In Pursuit of the Muses. The Life and Work of Justus Lipsius

10.54179/2101 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine De Landtsheer
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Famed for his ground-breaking philological, philosophical, and antiquarian writings, the Brabant humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was one of the most renowned classical scholars of the sixteenth century. In this volume, Marijke Crab and Ide François bring together the seminal contributions to Lipsius’s life and scholarship by Jeanine De Landtsheer (1954-2021), who came to be known as one of the greatest Lipsius specialists of her generation. In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.

In Pursuit of the Muses. The Life and Work of Justus Lipsius

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine De Landtsheer ◽  
Marijke Crab ◽  
Ide François
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Famed for his ground-breaking philological, philosophical, and antiquarian writings, the Brabant humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was one of the most renowned classical scholars of the sixteenth century. In this volume, Marijke Crab and Ide François bring together the seminal contributions to Lipsius’s life and scholarship by Jeanine De Landtsheer (1954-2021), who came to be known as one of the greatest Lipsius specialists of her generation. In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.

The Effect of E-Service Quality on Football Fan Satisfaction and Fan Loyalty toward the Websites of Their Favorable Football Teams

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javad Khazaei Pool ◽  
Ali Dehghan ◽  
Hadi Balouei Jamkhaneh ◽  
Akbar Jaberi ◽  
Maryam Sharifkhani
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Electronic Service ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of electronic service quality on fan satisfaction and fan loyalty in the online environment. Selection of three hundred and fifty-six fans of a famous sports club was through random sampling using the club's website. AMOS used structural equation modeling for data analysis. Results provided strong support on the effect of electronic service quality (E-S-QUAL) on fan satisfaction and fan loyalty toward the website of their favorable football teams. Business enterprises have well researched e-service quality and loyalty. However, limited research exists in the sports context. This paper provides valuable insight into the measurement of e-service quality and fan loyalty in the sport and offers a foundation for future marketing research.

Waniyetu Wówapi: Native American Records of Weather and Climate

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Therrell ◽  
Makayla J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Early American ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Pictographic calendars called waniyetu wówapi or “winter counts” kept by several Great Plains Indian cultures (principally the Sioux or Lakota) preserve a record of events important to these peoples from roughly the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. A number of these memorable events include natural phenomena, such as meteor storms, eclipses, and unusual weather and climate. Examination of a selection of the available winter count records and related interpretive writings indicates that the Lakota and other native plains cultures recorded many instances of unusual weather or climate and associated impacts. An analysis of the winter count records in conjunction with observational and proxy climate records and other historical documentation suggests that the winter counts preserve a unique record of some of the most unusual and severe climate events of the early American period and provide valuable insight into the impacts upon people and their perceptions of such events in the ethnographically important region of the Great Plains.

scholarly journals Quantification and selection of ictogenic zones in epilepsy surgery

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petroula Laiou ◽  
Eleftherios Avramidis ◽  
Marinho A. Lopes ◽  
Eugenio Abela ◽  
Michael Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Combinatorial Problem ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Potential Applicability ◽  
Healthy Functioning ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractNetwork models of brain dynamics provide valuable insight into the healthy functioning of the brain and how this breaks down in disease. A pertinent example is the use of network models to understand seizure generation (ictogenesis) in epilepsy. Recently, computational models have emerged to aid our understanding of seizures and to predict the outcome of surgical perturbations to brain networks. Such approaches provide the opportunity to quantify the effect of removing regions of tissue from brain networks and thereby search for the optimal resection strategy.Here, we use computational models to elucidate how sets of nodes contribute to the ictogenicity of networks. In small networks we fully elucidate the ictogenicity of all possible sets of nodes and demonstrate that the distribution of ictogenicity across sets depends on network topology. However, the full elucidation is a combinatorial problem that becomes intractable for large networks. Therefore, we develop a global optimisation approach to search for minimal sets of nodes that contribute significantly to ictogenesis. We demonstrate the potential applicability of these methods in practice by identifying optimal sets of nodes to resect in networks derived from 20 individuals who underwent resective surgery for epilepsy.

al-Ṣiqillī or al-Ṣaqalī / Sicily or Tunisia?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-189
Author(s):  
Arianna D’Ottone Rambach
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractThis article reconsiders the text and the authorship of an anonymous Arabic manuscript containing ink recipes. The text was first published by Eugenio Griffini in 1910, but the ink recipes have only recently attracted scholarly attention. Though the latest contributions on the manuscript consider it lost, it is in fact preserved at the Ambrosiana Library. Attributed to ‘the Sicilian’, an anonymous author, it is possible that it is the work of a 15th-century physician from Tunis. Griffini edited the text, but images of the manuscript are published here for the first time, as well as an English translation and a new edition. For comparison, other ink recipes, from a sixteenth-century manuscript in maghribī script are edited and translated as well.

scholarly journals ON TRANSLATION OF THE EPIC NOVEL THE PATH OF ABAY [PUT’ ABAYA] INTO RUSSIAN. FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN M. AUEZOV AND L. SOBOLEV

2018 ◽  
pp. 319-335
Author(s):  
D. Kunaev
Keyword(s):  
Valuable Insight ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Epic Novel ◽  
First Time ◽  
Literary Experiences ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
National Literatures

The article reveals little-known facts from the lives of M. Auezov and L. Sobolev, two important writers of Kazakhstan and Russia, respectively, and cites their reflections on life, literature, and time. A large share of the archived material from the manuscripts department of the Almaty-based Research and Cultural Centre ‘Auezov House’ is examined and published for the first time.L. Sobolev’s letters speak of an artist’s fate: we become witnesses of his very personal anxieties as well as events on a national scale. The letters also provide a valuable insight into the Russo-Kazakh literary connections from the early 1930s. M. Auezov epistles focus on the problems of interconnectedness and interaction of national literatures, particularly in terms of the artistic appropriation of Russian literary experiences by Kazakh writers. Another point of interest is the two writers’ exchanges about the artistic translation of M. Auezov’s major opus, the epic novel The Path of Abay [Put’ Abaya], into Russian.

