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“Precios Perle Wythouten Spotte”: Accepting The Unknowable In Pearl, Jana Ishee

Master's Theses

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl, authored by the anonymous Pearl-poet, survives in a manuscript known as London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A.x. This dream vision, narrated by a grieving father, tells the story of his journey to Paradise, where he encounters his infant daughter, now older, regal, and wise, proffering admonishments with the authority of God to her tearful father. meeting with her in Paradise. Drawing on Caroline Walker Bynum’s work on medieval European conceptions of death and resurrection, J. Stephen Russell’s work on the dream vision genre, and Karl Steel’s work on oysters as liminal figures, …

دور "المواطن الصحفي" في التغطية الإخبارية, خليل عبدالله علي أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة تأثير المواطن الصحفي على عملية التغطية الإخبارية، والوقوف على أبرز التحولات الرقمية في عالم الأخبار بجانب التعرف على أسس ومعايير التغطية الإخبارية. اتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، واستخدمت الملاحظة والاستبانة كأدوات علمية لجمع المعلومات، وتوصلت الدراسة لعدد من النتائج أهمها :

• 80% من أفراد العينة المبحوثة أشاروا إلى أن المواطن الصحفي يتصف بالمهنية في نقل الأخبار.
• كشفت الدراسة أن الأخبار السياسية تشكل نسبة عالية من اهتمامات المواطن الصحفي في التغطية الإخبارية.

وبناءً على النتائج أوصت الدراسة بالآتى:

- ضرورة الاستفادة من قدرات المواطنيين الصحفيين في وسائل الإعلام المختلفة.

- ضرورة قيام المؤسسات الإعلامية بتدريب …

Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach, Gwenyth E. Hood

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

An artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture’s imagination by exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, investing considerable energy in establishing and alluding to its dates (starting Good Friday, 1300). Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche.

Mes 160: Classical Islamic Literature & Civilization, Kirsten Beck

Open Educational Resources

This open resource includes a syllabus, class schedule, grading rubrics, and guidelines/examples for digital poetry annotation.

The course website can be found here: http://mes160.social.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/

In this course, we will take a journey through history, literature, and ideas, traveling through Islamic civilization from 600-1250 CE. We will learn about and contemplate the major events and concerns of Islamic civilization, from the dawn of Islam through the expansions, transformations, and fragmentations of Islamic empires, up until the end of the 13th century. Works of Islamic literature from a variety of genres will fuel our journey. Along the way, we will learn how …

الأطر الخبرية لقضية حصار غزة في المواقع الإلكترونية للصحف الأمريكية دراسة تحليلية مقارنة, طلعت عبد الحميد عيسى استاذ مشارك, محمد حسام منصور

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

ملخص:

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على الأطر الخبرية لتغطية المواقع الإلكترونية للصحف الأمريكية لقضية حصار غزة، ومدى اهتمامها بهذه القضية، بالإضافة إلى التعرف على الشخصيات المحورية، وأطر الأسباب والحلول، وأهم آليات وأدوات التأطير المختلفة التي اعتمدت عليها مواقع الدراسة في تغطيتها لهذه القضية.

وهي دراسة وصفية استخدمت منهج الدراسات المسحية، وفي إطاره استخدم الباحثان أسلوب تحليل المضمون، ومنهج العلاقات المتبادلة الذي في إطاره تم استخدام أسلوب المقارنة المنهجية، واعتمدت الدراسة على أداتي استمارة تحليل المضمون المبنية على نظرية الأطر الخبرية، واختار الباحثان الموقع الالكتروني لصحيفة النيويورك تايمز، والموقع الإلكتروني لصحيفة الواشنطن بوست، خلال المدة بين 14 يونيو 2007م إلى 3 …

