining pre-Conquest sources with Domesday Book and manorial sources from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It argues that less dependent tenants formed a varied group, including both smallholders (probably constituting the greater part of the group) and prosperous landholders defined by high-status service. These individuals were not always clearly distinguished from those immediately above and below them in the hierarchy. There was no intrinsic connection between less dependent tenants and royal service. Less dependent tenants experienced upward and downward social mobility in the tenth and eleventh centuries, affected by the land market and the influence of lordship. The group's local distribution, and, by implication, the extent of manorialisation, could vary widely and was influenced primarily by the strength of lordship. There were longstanding and important differences between East Anglia and counties elsewhere in England. But these differences also were exaggerated by the Domesday evidence.
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Moody, Kyle Andrew. ""Why so serious?" comics, film and politics, or the comic book film as the answer to the question of identity and narrative in a post-9/11 world /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249507295.
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Brewer, Emily Marie. "A lady novelist and the late eighteenth-century book trade| Charlotte Smith's letters to publisher Thomas Cadell, Sr., 1786-94." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3562700.
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As a struggling single mother separated from her dissolute husband, the poet Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) began writing novels as a way to make money for her family. The exploding book market of late eighteenth-century Britain teemed with booksellers and publishers—some anxious to hustle works to press, some seeking quality works to build their reputation—and Smith entered this male-centric realm with naïveté, shaky confidence, and growing desperation. Guided by a literary mentor to the reputable London publishing firm of Thomas Cadell, Sr., Smith entered a business relationship that would see her through the publication and later editions of two translated novels, three original novels, the two-volume poem The Emigrants, and a subscription and an expanded edition of her celebrated poetry and essay collection, Elegiac Sonnets. Most of the letters Smith wrote to Cadell have never been published; the majority of them were discovered just as Judith Phillips Stanton was taking her Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith (2003) to press. This scholarly edition includes every known letter that Smith wrote to Cadell before his retirement, when his son and assistant redubbed it Cadell & Davies. Compiled from university, public, and private libraries in Britain, the U.S., and New Zealand, these annotated letters offer an intimate portrait of Smith as entrepreneurial author, desperate businesswoman, and careworn single mother of nine children in an era of revolutionary (and counter-revolutionary) fervor, Empire building.
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Puyat, Tara Elena. ""The Gradual" at Oregon State University: A Rough Guide to Assessing the Identity of a Late Roman Catholic Chant Book." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19190.
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In the 1930s, Oregon State University received an impressive oversized manuscript, now known as "The Gradual," as part of a large donation of books. Not much was known about this manuscript. It does not have documentation attached from the time of its acquisition, nor had any methodical study been undertaken regarding the manuscript. This thesis examines the OSU Gradual, aiming to provide research tools for the identification of musical manuscripts of unknown or unclear provenance that could be useful to conservators, archivists, and librarians, irrespective of musical training. It is conceived as a "rough guide" for working situations where there is no dedicated manuscript specialist, in particular, a fulltime Latin paleographer or a chant scholar overseeing a massive collection. Instead, its "how-to" nature addresses curators and catalogers managing smaller manuscript collections as generalists, offering an interdisciplinary approach both beneficial and suitable to the aims of this study.
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Liles, Linda Kathleen. "Guide to the pilgrim churches at Rome a late 15th century manuscript in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita. "The Book of Margery Kempe : a study of the meditations in the context of late Medieval devotional literature, liturgy, and iconography." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341398.
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Johnston, Michael R. "The sociology of middle English romance: three late medieval compilers." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1186773637.
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Lizorkin, Ilya. "Aspects of the Sabbath in the late Second Temple period /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2975.
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Bian, He. "Assembling the Cure: Materia Medica and the Culture of Healing in Late Imperial China." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11449.
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This dissertation examines the intersection between the culture of knowledge and socio-economic conditions of late Ming and Qing China (1550-1800) through the lens of materia medica. I argue that medicine in China during this time developed new characteristics that emphasized the centrality of drugs as objects of pharmacological knowledge, commodities valued by authenticity and efficacy, and embodiment of medical skills and expertise. My inquiry contributes to a deeper understanding of the materiality of healing as a basic condition in early modern societies: on the one hand, textual knowledge about drugs and the substances themselves became increasingly available via the commoditization of texts and goods; on the other hand, anxiety arose out of the unruly nature of potent substances, whose promise to cure remained difficult to grasp in social practice of medicine.History of Science
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Horn, Matthew Clive. "(En)countering Death: Defenses against Mortality in Five Late Medieval/Early Modern Texts." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1271271799.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2010.Title from OhioLINK ETD abstract webpage (viewed May 17, 2010). Advisor: Susanna Fein. Keywords: Book of the Duchess; Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation; Pericles; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Thomas More; Donne; Bunyan; defenses against mortality.
