How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Haukur Þorgeirsson
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Delta Method ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
Technological Developments

AbstractRecent methodological and technological developments greatly facilitate the use of stylometry for authorship attribution. Burrows’ delta method, proposed in 2002, has been shown to yield good results for a variety of corpora in different languages. The present article demonstrates that this method is highly effective in analysing 19th century Icelandic fiction. The method is then applied to the classical question of the stylistic affinity between two 13th century texts:HeimskringlaandEgils saga. Heimskringlaproves to be more similar toEgils sagathan it is to a variety of contemporary texts, including other kings’ sagas. This supports the theory that the two texts have the same author.

scholarly journals “I have Learned Non-Euclidean Geometry Just from this Book” - Some facets of the correspondence between Friedrich Engel and David Hilbert

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ullrich
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Euclidean Geometry ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
Non Euclidean Geometry ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractFriedrich Engel and David Hilbert learned to know each other at Leipzig in 1885 and exchanged letters in particular during the next 15 years which contain interesting information on the academic life of mathematicians at the end of the 19th century. In the present article we will mainly discuss a statement by Hilbert himself on Moritz Pasch’s influence on his views of geometry, and on personnel politics concerning Hermann Minkowski and Eduard Study but also Engel himself.

Entropy Elasticity in High Polymers

1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-785
Author(s):  
Friedrich Linhardt
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Operating Temperature ◽  
Elastic Behavior ◽  
Unusual Property ◽  
Vulcanized Rubber ◽  
Entropy Elasticity ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
High Polymers

Abstract Vulcanized rubber has an unusual property, known early in the 19th century, but not understood until 1935: it increases in stiffness with rise in operating temperature. A strip of rubber loaded with a weight and heated does not stretch; on the contrary, it contracts to some extent. Theoretical interpretations of this effect showed deformation of rubber, as well as its softness and high extensibility, to be determined by entropy, among other things. “Entropy elasticity” was looked upon as a peculiarity of rubber. It was thus only logical, when materials were classified as “rubbers” that they should be distinguished from all other materials by using the expression “entropy elastic behavior”. To be sure, one is inclined today to consider entropy elasticity a characteristic of all high polymers, including those not crosslinked. The present article reports an experimental approach to this problem.

Hymnographic Texts Devoted to Saint John the Russian from 19th — Early 20th Centuries and the Evolution of the Saint’s Cult

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5 (103)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Tatyana Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Special Consideration ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Target Culture

The present article deals with the evolution of the hymnographic discourse devoted to St. John the Russian in the Greek and Russian traditions, and to the Turkish-language sources of the certain traditions. The research was carried out on the basis of the material of three editions of the Greek Service to St. John the Russian from the middle and the end of 19th century and Russian manuscripts from the archive of the Russian St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos from the 19th — early 20th centuries. Special consideration was given to the changes in the image of the saint caused by the text transfer to another language and the reception of the cult in the target culture. The evolution of the cult of the Saint which follows the expansion of the geographical and ethnic borders of his veneration, and the role of the St. Panteleimon monastery on Athos in this process are also discussed.

„… wo der Dollmetsch allzeit interpretirt.“

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Reiter
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Complex Group ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractThe present article focuses on court interpreters at the Imperial court of Vienna, who were employed in the Habsburg Monarchy from the early 16th century until the end of the 19th century. Based on the methodological concepts of professional intercultures introduced by Anthony Pym the article discusses the question whether or not court interpreters formed a professional group at the court. Different aspects of their profession such as competencies, remuneration, duties, reputation and their place in the organization of the court are discussed. For the application of Anthony Pyms model it will be shown that two main components, time and the intern differentiation of the group, are necessary to apply the model on a professional group like the court interpreters that was a highly complex group characterized by strong changes throughout their existence.

