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Zygmunt, Karolina. "El descubrimiento de la fauna exótica en los relatos de viajes: de las descripciones medievales a las imitaciones en la novela histórica contemporánea." Lectura y Signo, no. 11 (December 20, 2016): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/lys.v0i11.4753.

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<p>El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los rasgos fundamentales de la descripción medieval de algunos<br />animales exóticos y compararla con la descripción de estos mismos animales en la novela histórica. Del<br />cotejo entre textos medievales y actuales se intentará extraer conclusiones en torno al aprovechamiento,<br />a modo de herramientas, que hacen los escritores contemporáneos al mimetizar casi literalmente esas<br />descripciones medievalizantes de animales exóticos. Su objetivo sería obligar al lector moderno a tomar<br />una posición de lectura, produciendo efectos de identificación (con la poética del relato medieval) y a la<br />vez distanciamiento (respecto a las formas narrativas actuales).</p><p><br />Palabras clave: animales exóticos, bestiario, descriptio, relatos medievales de viaje, novela histórica.</p><p><br />The aim of this article is to discuss the fundamental characteristics of the medieval description of several<br />exotic animals, and to compare it with descriptions of these animals in the contemporary historical<br />novel. From the comparison between medieval and contemporary works, conclusions about the tools<br />used by contemporary writers will be extracted. In particular, it will be shown how they benefit from<br />the imitation, almost literal, of the medieval-style descriptions of exotic animals. The intention of this<br />method, would be to constrain the modern reader to a reading perspective, by producing identification<br />effects (with the medieval poetics) as well as distancing (with respect to the current narrative forms).</p><p><br />Key Words: exotic animals, bestiary, descriptio, medieval travel narrative, historical novel</p>
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Downing, Crystal. "Angelic Work: The Medieval Sensibilities of Dorothy L. Sayers." Journal of Inklings Studies 3, no. 2 (October 2013): 111–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2013.3.2.7.

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After establishing Dorothy L. Sayers’s interest in medieval culture, this essay narrows its focus to Gothic architecture, arguing that Sayers’s fascination with medieval churches helped transform her view of the Church Universal. While a student at Oxford, Sayers echoed the modernist sensibilities of her time, valuing medieval architecture for the way it revealed the “sweetness and light” of culture. After two decades and several detective novels, Sayers began to see medieval architecture differently. Her novel The Nine Tailors provided a key to unlock her vision, and her play The Zeal of Thy House provided the keystone to uphold her new view of Christianity. These works led Sayers to look beyond ecclesiastical monuments to what they represent: a gathering of believers working to carry each other’s burdens as stones carry the arches upholding a medieval church.
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Shindina, O. V. "Chesterton’s Motives in the Novel V. Kaverin." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 12, no. 3 (2012): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2012-12-3-31-36.

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The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of some formalsapid peculiarities of Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s novel «The return of Don Quixote» and Veniamin Kaverin’s novel «Художник неизвестен». The author of the article analyzes parallels in the construction of the plot, structure of motives and images of both novels, and philosophic categories, connected for both writers with ideals of honor of Medieval knights.
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Haryadi, Rofiq Noorman, Rizky Maulana Putra, Maharanny Setiawan Poetri, Denok Sunarsi, and Mulyadi Mulyadi. "“A Song of Ice and Fire” in Historical Perspective: a Mimetic Study." JIIP - Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan 5, no. 8 (August 1, 2022): 2891–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.54371/jiip.v5i8.785.

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Medieval England was filled with history such as invasions by foreigners, The Wars of the Roses, and power struggles. A Song of Ice and Fire is a historical fiction novel that have a lot of in common with Medieval England. The aim of this study is to find the similarities between the novel and real medieval England in terms of Setting, Event, and the similarities within each of Character. The author uses the Qualitative Research with Mimetic approach by Abrams. The authors found that there are several similarities in terms of Setting between the novel and the real world, one of them is the geographical condition between two countries, Westeros and England. The Event in the story also resembles the historical event such as Aegon Conquest that resembles William Conquest in 1066, And the Characters also brought the same attribute that resembles the original actors in medieval England.
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von Contzen, Eva. "“Both close and distant”: Experiments of form and the medieval in contemporary literature." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 3, no. 2 (November 23, 2017): 289–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2017-0019.

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AbstractThis paper argues that some postmodern experimental forms of plot and narrative structure can be thrown into sharper relief by delineating them with medieval narrative practices of plot development. Ali Smith’s 2014 novel How to be both offers an experimental plot that is shaped by the alterity and modernity of medieval and Renaissance art. Drawing on the technique of fresco painting, the novel narrativizes the experience of simultaneity created by recollections of the past in the present. The novel’s two narrative strands – one set in contemporary England, the other in fifteenth-century Italy – are linked in associative and cross-temporal ways and highlight individual experience. Bearing similarities to medieval episodic narratives, the novel maximizes an a-centric narrative design that capitalizes on the reader’s input in motivating the story. Subsequently, Tokyo cancelled (2005) by Rana Dasgupta is briefly discussed as another example of a postmodern novel reminiscent of medieval narrative practices: in this tale collection held together by a very loose framework, plot itself becomes the protagonist as an epitome of modern society’s loss of identity.
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Dergacheva, I. V. "The concept of Salvation in the novella "Laurus" by Vodolazkin E.G." Язык и текст 5, no. 2 (2018): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2018050204.