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Werth, Keri Mariken. "A study of a late thirteenth-century composite Office book (Cape Town, National Library of South Africa,MS Grey 4b5) with reference to selected manuscript sources from the diocese of Münster in Westphalia." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30514.
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MS Grey 4b5 (Cape Town, National Library of South Africa, Grey Collection, ms. 4.b.5) is a composite Office book comprised of a noted breviary and an antiphoner. It is dated in the late 13th to early 14th century and is from the city of Münster, Westphalia. The notation of the melodies makes use of Hufnagelschrift and the texts show various stages of Textualis Gothica throughout the entirety of the book. This manuscript gives an indication of liturgical practices in the city of Münster prior to the Anabaptist takeover between 1533 and 1535. This investigation has confirmed a number of facts. Analysis of the text indicates that the breviary section is from the late 14th century as the scribe made use of the fully developed letter forms of Textualis Gothica script. The antiphoner section shows evidence of earlier stages of Textualis Gothica in its many hands, thus placing it in the late 13th century. The textual and notational hands overlap in such a way as to indicate that the antiphoner was written in the same location. Studies on the feast of Corpus Christi in Grey 4b5 with references to sources in Vincent Corrigan’s edition and other sources from Münster reveal that Grey 4b5 contains an early version of the standardised Office, as well as a wholly unique responsory and verse in Vespers. In the same vein, expansion of Morné Bezuidenhout’s initial investigation of the feast of Saint Liudger in Grey 4b5 confirms the manuscript’s provenance to be from the city of Münster. Musical editions of Corpus Christi and Saint Liudger are included in this investigation. Studies on late style characteristics of the music in the Office of Corpus Christi, with reference to research by David Hiley and Roman Hankeln, indicate that while Grey 4b5 contains an early version of the standardised Office of Corpus Christi, it shows slightly more radical features than other sources in this edition. Comparative studies of late style characteristics in the Office of Corpus Christi with Saint Liudger show that, despite its radical style, the musical items for Corpus Christi seemed to have been composed more conservatively than those for Saint Liudger. Additional analyses on contrafacta - with reference to László Dobszay and Janka Szendrei - and on the great responsories of Corpus Christi - with reference to Kate Helsen’s study - also support this evidence. Investigations on the musical content of Grey 4b5 reveal some items that are completely unique to the manuscript. There are also items in Grey 4b5 that correspond solely with sources in the diocese of Münster. A provisional index of the musical content of the Grey manuscript is provided at the end of this dissertation, the complete version of which will soon be available on the CANTUS database.
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Li, Mengjun. "Master of Heavenly Flowers Scripture: Constructing Tianhua zang zhuren's Three Personae as Publisher, Commentator, and Writer of Scholar-beauty Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250608011.
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Longobardi, Concetta. "Le corpus pseudacroniane et l’interprétation d’Horace : Le commentaire au quatrième livre des Carmina." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30004.
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L’objectif principal de la thèse a été de fournir une révision de l'édition critique, avec une traduction et un commentaire des scholia du ps.Acron au quatrième livre des Carmina. Considérer le quatrième livre a répondu à l'exigence de déterminer une section 'indépendante' dans la production lyrique d'Horace.Le corpus pseudacronian se présente comme un ensemble de scholies à l'œuvre d'Horace pas reconductible à une individualité ou à un moment historique bien précis mais qui résulte comme la conséquence d'une stratification commencée au V siècle et qui a duré jusqu'au Moyen Age attribué de manière erronée à Elenius Acron, auteur du IIè siècle d.C.J'ai proposé des interventions critiques à l'édition de O. Keller publié pour la Teubneriana (Leipzig 1902).Dans la rédaction du commentaire, une grande importance a été conférée à l'évaluation des enquêtes littéraires dans le texte pseudacronian. L’étude comporte également une focalisation attentive sur les typologies de caractéristiques, très diffuses dans les commentaires anciens, grâce auxquels on peut déduire les compétences linguistiques, rhétoriques, littéraires, mythiques, historiennes.Le travail a été complété par un essai initial organisé en sections: la première partie concerne la réception du texte des auctores, et en particulier d'Horace, dans le contexte de l'école. Une seconde section concerne les caractéristiques du commentaire au quatrième livre des Carmina, illustratifs pour l'évaluation de la technique exégétique du ps.AcronThe main objective of the thesis was that to provide a review of the critical edition, with a translation and a commentary of the scholia pseudacroniana on The Fourth Book of the Odes of Horace. In the vast field of the Horatian lyric, it's been considered un 'independent' section. The pseudacronian corpus looks like a jumble of Horace's scholia not due to an individuality or to a precise historic moment: they are the result of a stratification began in the fifth century and lasted until the Middle Ages, mistakenly attributed to Elenius Acron, author of the second century AD. Some critical interventions have been proposed to the edition of reference, that of O. Keller, published for the series Teubneriana (Pseudacronis Scholia in Horatium vetustiora, Leipzig 1902).During the draft of the commentary I've given great importance to the evaluation of the literary investigations proposed in the pseudacronian text. It's not even a careful focus on the types of notes, too, from which we deduce the linguistic, rhetorical, literary, mythical, historical competences. The work has been completed by an essay divided by sections: the first part concerning the receipt of the text of auctores, and in particular Horace, in the context of the school. The second section concerns the characteristics of the commentary on the fourth book of Odes, taken as an example for the evaluation of ps.Acron's exegetical technique
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Toth, Gabor Mihaly. "Knowledge and thinking in Renaissance Florence : a computer-assisted analysis of the diaries and commonplace books of Giovanni Rucellai and his contemporaries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cae32672-4cde-4ad6-bde8-c3f71c4609af.
