Anomaly Accounts, Allusion, and Textual Reuse in Jinlouzi

Philippe Buc. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 272. $39.50 Buc Philippe. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 272. $39.50. Gabrielle M. Spiegel Gabrielle M. Spiegel Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 1, February 2003, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.1.148 Published: 01 February 2003

Early medieval geographical tradition resembles Andersen's ugly duckling. It often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, all because people almost invariably misunderstand its true nature. Thus begins Natalia Lozovsky's new book, The Earth Is Our Book: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400-1000. Filling a gap in the field of medieval studies, which has traditionally marginalized or ignored medieval geography altogether, Lozovsky explores medieval scholars' perceptions and representations of geographical space, how geographical knowledge fit into medieval society, and how this knowledge was taught and transmitted.Tackling an impressive array of primary and secondary sources--including a variety of late antique and early medieval texts--Lozovsky examines early medieval geography as it existed in other fields of learning: theology, history, and natural science. She expounds on the use of published resources by examining the nature of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages. She draws on unpublished sources--such as school commentaries--for the rich information they provide about geographical education during that period. For many scholars of medieval studies, early medieval geographical texts have more philological than geographical value. Lozovsky's work provides an insightful, alternative interpretation.Those interested in history, medieval studies, ethnography, science, education, religion, Latin studies, and, of course, geography, will find this book a most fascinating read.Natalia Lozovsky is an instructor in the Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.

The relationship between early medieval texts and pictorial images in terms of their shared exegetical techniques, function and liturgical background, provides a large and important body of material for the historian of early monastic culture. This article examines some aspects of the process by which the inheritance from the patristic period of exegetical chains of key scriptural texts prompted continuing exposition and the formulation of images as pictorial exegesis. Focusing on the particular example of an inscribed Anglo-Saxon ivory and related Insular works, it studies the exegetical origins and the early iconography of the image of the wounded Christ enthroned in glory. The theme illustrates both the use made by exegetes and artists of the scriptural practice of rendering physical sight as an image of spiritual insight and, by extension, ways in which the actual reading of texts and images in order to discern their spiritual meaning, hidden from the uninitiated, was itself regarded as a model of the Christian and, especially, the monastic vocation.

"Jennifer O’Reilly, Early medieval text and image, 1. The Insular Gospels, ed. by Carol A. Farr & Elizabeth Mullins. Early medieval text and image, 2. The Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon art, ed. by Carol A Farr & Elizabeth Mullins." Peritia, 31(), pp. 299–300

The relationship between early medieval texts and pictorial images in terms of their shared exegetical techniques, function and liturgical background, provides a large and important body of material for the historian of early monastic culture. This paper examines some aspects of the process by which the inheritance from the patristic period of exegetical chains of key scriptural texts prompted continuing exposition and the formulation of images as pictorial exegesis. Focusing on the particular example of an inscribed Anglo-Saxon ivory and related Insular works, it studies the exegetical origins and the early iconography of the image of the wounded Christ enthroned in glory. The theme illustrates both the use made by exegetes and artists of the scriptural practice of rendering physical sight as an image of spiritual insight and, by extension, ways in which the actual reading of texts and images in order to discern their spiritual meaning, hidden from the uninitiated, was itself regarded as a model of the christian and, especially, the monastic vocation.

A new track in molecular communication is using pheromones which can scale up the range of diffusion-based communication from μm meters to meters and enable new applications requiring long range. Pheromone communication is the emission of molecules in the air which trigger behavioral or physiological responses in receiving organisms. The objective of this paper is to introduce a new end-to-end model which incorporates pheromone behavior with communication theory for plants. The proposed model includes both the transmission and reception processes as well as the propagation channel. The transmission process is the emission of pheromones from the leaves of plants. The dispersion of pheromones by the flow of wind constitutes the propagation process. The reception process is the sensing of pheromones by the pheromone receptors of plants. The major difference of pheromone communication from other molecular communication techniques is the dispersion channel acting under the laws of turbulent diffusion. In this paper, the pheromone channel is modeled as a Gaussian puff, i.e., a cloud of pheromone released instantaneously from the source whose dispersion follows a Gaussian distribution. Numerical results on the performance of the overall end-to-end pheromone channel in terms of normalized gain and delay are provided.