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The novel "Laurus" by E.G. Vodolazkin, written in the form of life, takes the reader to Medieval Russia of the XV century. The teleological plot, characteristic of medieval or synodic texts: Sin-Prayer-Absolution of sins-Edification in the novel is overgrown with numerous episodes and plot lines, but retains its sacral component, it clearly sounds the thanatological discourse, characteristic of Russian literature.
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Crisp, Peter. "The Pilgrim’s Progress: Allegory or novel?" Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 21, no. 4 (November 2012): 328–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947012444953.

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A tradition going back to Coleridge asserts that The Pilgrim’s Progress is not a true allegory but rather a proto-novel expressive of early modern individualism. The work is radically individualistic, but it is also truly an allegory. Recent research has emphasized how closely related metaphor often is to metonymy and how intimately the two can interact to produce metaphtonymy. This interaction is just as important in allegory as in purely linguistic metaphor and metonymy. The Pilgrim’s Progress makes subtle use of conceptual metaphtonymy to express its individualism. Although the degree of individualism these cognitive structures express is greater than anything in earlier allegorical tradition, the structures themselves are inherited from medieval allegories such as Everyman. This sharing of major cognitive structure with earlier medieval allegories shows that The Pilgrim’s Progress is truly an allegory. An area in which the interaction of metaphor and metonymy is particularly notable is that of blending. The occurrence of highly creative blending in at least some of its scenes is further evidence for the truly allegoric nature of The Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Bruhn, Jørgen. "Den moderne romans middelalderlige rødder." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 35, no. 103 (June 2, 2007): 14–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v35i103.22296.

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The Medieval Roots of the Modern NovelIn this article, Jørgen Bruhn has a double target for his investigations. Firstly, he aims at distinguishing between two different historical models for the novel genre: on the one hand, a ‘short’ history which claims that the modern novel was born in the Renaissance. A ‘long’ history, on the other hand, asserts that the novel has a history going back not only to the middle ages but even antiquity. M.M. Bakhtin is a main contributor to a ‘long’ history of the novel, and in order to justify the use of Bakhtinian ideas in the study of the medieval romance, Bruhn points to the crucial insights of Bakhtin’s texts regarding the medieval romance.In the second part of the article Bruhn goes further into a specific romance, Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide from the second half of the 12th century. There are strong elements of metafictionality, a budding understanding of the social determination of human existence and a clear and sophisticated reflection on generic conventions, including the medieval tendency of referring to oneself as only a mediator or scribe. Therefore, Bruhn concludes that Chrétien’s romances in many ways can be characterized as an early expression of what Bakhtin usually called novelness, and that Chrétien himself must be characterized a modern »author«.
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Dempsey, Karen. "Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: Sowing Seeds of Feminist Thought." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31, no. 2 (February 9, 2021): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774320000463.

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Medieval women are typically portrayed as secluded, passive agents within castle studies. Although the garden is regarded as associated with women there has been little exploration of this space within medieval archaeology. In this paper, a new methodological framework is used to demonstrate how female agency can be explored in the context of the lived experience of the medieval garden. In particular, this study adopts a novel approach by focusing on relict plants at some medieval castles in Britain and Ireland. Questions are asked about the curation of these plants and the associated social practices of elite women, including their expressions of material piety, during the later medieval period. This provides a way of questioning the ‘sacrality’ of medieval gardening which noblewomen arguably used as a devotional practice and as a means to further their own bodily agency through sympathetic medicine.
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Álvarez-Mellado, Elena, María Luisa Díez-Platas, Pablo Ruiz-Fabo, Helena Bermúdez, Salvador Ros, and Elena González-Blanco. "TEI-friendly annotation scheme for medieval named entities: a case on a Spanish medieval corpus." Language Resources and Evaluation 55, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 525–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09516-2.

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AbstractMedieval documents are a rich source of historical data. Performing named-entity recognition (NER) on this genre of texts can provide us with valuable historical evidence. However, traditional NER categories and schemes are usually designed with modern documents in mind (i.e. journalistic text) and the general-domain NER annotation schemes fail to capture the nature of medieval entities. In this paper we explore the challenges of performing named-entity annotation on a corpus of Spanish medieval documents: we discuss the mismatches that arise when applying traditional NER categories to a corpus of Spanish medieval documents and we propose a novel humanist-friendly TEI-compliant annotation scheme and guidelines intended to capture the particular nature of medieval entities.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Medieval novel"

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Ramirez-Nieves, Emmanuel. "Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467380.