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This thesis investigates cognition and knowledge in a rich selection of late medieval Florentine commonplace books (zibaldoni) and diaries (ricordanze) with a special focus on Giovanni Rucellai’s Zibaldone Quaresimale. In Chapter Two a new methodology, named Mental Model Framework in History (MMFH), is elaborated. By studying mental processes such as categorisation and decision making, MMFH enables us to study cognition in historical documents. The dissertation is based on a computer-assisted analysis described in Chapter Three . This has brought together a number of technologies (Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Text Encoding Initiative) and used them according to the interpretative goals of the MMFH. Chapter Four investigates the knowledge-constructing practice of late medieval Florentines, and concludes that commonplace books and diaries were tools of information management and knowledge transmission. The core chapters study four domains of thinking: space, time, agency and perception. Chapter Five analyses social recognition and judgement in Renaissance Florence and reveals how a new ethical thought took shape, one that prepared the transition to capitalism. By applying decision and game theory, Chapter Six examines horizontal friendship, a bond that functioned as an informal but risky social insurance in Florence. Chapter Seven studies how Florentines used superlatives to construct a hierarchy of the world, with Florence on the top. This was the manifestation of a fierce competition within and outside the walls of Florence, competition that strongly influenced the social and physical environment of the city. By studying selection, periodisation and causal reasoning, Chapter Eight pinpoints the gradual secularisation of the conception of time. The thesis concludes that the late medieval revolution in information culture marked by the gradual transition from an overwhelmingly oral culture to an increasingly literate culture produced quantitative and qualitative changes in human thought. This largely contributed to the birth of modern thought, and to the late medieval transformation of the social and physical environment.
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Albert, Florence. "Analyse technique, textuelle et paléographique d'un Livre des morts inédit conservé au Musée du Vatican (Inv. n 38603)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30004.
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Le papyrus du Vatican n° inv. 38603 est un Livre des morts hiératique daté de l’époque tardive, provenant vraisemblablement de la ville de Thèbes et contenant un certain nombre d’originalités iconographiques et textuelles. Son étude exhaustive est entreprise à l’aide d’une présentation détaillée, d’une traduction complète, d’un commentaire de chacun des textes qui le composent, d’une mise en contexte au sein de la documentation tardive du genre et d’une paléographie. Ces éléments permettent de mettre en valeur divers aspects des croyances funéraires des égyptiens de cette époque. D’autre part, ils autorisent à resserrer la datation du papyrus autour de 300 av. J.-C. et à replacer le document dans un contexte précis en forte relation avec la religion et les cultes osiriens qui se développent à Thèbes à partir de laTroisième Période intermédiaireThe Papyrus Vatican inv. No 38603 is a hieratic Book of the Dead dated of the late period, coming probably from the city of Thebes and containing a number of textual and iconographic peculiarities. His comprehensive study is undertaken using a detailed presentation, a complete translation, a commentary on each of its component texts, a contextualization within the late documentation of the type and a paleography. These elements can highlight various aspects of Egyptian funerary beliefs of that time. On the other hand, they allow for closer dating of papyrus around 300 BC. and put the document in a specific context in strong relationship with religion and cults of Osiris that develop at Thebes since the Third Intermediate Period
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Archer, Harriet. "The mirror for magistrates, 1559-1610 : transmission, appropriation and the poetics of historiography." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f908cf17-e70a-4449-b2fa-84f24961b3c0.
