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The Masquerade Of History: Herman Bote’S Schichtboik, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

In medieval city chronicles of northern Germany we find an inter esting instance of polysemy in the word “schicht,” which is used to mean both “history” and “uprising”. Th is semantic overlap suggests a strong association in the contemporary imagination between the processes of historical change and the manifestation of disorder. This association is reflected in the practice of city chronicle writing in the medieval and late medieval period, which frequently was undertaken in the aftermath of an uprising. The chronicle documented the legitimacy of the restored order, and served the specific purpose of perpetuating the city’s present legal status, …

Educating The Senses: Students, Teachers And Medical Rhetoric In Eighteenth-Century London, Susan C. Lawrence

Department of History: Faculty Publications

This chapter focuses on medical teaching at a time when many still hoped that a 'scientific' language could be unambiguous, yet lecturers struggled to convey what they could not, in fact, say about the body and disease. Specifically, it examines how late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London medical men instructed pupils who came from a broad range of backgrounds to use their senses to acquire knowledge from objects (such as the dead) and patients. Based on a reading of advice manuals and over fifty sets of students' manuscript lecture notes dating from 1750 to 1820, this study concentrates on three …

Forks In The Road: Challenges And Rewards, Quentin Faulkner

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

Using music as a focal point, although another of the arts might serve as well, I have discovered that the arts are a kind of camera obscura of society. Like that optical wonder, they reduce the whole of its identity-sanctions and values, sacred and secular beliefs and customs--to a faithful reflection in miniature, in living colors (Mantle Hood, The Ethnomusicologist. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982, p. xviii).

The author of this statement, Mantle Hood, is an ethnomusicologist, one who studies the music of cultures outside those in the western European tradition (his perspective is therefore a global one). If what he …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:14 – Fall 1993

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Harper’s Ferry Labs Tour
Letter from the Editor
TSA Board of Directors
Letter from the President
People
Mill to Sell 19-century Loom
Change of Address
FIT FYI
Textile Collection at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ETN Expands Membership
Announcements
Conferences, Meetings, Symposia
Juried Art Exhibit
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Spatial Form And Character Revelations: Korolenko's Siberian Stories, Radha Balasubramanian

Russian Language and Literature Papers

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko's (1853-1921) short stories unravel spatially rather than temporally--that is, juxtaposition of episodes in a moment of time takes precedence over sequential presentation. Past and present are often "fused in one comprehensive view," giving them a spatial form. Korolenko's narrator, proceeding along a road, unexpectedly meets interesting individuals and soon witnesses their actions and/or shares with them events from their past that have shaped their present world view through a recollection. It is as though the very volatility of the protagonists' present situation helps disclose a moment of decision from their past. This distinct present is portrayed through …

Review Of Tina Krontiris, Oppositional Voices: Womtlen As Writers And Tanslators Of Literature In The English Renaissance, And Isobel Grundy And Susan Wiseman, Editors, Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740, Carole Levin

Department of History: Faculty Publications

These two books on women writing in early modern England are very different and both make an important contribution to a growing body of critical studies. Krontiris's study centers on six fairly well-known writers: Isabella Whitney, Margaret Tyler, Mary Herbert, Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, and Mary Wroth. The purpose of her study is to explain how the same culture that produced a prohibitive ideology for women about what were their capabilities could also produce at least some women who wrote, published, and sometimes voiced criticism of this system. Krontiris did not intend to be exhaustive; rather, she was interested in …

The Structure Of Ethics In The Early Christian Church: A Sourcebook, James Edward Shaul

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

Rather than construct a moral monolith, or argue for any specific ethical position, the goal of this thesis is to lay a foundation upon which an ethical system can be built. The goal of this thesis is to construct a solid base of information that will inform and help direct discussion in Christian ethics. In finding a common base, the Christian community may not necessarily find moral consensus, but it certainly is hoped that is can find common understanding and therefore some measure of intellectual unity. This thesis attempts to examine the actual writings of the early Christian church, describing …

Review Of Zwischen Revolution Und Orthodoxie? Schelling Und Seine Freunde Im Stift Und An Der Universität Tübingen: Texte Und Untersuchungen. By Wilhelm G. Jacobs, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

This volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the education Schelling and his contemporaries received at the Tübingen Stift in the last decades of the eighteenth century. The book consists of three parts: first Jacobs's discussion of the academic setting of the Stift, and then two sections of previously unpublished texts-a selection of eight Specimina (masters' essays) written between 1785 and 1795 by some of the lesser lights at the St$, followed by a list of the titles of all dissertations and Speciminawritten at the Stift during the same time period. While earlier studies have pointed …

Information On Organ Registration From A Student Of J.S. Bach, Quentin Faulkner

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

Despite two centuries of research into the life and music of Johann S. Bach, there is little that can be said with certainty about his organ registration practices. Aside from two short passages (quoted below) that merely assert Bach's understanding of and skill at registration, there is only J. F. Agricola's report that Bach liked reed stops. Up until now, it has not been possible to identify sources, either from Bach himself or from his immediate circle, that offer precise instructions on organ registration. The source described and translated here provides such information.