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Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma, investigates the significance of conversion narratives and penitential elements in the Spanish picaresque novels Vida de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) by Mateo Alemán and El guitón Onofre (circa 1606) by Gregorio González as well as Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor (1330 and 1343) and El lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the Arabic maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (circa 1100), and Ibn al-Ashtarkūwī al-Saraqusṭī (1126-1138), and the Hebrew maqāmāt of Yehudah al-Ḥarizi (circa 1220) and Isaac Ibn Sahula (1281-1284). In exploring the ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors from medieval and early modern Iberia represent the repentance of a rogue, my study not only sheds light on the important commonalities that these religious and literary traditions share, but also illuminates the particular questions that these picaresque and proto-picaresque texts raise within their respective religious, political and cultural milieux. The ambiguity that characterizes the conversion narrative of a seemingly irredeemable rogue, I argue, provides these medieval and early modern writers with an ideal framework to address pressing problems such as controversies regarding free will and predestination, the legitimacy of claims to religious and political authority, and the understanding of social and religious marginality.
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Abdel-Ghani, Mona H., Howell G. M. Edwards, Ben Stern, and Robert C. Janaway. "Characterization of paint and varnish on a medieval Coptic-Byzantine icon: Novel usage of dammar resin?" Elsevier, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4712.

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A comprehensive study has been undertaken into a 13th century Coptic-Byzantine icon from the St. Mercurius Church, St. Mercurius monastery, Old Cairo, Egypt. The layered structure, pigment composition and varnish identification were revealed by means of optical and Raman microscopy and gas chromatography¿mass spectrometry (GC¿MS). The structure of the icon comprised six layers; wooden panel, canvas, white ground, two bole layers and a single paint layer. Azurite (2CuCO3·Cu(OH)2), cinnabar (mercuric (II) sulfide ¿-HgS), yellow ochre (Fe2O3·H2O), hydromagnesite Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4H2O and lamp black (carbon, C) are the pigments identified in the icon. The green paint area is of interest as it is applied neither with a green pigment nor with a mixture of a blue and yellow pigment. Instead, a yellow layer of dammar resin was applied on top of blue azurite to obtain the green colour. Pinaceae sp. resin mixed with drying oil was used as a protective varnish.
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Cawthorne, Natalie I. "The mindsweeper tales : a creative and critical approach to reinventing the medieval framed story-collection as a modern novel." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2019. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/850131/.

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A widely used narrative form in medieval literature is the framed story-collection, where an external narrative frames a collection of interpolated tales. This practice-based PhD in Creative Writing addresses the absence of the medieval framed story-collection structure in modern literature through creative practice and critical enquiry. The project is comprised of two parts: the creative artefact, for which I have written a novel of roughly 100,000 words, and the accompanying critical exegesis of 30,000 words. By considering Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as a stylistic and structural model, I argue for the medieval framed story-collection structure's continued relevance in contemporary fiction by demonstrating its potential for reinvention in the form of a modern novel. This thesis presents a methodological framework that can be practically applied to creative writing, consisting of six essential components to consider when modernising the medieval form: the frame, the tellers, the tales, dramatic interplay, stylistic variety, and themes. In my creative component, The Mindsweeper Tales, I demonstrate the application of these components by reinventing Chaucer's pilgrimage in the form of a murder trial at the Old Bailey during the year 2030, in which the jurors become the narrators of the interpolated story collection. Further to this, I modernise Chaucer's stylistic variety by engaging alternative narrative forms beyond traditional prose, such as Surrealist text collage and poetic interludes. Finally, I address the importance of socio-political themes in both Chaucer's work and my own, demonstrating how the stylistic variety can be manipulated to represent the concerns of modern culture. This critical exegesis examines these Chaucerian elements alongside my creative piece to demonstrate how they have been reconceptualised in the form of a modern novel.
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Marnieri, Maria Teresa. "Critical and iconographic reinterpretations of three early gothic novels. Classical, medieval, and renaissance influences in William Beckford’s Vathek, Ann Radcliffe’s romance of the forest and Matthew G. Lewis’s the Monk." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399574.

