Pylos and Sphacteria

1896 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Limited Area ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

It is with some diffidence that I publish the following paper. It is indeed the result of considerable study of the literature of the subject, and of the best of a week's work on the spot last autumn. But unfortunately I never expected, when I went to Pylos, that I should have so much to say about it, and I took with me neither leave to excavate, nor appliances for measurements and photography. I feel therefore that my views can scarcely in the nature of things carry with them the same weight as those which Mr. Grundy has based on the detailed survey which he conducted under the auspices of the University of Oxford a week or two before my visit. I am afraid our conclusions on certain points may prove to differ. My documentary evidence is at present non-existent, and my measurements are one and all rough and approximate. I can only ask Mr. Grundy and the reader to remember that I spent more than forty hours exploring the ground, and that, as survey work was unhappily out of the question, I had thus ample time to form an opinion on the topography of what is after all a very limited area.

scholarly journals John Rodney Quayle. 18 November 1926 — 26 February 2006

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Carbon Assimilation ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Early Training

J. Rodney Quayle was an outstanding microbial biochemist whose early training in pure chemistry was coupled with rigorous enzymology and experience in the relatively new techniques of using radioactive 14 C compounds in the study of metabolic pathways. These he used to investigate and elucidate the pathways of carbon assimilation during microbial growth on compounds with a single carbon atom such as methane and methanol. When he started, little was known about these organisms (methylotrophs), which, largely as a result of his own work and the work inspired by him, have formed the subject of regular international symposia over a period of more than 40 years. After a short time working in Melvin Calvin’s laboratory in California and a very fruitful period in Hans Krebs’s Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism in the University of Oxford he moved for the next 20 years to the University of Sheffield, after which he became a highly successful and popular Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath. His rigorous approach to his subject, his generosity and inspiration made him a much revered and much loved father figure to generations of microbial biochemists.

scholarly journals The Importance of Accuracy in the Use of Grammatical Terms and Concepts in the Description of the Distinctive Properties of Plains Algonquian Languages

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-38
Author(s):  
Avelino Corral Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
White Clay

The subject of this paper was inspired by my collaboration on a project involving the long-term histories of grammatical traditions led by Dr. Philomen Probert at the University of Oxford. Owing to my interest in linguistic typology and the study of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in a number of languages,  – especially Native American languages, which differ in many respects from Indo-European languages,  –, I have observed that some languages cannot be accurately described if we use the grammatical terms and concepts commonly applied to the analysis of extensively studied languages such as English, Spanish or French, as certain grammatical properties of one language may not be equivalent to those of another and, consequently, require a different treatment. Thus, firstly, by adopting a holistic comparative perspective deriving from all areas of grammar, I aim to reveal the distinctive features that Plains Algonquian languages such as Cheyenne / Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse (Montana and Oklahoma, USA), Blackfoot / Siksiká, Kainai, and Pikani, (Montana, USA; Alberta, Canada), Arapaho / Hinóno´eitíít (Wyoming and Oklahoma, USA), and Gros Ventre / White Clay or Atsina / Aaniiih (Montana, USA) display when compared with Indo-European languages such as English, Spanish, French or German. The subsequent examination of these data will provide examples of terms and concepts that are typically used in traditional grammatical descriptions, but that do not serve to characterize the grammar of these Native American languages accurately. Finally, I will attempt to propose alternative terms and concepts that might describe the distinctive grammatical properties exhibited by these languages more adequately.

Rodney Howard Hilton 1916–2002

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Ideas

Rodney Howard Hilton (1916–2002), a Fellow of the British Academy, was born in Middleton, England, to John James Hilton and Anne Howard Hilton. As a history undergraduate between 1935 and 1938, Hilton was attracted to the medieval period by the teaching of two outstanding Balliol scholars, Vivian Galbraith and Richard Southern. At the University of Oxford, he was influenced by ‘foreign ideas’ and joined the Communist Party. By 1956, Hilton had established an international reputation as an authority on the medieval economy in general, and in particular had put forward new ideas about social class, conflict, the crisis on feudalism, and the origins of capitalism. He was inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, Nikolai Lenin, and their more recent disciples, and applied their ideas. A constant theme running through all Hilton’s work was his commitment to the study of localities. He had a major role in making the subject of medieval economic and social history a lively field of enquiry and debate, which is a legacy that continues into the new century.

The Long-Term Effects of Steroid Contraceptives

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Doll
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Note ◽  
London School ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Regius Professor

Editorial noteThe Twelfth Oliver Bird Lecture was delivered by Professor Richard Doll, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 19th March 1970. This was the last lecture to be given under the auspices of the Oliver Bird Trust, an account of which starts on page 359. Professor Doll was formerly Director of the MRC Unit of Medical Statistics, in which capacity he had exceptional experience in assessing the significance of changes in the incidences of abnormal conditions. The subject of his lecture was therefore highly appropriate to his special knowledge, as well as to current controversy and to the series of Oliver Bird lectures. The Journal of Biosocial Science is glad to publish this authoritative exposition of a most important problem.

Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, and the University of Oxford

1949 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
R. M. T. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

I have chosen as the subject of this paper a study of the relations of Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299, with the University of Oxford, and I should like to begin with a quotation from the work of one of the great medievalists of our generation. In his book, Henry III and the Lord Edward, Sir Maurice Powicke says: ‘It is a great pity that we know so little about these people.’ That is profoundly true. Many of the inhabitants of thirteenth-century history are little more than names to us. We know a few facts about the chancellors of Oxford at this period, and the information that we can gain about Sutton is slight enough. Yet I think that sufficient material has survived to enable us to find out something about his dealings with the university and to understand from them what kind of a man he was.

scholarly journals Thirst for Miracle: Rural Intelligentsia in the Years of Ordeals

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Kazankov Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Parochial School ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Church Policy ◽  
The Church

The article is devoted to the historical reconstruction of the spiritual experience of the priest Feodor Alexandrovich Yegorov. The materials of archival-investigative case № 21183, stored in the fund 643/2 of Perm State Archive of Social and Political History have been the resource of the article. The complexity of the subject and the scattered nature of the documentary evidence suggest the use of the phenomenological instruments and K. Ginzburg's evidence paradigm. The formation of A.F. Yegorov's personality began against the background of the "era of wars and revolutions", and ended approximately in the "year of the great turning point", which determines the chronological framework of the study. Prior to the revolution of 1917 being the son of a simple craftsman he was able to make a career and became a teacher in a parochial school. F.A. Yegorov became a typical representative of the rural intelligentsia. During the Civil War he found himself in Irkutsk "retreating with the Whites." There he managed to enter the university. Surviving testimonies of that time characterize F.A. Yegorov as a man indifferent to religion or even an atheist. In 1926 he survived his conversion to the Orthodox faith and became a sacristan in one of the churches in Kungur area. From that moment a distinctly mystical component was fixed in his spiritual experience. His new-found faith allowed him to see miracles everywhere,and his contemplation of the miracle strengthened his faith. After becoming a priest, F.A. Yegorov (together with his confessor, N. I. Krylov) took an irreconcilable stand against the church policy of Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky. His ecclesiastical dissidence and inner experience of contemplating miracles eventually led him to division of the clergy into "graceful" and "unblessed”. In the article it is drawn a parallel between the fate of Priest F. Yegorov and Archpriest I. Kotelnikov, who was written about by the author earlier.

A Victim Diaspora? The Case of the Sikhs

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-307
Author(s):  
Gurharpal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transnational Communities ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Since the fateful events of June 1984, when the Indian army entered the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, the activities of the Sikh diaspora have attracted considerable academic attention. The fortunes of this vibrant community have become a major transnational irritant to Western states, linking the complex, and often interminable, politics of the homeland with ethnic and social concerns in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australasia. This volume by Tatla is the first serious effort to study the subject, and it has emerged from the Transnational Communities Programme at the University of Oxford, which is sponsored by the Economic and Social Science Research Council of the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals XXXIII. Explication of a most remarkable monogram on the reverse of a very antient quinarius, never before published or explained. In a letter to M. Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Custos Archivorum of the University of Oxford, Member of the Academy degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany.

1774 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 318-327
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Dear Sir, Having given a draught and short account of a very antient quinarius, with a most remarkable and uncommon monogram on the reverse, which the Royal Society did me the honour to publish in a former volume of the <italic>Philosophical Transactions</italic> (I), I shall now beg leave to resume the subject;

XVI. English-Svanetian Vocabulary

1911 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-634
Author(s):  
Oliver Wardrop
Keyword(s):  
Western Caucasus ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Western Caucasus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health Sport ◽  
The University ◽  
Recent Establishment ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

The recent establishment of a fund in the University of Oxford for the encouragement of the study of the Georgian family of languages may in the course of time attract the attention of British philologists to the Western Caucasus, and an increasing stream of travellers will doubtless find their way thither seeking knowledge, health, sport, and scenery; it is for such visitors that the following vocabulary has been compiled. More than twenty years ago the late Mr. D. Peacock included Svanetian among the five languages of which he published vocabularies in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, but the material was scanty, and a large number of errors are to befound in it. Most of the books on the subject are in Russian, and the script into which the Svanetian words are transliterated is troublesome and is inconsistently used. What is required is an exact record of the spoken language by means of the phonograph, and it is to be hoped that some British student may undertake the task before long. All that is attempted here is to give a starting-point for serious study. As many forms as possible have been included, and no attempt has been made to distinguish the dialects of Upper and Lower Svanetia. The spelling is phonetic as far as may be. The abbreviation G. shows that there are Georgian words strikingly similar, and generally, though not always, having the same meaning; many of such words are borrowed by the Georgian from other languages.

scholarly journals Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-123
Author(s):  
Tammy Gaber
Keyword(s):  
General Interest ◽  
British Library ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The University ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Courtauld Institute

Index Islamicus, begun in 1906, is a database of bibliographic information ofpublications in all areas of studies connected with the Islamic world. Since thattime, interest in Islamic art and architecture has surged from specialists to manyscholars, students, and general interest worldwide. The recent and updated supplementsBibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World, edited bySusan Sinclair, who was assisted by Heather Bleaney and Pablo Garcia Suarez,fills a serious void by listing the materials from 1906 to 2011.Sinclair, an independent scholar with a Ph.D. from the University ofLondon’s Courtauld Institute of Art, is currently researching material in themedievalArab world and has served as the co-editor of the Index Islamicussince 2007. With the support of the university’s renowned School of Orientaland African Studies, she was able to comb the archives of the United Kingdom’sleading institutions, including the National Art Library in London,the British Library, the library of the Warburg Institute, the Cambridge UniversityLibrary, and the University of Oxford libraries, as well as importantcollections located in Spain (e.g., the Biblioteca Nacional de España, theBiblioteca Islámica, and the libraries of Consejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientificas). The compilation of resources from these vast collections aswell as the material available online has brought this bibliographic collectionto a new level.At first glance, the material may seem to be no more than a listing ofsources on the subject, with no “content” per se to read. However, the valueof such texts and of this set in particular is that the bibliographic listings aregrouped by type and subtypes, which enable researchers in particular areas toaccess a wealth of information not necessarily accessible by other search enginesor mechanisms ...

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