The source is an article found in …

Paintings And Drawings In Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné, Polly P. Duryea

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Paintings and Drawings in Willa Cather's Prose: A Catalogue Raisonné considers the specific artists and their visual art that greatly influenced Willa Cather's textual compositions. The Catalogue draws upon the author's research of Cather-related art from both American and European libraries and art museums. This art includes painting, drawing, illustration, and tapestry. A detailed and alphabetized list of selected artists and paintings that Cather preferred is provided. The artists are cross-referenced with Cather's own statements about their work or style. Included is biographical data for each artist, the named work of art, and often the date executed, the location then …

Influence Of Shade Depth On The Effectiveness Of Selected Ultraviolet Absorbers In Reducing Fading, Wendelin Marie Rich, Patricia Cox Crews

Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

This study evaluates the ability of seven ultraviolet (UV) absorbers to reduce fading of nylon colored with nine synthetic acid dyes applied at 0.5% and 0.05% owf concentrations. By including two concentrations, we could evaluate the influence of depth of shade on the absorbers’ effectiveness. Specimens were treated with UV absorbers using one of two application methods: an exhaust bath at 100°C or an immersion treatment at room temperature. After treatment, specimens were exposed to 160 AFUs of light in a xenon-arc Weather-Ometer, then evaluated instrumentally to determine the amount of color change. The UV absorbers examined here provided only …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:13 – Spring/Summer 1993

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Contact, Crossover, Continuity
Letter from the Editor
Change of Address
Call for Bibliographies
TSA Board of Directors
Letter from the President
Museum Receives Major Grant
Textile Gallery Opens in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bhutanese Textiles Sought
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The Kermis Woodcuts Of Sebald Beham In Reformation Nuremberg, Alison Stewart

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Sebald Beham's kermis prints, published in Nuremberg from 1528 to the mid-1530s, are discussed within the context of kermis as a popular festival in Nuremberg. The kermis images, created at the time the Lutheran Reformation was taking hold in Nuremberg, are shown to be both extensions of that festival celebrated throughout Nuremberg's countryside and of the town council's attempts to control or halt most of the celebration. In contrast to recent studies stressing the peasant class and criticism of it at kermis, and the viewer's distance from what is represented, this essay shows that members of all social classes enjoyed …

Reply To Allison, Nelson T. Potter Jr.

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

In "Kant's Doctrine of Obligatory Ends," Henry Allison offers an interpretation of this central doctrine of the Tugendlehre portion of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals that partly agrees with and partly takes issue with an earlier article of mine on the same topic. The disagreement between us might seem to be on a small point, and yet I think it will tum out that this point has considerable significance for interpreting and understanding Kant's ethical theory. I wish here to explain the issues, and defend my own earlier account.

Three Deuteronomy Manuscripts From Cave 4, Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to present three hitherto unpublished manuscripts (part of the twenty-one Deuteronomy manuscripts from Cave 4, Qumran): 4QDta, 4QDtd, and 4QDtg. These three manuscripts are placed together in this article because each has a particular feature of interest: 4QDta is the oldest of the Cave 4 Deuteronomy manuscripts; 4QDtd contains a very defective orthography; and 4QDtg presents a text identical to that of the Masoretic text. In the body of the article, each manuscript is presented separately, beginning with a description of the physical characteristics of each manuscript. This description is followed by a complete …

Tchoeotta.........P'Urotta, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

For Percussion (4).

17 pages

Fanfare For A New College, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for Brass Ensemble. Ceremonial work for 14 brass concluding with a twisted quote of “There Is No Place Like Nebraska”. 4:00

Oboe Sonata, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

for Oboe and Piano written for William McMullen

Namdaemun, For Orchestra, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

Namdaemun is the great South gate of Seoul, Korea. First constructed in 1398 during the Yi Dynasty, Namdaemun is today one of Korea’s most imposing monuments as well as the site for one of the largest open air markets in the world. It has been designated National Treasure No. 1 by the South Korean government. This work attempts to suggest the colorful and variegated processions that have passed under the Namdaemun over the years - a cavalcade of kings, aristocrats, Buddhist monks, merchants, farmers, shamans and slaves, all accompanied by their own unique music: the slow, solemn heterophony of “Aak” …

Review Of: Luigi Borriello E Giovanna Della Croce. Conoscere Dio É La Vocazione Dell'uomo: Linee Di Antropologia Mistica In San Giovanni Della Croce., Elizabeth Wilhelmsen

Spanish Language and Literature

Es éste un estudio que compendia el pensamiento global de San Juan de la Cruz, haciendo hincapié en el componente de antropología en su función de base tanto filosófica come existencial del itinerario vital del místico. En los primeros dos capítulos, los coautores Borriello y Giovanna della Croce discuten las diversas corrientes de renovación espiritual que se dieron en el ambiente en que se formó San Juan del la Cruz, es decir, la España de la primera mitad del siglo XVI. Hacen mención del erasmismo, de la devotio moderna, de los "alumbrados", de la reforma del franciscanismo español, de la …