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El propósito de esta disertación doctoral es lo de investigar y comprender de mejor manera las influencias múltiples que, juntas al desarrollo y a la divulgación de la traducción literaria (puestas de relieve por Stuart Gillespie y David Hopkins), tuvieron un papel importante en el ascenso de las primeras novelas góticas al final del siglo dieciocho. Considerando que este trabajo está profundamente influenciado e inspirado por la crítica literaria reconocida a nivel internacional sobre la literatura gótica, esta investigación evita asumir perspectivas criticas típicas del siglo veinte y del periodo actual. Procediendo atrás en el tiempo, examina los autores, su ambiente cultural, sus conocimientos y sus puntos de vista que pertenecen al siglo dieciocho. El enfoque se concentra sobre las primeras manifestaciones del género gótico en las décadas inmediatamente sucesivas a la novedad introducida por Horace Walpole con su novela fantástica El Castillo de Otranto en 1764. El periodo fin de siècle limitado (1786-1796) de los primeros trabajos góticos que se explora en esta tesis es inversamente proporcional al ancho nivel de creatividad e invención de sus autores. Esta disertación tiene como objetivo lo de demonstrar que la omnipresencia y la reiteración de temas y argumentos clásicos, medievales y renacentistas fueron elegidos y adaptados a sus historias conscientemente por William Beckford (Vathek, 1786), Ann Radcliffe (El Romance de la Selva, 1791), y Matthew G. Lewis (El Monje, 1796), cuyas novelas representan un sincretismo único y original de ideas e influencias literarias, culturales e iconográficas que los tres autores absorbieron de sus contemporáneos así como de los escritores y poetas del pasado. Las tres novelas analizadas en esta tesis fueron escritas antes, durante y después de la revolución francesa que ha sido frecuentemente considerada como un punto de referencia y el origen de la literatura gótica. Una de las ideas detrás de esta disertación es la intención de demonstrar que las conexiones con la revolución en Francia son una convención crítica a quo, que generalmente no toma en consideración peculiaridades del gótico literario que existían antes de los acontecimientos revolucionarios. Otros aspectos importantes incluidos en esta investigación son la función de las arquitecturas, los paisajes y las iconografías de las novelas. La disertación está dividida en cinco partes. La primera introduce los argumentos and la razón de ser a la base de esta investigación junto a la motivación de organizar un estudio sobre el gótico que recibe mucha atención crítica. El cuerpo central es formado por tres capítulos. Cada uno contiene un análisis de una novela diferente y pone en evidencia su relación con autores como Lucrecio, Virgilio, Ovidio, Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, y otros. El quinto capítulo incluye la conclusión y las hipótesis de investigaciones futuras que pueden desarrollarse de este estudio. Una particularidad de la bibliografía es que presenta una variedad de textos y traducciones que eran conocidos por los autores examinados en esta disertación. El idioma de los novelistas góticos reflejaba inevitablemente los estilos de los autores del pasado. Un anexo iconográfico al final de la disertación presenta una galería de pinturas e imágenes que muestran una analogía relevante con la belleza, el misterio y el terror del gótico.
The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to investigate and better understand the multiple influences that, together with the development and spreading of literary translations (highlighted by Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins), played an important role in the rise of the early Gothic novel at the end of the eighteenth century. While deeply inspired by and imbued with internationally recognised critical literature of the Gothic, this study avoids assuming the critical stances of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It proceeds backward in time, scrutinizing the authors, their cultural background, their knowledge, and their eighteenth-century perspectives. The focus is concentrated on the first manifestations of the Gothic genre in the decades that followed the novelty introduced by Horace Walpole with The Castle of Otranto in 1764. The restricted fin de siècle timespan (1786-1796) of the early Gothic works that is explored in this thesis is inversely proportional to the high level of creativity and inventiveness of their authors. This dissertation aims at demonstrating that the pervasiveness and reiteration of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance themes were consciously chosen and adapted to their plots by William Beckford (Vathek, 1786), Ann Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest, 1791), and Matthew G. Lewis (The Monk, 1796), whose novels were an interesting and unusual syncretism of literary, cultural, and iconographic ideas and resources that they absorbed both from their contemporaries and, most importantly, from authors of the past. The three novels analysed in this thesis were written before, during, and after the French Revolution, which has been taken by many as a point of reference for and as a cause of the Gothic. The aim of this study is also to demonstrate that the association with the French Revolution is a critical convention a quo, which does not take into consideration Gothic peculiarities that already existed before the dramatic events in France. Other important aspects included in this investigation are the function of architectures, landscapes and iconographies in the novels. The dissertation is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the major themes and the rationale behind this investigation together with the motivation for embarking on a study on the Gothic. The central body is represented by three chapters. Every chapter analyses one novel and underscores its connection with authors such as Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and many others. The fifth chapter contains the conclusion and the future hypotheses of investigation brought about by this research. The bibliography features a variety of source texts and translations that were known to the novelists examined in this dissertation. The three Gothic writers’ language inevitably reflected and echoed themes and styles inherited from authors of different epochs. An iconography annex introduces a series of paintings and images that showed relevant associations with Gothic beauty, mystery, and horror.
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Arioli, Emanuele. "Un roman arthurien retrouvé : Ségurant ou le Chevalier au Dragon (XIIIe-XVe siècles)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040122.