This paper examines the problems of studying and teaching early medieval philosophy in the framework of the three teachings, illustrated with examples from the writings of the 7th-century Daoist Cheng Xuanying. While in early medieval and medieval China the three teachings were institutionalized as separate entities, we find ideas and terminologies from all three teachings in Cheng Xuanying’s writings, like in other early medieval texts. This liberal use of ideas from all three teachings poses challenges to our teaching and understanding of medieval texts. I will address the issue with an image of labels and boxes, which allows me to illustrate the problems in our understanding and treatment of the three teachings and their interactions. I will also show how the same image of labels and boxes offers a constructive solution for engaging with medieval texts in the framework of the three teachings.1

The project An Agile Approach Towards Computational Modeling of Historiographical Uncertainty is building a taxonomy of historiographical uncertainty. We are focusing on early medieval texts as our case studies, because they are characterised by a high degree of “high stakes” uncertainty and a varied historiography characterised by a vivid debate. The additional factor of the manuscript text-transmission ensues that also the material aspect of the textual study will be covered in our attempt to build an adaptable taxonomy of historiographical uncertainty. Computational humanities need a robust methodological platform, that can be applied to a wide variety of projects. Uncertainty in general and geographical uncertainty in particular stand as the crucial aspects of this platform. We investigate a methodology of visualising geographical locales in historical texts and their historiographies that explicitly models uncertainty in.

Deictic, Article, ‘Articoloide’. Multifunctionality of Demonstratives in the Chronicon Vulturnense. The study of Latin demonstratives in early medieval texts has mainly focused on the diachronic reconstruction of the formation of the article from the demonstrative. The studies have therefore focused exclusively on ille and ipse as precursors of the definite articles of the Romance varieties and on the search for late Latin and early medieval Latin texts in which demonstratives could have had an article or 'articoloid' function. The loss of the deictic trait has often been associated with its high frequency in these texts. A fine-grained analysis of the values of all Latin demonstratives in a “roborated” chronicle, i.e., a chronicle composed of properly historiographical and documentary parts, written around 1115, reveals an interesting semantic stratification in which the same linguistic element can have traits belonging to different phases of its history or specialise as a distinctive element of a specific textual typology. REZUMAT. Deictic, articol, ‘articoloid’. Multifuncționalitatea demonstrativelor în Chronicon Vulturnense. Studiul demonstrativelor latine în textele medievale timpurii s-a concentrat în principal asupra reconstrucției diacronice a formării articolului din demonstrativ. Studiile s-au concentrat, prin urmare, exclusiv asupra lui ille și ipse ca precursori ai articolelor hotărâte din varietățile romanice și asupra căutării în textele latine târzii și medievale timpurii demonstrativele ar fi putut avea o funcție de articol sau "articoloid". Pierderea trăsăturii deictice a fost adesea asociată cu frecvența ridicată a acesteia în aceste texte. O analiză fină a valorilor tuturor demonstrativelor latinești dintr-o cronică «roborata», adică o cronică alcătuită din părți propriu-zis istoriografice și documentare, scrisă în jurul anului 1115, relevă o stratificare semantică interesantă, în care același element lingvistic poate avea trăsături aparținând unor faze diferite ale istoriei sale sau se poate specializa ca element distinctiv al unei anumite tipologii textuale. Cuvinte-cheie. Tranziție latino-romantică, cronici medievale, latină medievală, italiană antică, demonstrative, articol, deixis. Article history: Received 1 November 2022; Revised 22 May 2023; Accepted 31 May 2023; Available online 23 June 2023; Available print 30 June 2023.