Factor-Correspondences in Regular Rings

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
S. K. Berberian
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Regular Ring ◽  
Decomposition Theorem ◽  
Matrix Rings ◽  
Basic Properties ◽  
Principal Ideals ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
Left Factor ◽  
Regular Rings

Factor-correspondences are nothing more than a way of describing isomorphisms between principal ideals in a regular ring. However, due to a remarkable decomposition theorem of M. J. Wonenburger [7, Lemma 1], they have proved to be a highly effective tool in the study of completeness properties in matrix rings over regular rings [7, Theorem 1]. Factor-correspondences also figure in the proof of D. Handelman's theorem that an ℵ0-continuous regular ring is unitregular [4, Theorem 3.2].The aim of the present article is to sharpen the main result in [7] and to re-examine its applications to matrix rings. The basic properties of factor-correspondences are reviewed briefly for the reader's convenience.Throughout, R denotes a regular ring (with unity).Definition 1 (cf. [5, p. 209ff], [7, p. 212]). A right factor-correspondence in R is a right R-isomorphism φ : J → K, where J and K are principal right ideals of R (left factor-correspondences are defined dually).

scholarly journals Al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd on Moses of Crete

Scrinium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-327
Author(s):  
Nikolai N. Seleznyov
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Christian Writer ◽  
Arabic Speaking

Abstract In the first, still unpublished, volume of The Blessed Compendium (al-Majmūʿ al-mu­bārak) – the historical work of the 13th-century Arabic-speaking Christian writer al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd, there is a chapter on the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II the Younger (r. 402-450). In this chapter, Ibn al-ʿAmīd retells the famous story of Moses of Crete, “who appeared among the Jews” and declared himself to be the Messiah to subsequent tragic disappointment of those who believed in him. The present article discusses this story and suggests an explanation for the discrepancies between Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s text and its Arabic source – the Book of the Heading (Kitāb al-ʿUnwān) of Agapius of Manbij (Hierapolis).

King Narasiṁha I Before his Spiritual Preceptor

1971 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
O. M. Starza-Majewski
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Sun ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Spiritual Instruction ◽  
Carboniferous Shale ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

The collection of Indian sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum includes a fine relief from Koṇārka. It is about 2 feet 6¾ inches (78·1 cm.) in height and depicts King Narasiṁha I (a.d. 1238–64), the founder of the celebrated Sun temple at Koṇārka in Orissa, sitting at the feet of his spiritual preceptor (Plate I). Acquired in the 19th century, this relief, which is carved in carboniferous shale, was long believed to be Nepalese. Havell, writing in 1911, notes that this sculpture is “said to have come from Nepal. Its date is uncertain. It appears to represent a Vaishnava adaptation of some old Buddhist jātaka story.” Some years later it was realized that the style of this sculpture belonged to that of the Eastern Ganga of the 13th century a.d., and that it represented the conversion of a kṣatriya noble to the worship of Viṣṇu by a Vaiṣṇava priest. The figure of the warrior sitting at the feet of the priest was identified as that of Narasimha I receiving spiritual instruction from his guru. This relief is one of a number showing scenes from the life of Narasimha which come from the great Koṇārka temple dedicated by him to the sun-god Sūrya. Of these, the panel already mentioned and another in New Delhi throw an interesting light on Narasiṃha's religious beliefs.

scholarly journals Remarks on the Proportions and Dimensions Used in the Design of the Medieval Church of Zsámbék

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Krisztina Fehér ◽  
Balázs Halmos
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
Design Logic

Since the 19th century, the church of Zsámbék was continuously a focus of scholars' interest. The present paper intends to research the church ruins with a new aspect. Using an accurate terrestrial laser scan survey, the geometry of the plan is analysed in order to find proportions among the dimensions. The main goal of the study is to gather information about the design logic of the first masters of the 13th-century Premonstratensian abbey. In addition, our goal was to detect contributions to the 13th-century construction history of the church, that cannot be found in archives of graphic sources. The latest archaeological excavation achieved excellent results concerning several crucial historical points; however, the periodization of the church is still not entirely clarified. From the 19th century, different scholars have proposed various hypotheses about this topic, without consensus.

The Myth of the Tech-Savvy Teen and the Clueless Senior Citizen

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Senior Citizen ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Life Course

It is a popular idea that younger people are more technology-savvy than their older counterparts. It is an equally popular idea that our oldest generation—senior citizens—is so clueless about new technological developments that they are the most vulnerable to technology-based forms of victimization. The present article, however, demonstrates that these ideas are myths and that it is the young—not the old—who are most at risk of victimization when technology is involved. This should come as no surprise since the age–victimization curve mirrors rather closely the age–crime curve, where the risk of victimization typically peaks in late adolescence and early adulthood and follows a steady decline thereafter. The risks associated with technologically based forms of victimization—at least in general—are no different. The implications of dispelling these myths for criminological research as we move forward are discussed in the context of the nature of “risky” behaviors at different stages of the life course.

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