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The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s and expanded and revised between 1559 and 1610, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset and Richard Niccols extended the Mirror’s scope, shifted its focus, and prolonged its popularity; in particular, the 1587 edition of the original text with Higgins’s ancient British and Roman complaint collections profoundly influenced the work of Spenser and Shakespeare. However, while there has been a recent resurgence of critical interest in the editions of 1559 and its 1563 ‘Second Part’, the later additions are still largely neglected and disparaged, and the transmission of the original text beyond 1563 has never been fully explored. Without an understanding of this transmission and expansion, the importance of the Mirror to sixteenth-century intellectual culture is dramatically distorted. Higgins, Blenerhasset and Niccols’s contributions are invaluable witnesses to how verse history was conceptualised, written and read across the period, and to the way in which the Mirror tradition was repeatedly reinterpreted and redeployed in response to changing contemporary concerns. The Mirror corpus encompasses topical allegory, nationalist polemic, and historiographical scepticism. What has not been recognised is the complex interaction of these themes right across the Mirror’s history. This thesis provides a comprehensive reassessment of the Mirror’s expansion, transmission, and appropriation between 1559 and 1610, focusing in particular on Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccols’s work. By comparing editions and tracing editorial revisions, the changing contexts and attitudes which shaped the early texts’ development are explored. Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccols’s contributions are analysed against this backdrop for the first time here, both within their own literary and historiographical contexts, and in dialogue with the early editions. A broad reading of the themes and concerns of these recensions, rather than the limited approach which has characterised previous scholarship, takes account of their depth and variety, and provides a new understanding of the extent of the Mirror’s influence and ubiquity in early modern literary culture.
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Smith-Laing, Tim. "Variorum vitae : Theseus and the arts of mythography in Medieval and early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f4305c6-3c62-4f89-a3b2-d8204893fdfb.
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This thesis offers an approach to the history of mythographical discourse through the figure of Theseus and his appearances in texts from England, Italy and France. Analysing a range of poetic, historical, and allegorical works that feature Theseus alongside their classical and contemporary intertexts, it is a study of the conceptions of Greco-Roman mythology prevalent in European literature from 1300-1600. Focusing on mythology’s pervasive presence as a background to medieval and early modern literary and intellectual culture, it draws attention to the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology in relation to its use for different purposes in a wide range of texts. The first impact of this study is to draw attention to the distinction between mythology and mythography, as a means of focusing on the full range of interpretative processes associated with the ancient myths in their textual forms. Returning attention to the processes by which writers and readers came to know the Greco-Roman myths, it widens the commonly accepted critical definition of ‘mythography’ to include any writing of or on mythology, while restricting ‘mythology’ to its abstract sense, meaning a traditional collection of tales that exceeds any one text. This distinction allows the analyses of the study’s primary texts to display the full range of interpretative processes and possibilities involved in rewriting mythology, and to outline a spectrum of linked but distinctive mythographical genres that define those possibilities. Breaking down into two parts of three chapters each, the thesis examines Theseus’ appearances across these mythographical genres, first in the period from 1300 to the birth of print, and then from the birth of print up to 1600. Taking as its primary texts works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and William Shakespeare along with their classical intertexts, it situates each of them in regard to their multiple defining contexts. Paying close attention to the European traditions of commentary, translation and response to classical sources, it shows mythographical discourse as a vibrant aspect of medieval and early modern literary culture, equally embedded in classical traditions and contemporary traditions that transcended national and linguistic boundaries.
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Lin, Li-An, and 林麗安. "To observe the private book collection culture in Late Ch’ing Dynasty and Early Republic Era through book Collection and Appreciation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60034222046889575404.
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碩士淡江大學
漢語文化暨文獻資源研究所碩士班
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It has been a long history in Chinese Private Book Collection. Not only the scholars collected books but also the bankers and entrepreneurs did because of the changing of social and economic structures from late Ching Dynasty. The main reason for the new collectors to gather books is not for reading, but their common purpose is appreciation. Therefore, the thesis will analyze the collection and appreciation of collectors and discuss the private book collection culture in Late Ch’ing Dynasty and Early Republic Era through below points: 1. To understand the attitude of the collectors by analyzing their appreciating methods, and to observe the fashion of book collecting by the collectors’ behavior. 2. The collectors will record their collecting process or appreciation in the postscript or private book list. The appreciating records in the private book list had been more serious and detailed from Ch’ing Dynasty to early Republic Era and we also can see the collectors put their attention on book appreciation by discussing the formatting and progress of the book lists. Besides, in the book collection behavior, except taking the private book list as reference, there were also some lists of “Shu-Ying”(the copy of the first page in a book); thus, the thesis also investigates the collectors’ need of book appreciation through discussing the publishing of “Shu-Ying” catalogue. 3. The scholars needs some dealers to help them search or to evaluate the books when they were collecting them. A book is different from other goods, which is a kind of consumer product with culture value, so the book dealers had to be knowledgeable to trade with the book collectors and got profit from the business. Therefore, for deeply realizing the private book collection culture, it will discuss how the book dealers worked due to the needing of the collectors and analyze the business of book stores and how the books circulated.