Review| November 01 2022 Archaeology and History: A Late Antiquity for Britain Robin Fleming, The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300–525 CE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 333 pp. + 22 b/w figs. ISBN: 9780812252446. $45, £36.Mateusz Fafinski, Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 239 pp. + 2 b/w figs. ISBN 9789463727532. €106. Helena Hamerow Helena Hamerow University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2022) 6 (4): 734–739. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.734 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Helena Hamerow; Archaeology and History: A Late Antiquity for Britain. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 November 2022; 6 (4): 734–739. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.4.734 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Archaeology was, once upon a time, referred to as “the handmaiden of history.” Images of artifacts served primarily to adorn the pages of historical accounts regarded by publishers as needing enlivening. How times have changed. Material culture—uncovered for the most part by archaeological excavation—is increasingly playing a central role in the writings of early medieval historians. Notable examples include Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages (2005) and, more recently, John Blair’s Building Anglo-Saxon England (2018).1 The two volumes under review here—both written by historians—bear witness to this growing engagement with material culture and how it is changing the way we view early medieval Britain. The Material Fall of Roman Britain has the archaeological record at its core and uses it to challenge conventional understandings of the notoriously elusive late Roman to post-Roman transition. Refusing to be constrained by traditional disciplinary and chronological divides, the book spans the period... You do not currently have access to this content.

In this article Oxford University's Peter Heather, an accomplished historian of both Roman and barbarian history in Late Antiquity, reminds us that the Romans had developed and used sophisticated, formal techniques for dealing with the barbarians over a long period of time. Roman diplomatic practices served to control frontier regions, to manipulate the barbarian peoples' dealings with one another, and to procure timely intelligence about activities along and beyond the frontiers. In reading Heather's article, there are several issues to be kept in mind: Were the Romans wise to assign such important responsibilities to barbarian allies? Might the barbarians themselves have felt their loyalties to be divided? Thinking back to the paper by Goffart, one might ask: Did Roman treaty policy "accommodate" the barbarians or did that policy mix diplomatic and military policies in ways that were detrimental to the latter? Keeping in mind the differences between Maps 1 and 2, what impression does Heather provide of the frontier regions on the eve of Rome's structural transformation? Do Heather's arguments support a long or a short history for the barbarians? How, the reader might ask, would Heather critique Ferrill? * * *

This book presents a cultural history of graphic signs such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other graphic devices, examining how they were employed to relate to and interact with the supernatural world, and to represent and communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. It analyses its graphic visual material with reference to specific historical contexts and to relevant late antique and early medieval texts as a complementary way of looking at the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph treats such graphic signs as typologically similar forms of visual communication, reliant on the visual-spatial ability of human cognition to process object-like graphic forms as proxies for concepts and abstract notions—an ability that is commonly discussed in modern visual studies with reference to categories such as visual thinking, graphic visualization, and graphicacy. Thanks to this human ability, the aforementioned graphic signs were actively employed in religious and socio-political communication in the first millennium ad. This approach allows for a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments, and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. As such, this book will serve as a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists as well as the informed general public.