Maimonides And Analogy, Stephen E. Lahey

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Does the predication of a relation between two things imply that each of the relata have attributes predicable as well? In Volume I, Ch. 52 of The Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides discusses this, and he seems to imply that it does. I will argue, using Aristotle’s discussion of relativity as a predicate in Bk. 5, Ch. 15 of Metaphysics, that it does not, and I shall use this to discuss the consequent improved utility of an analogy Maimonides constructs between God and creatures in I.53. To do this, I shall need to recount a logic of analogy for Maimonides …

What Is Wrong With Kant’S Four Examples, Nelson T. Potter Jr.

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Kant gives four examples to illustrate the application of the categorical imperative immediately after introducing its “universal law” formulation in Chapter Two his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. These examples have been much discussed to gain an understanding of how the categorical imperative applies to derive specific duties. It is argued that the discussions found in these examples do not accord well with Kant’s fuller account of that application in his later work The Metaphysics of Morals. That [later] work has quite different, sometimes better, arguments for the same moral conclusions, and never mentions the argument against …

More Than A Reasonable Facsimile: Yvette Quenot's Edition Of Jean De La Ceppède's Théorèmes, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

Since the rehabilitation of Jean de La Ceppède's Théorèmes, study of the work has been hindered by the lack of an easily readable, critically annotated edition. Though extracts of his meditations appeared in a few poetry anthologies during the twentieth century, it was not until 1966, with the appearance of Jean Rousset's Droz facsimile that full access to the sonnets and the poet's annotations could be gained without consulting the original Toulouse editions of 1613 and 1622. The Droz text, though in many ways quite useful, is not sufficient for serious scholarship. Its archaic typefaces, moreover, make reading difficult …

Against Relativism: Restoring Truth In Writing, Barbara Couture

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Jasper Neel and Barbara Herrnstein Smith do not find truth in writing because they do not regard truth as integral with human experience. As I have proposed, three rational assumptions deny the relationship. Ideological historicism rejects the malleability of the future and denies the possibility of human agency that both embraces and overcomes the past. Hence, truth which has not yet been found is seen as unattainable in human experience and, thus, in writing. Essentialist objectivity makes of truth an exchangeable, displaceable, replaceable object; it encourages the belief that observable and discrete differences in individuals' values deny the possibility of …

Calvin’S Jewish Interlocutor: Christian Hebraism And Anti-Jewish Polemics During The Reformation, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The nature of Calvin’s tractate Reponse to questions and objections of a certain Jew (Ad quaestiones et obiecta Judaei cuiusdam responsio) has long been a matter of some dispute among Calvin scholars. The nineteenth-century editors of Calvin’s works considered the book to be “meager and weak,” no doubt assuming that Calvin was responsible for composing both the questions and answers. In the twentieth century, scholars have been more inclined to see some evidence of an actual dispute between a Jew and a Christian in the book. Most notably Salo Baron suggested that the work reflects an exchange that Josel of …

Review Of: The Redaction Of The Books Of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts, By Michael V. Fox., Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Redaction of the Books of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts, by Michael V. Fox. SBLMS 40. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. Pp. x + 195. $29.95118.95 (18.95112.95 member).

Michael Fox's excellent monograph is an exemplary redaction critical study of several witnesses to the book of Esther. The goal of the study, according to the author, is "to advance our understanding of the redactional process in general by studying the development of two particular representatives of the Esther tradition, the AT (Alpha text) and the MT (p. 6). Both of these texts, Fox argues, are redactions of previous works: the …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:12 – Winter 1993

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Tours & Travel
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Preserving Natural Science Collections: Chronicle Of Our Environmental Heritage, W. Donald Duckworth, Hugh H. Genoways, Carolyn L. Rose

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

This report recommends action in the areas outlined below. Strategies for implementation of each recommendation are presented in chapter three, "Meeting the Challenge: Recommendations and Strategies."

Stewardship of collections

Public awareness

Staffing, education, and training

Technology transfer

Conservation research

Guidelines and standards of practice

Plotinus And St. John Of The Cross: Concurrences And Divergencies, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen

Spanish Language and Literature

We propose to examine here two renowned champions of mysticism, Plotinus and St. John of the Cross. The former, the third-century Greek philosopher from Alexandria in northern Egypt, is the father of Neoplatonism. The latter, the sixteenth-century Castilian Carmelite, is known as reformer of his order, as theologian, as mystic, and as sublime poet of divine love. Both figures can be described, above all and specifically, as mystics: that is, as practitioners of mysticism and, at the same time, as theoreticians of mysticism. There is shared by both one dominating concern and objective: personal, experiential union with the transcendent Other, …