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Cryptogamic Soil Crusts: Seasonal Variation In Algal Populations In The Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth

Great Basin Naturalist

The soil algae in the Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah, was studied over a one-year period in 1982 and 1983. Fluorescence microscopy was used to measure algal density in samples directly from the field. A total of 30 algal taxa was observed, blue-green algae being most abundant both in terms of density and number of species. Algal density showed peaks in late fall and late spring. Minima were present in September 1982 and July 1983. Several weak correlations between algal density and climatic data existed. In general algae correlated positively with precipitation and negatively with temperature. A combination of low …

Deception And Distance In Béroul's Tristan: A Reconsideration, Norris J. Lacy

Quidditas

Some years ago, I suggested that the irony and the pervasive equivocations that characterize the text of Béroul's Tristan have the effect of precluding, on the narrator's part, an implicit ethical endorsement of the characters. Although that is still my view, I went on, perhaps too incautiously, to question Béroul's narrative reliability. Considering the importance of such matters for our understanding of Béroul's art, it is not inappropriate to reconsider this problem. In fact, I think it reasonable now to begin with the assertion that, although his work is full of ambiguities, ironies, and tricks, Béroul's narrator never deceives his …

The Fiction Of The "Livre" In Robert De Boron's Merlin, Stephen Maddux

Quidditas

Robert de Baron, thought to have been responsible for changing Chrétien's graal into a Christian relic and his tale of Perceval into a cycle, was also an innovator when it came to the convention of the bookish source for his story. Marie de France and Chrétien both were careful to supply their poems with some kind of external authority, which was often book-like, if not in fact always a written text. Chrétien twice refers to actual books; Marie de France's sources were presumably all oral, but she treats them as though they were written, that is, deserving the same treatment …

Chaucer And The Three Crowns Of Florence (Dante, Petrarch, And Boccaccio): Recent Comparative Scholarship, Madison U. Sowell

Quidditas

Chaucer and the Italian Trecento. Ed. Piero Boitani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 313 p. $49.50.

Howard H. Schless, Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1984. 268 p. $85.00.

R. A. Shoaf, Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the World: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1983. 313 p. $39.95.

Correspondence With Women: The Case Of John Knox, A. Daniel Frankforter

Quidditas

The Reformation opened an ambiguous era for women. There were risks of losses and opportunities for gain for women who made the transition to Protestant faith. Protestant women gave up some traditional religious supports. The Virgin Mary and the female saints, who provided Catholic women with role models and sisterly patronage, were thrust aside. Priestly intercession ended, the Protestant women, like men, stood alone with their consciences in the presence of God. Women were denied the option of careers as nuns in self-governing female communities, and virginity ceased to be a respected female vocation. All women were expected to marry, …

Nineteenth-Century Memsahibs In India, Margaret Case

Comparative Civilizations Review

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German Idealism In A Comparative Perspective: Hierarchy In The Thought Of Fichte, Louis Dumont

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Latin And Vernacular In Fourteenth- And Fifteenth-Century Italy, Paul Oskar Kristeller

Quidditas

The subject of this essay concerns Dante only indirectly and in part. Nevertheless I hope to be able, among other things, to explain Dante's historical position and his influence on the Italian Renaissance. I cannot avoid partially repeating what I wrote in some of my previous studies, especially in my early article on the Italian prose language. Some of my prior observations, which seemed new to me at the time, have since been widely accepted; but some new sources and literature have been added in the meantime, and on some points I have changed my opinion or paid attention to …

Muslim Perceptions Of The West; Iran, Roger Savory

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections Of "Orientalism" From The Angle Of Japan-Related Research, Carl Steenstrup

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Duty To Desire: Love, Friendship, And Sexuality In Some Puritan Theories Of Marriage, Edmund Leites

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Discours Islamiques, Discours Orientalistes Et Pensée Scientifique, Mohammed Arkoun

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Pearl Ships, Jim Walker

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Interpreting Plato's Euthyphro And Meno, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Plato's decision to use heuristic drama (in the tradition of Aeschylus and Sophocles) as a vehicle for his philosophical teachings forces the serious reader to make a careful examination of the literary elements of the dialogues. Plato's basic reason for using this literary form is to provide guidance for the interpretation of the content. As Kitto has observed, "In a great work of art, whether a play, a picture, or a piece of music, the connexion between the form and the content is so vital that the two may be said to be ultimately identical." It is therefore counterproductive to …

Muslim Perceptions Of The West, Bernard Lewis

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Western Scholarship On The Middle East, G. Michael Wickens

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Sexual Ambivalence In Western Scholarship On Hindu India: A History Of The Idea Of Shakto-Tantrism, David Kopf

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Brigham Young University In The Arab Development Society Dairy Project For Palestinian Orphans: A Case Study In Private Bilateral Foreign Aid, Daneil C. Olson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine nine essential planning principles in the selecting and implementing an aid project. These nine principles will then be used to analyze BYU's involvement with the ADS dairy project. The project is presented from a historical viewpoint. An analysis is mainly given retrospectively at the end of the history of the BYU involvement phase of the project.

Goals And Objectives Of The Danish American Heritage Society

The Bridge

To promote an interest in Danish American contributions to American life.

To encourage research in the life and culture of Danish Americans.

To serve as an agency for the publication of studies of Danish American contributions to American life.

To provide a means of communication and education for individuals interested in the activities of Danish Americans .

Nuclear War And Computer-Generated Nuclear Alerts, Douglas M. Campbell

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Asiagraphics System For Ideographic Automation, C. S. George

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Publications, Yeen-Mei Wu Chang, Lily Kecskes, Wen-Kai Kung, Edwin G. Beal, Yoshiko Yoshimura

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The Demand For Korean Serials In American Libraries, Yong Kyu Choo

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

New Documents And Mormon Beginnings, Dean C. Jessee

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Libraries And Institutions, Yoshiko Yoshimura, Emiko Mashiko Moffitt, Ramon Hawley Myers

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Diatoms Of The Middle Fork Of The Salmon River Drainage, With Notes On Their Relative Abundance And Distribution, C. E. Cushing, S. R. Rushforth

Great Basin Naturalist

A total of 145 species of diatoms was collected from 13 sites in the Middle Fork of the Salmon River drainage, Idaho, USA. Achnanthes minutissima was the prevalent species with an importance index of 19.25. Cluster analysis revealed 2 main site groupings, sites above the entrance of Loon Creek and sites below. The entrance of Loon Creek (6th order) increases the Middle Fork of the Salmon River to a 7th order stream. Shannon–Weiner diversity values were generally high.

Finalizing Plans For The Trek West: Deliberations At Winter Quarters, 1846-1847, Richard E. Bennett

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Cultural Conflict: Mormons And Indians In Nebraska, Lawrence G. Coates

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.