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Bain, Alexandra. "The late Ottoman En'am-i șerif : sacred text and images in an Islamic prayer book." Thesis, 1999. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8702.
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The inclusion of representational imagery in a sacred context is extremely rare in the history of Islamic art. This dissertation examines the evolution of the Ottoman En'am-i Serif, a group of manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in which sacred text was illuminated by sacred art. In the early period, the content of these prayer books consisted of entire chapters of the Qur'an and various prayers. In the seventeenth century, calligraphic images known as hilye were added, consisting of textual descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad's physical and moral characteristics. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, representational images of the Prophet's mantle, hand, footprint, sandal, sword, and other relics were included for the sake of their baraka, the Divine grace that emanates from God and passes to ordinary people through the prophets and saints, or the objects that they touch.
That Ottoman Islam was heavily influenced by Sufism is apparent in the En'am-i Serif. Its calligraphers and patrons were members or affiliates of the various Sufi orders, and they were also frequently highly placed members of the ruling class. At the same time that the Ottomans were defending themselves against the rise of European nationalism, Islam came under attack from within as the Wahhabi movement challenged the Ottoman sultan's role as protector of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. It is not surprising that Sufi calligraphers chose this precise moment to transform a simple book containing Qur'anic text and prayers into an elaborate manuscript combining sacred text with images of sacred places and objects. In addition to reinforcing the spiritual aspects of Islam that had come under attack from the fundamentalist movement, the artists of the En'am-i Serif also made a strong political statement by choosing to present these images in such a way as to highlight the Ottomans' role as the rightful inheritors of the caliphate and protectors of Islam.Graduate
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Saxby, Thaya, and 商哲雅. "Prohibiting Excess: Book Prohibitions and the Discourse on Desire in the Late Ming and Early Qing." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08835418729839632615.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
歷史學研究所
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Following the spread of popular fiction in the Ming Dynasty, “excessive” or erotic fiction became a target of official and public concern, with many believing it had the power to destroy social morality and corrupt people’s hearts. By the Qing Dynasty, this type of criticism had become a common occurrence, and moralists berated the gullibility of the populace and bewailed the degradation of literary activity. Although the Qianlong era’s “Four Treasuries” activities and literary “inquisitions” have received much attention, there has been less focus on the increasing focus on culturally—rather than politically—offensive content in the early Qing. This paper will first explore the development of early Qing cultural policy and prohibition towards fiction, and then turn to look at some of the ways that the banned fiction was interacting with and reflecting certain cultural trends, as well as violating social mores. Finally, we will look at some of the views that the members of the public and of the literati held towards the rise of fiction and the influence of the popular culture sphere.
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Ling, Yuan-shuang, and 凌玉萱. "Between the forbiddance and recreation—The study on the illustration book of women’s education in Late Ming dynasty China." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47977233423844057209.
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碩士國立中央大學
藝術學研究所
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Late Ming dynasty is the vigorous period of the trend of thought in Chinese women education. The illustrated book discussed in the essay about this issue included 6 editions of books, which are “New Cu lienu zhuan”, “Gu jin lienu zhuan pin ling”, “Lin xiang cu lienu zhuan”, “ Huitu lienuzhuan ”, “Gui fan ” and “Nu fan pen ”. Chapter 1 initiated from the background of editing the illustrated book. Besides integrating basic data of each kind of illustrated books, it greatly emphasized that the drawer at that time created a composition of space allocated toward illustrated books. The feature of editing the illustrated book was based on the re-defining so-called Cu-type ones, and exploiting so-called Jin-type ones. In the field of the latter it exerted constantly to carve the fashion of new image of women, which assembled with children into the image of women and children. The finally destination is to boast the value of female chastity. Therefore these two more focusing points, new image of women and the image of women and children, in the illustrated books as of Late Ming dynasty would be immensely discussed and analyzed. on Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. There were three different features for the illustrated books as compared with tradition: First of all, the great difference existed between different sexes for their understanding and visualizing the picture and the article, and the pursuit of the meaning of respective value. Secondly, the carving image of women deliberately took the trend of visualization in the reproduction process of books and the presentation of the pictures. Thirdly, the image of children in the position of being observed shifted into the position of chastity , combining with the sensitivity at the same time, as the function and destination of the demand of women’s pictures varied.
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Reid, Lindsay Ann. "Bibliofictions: Ovidian Heroines and the Tudor Book." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32017.
