Knowledge Commons | Jesse Baron | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/metaarcher/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jesse Baron is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36d10ffac43e575ce8f25619d6fcb75b Johann-Mattis List deposited Inkongruenz als Indiz – G.G. CORBETTS Kongruenzhierarchie als Mittel der Rekonstruktion, dargestellt am Beispiel der Entstehung von Femininum und Plural im Indogermanischen in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903332/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:19 -0400 This is a term paper that was written in the end of the winter term 2004 at the Freie University Berlin, discussing the evolution of the feminine gender in Indo-European.

]]> 0 7a78841f86eb65bc16a639617ad1b93e Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902155/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9c886d88264e5f56c08009e9edba9e Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900712/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:56 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 6356fd7cd5a98d83b7cfcaa42a3ff333 Johann-Mattis List deposited Computergestützte Methoden in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897192/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Die Vorlesung gibt einen Überblick über grundlegende computergestützte Methoden in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften und geht dabei auch auf theoretische Aspekte zur computergestützten Methodologie ein. Einzelne Verfahren werden im Detail vorgestellt.

]]> 0 7da86e59c7bcbfc223f778e47a621e6d Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeschichtsschreibung in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897189/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:01 -0400 Alle Sprachen ändern sich, solange sie existieren, das weiß die historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung seit mindestens 150 Jahren. Dennoch gibt es nach wie vor viele Kontroversen darum, wie Sprachen sich ändern, warum sie sich ändern, und ob diese Änderung nicht am Ende doch einen stetigen Verfall darstellt. In der Vorlesung werden wir deta…[Read more]

]]> 0 2320cf2b082480ddf886dbe90c0a5b48 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895615/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 26c108311aa8cd295c74e9d2506b0952 Matthew Scarborough deposited Balto-Slavic Historical Linguistics (MA) (Lecture Notes) in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894587/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This document is an English translation of Thomas Olander's Danish lecture notes used in the MA Elective Indo-European Language course (with specialisation in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics) taught in the Fall Semester 2023 in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (HIEK0006EU LIN;…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdb42b5fd8871ca89f36e72867c8d2 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891764/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:11 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8b1b44f374c9fc3aed5e21ae38c8d09 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891763/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:10 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cc7032cac36500a4484fb5937ba6d88 Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachkontakt am Beispiel des Spanischen und Französischen in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891083/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:36 -0400 Sprachkontakt tritt in sehr vielfältigen Formen auf, die von der einfachen Übertragung von Wörtern im Rahmen der lexikalischen Entlehnung bis hin zur Übernahme komplexer grammatischer Strukturen reichen. Im Seminar werden wir uns mit allgemeinen Phänomenen des Sprachkontakts befassen und dann gezielt schauen, wie sich Sprachkontakt im Zusa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d9feaf3ae5d685aa13597ebe4e845c3 Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachkontakt am Beispiel des Spanischen und Französischen in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891081/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Sprachkontakt tritt in sehr vielfältigen Formen auf, die von der einfachen Übertragung von Wörtern im Rahmen der lexikalischen Entlehnung bis hin zur Übernahme komplexer grammatischer Strukturen reichen. Im Seminar werden wir uns mit allgemeinen Phänomenen des Sprachkontakts befassen und dann gezielt schauen, wie sich Sprachkontakt im Zusa…[Read more]

]]> 0 d021c1a72c3d8c14b86aa5e394a9d0b1 Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889289/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f25905d78a6ae3d72c9ec662e0d9999 Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888911/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:18 -0400 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter's Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e66d51a609437f913892778b9f6501c James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-3/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:02 -0400 Welcome to the 'History of Slavery and Unfreedom'

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 1708fd67f133506905bc78ac6a0ee7ab James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887766/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:19 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 938175129d94ad1b540b6584e11f34ee Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886341/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:00:45 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 03057ca4be4992bd2b52ebff2dab9bc3 David Olmsted deposited Druid-Akkadian Dictionary - 2024: Druid-Akkadian to English and English to Druid-Akkadian in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885232/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:30 -0400 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0d408584afc65517d4457f2ddf146d2 Johann-Mattis List deposited First Steps Towards the Integration of Resources on Historical Glossing Traditions in the History of Chinese: A Collection of Standardized Fǎnqiè Spellings from the Guǎngyùn in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880427/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:00:22 -0400 Due to the peculiar nature of the Chinese writing system, it is difficult to assess the pronunciation of historical varieties of Chinese. In order to reconstruct ancient pronunciations, historical glossing practices play a crucial role. However, although studied thoroughly by numerous scholars, most research has been carried out in a qualitative…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd9062644ee5ee1959ef2b853d1d8404 Henning Ohst deposited Beschreibung von Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., Handschriftendatenbank der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (2023) in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879869/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Manuscript description of Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., containing texts of Priscianus, Boethius, Horace, Ambrose and Sidonius Apollinaris

