scholarly journals КАКО ЈЕ ПОВЕЉА КРАЉА СТЕФАНА ДАБИШЕ БРАЋИ СЕМКОВИЋ ДОСПЕЛА У БРИТАНСКУ БИБЛИОТЕКУ HOW THE CHARTER OF KING STEPHEN DABIŠA TO SEMKOVIĆ BROTHERS CAME TO THE BRITISH LIBRARY

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-106
Author(s):  
Срђан Рудић
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
The Way

Повеља краља Стефана Дабише браћи Семковић издата 17. маја 1395. године данас се налази у Британској библиотеци у Лондону. У чланку се износе неки у нашој историографији до сада некоришћени подаци који доприносе бољем познавању судбине Дабишине повеље и начину на који је доспела у установу у којој се данас чува. The charter of King Stephen Dabiša to the Semković brothers issued on 17 May 1395 is kept today at the British Library in London. The paper presents data not used so far in our historiography, which help better understand the destiny of Dabiša’s charter and the way it came to the institution where it is held today.

What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL MERCHANT
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Library ◽  
National Life ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-standing ambition to record forms of past experience and more recent concerns with narrative and personal ‘composure’. Drawing on extended life story interviews with scientists, recorded by National Life Stories at the British Library between 2011 and 2016, it points to two ways in which the communities might learn from each other. First, engagement with certain theoretical innovations in the discipline of oral history from the 1980s might encourage historians of science to extend their already well-developed critical analysis of written autobiography and biography to interviews with scientists. Second, the keen interest of historians of science in using interviews to reconstruct details of past events and experience might encourage oral historians to continue to value this use of oral history even after their theoretical turn.

New Light on the Cadiz Expedition of 1596

1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (172) ◽  
pp. 182-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. J. Hammer
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Abstract Using an account which had previously been unrecognized among the Yelverton MSS, in the British Library, this article adds new detail to our understanding of the Cadiz expedition of 1596. Written from aboard the earl of Essex's flagship, Due Repulse, the new account of the voyage provides a counterpoint to the well‐known narrative written by Dr. Marbeck from aboard the lord admiral's ship, Ark Royal. This article also describes an apparent reconnaissance map of Cadiz and considers some of the intelligence‐gathering which paved the way for Anglo‐Dutch forces to attack the city.

scholarly journals An Illustration to Ælfric’s De temporibus anni in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Loredana Teresi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
British Library ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe present essay discusses a diagram found in London, British Library, Cotton Titus D.xxvii+xxvi, the so-called Ælfwine’s Prayerbook. The diagram, which appears on fol. 21 v (see Figure 1), has been interpreted by most scholars as an incomplete tidal rota or an incomplete wind rota (as it contains only 4 out of the canonical 12 winds). A detailed, comparative analysis of the features of the diagram, however, proves that the hypothesis of the tidal rota must be discarded in favour of that of the wind diagram. Moreover, an analysis of the manuscript contents and of the way in which the manuscript was written reveals a close connection between the diagram and Ælfric’s De temporibus anni, showing that the diagram is complete in its present form, and was inspired by the Ælfrician text. My study shows that the rota constitutes an illustration to the discussion of the winds appearing in the De temporibus anni and, at the same time, a representation of the Cross and of the close connection between God and the natural world, perfectly integrated within Ælfwine’s interests and architectural plans, as well as within the “visual-exegetical method” (Kühnel 2003) of the period.

scholarly journals Making Everything Available. British Library Research Services and Research Data Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Rachael Kotarski ◽  
Torsten Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
British Library ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Open World ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Service Portfolio ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

The way that researchers generate, analyse and share information keeps evolving at a rapid pace. To ensure that it is well equipped to serve its global user base for years to come, the British Library is transforming the way it works too, from the physical buildings to its digital service portfolio. One key programme, Everything Available, will ensure the Library’s continued support for research with services to enable access to information in an open and timely manner. This paper will describe the activities planned within Everything Available, with a particular focus on the aims of the Library’s recently refreshed Research Data Strategy. It will give an insight into the challenges and opportunities faced by a National Library in providing relevant services in an ‘open’ world.

The Abbo glossary in London, British Library, Cotton Domitian i

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 133-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Lendinara
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Working Model ◽  
The Way

The process through which glossaries came into being can sometimes still be seen and studied in surviving manuscripts, and in such cases it provides a valuable index to the way in which Latin texts were studied in medieval schools. This is the case with an unprinted glossary in London, British Library, Cotton Domitian i. The glossary is mainly made up of words taken from bk III of the Bella Parisiacae urbis by Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a work which was widely studied in English schools in the tenth and eleventh centuries, above all because of its unusual vocabulary. We know that Abbo drew the unusual vocabulary in his poem from pre-existing glossaries such as the Liber glossarum and the Scholica graecarum glossarum; but he also took from these works the interlinear glosses which he provided for the difficult words in bk III of his poem, and these in turn are found, with little variation, in all of the manuscripts which preserve the poem. Now under the rubric ‘Incipiunt glossae diversae’ in Cotton Domitian i are collected some two hundred lemmata from bk III of the poem, followed in each case by one or more glosses; on examination these glosses are found to be identical with those which accompany the text in other manuscripts. The glossary in Domitian i thus provides a working model of how a glossary was compiled, and is a further witness to the popularity of Abbo's poem in Anglo-Saxon England.

Reflection

Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 136-140
Author(s):  
Richard Scott Nokes
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Medical Books

The very word “leech” for a medieval physician sounds romantic, in the way that practices from the past can seem exotic and alien. I must admit, that even after years of studying medieval Anglo-Saxon medical books, the first time I entered the British Library manuscript room to examine ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. vii-viii
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
British Library ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
The University ◽  
Detailed Work ◽  
The Way

This volume has been many years in preparation and accordingly numerous debts of gratitude have been incurred along the way. Three such debts should be warmly and gratefully acknowledged at the outset, for without them this project could not have proceeded. Firstly, the Henry Cromwell correspondence transcribed and annotated here is contained in three volumes of the Lansdowne Collection held by the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library and I am most grateful to the British Library in general, and to the Head of Administration of Western Manuscripts in particular, for granting permission for this material to be published. The correspondence formed the basis of a Master of Letters thesis by Clyve Jones, awarded by the University of Lancaster in 1969 and comprising in large part an annotated transcript of the majority of the letters. Having decided not to prepare a scholarly edition for publication himself, Dr Jones strongly supported my own proposal to work on the material afresh and to prepare an edition for publication. Thus, secondly, I am enormously grateful to Dr Jones not only for his approval and endorsement of my taking on this project – without it, I could not and would not have taken the idea any further, as he had undertaken detailed work on the manuscript well ahead of me – but also for his unfailing help and encouragement throughout its lengthy gestation. Thirdly, I am enormously grateful to a trio of senior academics for the encouragement, help, and support that they offered at the outset, as I framed a formal publication proposal and embarked upon the work: to the late Professor Austin Woolrych, who had himself worked on the correspondence and had supervised Dr Jones's Masters thesis; to Professor Ivan Roots, who supervised my own doctoral thesis on Protectoral central government and who has remained a valued friend and mentor ever since; and to Professor Blair Worden, who was the pre-1700 literary director for the Royal Historical Society at the time that my proposal was submitted and accepted and as serious work began.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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