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Ségurant ou le Chevalier au Dragon est le titre que nous avons attribué à un ensemble romanesque médiéval ignoré de l’histoire littéraire et dispersé dans une tradition manuscrite abondante. Ce roman arthurien en prose, en langue française, qui a sans doute vu le jour entre 1240 et 1279 en Italie du Nord, ne subsiste qu’à l’état lacunaire dans des compilations et des sommes romanesques postérieures. C’est à partir de tous les manuscrits qui en ont conservé des fragments que nous proposons une reconstitution de ses diverses versions, qui s’échelonnent du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Cette thèse comprend l’édition en deux volumes de Ségurant ou le Chevalier au Dragon : le premier est consacré à la « version cardinale », conservée par le ms. 5229 de la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal ; le second aux versions que nous appelons « complémentaires » et « alternatives ». L’édition est accompagnée d’une étude de cette œuvre qui en éclaire les divers aspects philologiques et littéraires. La première partie de l’étude analyse la tradition de ce roman à partir de ses sources jusqu’à sa fortune littéraire en Europe. La deuxième a pour objet la structure du roman, ses enjeux narratifs, son univers romanesque, ses modalités de réécriture. La troisième étudie l’imaginaire à l’œuvre dans Ségurant ou le Chevalier au Dragon, notamment le héros et ses valeurs, les éléments comiques et le traitement du merveilleux
Ségurant ou le Chevalier au Dragon is the title I proposed for an Arthurian prose romance, unknown to literary history and scattered into many manuscripts. It dates back to 1240-1279, it was written in French but its origins can probably be located in Northern Italy. Today it exists only in pieces found in later compilations. Collecting all the available fragments, I propose a reconstruction of its various versions which go back to between the XIIIth and XVth centuries. My thesis includes the edition of Ségurant : the first volume of this edition is dedicated to the « core version » found in manuscript 5229 of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, whereas the second volume is dedicated to the « complementary » and « alternative » versions. The edition is completed by a critical essay which focuses on philological and literary issues. The first part deals with the tradition of this novel from its sources to its fortune across Europe. The second part analyzes its structure, its narrative issues, its fictional world and its rewriting modes. The third part addresses its imagery, mainly the hero and his values, the comical aspects, and the marvellous ones
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Tramet, Marina. "Un roman chansonnier dans les marges du monde arthurien: le 'Roman de la Violette' de Gerbert de Montreuil." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423331.

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Gerbert de Montreuil's Roman de la Violette is a XIIIth century text dedicated to Marie, countess of Ponthieu, and belongs to the wager cycle, in which women are falsely accused. The author aims so to glorify women's virtues and is. Using the enchâssement technique of lyric insertions into a narrative, and relating the misadventures of a young couple of heroes, the author inscribes this novel of popular origin in a typical arthurian errance scheme, a solid structure that can support any thematic development. On one hand, the different adventures based on the quête scheme, allow the author to repeatedly question the courtly world and its inhabitants. On the other, lyric insertions chosen in the repertoires of the first and second generation of troubadours and trouvères, voice the characters’ love discourse, creating different effects throughout the text. Gerbert questions both the Arthurian values and traditional courtly rhetoric, and plays with his public by challenging and frustrating their aesthetic expectations, showing a conscious and playful distance from his models. By glorifying his patron and manifesting a strong opposition against any usurpation of the rights on a land—Marie of Ponthieu was a victim of such crime after Bouvines battle—Gerbert stands out in late Medieval literature: behind the mis à mal of certain codes and traditions, one can see his ironic smile.
Il Roman de la Violette de Gerbert de Montreuil è un testo dell'inizio del XIII secolo che appartiene al ciclo della scommessa e della donna ingiustamente accusata, volto a glorificare le virtù femminili e dedicato a Maria, contessa di Ponthieu. L'autore, che fa uso la tecnica dell'enchâssement di frammenti lirici nella narrazione, inscrive questo romanzo di origine popolare, incentrato sulle disavventure di una giovane coppia di eroi, in uno schema di erranza tipicamente arturiana, una solida struttura di supporto per lo sviluppo di particolari tematiche. Da un lato quindi il susseguirsi delle varie avventure fondate sul canovaccio narrativo della quête consente all'autore di interrogare a più riprese il mondo della corte e i suoi abitanti. Dall'altro poi, gli inserti lirici che l'autore sceglie nel repertorio di poeti, trovatori e trovieri di prima e seconda generazione, danno voce alla parola amorosa dei personaggi e percorrono il testo suscitando molteplici effetti. L'autore, che interroga perciò al contempo il sistema di valori arturiano e la tradizionale retorica cortese, alimenta un gioco sottile e complice con il suo pubblico, fondato sul rinnovamento di un orizzonte d'attesa costantemente disatteso, con una distanza cosciente e divertita dai suoi modelli. Così, glorificando la sua mecenate e manifestando una viva opposizione contro qualsiasi usurpazione legata alla terra, cosa di cui Maria di Ponthieu era stata vittima dopo la battaglia di Bouvines, Gerbert esprime con il suo romanzo una posizione originale sulla letteratura del suo tempo perché spesso, dietro la mise à mal di alcuni codici e tradizioni, si intravede il suo sorriso ironico.
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Mathias, Manon Hefin. "'Apprendre à voir' : the quest for insight in George Sand's novels." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2987dce0-0e41-4d32-9da8-35b3c8284703.

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This thesis examines the novels of George Sand (1804-1876) and analyses representative examples from her entire œuvre. Its overall aim is to re-evaluate Sand’s standing as a writer of intellectual interest and importance by demonstrating that she is engaging with a cultural and intellectual phenomenon of particular relevance to the nineteenth century: the link between different ways of seeing and knowledge or understanding, which I term ‘insight’. The visual dimension of Sand’s novels has so far been overlooked or reduced to a rose-tinted view of the world, and my study is the first to examine vision in her work. I argue that Sand demonstrates a continuous commitment to ways of engaging with the world in visual terms, incorporating conceptual seeing, prophetic vision, as well as physical eyesight. Contesting the prevailing critical view of Sand’s œuvre as one which declines into blandness and irrelevance after the 1850s, this thesis uncovers a model of expansion in her writing, as she moves from her focus on the personal in her early novels, privileging internal vision, to wider social concerns in her middle period in which she aims to reconfigure reality, to her final period in which she advocates the physical observation of the natural world. Rejecting the perception of Sand as a writer of sentiment at the expense of thought, this study argues that her writing constitutes a continuous quest for understanding, both of the physical world and the more abstract, eternal ‘vérité’. I show that Sand transcends binary divisions between science and art, the detail and the whole, the material and the abstract, and that she ultimately promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the world. This also enables me to reassess Sand’s poetics by arguing that her rejection of the mimetic model is founded on her conception of the world as multiple and constantly evolving.
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Elia, Catherine Ann. "Medieval Christocentric Imagery in Selected Novels by Georges Bernanos." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5024.