Medieval Infertility: Treatments, Cures, And Consequences, Zia Simpson

The Forum: Journal of History

Since the first civilizations emerged, reproductive ability has been one of the most prominent elements in assessing a woman’s value to society. Other characteristics such as beauty, intelligence, and wealth may have been granted comparable consequence, but those are arbitrary and improvable. Fertility is genetic, and for centuries it was beyond human control. Among the medieval European nobility, fertility held even greater power. The absence of an heir could, either directly or indirectly, bring about war, economic depression, and social disorder. Catholicism provided a refuge by allowing barren women to retain their hopes, while simultaneously enriching Rome’s coffers. Other women …

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مستقبل الإعلام التقليدي في ظل فاعلية الإعلام الجديد, احمد اسماعيل محمد أستاذ مشارك

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

ظل الإعلام التقليدي بوسائله المعروفة (الصحافة، الإذاعة، التلفزيون) مهيمناً على الساحة الإعلامية ومستحوذاً على الجمهور منذ أمد بعيد، إلى أن ظهر الإعلام الجديد بخصائصه النوعية وظل منافساً للإعلام التقليدي في القيام بالدور الطليعي الذي يؤديه تجاه الجمهور، ما دفع الباحث لدراسة العلاقة بين النمطين لتحديد مستقبل الإعلام التقليدي في ظل المد والتأثير الكبير للإعلام الجديد، فقسم بحثه إلى خمسة مطالب هي: المطلب الأول عبارة عن الإطار المنهجي للبحث، والثاني يتناول وسائل الإعلام التقليدي، والمطلب الثالث يتحدث عن الإعلام الجديد، والمطلب الرابع يقدم إجراءات الدراسة التطبيقية، والمطلب الخامس يشتمل على النتائج والتوصيات، وقائمة المصادر والمراجع، وبعد إجراء الدراسة توصل الباحث …

Signum Draco Magno Scilicet, Or, Eärendel And The Dragon: Heavenly Warfare In Medieval European And Tolkienian Annals, Kristine Larsen

Journal of Tolkien Research

One of Middle-earth’s Primary World connections is its position as a written history of events in the distant past. Tolkien actively adopted the medieval traditions of annals, chronicles, and histories, especially in his writings concerning the First Age of Middle-earth, developing a fictional medieval historiography. This paper focuses on annalistic descriptions of three battles pitting Melkor against either the Valar, the Elves, or the united forces of both groups, and compares Tolkien’s descriptions of heavenly battles to depictions of astronomical events in Primary World medieval annals.

Tolkien, Manuscripts, And Dialect, Edward Risden

Journal of Tolkien Research

Study of languages, names, and dialects may have been the greatest motivating factor in Tolkien's scholarship and his fiction: he found in every name (and even in every word) a story to unearth. Clear connections appear between the scholarly vector that connects his investigations into the Gawain-poet (his location and language), the Ancrene Riwle, and locating the linguistic variants in The Reeve's Tale, for instance, with the creation of the various speech patterns in The Lord of the Rings. Beyond the obvious examples of the Elvish languages Tolkien created, the Westron-Hobbiton dialect that Sam uses, variants among …

The Text Of The "Abc Of Aristotle" In The ‘Winchester Anthology’, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Middle English ABC of Aristotle is an alliterative abecedary poem that survives in fifteen manuscript copies dating between the mid-fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The most eccentric copy, bearing the greatest number of unique textual variants, is in London, British Library, Additional 60577, a commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose known today as the ‘Winchester Anthology’. The Winchester copy of the ABC of Aristotle is distinguished from all others by changes to vocabulary, idiom, and prosody. The result is a unique redaction, illustrating the kind of literary composition that could be expected to grow out of late …

Prophecy, Emanation, And The Mediterranean Middle Ages, Alberto Gelmi

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation explores the notion of prophecy as a semiotic construct in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on a chronological span that runs from Late Antiquity to the 14^th century. It argues that theories of prophecy offer useful insights in the domain of rhetoric and not just in epistemology, as scholarship has predominantly contended. The first two chapters survey the trendsetting work of Augustine, al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Maimonides, arguing that their semiotic angle on prophecy depends on a structural affinity with the metaphysical template of emanationism as formulated by Plotinus and Proclus, whose teachings went often misrepresented or …

Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, And Neurodiversity In Young Adult Texts, Jes Battis

Premodern Transgressive Literatures

Why do we love wizards? Where do these magical figures come from? Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring the link between Merlin and Harry Potter, or Morgan la Fey and Sabrina, readers will see how the wizard offers spaces of hope and transformation for young readers. In particular, this book examines how wizards think differently, and how this difference can resonate with both LGBTQ and neurodivergent readers, who’ve been told they don’t fit in.