Gift-Giving in Dubrovnik’s First Diplomatic Contacts with the Sublime Porte / Dubrovački diplomatski pokloni odaslani na Visoku Portu (1430. – 1458.)

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-114
Author(s):  
Valentina Šoštarić
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

In 1430 Dubrovnik’s authorities decided to send ambassadors to the Sublime Porte for the first time. An important part of the preparatory activities was to decide to whom gifts should be presented, and what should be the nature and value of the gifts presented to the various recipients. Gifts were carefully wrapped diplomatic messages that their recipients could interpret in various ways. Gift rhetoric was used primarily to achieve strategic interests and was an ideological tool used both as a sign and an instrument. An analysis of the nature and value of the objects that ambassadors gave to their hosts reveals the “collective identity” of the community that preoccupied the City fathers, offers an insight into Dubrovnik’s trade connections and local production of luxury goods, as well as their reception in a different cultural landscape. Sources kept in the Dubrovnik State Archive allow us to reconstruct the list of Dubrovnik’s diplomatic gifts presented to various individuals at the Sublime Porte from the time of the establishment of the first official diplomatic contacts until the City became a tributary state. The gifts can be categorized according to the political and social rank of the recipients. Interpretation of the reasoning underlying the selection of gifts offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of their pragmatic purposes, their origin and production, their value (economic, social, cultural, practical, emotional), and manipulation of their usage. As well as influencing both contemporary and future Ragusan – Ottoman relations, the gifts encouraged symbolic, material, and cultural exchanges between diverse civilizations.

Hermeneutics and Paratext

2021 ◽  
pp. 347-373
Author(s):  
Mohamed Saki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Canonical Text ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

This paper sets out to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in Seamus Heaney’s preface to his 1999 retranslation of Beowulf. My analysis takes into account the generic identity of the preface by considering it as a textual subgenre where the translator becomes a metatranslator in order to voice herself out of invisibility, engaging thereby in a (self-reflexive) hermeneutical analysis and ‘justification’ by commenting on the selection of the text to be translated and her own translation choices. The analysis is carried out with the help of two concepts elaborated by Gadamer: situatedness and self-understanding. These concepts will help show how the Northern Irish poet fuses different horizons in the process of his retranslation. In this essay, I also take into account the specificity of retranslation as a particular instance of hermeneutical activity. To do so, I focus on how Heaney introduces his own rendering of Beowulf, and on how he explains the translational choices and processes he opted for in order to render this canonical text into contemporary language. I argue that the closely related notions of situatedness and self-understanding can help bring to the fore how Heaney establishes an intrinsic link between his own retranslation choices on the one hand and, on the other, his cultural identity and poetics. Taking into consideration the hermeneutical dimension of this preface, it will be argued, gives us valuable insight into the retranslation project of Seamus Heaney. It will show that he does not seek to impose on Beowulf a transcendental truth or to fix it in a definite retranslation and interpretation. Instead, situatedness and self-understanding help shed light on how he engages creatively with the epic Anglo-Saxon poem: at issue is both how his retranslation is situated and grounded in his own subjectivity, and indeed with respect to his existential questions, as well as in a wider socio-cultural context.

Antisemitism in French Politics: The Antisemitic Group in the Chamber of Deputies 1898-1906

1984 ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Order ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

This chapter explores the significance of antisemitism in political terms. Was the antisemitic movement regarded as a legitimate political organization? How far was it an electoral and parliamentary force? Antisemitism seems to have appeared as an electoral platform in metropolitan France for the first time in 1889. Although antisemitism seems to have maintained a political presence in the legislature through the 1890s, 1898 marks a mutation in its fortunes. Most significant was the success in the May General Elections of a substantial contingent of 22 declared antisemites. Despite this measure of support, however, and despite the fact that some antisemites made a reputation in the Chamber of Deputies, antisemitism was never a force of any great importance within the established political system, nor did it constitute a united and coherent party. The opposition to revision of the Dreyfus Case within the Chamber and within government, though it may have rested on an unconscious bedrock of anti-Jewish prejudice, was more obviously motivated by fear of upsetting political and legal order than by any deliberate antisemitism. The chapter then considers the antisemitic parliamentary group, providing a valuable insight into the way in which, in a crisis, antisemitism could find a place, albeit marginal, in the political spectrum in France.

Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Horsfall
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of

This is a posthumous selection of 42 articles from the 150 which Nicholas Horsfall (1946–2019) wrote over a span of fifty years. Horsfall was prodigiously learned and, although best known for his five massive and dauntingly erudite commentaries on Virgil, was both a Latinist and a Romanist; the selection exemplifies the wide range of his interests and the coherence of his approach. Many of the Virgilian papers, which form the majority of the selection, are classics, and all of them command attention. This Virgilian concentration does not detract, however, from the extreme interest and value of the non-Virgilian papers, several of which were far ahead of their time and have led to standard treatments of their subjects, and all of which remain thought-provoking. Horsfall delighted in publishing in a wide variety of journals in many different countries, and he wrote in more than one language. Five of the papers (including his ground-breaking paper on Camilla) appear here in an English translation for the first time; almost half the papers are not online or easily found. The collection illustrates well his intellectual curiosity and his need to keep searching and asking questions while accepting that there may be no answers: ‘it has become, in some quarters, difficult or dangerous to say we do not know or, worse, “we cannot know”, or so much as hint that there is something disquieting about the evidence that remains’ (‘The Prehistory of Latin Poetry’).

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