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This dissertation explores how the mythological heroines from Ovid‘s Heroides and Metamorphoses were cataloged, conflated, reconceived, and recontextualized in vernacular literature; in so doing, it joins considerations of voice, authority, and gender with reflections on Tudor technologies of textual reproduction and ideas about the book. In the late medieval and Renaissance eras, Ovid‘s poetry stimulated the imaginations of authors ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower to Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare, and Michael Drayton. Ovid‘s characteristic bookishness—his interest in textual revision and his thematization of the physicality and malleability of art in its physical environments—was not lost upon these
postclassical interpreters who engaged with his polysemous cast of female characters. His
numerous English protégés replicated and expanded Ovid‘s metatextual concerns by reading and rewriting his metamorphic poetry in light of the metaphors through which they
understood both established networks of scribal dissemination and emergent modes of printed book production. My study of Greco-Roman tradition and English bibliofictions (or fictive representations of books, their life cycles, and the communication circuits in which they
operate) melds literary analysis with the theoretical concerns of book history by focusing on intersections and interactions between physical, metaphorical, and imaginary books. I posit the Tudor book as a site of complex cultural and literary negotiations between real and inscribed,
historical and fictional readers, editors, commentators, and authors, and, as my discussion unfolds, I combine bibliographical, historical, and literary perspectives as a means to understanding both the reception of Ovidian poetry in English literature and Ovid‘s place in
the history of books. This dissertation thus contributes to a growing body of book history
criticism while also modeling a bibliographically enriched approach to the study of late medieval and Renaissance intertextuality.
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Streiffert, Elin. "Late adopters of e-books in Sweden and Japan : A case study of readers." Thesis, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23672.
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Even though the e-book market is increasing, little research has been done on readers who are late adopters of e-books, and their resistance and scepticism to e-book adoption. The Swedish and Japanese e-book market have had similar adoption rates since 2010. However, even though their adoption rates resemble each other, how readers gain access to e-books differ in Sweden and Japan. Swedish readers use the library, and subscription services, while Japanese readers mostly use mobile apps that specializes in certain genres, such as manga or special mobile novels called keitai shousetsu.This study investigates the similarities and differences between late adopters of e-books in Sweden and Japan, with the use of the diffusion of innovation-theory by Everett Rogers (2003). Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted in spring 2017 with five Swedish and five Japanese respondents, all readers who had yet to adopt e-books. The analysis found that the main factors for the respondents’ choice to reject or resist e-book adoption are an emotional bond to the print format, and the reading experience. The factors were related to trust issues, and an uncertainty in how e-books would affect their personal lives as well as their social systems. There were few differences between the Swedish and Japanese respondents. The main difference was that the Swedish respondents would talk about books with people outside of their immediate family to a larger extent than the Japanese respondents.
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Day, Wen-her, and 戴文和. "A study on the“Huang-ming Ching-shih Wen-bian” ─ an important book about Ching-shih Xue of the Late-Ming Dynasty." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47477823993378938286.
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博士東吳大學
中國文學系
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A study on the“Huang-ming Ching-shih Wen-bian” ─ an important book about Ching-shih Xue of the Late-Ming Dynasty Abstract “Huang-Ming Ching-shih Wen-bian” is great work about Ming Dynasty, is an all-inclusive compilation which people of the Ming Dynasty compiled “Ching-shih Wen” of Ming Dynasty, and it is also a good guide to intellectuals of the Late-Ming Dynasty who had an earnest desire to save Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, there has been little researche concerning in this book till now. Compiling the “Huang-Ming Ching-shih Wen-bian” was the work of many people. They included three chief editors, Chen Zi-long, Xu Fu-yuan and Song Cheng-bi, 24 people who chose suitable papers, 144 people who partooke in reading and revising and 186 people who belong to adivisory group. The Huang-Ming Ching—Shih Wen-bian is a vast collection of printed works. In this book, there were 508 scrolls, over three thousand articles, and over three million words. The contents are very extensive, including Politics, the Military, Economics, Culture and the Royal Family. There fore, I used four methods to guide my research：1) Indexing the necessary data 2) mathematically counting, sorting and arranging 3) placing equal stress on Literature, History and Philosophy 4) Practicing in the modern scholar’s expound of “Ching-shih. ” The first and second methods stress the forms and documents, third and fourth methods stress the content