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In the fictional world of the twentieth century author, Georges Bernanos, a medieval spirituality is reflected through Christocentric imagery. This study highlights the Christocentric focus of medieval spirituality found in three bernanosian characters: Donissan in Sous le Soleil de Satan, Chantal in La Joie, and le cure d'Ambricourt in Journal d'un cure de campagne. Two medieval images, the Mirror and the Way, provided a backdrop for considering common thematic characteristics. This study is divided into two parts. Part One comprises two chapters which present background for textual analysis in Bernanos' three novels. Chapter one explores formative elements in medieval spirituality. These include: descriptions of the medieval mindset, clerical and ecclesial influences, devotional trends related to themes of Christocentric imitation, edification images, specifically, the Mirror and the Way, and chivalry. Chapter two presents formative elements in Bernanos' spirituality. Familial, clerical and ecclesial influences of his childhood contributed to his Christocentric spirituality. Biographical descriptions of Bernanos' adolescent and adult years reveal similarities of his lived experience to medieval themes of pilgrimage, chivalry and imitation. In Part Two, Donissan, Chantal and le cure are considered in the context of medieval trends to imitate Christ. Images of the Way and the Mirror emerge in the four chapters of this section. In chapter three, a textual analysis is presented which juxtaposes virtuous qualities of each main character to the virtues of the medieval devotion to the Infancy. In chapters four and five, the characters are described in relation to another major devotional trend of medieval times: the Passion. Chapter four considers the bernanosian saints as imitators of Jesus' agony while chapter five addresses their imitation of his Way of the cross. In both chapters, imagery related to medieval Christ-like imitation is identified. Chapter six highlights themes of death and resurrection, the culminating steps of the medieval journey of imitation. Descriptions of Bernanos' saintly instruments of grace emphasize their adherence to the medieval pursuit towards wholeness. Dawn imagery and the theme of communion of saints are treated in this discussion of transformation. Endnotes accompany each of the six chapters.
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Erlandsson, Patrik. "ATT MEDIERA FORSVIKS BRUK : En prövning av den visuella novellen." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11064.

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År 1977 stängdes grindarna vid Forsviks Bruk för vad man trodde var sista gången. Några år senare började dock de gamla industribyggnaderna renoveras och Forsviks Bruk har sedan dess fungerat som industriminne och besöksmål.Denna studie syftade att skapa en visuell novell och pröva den som intresseväckande och engagerande verktyg, likt det webbmaterial som många museer idag tillämpar. Forskning gjordes i museipedagogik, serious games och berättande med bild och text, och från detta skapades sedan den fiktiva berättelsen Spökskeppet och implementerades som visuell novell med mjukvaran Twine.Den visuella novellen utvärderades sedan i två separata undersökningar, den ena mot målgruppen (grundskoleelever i årskurs 4 – 6), den andra mot intressenter vid Forsviks Bruk. Frågeställningarna gällde huruvida den visuella novellen lämpar sig som intresseväckande material samt om det fiktiva i berättelsen hamnar i konflikt med det faktiska som Forsviks Bruk förmedlar till sina besökare.
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Household, Sarah C. "Negociating the nation: time, history and national identities in Scott's medieval novels." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210995.

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This thesis examines the relationships between different nations and cultures in Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein and Count Robert of Paris using Post-colonial theory. An analysis of Scott’s conception of society in general shows that 18th century Scottish historiography is fundamental to his vision of the world because it forms the basis of his systematization of history, social development and interaction between communities. It also profoundly influences his imagery and descriptions, as well as providing him with a range of stereotypes that he manipulates so skilfully that his great dependence upon them is occulted. Contemporary ideas and his own attitude to the Union of Scotland and England lead him to conceive of nation formation in terms of descent and hybridity. In part, he sees the nation as a community of blood. Yet, his acceptance of the Union means that he also considers it to be a body of different ethnic elements that live together. His use of the 18th century metaphor of family to figure the nation allows him to incorporate heredity and miscegenation into his analysis of national development through father-daughter couples. The father represents traditional culture, and the daughter, the nation’s present and future; her marriage to a foreigner signifying that people of differing descent can cross the nation’s porous borders. Religion is the final frontier: Christian nations cannot absorb non-Christians. Scott sees dominance and subordination as a complex part of human relationships. Apparently-subordinate subjects possess occulted power because their support of the hegemonic is often essential if the latter is to maintain its superiority. While his conception of society in patriarchal terms means that his female characters cannot offer violence to men, he shows that passive resistance is very effective. Through mimicry, the subordinate threatens the power and identity of the dominant. Power is not only conceived of in political terms. In Ivanhoe, Scott reveals the importance of moral stature which allows Rebecca to dominate the work although she is at the bottom of the political and racial hierarchy that structures English society. Scott’s conception of time is fundamental to the manner in which he conceives of the nation. Historical cultural forms are physicalised through chronotopes. Politically subordinate cultures base their actions in the present on pedagogic time, while the dominant ignore their past and live only in the present and the future. He also expresses dominant-subordinate relationships through speed, with time moving quickly for the powerful and slowly for the weak. Time, whether in the form of history, the characters’ perception of it or speed amalgamates all the various elements of Scott’s conception of nationhood into a seamless whole.