]]> 0 8314a3c1b6a9d61873a7b1f17d938437 Johann-Mattis List deposited Modeling Sound Change with Ordered Layers of Simultaneous Sound Laws in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878452/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:53 -0500 In historical linguistics, sound change is typically modeled with the help of linearly arranged replacement rules that scan over an input sequence in a fixed order, converting the initial sequence in an iterative manner until all sound laws are exhausted. Arguing that this model of cascades of sound laws falls short in many regards, this study…[Read more]

]]> 0 d03daa4dedb8a9d14000cfb491c6633a Johann-Mattis List deposited Finding Language-Internal Cognates in Old Chinese in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876944/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:01:16 -0500 The investigation of language-internal cognates and word families in Chinese plays a central role in enhancing our understanding of Old Chinese phonology and morphology, as well as constituting a key element for fostering our knowledge of the history of Sino-Tibetan languages. Here we provide an overview of common challenges encountered when…[Read more]

]]> 0 f205ac62b4f87011fa620f2195ed7c0e Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (CQ 72.2/Thersites 16), Forum Classicum 66/3, 2023, 243–246 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874258/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:05 -0500 Detailed reviews of Adam Gitner/Maria Chiara Scappaticcio: The Latin Origins of a Bilingual Letter Collection (Specimina Epistularia = P.Bon. 5), Jenny Strauss Clay: Achilles Revolutionary? Homer, Iliad 1.191 (CQ 72.2) and Adrian Weiß/Eva Werner: Geschlechterverhältnisse im Dialog. Ein Interview mit Katharina Wesselmann über Die abgtrennte Zu…[Read more]

]]> 0 54bb52b5dd24c0938f432e7e6f9ce447 Johann-Mattis List deposited Productive Signs: Towards a Computer-Assisted Analysis of Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873631/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 03:00:26 -0500 Lexical compositionality has received some attention in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and cognitive linguistics, but so far studies have mostly concentrated on the morphological complexity of individual words and languages, while the fact that words form families which interact during language change and language use has been…[Read more]

]]> 0 4586516a8c0ac1e530e25c964efdf325 Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2023 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869285/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:55 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2023 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 0655f8ff9e3ea127880062d1121e0aeb Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2022 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869284/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:54 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2022 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 cbd703f79351d65ae0db92939795eb20 Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2021 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869283/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:52 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2021 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 3d2b5bd696e46de8e77d483e0cf6f013 Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2020 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869282/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:51 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2019 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 a556d64cf9356659fcc738ebe462e8fc Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2019 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869281/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:49 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2019 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 0d780deb40fd7ee66fe97db8ec49b32d Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2018 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869280/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:48 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2018 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 c1279ef1c551edb97eeb9310c3f1bda6 Johann-Mattis List deposited Von Wörtern und Bäumen: Monatliche Beiträge im Jahr 2017 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869279/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:45 -0500 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2017 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 120a034cab4118a5026c2997ecab5ee8 Elodie Paillard deposited Les ludi Graeci chez Cicéron in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868902/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:32 -0500 This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1175e9fcf0ecb072c70064e6caa9c39 Elodie Paillard deposited Violence et jeux scéniques grecs à l’occasion de victoires romaines durant la République : l’exemple des jeux organisés par Lucius Anicius Gallus in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868898/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:00 -0500 A priori, la mise en scène de représentations théâtrales semble bien éloignée d’autres types de spectacles plus violents organisés dans le monde romain, souvent à l’occasion de triomphes militaires. Toutefois, il convient de s’interroger sur l’éventuelle « violence culturelle » qui pourrait se cacher derrière l’organisation de jeux théâtraux gre…[Read more]

]]> 0 c769bbcca2cdb4f5b5ab1939d35a9b9e Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864357/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:00:45 -0500 Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 69eb64b070206579ab13826cc263861c Elodie Paillard deposited 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862391/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:00:44 -0400 Elodie Paillard, 'Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances', in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022

]]> 0 fd73aa940dc2c9270782b4a15988e4f4 Elodie Paillard deposited The Stage and the City in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862212/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:00:34 -0400 This book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]

]]> 0 86c2412af00022f4d9bf845c1188c2da Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861918/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:02 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 df22926b30404f6aa4c3ea952400d453 Anna P. Judson deposited Wikipedia in Classics Education in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860864/ Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:00:16 -0400 This article is a report of a roundtable discussion organised by the authors at the UK Classical Association conference, Cambridge, April 2023, under the aegis of #WCCWiki, the Women's Classical Committee's Wikipedia-editing project. It presents a summary of the participants' wide-ranging uses of Wikipedia editing at schools, universities, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ec42f1d99aefd1ee8da1c5b8b2130f0 Johann-Mattis List deposited Future challenges for computational diversity linguistics in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859812/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:00:04 -0400 This is the first of a series of 12 blog posts published in 2019, discussing open problems in computational diversity linguistics. It presents a list of 10 problems on computational diversity linguistics.