and expound. These Methods complement each other. My paper has twelve chapters. The first and last chapters are the introduction and conclusion. The second and third chapters try to answer the question “Why was the Huang-Ming Ching-shih Wen-bian created? ” The fourth and fifth chapters examine the authorship of the Huang-ming Ching-shih Wen-bian. The seventh chapter examines the compilers selected the courtiers and articles? ” While the eighth to twelfth chapters examine the content of Huang-ming Ching-shih Wen-bian. There are seven appendix which could be convient to the readers. The “Huang-Ming Ching-shih Wen-bian” is undoubtly an important book. This study seeks to understanding and interpretation of this book. The further, this study is helpful for some divisions round this book such as Culture of Late-Ming Dynasty, Philosophy of Chinese Ching-shih, and Document of Ming- Dynasty? Key words：Late-Ming, Ching-shih, Chen Zi-long, Ching-shih Wen-bian,“Huang-ming Ching-shih Wen-bian”
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Tsybina, Irina. "Bilingual Dialogic Book-Reading Intervention for Preschool Children with Slow Expressive Vocabulary Development: A Feasibility Study." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24898.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the feasibility of a dialogic book-reading intervention for bilingual preschool children with expressive vocabulary delays. The intervention was provided in English and Spanish concurrently to an experimental group of six children, while six children were in a delayed treatment control group. Dialogic book-reading has been shown previously to be effective with monolingual children, and the current study was the first to extend it to bilingual children. The children participating in the study were 22 – 41 months-old and were recruited from the waiting list of an agency providing speech-language services. The intervention was provided in English in the children’s homes by the primary investigator and in Spanish by the children’s mothers, who were trained in the techniques of dialogic book-reading. Thirty fifteen-minute sessions in each language using dialogic book-reading strategies were provided to each child in the intervention group over six weeks. The study examined the acquisition of ten target words selected for each child in English and Spanish separately, in addition to overall increases in the children’s vocabularies. The children in the intervention group learned significantly more target words in each language following the intervention than did the children in the control group. The children in the intervention group were also able to produce the acquired words at a delayed posttest six weeks following the posttest. The intervention also led to an improvement in the ability of the children in the intervention group to stay focused on book-reading tasks. The gains in the overall vocabulary of the children in the two groups did not differ significantly. The mothers’ evaluations of the intervention revealed their satisfaction with the approach. The mothers were successful in learning dialogic book-reading strategies and stated that they felt empowered to improve their child’s vocabulary development.
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Chih-TingHsu and 許芷婷. "Shanghai publishing culture and visual imagery at the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China: the research of Qian Juntao’s Book Design." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/puuje9.
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碩士國立成功大學
藝術研究所
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The research commemorates a Chinese book designer, Qian Juntao (1907-1998). Qian Juntao develops in Shanghai. China experienced the May Fourth Movement, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Civil War of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Cultural Revolution, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Political turmoil and internal and external troubles. It stimulates and influences the cultural environment and art development of Qian Juntao. The literati concentrated in the commercialized Shanghai and became the big city of the East and West Cultural Fair. Commercial advertising demand for images. The May Fourth Movement spreads revolutionary ideas through media such as pictorials, publications and bookbinding that the publishing industry has become the power of culture. He cooperates with more than 20 well-known Chinese publishing houses and duo to the design quality is good, he was called Qian cover. Therefore, the thesis makes a successful exploration of Qian Juntao’s design essence in the era of China's turbulent environment. The first part of thesis introduces the description of the background of Shanghai, the influence of the May Fourth Movement on Chinese society, the rise of popular culture and art education, the promotion of publishing industry through visual communication, and the birth of book designers. The second part of the thesis describes Qian Juntao's artistic career. Through his personal biography and description of his teachers and friends, the researcher interprets Qian Juntao's life through his works includes framing, engraving, calligraphy, and painting. Also, Qian Juntao’s ability of transforming literati characteristics into actual design. The third part of the thesis analyzes Qian Juntao’s design concept based on the design principle and the artistic genre, explores how Qian Juntao’s design finally stands out in the designing business.
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Hobbs, Donna Elaine. "Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19594.