Cette thèse analyse par le biais la théorie post-coloniale les relations internationales dans Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein et Count Robert of Paris. Les théories historiques élaborées en Écosse au XVIIIème siècle sont fondamentales dans la vision scottienne parce qu’elles forment la base de la systematisation de l’histoire, du développement sociale et, par conséquent, des relations entre les différentes communités. Ces théories influencent profondement les images qu’il utilise et la façon dont il décrit les caractères et les scènes. De plus, elles lui fournissent une gamme de stéréotypes qu’il manipule très adroitement. Sa conception de la manière dont se forment les nations vient des idées contemporaines et de sa propre expérience de l’union politique de l’Angleterre et de l’Écosse. Il considère la nation comme une communauté fondée sur l’ascendance par le sang mais aussi comme un groupe d’ethnies différentes qui vivent ensemble. Sa description de la nation emprunte à la métaphore de la famille courante au XVIIIième. Celle-ci lui permet d’inclure dans son analyse l’héridité et la mixité au moyen des couples formés par un père et sa fille. Le père représente la culture traditionelle, et la fille, le présent et le futur national. Son marriage avec un étranger signifie que les gens d’ascendance différente peuvent traverser les frontières perméables d’une nation. La religion est la frontière ultime: les nations chrétiennes ne peuvent absorber de non-chrétiens. Scott considère que la domination et la sujetion forment une partie complexe des relations humaines. Les sujets qui paraissent subordonnés possèdent en fait un pouvoir occulte, le dominant ayant besoin de leur soutien pour maintenir sa position. Bien que sa conception patriarcale de la société fasse que les caractères feminins ne manifestent pas d’agression envers les hommes, il montre que la résistance passive est très efficace. En imitant le sujet dominant, le sujet subordonné menace le pouvoir et l’identité de ce dernier. Le pouvoir ne s’exprime pas seulement dans la politique. Rebecca dans Ivanhoe revèle l’importance que revêtent le caractère et la moralité. Bien qu’elle soit au bas de la hiérarchie structurante de la société anglaise, elle domine le roman.

La conception que Scott se fait du temps est fondamentale à celle de la nation et de la culture. Au moyen du chronotope, les cultures historiques prennent des formes physiques. Les cultures qui sont subordonnées politiquement basent leur action au présent sur le “temps pédagogique”. Au contraire, le dominant rejette son passé et ne vit qu’au présent et au futur. Les relations entre le pouvoir dominant et le subordonné s’expriment aussi par la vitesse: le temps passe vite pour les puissants, mais lentement pour les faibles. En définitive, tous les éléments de la conception scottienne de la nation sont liés au temps, qu’il s’agisse de l’histoire, de perception par les caractères, ou de la vitesse.


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Beyond Montserrat: A medieval novel. Raleigh, N.C.?]: Lulu, 2010.

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Bracey, Earnest N. Choson: Novel of Medieval Korea. London: Janus Publishing Co., 1994.

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Janoda, Jeff. Saga: A novel of medieval Iceland. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2008.

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Saga: A novel of medieval Iceland. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005.

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Kent, Rachel A. The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917.

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Secret of Santiago: A novel of medieval Spain. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1997.

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The burning times: A novel of medieval France. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

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The late medieval origins of the modern novel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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James, Cowan. A troubadour's testament: A novel. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.

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Wolfe, Suzanne M. Unveiling: A novel. Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, 2004.

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McDermott, Hubert. "Medieval Romance." In Novel and Romance: The Odyssey to Tom Jones, 96–105. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10212-9_2.

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Brandist, Craig. "Daniil Kharms, the Soviet Menippea and the ‘Medieval’ Grotesque." In Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel, 165–95. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25120-9_7.

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Kent, Rachel A. "The Wooden Pietà’s Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 65–80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_3.

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Kent, Rachel A. "The Laity’s Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 37–63. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_2.

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Kent, Rachel A. "Introduction: The Novel’s Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 1–36. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_1.

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Kent, Rachel A. "Housing for “Excess”: Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel’s Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 81–100. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_4.

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Kent, Rachel A. "Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel’s Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 101–25. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_5.

