scholarly journals Aspects of the Life of Colmán of Lynn

2010 ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Gavin Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
World Views ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Insight Into

Hagiography is narrative material relating to the saints. This may take various forms, including poetry and prose tales, but most often it consists of the written Life of a saint. From the outset it is to be kept in mind that a ‘Life’ of a saint does not necessarily equate to a biography, though it may contain biographical information. Rather, it is useful to view hagiography as containing as much, if not more, information about those who composed it than it does about its subject saint. Saints’ Lives provide a useful window into concerns and issues important to the communities in which, or for which, they were produced. A Life composed in the twelfth century may therefore allow us great insight into the politics, policies, religious and world-views of the twelfth-century society in which the Life was composed, but tell us relatively little about the saint and society of the ...

scholarly journals Andronikos I Komnenos: Tyrant of Twelfth-century Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savvas Neocleous
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Reign Of Terror ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Few, if any, rulers in twelfth-century Christendom received as much attention by contemporary chroniclers as the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (1183–85). Even though Andronikos ruled for less than three years, his rise to power, reign of terror, downfall and gruesome death at the hands of the lynch mob of Constantinople struck contemporaries. In contrast to medieval chroniclers, modern historians have shown little interest in this emperor. While some scholarly attention has been paid to the Greek sources in order to reconstruct the historical facts of Andronikos’s reign, there has been little focus on the Greek historians’ perceptions and representations of their ruler. As to the relatively large number of Latin accounts of Andronikos’s reign, these have been either completely disregarded by historians or dismissed as ‘full of imagined conversations and romantic fictions’ and therefore as being of limited value for the reconstruction of historical events. All these accounts, however, are important, among others, in giving great insight into how a harsh and oppressive rule was viewed in both Byzantium and the Latin world in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century. This article examines accusations of tyranny against Andronikos expressed uniformly across Byzantine, French, German–Austrian and English accounts, and explores their meaning and function. To gain a greater appreciation of their significance, these accusations against the Byzantine emperor are subsequently cast against the backdrop of charges of tyranny levelled against other Christian rulers in twelfth-century Christendom. Therefore, the significance of this article extends beyond Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire to the evolution of many other strands of political philosophy of rulership in medieval European history.1

Filling in the holes: The reproductive biology of the understudied Mahali mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus mahali)

2021 ◽  
Vol 99 (9) ◽  
pp. 801-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W. Hart ◽  
K. Medger ◽  
B. van Jaarsveld ◽  
N.C. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Tract ◽  
Breeding Strategy ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Reproductive Suppression ◽  
Mole Rat ◽  
Evolution Of Sociality ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Cooperatively Breeding ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Insight Into

African mole-rats have provided great insight into mammalian evolution of sociality and reproductive strategy. However, some species have not received attention, and these may provide further insights into these evolutionary questions. The cooperatively breeding Mahali mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus mahali (Roberts, 1913)) is one such species. Body mass, reproductive-tract morphometrics, gonad histology, and plasma reproductive hormone concentrations were studied for breeding and non-breeding males and females over 1 year. This study aimed to discern if this species exhibits a seasonal or aseasonal breeding pattern and whether there is a relaxation of reproductive suppression at any point in the year in non-breeding animals. The pattern of reproductive relaxation during the wetter months is similar to other African mole-rat species. Interestingly, births and pregnant breeding females were recorded throughout the year, thus indicating an aseasonal breeding strategy, despite inhabiting a region that experiences seasonal rainfall. However, there were periods of the year favouring increased reproduction to enable an increased likelihood of offspring survival. This suggests that the Mahali mole-rat may be an opportunistic breeder possibly brought about by the benefits of living in a cooperatively breeding group and potentially moving into more arid environments that were previously unexploited by the genus Cryptomys Gray, 1864.

scholarly journals On the effects produced upon the air cells of the lungs when the pulmonary circulation is too much increased

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 321-321
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Circulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Morbid Anatomy ◽  
Air Cells ◽  
Insight Into

In examining the air cells of the lungs of a hare that had been coursed, the author found the superficial large cells filled with colourless coagulable lymph, forming white specks, and the smaller, more interior ones filled with coagula of red blood. No such appearance was seen in the lungs of hares, snared or shot. A run of fifteen minutes with greyhounds so exhausts the hare, that it is frequently known to die from over exertion before the dogs are able to reach it. To examine the state of the lungs, in which the white specks were seen, they were injected with mercury through the bronchiæ, and then immersed in rectified spirits to prevent them from collapsing, and in this state examined microscopically and drawn by Mr. Bauer. The drawings accompany the paper. The white specks appear to be portions of coagulable lymph, separated from the circulating blood in consequence of its disturbed state, and the author considers them as giving great insight into the nature of that destructive disease called tubercles in the lungs; and in support of this idea quotes Dr. Baillie’s description, and refers to his plates of them in his Morbid Anatomy.

scholarly journals Arne Noe-Nygaard 30/7/1908 – 3/6/1991

1991 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
K Ellitsgaard-Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Geological Museum ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Arne Noe-Nygaard died on June 3rd 1991, almost 81 years old; he had then been active as a geologist for 64 years. From 1942 until his retirement in 1978 Noe Nygaard was attached to the University of Copenhagen, as Director of the Mineralogical Museum (now Geological Museum), 1969–77 as Professor of Mineralogy, 1942–69, and as Professor of Dynamic Geology, 1969–78. Noe-Nygaard's great insight into the multifarious world of geology, combined with his friendly, sincere and extrovert nature, made him many influential contacts.

