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Limits to Learning: an Introduction
2013
P. S. Ureland & I. Clarkson (eds.): Scandinavian Language Contacts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 340 pp., 19 maps. ISBN 0521 2568…
1987
An unpublished De lapidibus in its manuscript tradition, with particular regard to the Anglo-Saxon area
2007
Il saggio offre un’edizione critica e l’analisi dettagliata di un interessante lapidario latino, finora mai pubblicato, che circolava nell’Inghilterra del tardo periodo anglosassone. Nella tradizione manoscritta (che comprende, allo stato attuale, otto codici), tale opera, intitolata ‘De lapidibus’, si trova associata a testi scientifici, ovvero trattati di geometria, di musica, di tipo computistico, sulla natura dei metalli, o ancora i cosiddetti de sphaera ceali e de mensuris. Il ‘De Lapidibus’ era assai verosimilmente destinato ad un uso didattico e si inserisce in quella vasta e intricata rete di rapporti e scambi culturali e di circolazione di idee e di intellettuali che nel corso del …
Old Frisian skalk: A ‘Servant’ or a ‘Rogue’?
2017
The Old Frisian wordscalc, scalch, schalcis usually used in the sense of ‘servant, slave’. However, the word evidences a pejoration in meaning, being also attested in the Frisian written tradition in the sense of ‘ill-mannered person, villain, a bad guy’. The investigation of the occurrences ofskalk–along with a comparison of its Germanic cognates–will allow us to draw a picture of the semantic development of this word from medieval times to the Modern stage of the Frisian language. In the author’s opinion, the negative connotation ofskalkas an offensive epithet is the final result of a range of different causes, whose origin should be searched both in Frisian-Scandinavian contacts during t…
FILOLOGIA GERMANICA – GERMANIC PHILOLOGY Supplemento 2 - 2021. Incantesimi e formule magiche nella tradizione manoscritta germanica medievale / Charm…
2021
The volume collects contributions devoted to charms and magical formulas of the medieval Germanic tradition, studied in the light of the relationship with the manuscript context that handed them down and the historical-cultural milieu of which they are produced. The approach to charms and magical formulas of the Germanic world has developed on an evolutionary path that has from time to time favoured perspectives of different scientific categories, and has been faced on philological, linguistic, semantic-pragmatic, semiotic and historical-literary basis. The essays gathered in the volume offer different examples – but at the same time linked by some themes and a common purpose – of the magic…
‘Le versioni anglosassoni delle Meraviglie dell’Oriente: varianti e variazioni’
2015
Il saggio prende in esame le due versioni in anglosassone delle Meraviglie dell'Oriente e le due versioni in latino dello stesso testo mettendole a confronto per individuare la tipologia delle variazioni. Particolare spazio e' dedicato alla iconografia dei 3 manoscritti e al rapporto tra testo e immagine
Unraveling assemblage, functions and stability of the gut microbiota of Blattella germanica by antibiotic treatment
2020
Symbiosis between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is a widespread phenomenon that has contributed to the evolution of eukaryotes. In cockroaches, two types of symbionts coexist: an endosymbiont in the fat body (Blattabacterium), and a rich gut microbiota. The transmission mode of Blattabacterium is vertical, while the gut microbiota of a new generation is mainly formed by bacterial species present in feces. We have carried out a metagenomic analysis of Blattella germanica populations, treated and non-treated with two antibiotics (vancomycin and ampicillin) over two generations to (1) determine the core of bacterial communities and potential functions of the gut microbiota and (2) to gain insight…
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, N. 4
2014
Glimpses of the Hereafter in the Late-Medieval Thet Freske Riim
2014
The article analyzes a passage of the narrative poem Thet Freske Riim, one of the few non-legal texts preserved in Old Frisian. The passage in question is a digression describing the Joys of Heaven and the Horrors of Hell, which so far has attracted little attention in the scholarly literature on medieval accounts of the hereafter. The representations of the afterlife and its realms circulating in Medieval Europe draw inspiration from a wide body of both orthodox and apocryphal literature on ecstatic dreams, of which one of the most influential work is the Visio Sancti Pauli or Apocalypse of Paul. The study aims to identify – in the examined passage – themes and features of otherworldly lit…
Theological and doctrinal texts in the Old Frisian Thet Autentica Riocht
2015
The Frisian literary corpus is composed mostly by legal texts. However, interspersed in the law manuscripts, various texts of different nature are occasionally attested, several of which are of religious content. Among them, worthy of consideration are a number of short pieces devoted to theological and biblical topics, such as those contained in the so-called Thet autentica Riocht (fifteenth century): the Seven Virtues of the Mass, the Seven Things that God hates, the Ten Signs in the Host, the Three Unforgivable Sins, as well as a piece devoted to the benefits of confession. These texts share features with the Five Keys to Wisdom, a brief didactic treatise preserved in the First and Secon…