762 Reviews to correct 'Lounpe' (p. 205) in the bibliography to 'Lampe', the name of Geoffrey Lampe, sometime professor of divinity at Cambridge University. University of Navarre, Pamplona Andrew Breeze Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg. Ed. by Elaine Treharne and Susan Rosser. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 252) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2003. xx + 39ipp. $40; ?36. ISBN 0-86698-295-7. In the firstsection of this Festschrift, 'Influences and Interpretations', Roberta Frank notes the apparent influence of ON poetic techniques on Andreas; Malcolm Godden meticulously examines ^lfric's grammatical revisions to the Catholic Homilies; Mechtild Gretsch suggests influence fromthe Benedictional ofi^Ethelwold on ^Elfric's Sanctorale; Joyce Hill incisively investigates i^lfric's use of Latin homiliaries as intermediate sources of patristic material; Patrizia Lendinari traces the origins of the OE homiletic topos 'no aid from kin' (at the Last Judgement) and its links with the ubi sunt motif; Gale Owen-Crocker links the elements of horror in Beowulf to its broader literary and social context; Alexander Rumble examines twelfth-century attempts to maintain the accessibilityof OE charters by translation into Latin, linguistic moderni? zation, and transliteration; and Carole Weinberg explores the semantic range oihende in La3amon's Brut. In the second, 'The Editing and Transmission of Texts', Paul Szarmach complains of the current shortage of 'benchmark or full-service' (p. 136) editions of Alfredian works, and the continuing reluctance of Anglo-Saxonists to ad? dress the implications of modern critical theory fortheir editing practice; Janet Bately demonstrates that book-divisions and chapter-headings in Alfredian translations are not necessarily a guide to their original structure but are 'of varying quality and au? thority' (p. 166); Phillip Pulsiano edits the Passion of St Christopher in the Beowulf manuscript; Jane Roberts reconsiders two of Scragg's emendations to Vercelli Homily XXIII; Loredana Teresi edits the anonymous homily Be heofonwarum7 be helwarum; Charles Wright explores the intermediate territorybetween poetry and prose in OE homiletic writing, with particular reference to the 'verse-like outcroppings' (p. 250) in Vercelli Homily XXI; Mary Clayton edits and translates i^lfric's Letter to Brother Edward', Jonathan Wilcox investigates the textual history of ^Elfric's Letter to Sigefyrth ,a polemic against clerical marriage; Michael Lapidge suggests that iElfric may have been taught by the Welshman Iorwerth at Winchester; Andy Orchard discusses the problems of editing Wulfstan, with a sample re-edition of Bethurum XXI; Joana Proud gives an account of the late eleventh-century copy of the Cotton-Corpus le? gendary in Salisbury Cathedral Library MSS 211 and 212; and Timothy Graham edits seven letters from William L'Isle to Sir Robert Cotton. Although most of the contributions are quite narrowly focused, between them they offer an interesting overview of the current state of Anglo-Saxon studies. On the one hand, they reflect (and sometimes explicitly comment on) recent shifts of academic fashion: the dynamic growth of i^lfric studies, the passing of the Formalist emphasis on shorter lyrics, the marginalization of Alfredian works. On the other hand, they give the impression of a continuing reluctance to engage with recent developments in the broader academic community, in particular continental critical theory and what D. C. Greetham has called 'theories of the text' (Theories of the Text (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)). This is perhaps unexpected, given the relatively radical approaches included in the excellent Scragg-Szarmach anthology, The Editing of Old English: Papers from the1990 Manchester Conference (Cambridge: Brewer, 1994). The only contribution to follow through on Szarmach's points is MLR, 100.3, 2005 763 Andy Orchard's sample edition of Wulfstan, which combines user-friendliness (in itself a radical departure from the practice of many editors of Old English) with a recognition of the 'practical and theoretical difficulty' (p. 314) of editing Wulfstan's work, accepting its characteristic variance and offeringa workable editorial solution to the problems raised by ongoing textual modification. The more traditional virtues of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, however, are well re? presented in this Festschrift: first-hand research, well-informed close argument, and meticulous editorial technique. It is thematically unified (unlike many Festschriften), the editing is scrupulous throughout, and an...

Textile research has demonstrated that new types of textiles were introduced to Scandinavia in the latter part of the Scandinavian Iron Age (AD 700–900). The archaeology of the period displays an increased number of textile tools, and large concentrations of pit houses dedicated to textile production. This era also saw the introduction of sails to Scandinavia, which is one of the obvious reasons for textiles and textile production becoming such an important part of Viking Age society. However, hitherto the value of the textiles has mostly been ignored, and its impact rarely discussed in research. This article will attempt to remedy this and poses important questions, such as: what was the economic value of the textiles needed for travel and warfare, and what was the value of the textiles used on a journey? In the article, the 10th century Ladby ship from Fyn in Denmark, is used to exemplify the demands and economic value of all textiles of one single ship, on one journey. I will use an interdisciplinary approach, including analyses of archaeological textiles; iconography; and early medieval texts. The aim of this novel method is to highlight the importance of textiles. It will alsoexplore how journeys under sail and warfare contributed to the increased consumption of textiles.

The twelve compilations on the Apostle that Florus of Lyon (floruit ca. 825-855) drew from twelve corpora one after the other (Cyprian, Hilarius, Ambrose, Pacian, Theophilus of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ephrem, Leo the Great, the canonical collections, Fulgentius, Paulinus of Nola, and Avitus of Vienna) provide an early indirect witness to around two hundred Late Antique and Early Medieval texts. These compilations were noticed as such by the middle of the xviith century, but edited only in the early xxist, in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 193, 193A, 193B. This study shows that that edition is not reliable for either its text or its commentary; and tries to highlight the elements of context and analysis which may help future editors of Florus’ sources to exploit his testimony.