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Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, And Other Addresses To Readers, Phyllis Brown Oct 2012

Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, And Other Addresses To Readers, Phyllis Brown

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The most complete manuscript of Hrotsvit's writings, Bavarian State Library Clm 14485 (the Munich codex), includes prefaces, dedications, and other addresses to readers in which Hrotsvit names herself and provides information about her education, writing practices, and purposes. If this manuscript had not survived, we might have some of her plays and poems extant in other manuscripts, but we would know little or nothing about Hrotsvit, and we would likely not be able to imagine that such a scholar and writer could have existed. By naming and identifying herself as an author and addressing readers in the first-person, not only …


Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scans of two out of thirteen papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 74. [Supernatural Experiences] Project completed by Western Kentucky University students for a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell. Collection focuses on short supernatural events experienced by informants. Subjects include dreams, ghosts, Ouija boards, sleepovers, church experiences and others.


Quisenberry, Susan (Fa 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Quisenberry, Susan (Fa 57), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 57. Paper: "Urban Legends," wirtten by Susan Quisenberry for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Soules, Tenoah Cassandre (Fa 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Soules, Tenoah Cassandre (Fa 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 58. Paper: "Urban Legends," written by Tenoah Cassandre Soules for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Peyton, Sunny (Fa 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Peyton, Sunny (Fa 29), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 29. [Folklore material classified by genre] Information collected by Sunny Peyton related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Tittle, Bently (Fa 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Tittle, Bently (Fa 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 31. [Folklore material classified by genre] Information collected by Bently Tittle related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.


Eans, Kevin, B. 1964 (Fa 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Eans, Kevin, B. 1964 (Fa 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 28. [Folklore material classified by genre] Information collected by Kevin Eans related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.