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Full Issue, Vol. 43 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

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Floristics Of The Upper Walker River, California, Matt Lavin

Great Basin Naturalist

A checklist of the vascular flora of the upper Walker River is presented. Listed are 1078 taxa from this 4000 km² area. The upper Walker River encompasses a portion of the boundary between the Intermountain and Sierra Nevada floristic regions, and hence displays much floristic diversity within a relatively small area. Due to its location along the east slope of the Sierra Nevada, the Walker River drainage is unique in that it contains much elevational variation eastward into the Intermountain Region. This elevational extension is due to the presence of large mountain ranges including the Sweetwater Mountains, the Bodie …

Food Of Larval Tui Chubs, Gila Bicolor, In Pyramid Lake, Nevada, David L. Galat, Nancy Vucinich

Great Basin Naturalist

Four near-surface locations in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, were sampled for larval tui chubs (Gila bicolor) during summer and early fall 1979. Numbers of larvae collected were highest in mid-July. Zooplankton was the only food eaten throughout the survey; the cladoceran Moina hutchinsoni was the major species eaten at all locations. Another cladoceran, Diaphanosoma leuchtenbergianum, was also important to the diet of pelagic larvae, and the copepod Cyclops vernalis was eaten in significant quantities by nearshore fish. Changes in diet composition of larval tui chubs during summer corresponded to seasonal succession of zooplankton species in Pyramid Lake.

Front Matter, Vol. 43 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

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Agropyron Arizonicum (Gramineae: Triticeae) And A Natural Hybrid From Arizona, Grant L. Pyrah

Great Basin Naturalist

The new hybrid X Agrositanion pinalenoensis (Gramineae: Tribe Triticeae) is found in disturbed, forested areas of higher elevations in southern Arizona. In the Pinaleno Mountains where logging has been heavy, numerous disturbed habitats have permitted frequent hybrid populations to persist. Intermediate phenotype, chromosome behavior, lack of seed set, and pollen sterility were used to interpret the status of this hybrid derivative. Introgression and/or segregation are not apparent.

John Skelton: Courtly Maker/Popular Poet, Nancy A. Gutierrez

Quidditas

The eight poems in Latin and English written at the time of the English victory at Flodden Field in 1513 are various combinations of praise, vituperation, satire, and polemic, reflecting the attitudes of their authors. John Skelton, Thomas More, Peter Carmelianus, and Bernard André. These courtly makers, homogeneous in both their humanist background and court employment, see the battle essentially the same way–as an occasion to celebrate their royal employer and to abuse his enemy–thus the differing verse forms and slanted treatments are grounded in a common point of view. However, John Skelton, as author of three of the eight …

Back Matter

The Bridge

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Full Issue

The Bridge

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Petrarch's Rhetorical Reticentia As Politics, Lucia Re

Quidditas

A discussion of Petrarch's politics must take into account the historicity of politics itself: political science, as distinct from other disciplines, is generally believed to originate with Machiavelli. It would therefore be anti-historical to attribute to Petrarch a systematic political vision (as it is understood today). The modern claim for the independence of political theory and practice is as alien to Petrarch as the possibility of a theologically integrated political vision: Petrarch could not and would not have written either Il Prinicpe or Dante's De Monarchia. Nevertheless, I will speak of Petrarch's politics not only because, at a very …

The Mormon Psychotherapists: An Addendum, Genevieve De Hoyos, Arturo De Hoyos

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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Contributors

The Bridge

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"Our Mission To The Indians": An Account Of A Danish Immigrant Church's Mission To The Cherokee Indians In 1892, John Mark Nielsen

The Bridge

On April 1, 1892, a letter by Detlev Leerskov appeared in Kirkebladet, the church newspaper of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America, otherwise known to Danish immigrants as the Blair Church. Leerskov, who had emigrated from Denmark ten years earlier, married a Cherokee woman, and settled among the Cherokee in what was then Indian Territory, wrote to tell the readers of Kirkebladet how he had received a copy of their paper from his brother in Hutchinson, Minnesota, and that this had been "the first Christian reading in the Danish language" that he had seen in ten years. Moreover, …

Iconoclasm As A Revolutionary Tactic: The Case Of Switzerland 1524-1536, Carlos M. N. Eire

Quidditas

Iconoclasm, Revolution and the Reformation: Some Observations.