]]> 0 7ecfb37fc756b40385dbc0acca49a77e Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858678/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:17:57 -0400 The trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]

]]> 0 244ba47ffb5aef6ffb16c9c89a3621e7 Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 76.3, 2023/WS 135, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 148–151 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857780/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:06:25 -0400 More detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).

]]> 0 4474f46bc66f74e3b9303c66fea4c9aa Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856285/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:11:30 -0400 Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.

]]> 0 750f4e7570af97ea097e08e66e803e73 Alaric Hall deposited Leeds Studies in English: A History in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856258/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:08:29 -0400 Despite the epistemological importance of the scholarly journal, few thorough histories of individual academic journals have been written, especially of journals in the arts and humanities. This article uses both archival material and oral histories to construct a multifaceted history of Leeds Studies in English (LSE) from the beginning of its…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8eeb32e1cf0632d093f7eaa09243e1 Christian Cooijmans deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855714/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:10:01 -0400 When considering the establishment of overseas viking encampments, some of the most detailed and vivid contemporary descriptions of this activity originate from the Frankish realm, a region which nevertheless remains precariously positioned in wider comparative investigations of the viking world. To address this imbalance, this chapter assembles…[Read more]

]]> 0 91b0c07286d318b682d4098232ccb286 Kordula Wolf deposited Tra terra e mare – una premessa in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853858/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:29:22 -0400 This preface introduces in the main issues of the volume.

]]> 0 c29e3230da17d3791895e7720649232b Henning Ohst deposited Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity. Form, Tradition, and Context, hg. v. Berenice Verhelst u. Tine Scheijnen (2022), Plekos 25, 2023, S. 327–339 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850330/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:23:41 -0400 The volume under review is based on the premise that there is no real dialogue between Greek and Latin studies on the literature (and especially on the poetry) of Late Antiquity, at least not a dialogue as intense as with regard to the earlier, 'classical' literature. The reason for this is not least the problem that mutual dependencies between…[Read more]

]]> 0 02af1d9348f3b4f50412670b6fc0ffa2 David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon - 4th Edition 2023 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848339/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:24:10 -0400 The Akkadian of this lexicon was spoken by Neolithic farmers who migrated to Europe from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This lexicon combined with the new genetic migration information demonstrates that Europe had its own ancient Pagan civilization just as important and innovative as any other ancient civilization. This lexicon begins…[Read more]

]]> 0 272901b2fdaa062345dba26411ba0c95 Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 75.6, 2022 u. Hermes 150.4, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, S. 62–68 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847374/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:23:43 -0400 More detailed Discussions on J. van Waarden: Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius. Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire, Mnemosyne 75/6, 2022, 1021–1043 (62–64) and G. Wöhrle: Fragmente im
Überfluss. Zur Problematik eines philologischen Begriffs, Hermes 150/4, 2022, 385-404 (64–67).

]]> 0 68f261ee91ae7f7be50c850766fe66b0 Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, hg. v. Andrew Fear u. Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, S. 65–77 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843573/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:24:00 -0400 The Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which - as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors - are thematically divided into three sections ("parts"): "Isidore's Contexts" (chapters 1-4, including the "Introduction"), "Themes in Isidore's Works" (chapters 5-13), and "Transmission andReception…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2cb8d6a9f2bb2ac44acf4fd8e1c26ee Henning Ohst deposited ‚Irasci me tibi scito‘. Augustus und sein Verhältnis zu Horaz im Spiegel der Fragmente seiner Privatkorrespondenz, ‚Augustus immortalis‘. (...), hg. v. Jessica Bartz, Martin Müller u. Rolf Frank Sporleder (Berlin 2020), S. 81–88 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842513/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:24:00 -0400 While the Res Gestae are understood as an important source for the life and work of Augustus, Henning Ohst presents letters of the Princeps. These have survived only in fragments and through other authors, but still offer research opportunities for new questions. The focus of the contribution is the relationship of the Princeps to poets such as…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0d520f731b98ca5b5a49af86968e637 Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Glotta 98, 2022; MH 79.1, 2022), Forum Classicum 65, 2022, 362–365 in the group Classical Philology and Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842510/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:23:53 -0400 More detailed discussions on: Y. Brandenburg: Amare mit Infinitv. Bedeutungsentlehnung und Sprachgebrauch bei Sallust und Horaz, Glotta 98, 2022, 68–77 (362f.); A. J. Woodman: Horace’s Second Ode, MH 79, 2022, 55–76 (363f.)

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