The Pen and the Spade: Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Colwell
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
English Society ◽  
Communal Living ◽  
Religious Sects ◽  
Gerrard Winstanley ◽  
Insight Into

In the wake of the English Civil Wars of the 1640s, increased religious tolerance gave rise to unprecedented religious radicalism. While most emerging religious sects adopted unorthodoxinterpretations of the Bible, some sects were more radical than others. The Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, were unique in that their biblically inspired focus on private property’s inherent corruption drove them to establish an agricultural commune in Surrey in 1649. By setting an example for the rest of the world and encouraging others to adopt their methods, they hoped to ultimately restore the Earth to a state of ‘Common Treasury.’ Drawing on scriptural precedent and personal interpretation of the Bible, Winstanley offered an eloquent, politically charged justification for the Diggers’ program of communal living in The True Levellers Standard (1649), which became the Digger manifesto. It pointedly critiquedseventeenth-century English society, had both a positive and negative impact on the Diggers’ reception at the time, and survived the movement’s violent suppression and subsequent collapse. Today, it continues to offer great insight into the origins, development and fate of the Digger movement, while at the same time inspiring modern scholars to delve deeper into the movement’s significance, and raising questions about property and equality that remain highly relevant in this day and age. 

Student Behavior in an Online Learning Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Yu Peng Lin
Keyword(s):  
Student Behavior ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Simple Regression Model ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
One Way Anova ◽  
Insight Into

While online courses/programs have become a critical component in the strategy of higher education institutions, the majority of the current academic discussions and evidence are from the institutional side rather than from the students' points of view. An understanding of how students behave when studying an online course can provide a great insight into the effectiveness of online delivery which is the task we embark upon in this study. The chapter per the author carried out the task by, first, summarizing the studies on the implementation strategy of online courses, the “no-significant difference” literature, and the research on the unique characteristics of online learners. Second, the author attempt to understand online learner behavior by analyzing students participation in 15 online courses during the years 2012-2015. The sample includes 106 students and their detailed log-on minutes and grades. The author applied descriptive analysis, a one-way ANOVA, and a simple regression model. The result suggests substantially discounted student attention while learning online.

Preliminary Report on the Work Undertaken in the Main City South at Tell el-Amarna: 7 October – 2 November 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Main City

An area of 306 sq m was excavated in the Main City South at Tell el-Amarna between 7 October and 2 November 2017. The work focused on the area of a building complex denominated M50.14, M50.15 and M50.16 by C. L. Woolley, who initially excavated these buildings in 1922 on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Society. After an initial season of re-excavation in 2014, the 2017 work encompassed the northern sections of house M50.16, the whole of house M50.15, as well as the eastern, south-eastern and south-western parts of courtyard M50.14. Several domestic and pyrotechnical features have been excavated and recorded, together with a large amount of material related to the processing and manufacture of glass, faience, stone (agate) and metal objects. The results of the excavation reflect the industrial character of several houses in Amarna’s Main City and provide a great insight into the layout and purpose of a domestic building in this settlement.

The contribution of publications of the Yorkshire Geological Society to the understanding of the geological development of the Carboniferous Pennine Basin, northern England

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
C. N. Waters ◽  
D. W. Holliday ◽  
J. I. Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sea Level Variations ◽  
Strong Control ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Peak District

The Carboniferous rocks of the Pennine Basin form the topographical spine of the region between the Scottish Border and the Peak District. They provided many of the mineral resources that fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the great northern English cities. The description of these resources was very much a focus of early papers in the Proceedings, but they went beyond the assessment of their economic importance, providing striking early insights into our understanding of deep time when the Bible still had a strong control on scientific thinking. Over a 180 year history of publication, the Proceedings and Occasional Publications contain an unparalleled description of the rocks of the Pennine Basin of Carboniferous deposition, and they continue to provide great insight into what have been intensively studied successions but of which much still remains to be learned. This review considers the relevance of these publications to our understanding of the sedimentology of Carboniferous strata, the geometries of Carboniferous basins, how these basins constrained the formation of reefs and controlled the movement of rivers and deltas in the process of eventual infill of these basins, and how sea-level variations influenced the development of cyclical successions, the hallmark of much of the Carboniferous succession.

scholarly journals A collaborative effort of China in combating COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed S. Bangura ◽  
Maria J. Gonzalez ◽  
Nasra M. Ali ◽  
Ran Ren ◽  
Youlin Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was firstly identified in Wuhan by the end of 2019. China has implemented a series of preventive measures to deter COVID-19 spread and its consequences since the beginning of the epidemic. In China, the expansion of COVID-19 has been slowed down significantly through the effort of all contributors, including governments, nongovernments, and civil society. All collaborators have been actively involved in combating the epidemic, using their respective strengths to play their roles. China has mitigated the number of cases due to the mobilization of the whole society and collaborators joining collective efforts and actions in solidarity to tackle and conquer the virus. To date, China has continued to implement actions to control any resurgence of new cases of COVID-19 and keep its population safe. The people’s united effort against the virus has enhanced a great insight into China, and it might serve as a model to the global community in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic  in terms of coordination, solidarity, decisiveness, and leadership.

scholarly journals Behavioral Strategy and the COVID-19 Disruption

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1322-1329
Author(s):  
Nicolai J. Foss
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Behavioral Strategy ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
Insight Into

What can strategic management research do to help to make sense of the COVID-19 disruption, and what are the implications of the disruption for the strategy field? I argue that among the streams in strategy research, behavioral strategy is uniquely situated in terms of providing a psychologically based interpretive lens that could lend great insight into decision making in extreme conditions. However, the disruption also points to weakness in current behavioral strategy thinking, notably with respect to the role of models vis-à-vis judgment in strategic decision making, the deeply social (political, institutional) nature of strategy making, and the treatment of fundamental uncertainty.

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