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Kent, Rachel A. "The Scandalous Divinity of “Madame Edwarda” and “My Mother”: Georges Bataille’s Atheist “Theology” of the Incarnation, Community, And Ethics." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 127–47. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_6.

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Kent, Rachel A. "Thomas Hardy’s Phenomenology and Redemption for Michael Henchard Through the Victorian Feminine." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 149–76. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_7.

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Kent, Rachel A. "The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck’s Literary Pietàs." In The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel, 177–201. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Medieval novel"

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López Rider, Javier, Santiago Rodero Pérez, and José Manuel Reyes Alcalá. "Primeros resultados de la excavación del castillo medieval de Dos Hermanas (Montemayor, Córdoba)." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Valencia: Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11369.

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First results of the excavation of the medieval castle of Dos Hermanas (Montemayor, Cordoba)In the south of the kingdom of Córdoba, there is the castle so-called Dos Hermanas, located in the municipality of the current town of Montemayor. It has been considered that the construction of the castle of this stately town was the result of the first moments of decline of the fortress of Dos Hermanas, located on the bank of the Carchena stream. Currently, a first excavation campaign has been carried out that brings us closer to the anthropic occupation of the site. At the same time, the archival research gives new information to the history of the site, exceeding the date of 1340, when Don Martín Alonso de Córdoba partially destroyed the Arab fortress of Dos Hermanas to build the castle of Montemayor. The first data extracted from the field work support the written sources, providing us with new data that allow us to make a more complete and novel interpretation. The survival of part of the facilities of the Dos Hermanas castle with an occupation from Roman times to the sixteenth century that shows the total non-depopulation of the place in the fourteenth century, as previously thought. A high degree of conservation of the structures found inside the wall enclosure appears a southern bay with stables with nine mangers. To the west, there is a vain and an angled staircase that allowed access from the parade ground until the round pass over the main door, which is also preserved. The objective of this proposal will be to present these first results of the archaeological intervention centered on the southern wall of the castle. These research works are accompanied by a consolidation project of the main structures, all financed by the Provincial Delegation of Cordoba and Montemayor Town Hall, whose continuity is developed in 2019 and 2020.
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de Freitas Bello, Vanessa Saback, Cosmin Popescu, Thomas Blanksvärd, and Björn Täljsten. "Bridge management systems: overview and framework for smart management." In IABSE Congress, Ghent 2021: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/ghent.2021.1014.

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<p>Throughout the world, many medieval and historic bridges remain in operation. Deterioration and failures have increased in the already aging bridges due to consistent growth in traffic volume and axle loads. Therefore, the importance of Bridge Management Systems (BMS) to ensure safety of operation and maximize maintenance investments has also increased. Recent improvements in technology also contribute to the demand for optimized and more resource-efficient BMS. In this study, a literature review was performed to map current bridge management practices and systems in operation in the world. The outcomes identified Bridge Information Modelling (BrIM) and Digital Twins as novel approaches that enable efficient management of the whole lifecycle of a bridge. From these outcomes, a framework of an ideal BMS is proposed to achieve automated and smart management of bridges.</p>
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de Freitas Bello, Vanessa Saback, Cosmin Popescu, Thomas Blanksvärd, and Björn Täljsten. "Bridge management systems: overview and framework for smart management." In IABSE Congress, Ghent 2021: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/ghent.2021.1014.

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<p>Throughout the world, many medieval and historic bridges remain in operation. Deterioration and failures have increased in the already aging bridges due to consistent growth in traffic volume and axle loads. Therefore, the importance of Bridge Management Systems (BMS) to ensure safety of operation and maximize maintenance investments has also increased. Recent improvements in technology also contribute to the demand for optimized and more resource-efficient BMS. In this study, a literature review was performed to map current bridge management practices and systems in operation in the world. The outcomes identified Bridge Information Modelling (BrIM) and Digital Twins as novel approaches that enable efficient management of the whole lifecycle of a bridge. From these outcomes, a framework of an ideal BMS is proposed to achieve automated and smart management of bridges.</p>
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Venkata, Pradeep Garudadri, Mustafa M. Aslan, M. Pinar Mengu¨c, and Gorden Videen. "The Surface Plasmon Scattering Patterns of Gold Nanoparticles and Agglomerates." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-82927.

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Metallic nanoparticles display considerably different optical properties than those of their bulk counterparts. They have long been of interest in several novel applications, from colored glass production of medieval times to molecular-level sensors of today. Recently, there has been significant interest in characterization of such small particles via surface plasmons, for example for monitoring of the actual self-assembly purposes. For such characterization, we need scattering patterns by different type of particles and agglomerates on or near the surface. Here we present a methodology to predict the required scattering patterns of single particles and agglomerates on or near a surface subjected to surface plasmon waves. We investigate the effect of size, shape and orientation of gold nano particles on their scattering patterns both in the visible spectrum and at resonance wavelengths. The results show that the normalized scattering matrix elements (Mij) at certain observation angles and incident wavelengths provide significant information to monitor self-assembly process of gold nanoparticles on a gold substrate.
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Elia, Catherine. Medieval Christocentric Imagery in Selected Novels by Georges Bernanos. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.6900.

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