"That Most Erudite Of Tudor Lawyers,' Christopher St. German, R. J. Schoeck

Quidditas

Christopher St. German: The Man and His Family

William Turner's Use Of The Dialogue Form As A Weapon Of Religious Controversy, R. Pineas

Quidditas

While the entire subject of Tudor religious polemics has been more often regretted than studied, some of the more prominent controversialists, such as William Tyndale or Thomas More, have received some attention, but such has not been the fate of William Turner (?-1568). No full-length treatment of Turner exists, and what studies there are concern themselves mainly with his activities as a naturalist. This is all the more surprising when one considers that of all the radical Reformers who were dissatisfied with Henry VIII's reformation and transformation of the English Church into the Church of England, William Turner, physician to …

Early Recollections As A Counseling Technique, Ron Jacques

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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Transference To Deity, K-Lynn Paul

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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"Laegepraksis I Chicago," Brogede Minder, Morris Salmonsen

The Bridge

The Danish-born physician Christian Fenger, whose career was recounted by William K. Beatty in the last issue of The Bridge, was one of many Scandinavian doctors in Chicago during the boom decades one hundred years ago. In a city bursting with immigrants, some Scandinavian doctors catered to their countrymen, and had in most cases to be content with modest financial and social rewards. Others, like Fenger, affiliated with hospitals and made strong contributions to medical science of the day. By today's standards, the practice of medicine was virtually unregulated; the state of the science was in transition as research and …

Bacon's Allegory Of Science: The Theater Of The New Atlantis, Patricia Demers

Quidditas

I conceive that I perform the office of a true priest of the sense (from which all knowledge in nature must be sought, unless men mean to go mad) and a not unskilful interpreter of its oracles. ("The Plan of the Work," The Great Instauration)

Dramatic poesy among the ancients ... has been regarded by learned men and great philosophers as a kind of musician's bow by which men's minds may be played upon. (Translation of the "De Augmentis," The Second Book)

Lufly And Its Variants In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Jacqueline De Weever

Quidditas

When Gawain enters the great hall of Bercilak's castle, he is welcomed and made to feel at home with a fine meal and fresh garments, and the lords and ladies, learning that he is Sir Gawain of King Arthur's court, say to one another:

'In menyng of manerez mere

þis burne now schal vus bryng,

I hope þaat may hym here

Schal lerne of luf-talking.' (924-927)

"Luf-talking" is Gawain's most famous attribute, and the adjectives and adverbs lufly, luflych, luflyly appear with the second highest frequency among adjectives and adverbs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, …

Contents

The Bridge

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Healing: Bringing The Atonement To The Clinical Setting, Val D. Macmurray

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention 1 October, 1982.

Medical And Nutritional Aspects Of Famine In Twentieth Century China, Arline T. Golkin

Selected Papers in Asian Studies: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

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Front Matter

Quidditas

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Strains Within The Mormon Subculture, Larry K. Langlois

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the AMCAP Convention 1 October, 1982.

Shirley's The Lady Of Pleasure: The Dialect Of Earth And Sky, Tony J. Stafford

Quidditas

At the beginning of James Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure, Aretina's Steward tells her that if she will be patient, she will have her pleasure. Aretina, who has just come up from the country, makes it clear that finding pleasure is precisely her reason for coming to London. Thus introduces to her, we assume that she is the lady of pleasure referred to in the play's title. Indeed, Aretina's constant effort throughout the play to indulge in city fun seems to confirm our first impression. But we miss the play's subtlety if we accept the obvious, for Shirley seems …

Robert Herrick's "His Grange, Or Private Wealth": A Gentleman Farmer's Ledger, Clara E. Fendley

Quidditas

In The Arte of English Poesie (1589), George Puttenham describes certain "Geometricall figures," i.e., shaped poems, written in the "Courts of the great Princes of China and Tartarie." Puttenham argues that the concise verse forms

insinuat some secret, wittie, morall and brave purpose presented to the beholder, either to recreate his eye, or please his phantasie, or examine his iudgement, or occupie his braine or to manage his will either by hope or by dread, every of which respects be of no little moment to the interest and ornament of the civill life: and therefore give them no litle commendation. …

Full Issue

Quidditas

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Resurrection And Celestial Jerusalem: The Influence Of The Easter Liturgy On The Nave Decoration Of St. Maurice At Vienne, Ricki Weinberger

Quidditas

The unfinished Romanesque nave of the cathedral of Vienne is a fascinating monument. Begun around 1140, the building campaign appears to have ended abruptly in the 1160's with only the lower story of the seven easternmost bays of the nave completed. The rest of the church was finished during the Gothic period. Despite its unfinished state, the twelfth century structure is richly decorated, with fluted pilasters and pointed arches, ornate mouldings, and over sixty figural and vegetal capitals (Fig. 1). The beauty and complexity of this program are evident; however its subtleties have not been thoroughly explored as yet.

Provo In The Jazz Age: A Case Study, Gary C. Kunz

Theses and Dissertations

Many historians have suggested in their writings that much of the social behavior that made the decade of the twenties unique had their origins in the urban centers, leaving the small towns taking no active participation in the Jazz Age.

The purpose of this paper is to show that Provo, Utah, a small, isolated community took a very active part in the Jazz Age, contrary to what has been suggested. There was a considerable quantity of drunkenness, bootlegging, wild dancing and partying in Provo during the decade, much more than historians suggest there should have been in a community the …