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My dissertation demonstrates the importance of an examination of the literary works included as part of the curriculum in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English grammar schools both for understanding the instruction of generations of schoolchildren and for reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools. As Chapter 1 explains, thirty-four extant manuscripts used in an educational context in late medieval England, listed with their contents in the Appendix, suggest the identification of seven literary works that appear to have been taught most often: Disticha Catonis, Stans puer ad mensam, Cartula, Peniteas cito, Facetus, Liber Parabolarum, and Ecloga Theoduli. Considering these schoolbooks both individually and as a group reveals their usefulness for teachers and the instruction that they share: an emphasis on epistolary conventions, an awareness of the malleability of selves and social hierarchies, and the prioritization of ordinary human experience. As this project shows, the influence of the lessons of the grammar classroom pervades the production of vernacular literature and the reading practices of contemporary audiences. In Chapter 2, a reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde informed with a knowledge of the formal features of letter writing, particularly the attention to audience stressed in the grammar schoolbooks, reveals Criseyde’s control of both the story’s ending and the responses of readers through her final letter to Troilus. Chapter 3 offers a reexamination of The Book of Margery Kempe that argues against Kempe’s presumed illiteracy and demonstrates how she utilizes classroom teachings on self presentation in both her lived experience and the writing of her Book to manipulate her reception by her contemporaries and readers of the text. The final chapter turns to the works of John Lydgate to show how he incorporated the schoolroom’s emphasis on the diversity of ordinary human experience into his influential Fall of Princes, thereby spreading grammar school lessons to new audiences. Appreciating the teachings of the literary schoolbooks thus enables not only a better understanding of the grammar curriculum that shaped schoolchildren for two centuries but also a recognition of schoolbooks’ profound effect on authors and audiences in late medieval England.text
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Li, Ya-Hui, and 李雅惠. "An analysis of 6th grade elementary school teachers’ and students’perspectives on roles of teacher and student and teacher-student interaction in picture book ~The case of John Burningham’s “The Boy Who Was Always Late”." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79241447197425691476.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
國民教育研究所
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Abstract This study aimed at exploring how teachers and students of the 6th grade interpreted the roles and interaction of teachers and students in picture books. It can serve as a reference for elementary school teachers to instruct picture book character appreciation instruction, as well as authors and researchers of picture books. Using qualitative research methodology, this research included 7 teachers and 20 students of 6th grade from an elementary school in Taichung City as research subjects, and the research was based on their writing of reading worksheet and interviewing. The picture book chosen in this study was John Burningham’s “The Boy Who Was Always Late.” The research findings were as following: The interpretative viewpoint of 6th-grade teachers and students toward teacher in the picture book were: (1) In their interpretation, the character of teacher in picture book was consistent; they grasped the characteristic of “prominence” of character depicting (2) The teachers and students interpreted reactions of teacher in picture book as consistent through several elements: subject, plot, character, language, and illustration. (3) Teachers and students viewed teacher in the picture book as traditional and negative image. The interpretative viewpoint of 6th-grade teachers and students toward students in the picture book were: (1) Most of teachers and students interpreted characters of students in picture book as consistent; they grasped the characteristic of “contrast” of character depicting. (2) Students’ interpretations of personality and behavior of the students in picture book showed confronting positions. (3) Teachers and students viewed students in the picture book as true and repressed images. The interpretative viewpoint of 6th-grade teachers and students toward teacher-student interactions in the picture book were: (1) From “asking” and “responding” of the teacher in the picture book, teachers and students interpreted the teacher’s linguistic behavior as passive and his/her leadership as authoritative.(2) From every element of picture book, teachers and students found the teacher-student interaction was distrustful, and the teacher-student relationship was aloof and suspicious. The ways 6th-grade teachers and students interpreted teacher and student roles and teacher-student interactions in the picture book were: (1) As to interpretation of the picture characters, teachers and students had different focus: teachers focused on language, while students concerned with pictures, especially body expression. (2) Teachers interpreted picture characters from an “objective,” analytical and observational point of view, while students viewed from participants’ “autonomous, affective” point of view. (3) When interpreting characters from “subject” reaction, teachers could make a “overall” interpretation of the characters based on a comprehensive survey of the story content, while students tended to make an interpretation of characters’ behavior based on “partial” plot. (4) Teachers could go beyond the text of the picture book and think with logic of “reality” when interpreting the plot of story, while students swung between “reality” and “imagination.” (5) Teachers tended to interpret characters in picture book from “one-dimension” angle, while students gave consideration to “two-dimension” character thinking angles. (6) Students observed carefully and interpret subtly toward “language” in picture book. (7) Both teachers and students could interpret language beyond its “superficial meaning” and went deep into the “inner description” of characters through language. (8) In terms of “illustration”: a) Teachers grasped the entire “environmental context” through the “background arrangement” in picture book, while students interpreted from single “scene” or “object” in the background. b) Teachers derived the “abstract symbolic meaning” of character from “proportion and size” of illustration, while students derived the “concrete emotional feelings” of character from that. According to the findings, propose suggestions.
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Marek, Bořivoj. "Překlad a výklad páté knihy (1.-15. kap.) Orosiových Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312493.
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This paper consists of the translation and analysis of Chapters 1-15 of Book V of Historiarum adversus paganos libri VIII by Paulus Orosius. The analysis is based on a comprehensive commentary on linguistic and stylistic aspects of the texts examined, and on a thorough factual commentary. The linguistic commentary concentrates on the composition of the Fifth Book, on the construction of discourse by the means of particles and other discourse markers, as well as on the linguistic features and peculiarities distinctive for the author, his age and the genre of historiography (such as specifically Late Latin syntax, non-Classical vocabulary, rhetorical figures, tropes and other stylistic features). The factual commentary contains a detailed description of the events mentioned in the text and their historical context. Close attention is paid to the character of the author's narrative, his approach to the historical data, choice of the events that interest him most as well as the way in which the author portraits them as mutually connected. Among the questions important for the commentary are whether he follows the wider tradition of Roman historiography or if and in which way the author's own opinions and persuasions are reflected in his work. This section also comments on the relation between Orosius'...