J.R.R. Tolkien's "Homecoming" And Modern Alliterative Metre, Anna Smol, Rebecca Foster

Journal of Tolkien Research

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son” is a modern English alliterative verse drama written in the metre of Old English poetry and demonstrating his interest in versification and his skill in writing original alliterative verse in new and versatile ways. Tolkien’s originality also lies in his use of alliterative metre in a play, a genre not written by the early English; in fact, “The Homecoming” is Tolkien’s only published drama as well as historical fiction. While Tolkien bases this work on historical events recounted in the Old English poem “The Battle of Maldon,” he also uses his drama …

Civil Disobedience From A Biblical Perspective, Gabriel Reed

Helm's School of Government Conference - 2021-2024

To say that civil disobedience is a complicated topic is to severely understate the topic. It is a subject matter that has derived many different and disparate opinions, points of view, and public policies. Specifically, within America today, we observe calls for civil disobedience from both sides of the political spectrum, over several divergent political ideals. These issues are, primarily, driven from both sides’ desire to provide protection and provision for the oppressed and those who cannot necessarily speak for themselves. The definition of who is necessarily oppressed and whom their oppressors are varies from person to person, regardless of …

The Humanity Of Christ As Instrument Of Salvation In The Theology Of Thomas Aquinas, J. David Moser

Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations

Interpreters of Thomas Aquinas’s Christology have long observed the uniqueness of his claim that Christ’s human nature is “an instrument of the divinity.” For Aquinas, the mysteries of Christ’s life, the actions and sufferings he underwent in the flesh (acta et passa Christi in carne), cause our salvation in the present. And they have this effect because Christ’s humanity is a “conjoined instrument” of the divinity, united to the Logos, the second person of the Trinity, in person. By contrast, nearly all of Aquinas’s medieval contemporaries, like Bonaventure (1224-1274) as well as Aquinas himself, argued that the humanity …

Love With Excuse: Contextualizing Themes In Adaptations Of The Legend Of Tristan And Isolde, Lillianna Wright

Senior Honors Theses

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is perhaps the most influential Arthurian romance apart from Lancelot and Guinevere. It has been retold many times, with each iteration responding to its own unique cultural context as well as adopting varying approaches to the medieval traditions of courtly love. The works of Wagner, Malory, and Gottfried von Strassburg all develop different versions of the same three themes: sexuality, the worthiness of love, and death. These various reconstructions of Tristan and Isolde's story blend syntheses of courtly love and historically contemporary approaches to romance, but all three reinventions romanticize it; while Strassburg and …

56th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies (live on the internet May 10-15, 2021), together with the Corrigenda.

Cisterician And Monastic Studies 2021 Conference, The Center For Cistercian And Monastic Studies

Conference on Cistercian Studies Programs

A program for the Cistercian and Monastic Studies in conjunction with the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies. This conference happened on May 3-7, 2021.

Dies Legibiles I

Dies Legibiles

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Dies Legibiles Undergraduate Journal of Medieval Studies! We are thrilled to share this work with you. During our undergraduate careers in medieval studies, we have been able to read, think, and learn about such varied aspects of the medieval world as religion, science, art, and history. But too often those breakthroughs, thoughts, and conversations remain confined to the classroom and the semester. Our hope is that through this journal, undergraduates from any institution can begin to see that their explorations need not be confined to a grading stack or to a final paper, …