1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458898303321

Titolo

Chastity [[electronic resource] ] : a study in perception, ideals, opposition / / edited by Nancy Van Deusen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2008

ISBN

1-283-06090-6

9786613060907

90-474-3341-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Presenting the past : central issues in medieval and early modern studies across the disciplines, , 1875-2799 ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

Van DeusenNancy (Nancy Elizabeth)

Disciplina

176

Soggetti

Chastity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / N. Van Deusen -- Introduction -- Failed Chastity And Ovid: Myrrha In The Latin Commentary Tradition From Antiquity To The Renaissance / Frank T. Coulson -- Ambrose Of Milan On Chastity / Marcia L. Colish -- The Prohibition Of Clerical Marriage In The Eleventh Century / Uta-Renate Blumenthal -- An Arab Christian Philosophical Defense Of Religious Celibacy Against Its Islamic Condemnation: Yahyā Ibn ‘adī / Thérèse-Anne Druart -- Depictions Of Chastity: Virtue Made Visible / Susan L’Engle -- What Makes A Marriage: Consent Or Consummation In Twelfth-Century German Literature / Claudia Bornholdt -- “The Spirit Of Fornication, Whom The Children Of The Hellenes Used To Call Eros”: Male Homoeroticism And The Rhetoric Of Chastity In The Letters Of Nilus Of Ancyra / Cristian Gaspar -- The Cry Of Eden / Rafael Chodos -- Index / N. Van Deusen.

Sommario/riassunto

Chastity as a topic is an ideal interdisciplinary consideration since it accesses iconographical representation, the philosophical issues of purity, morality, and of innocence; the legal issues of loss and punishment, the historical issues of celibacy, and the legislation that topic evoked; as well as the role of chastity as a literary topos in Late Antiquity as well as the Middle Ages, for example, in medieval commentary traditions and within medieval vernacular literatures. The



topic of Chastity, as well as its opposing characteristics, thus provides an arena for a discussion of the transmission of Ovid and the commentaries this author provoked in the Middle Ages, the interpretation of images illustrating legal texts, cross-cultural enquiries, such as the reciprocity between Christian, Muslim, and Judaic interpretations of temperance, continence, and abstinence, and the theological-legal issue of “God’s rights” (in excising Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden). Contributors: Nancy van Deusen; Frank T. Coulson; Marcia L. Colish; Uta-Renate Blumenthal; Thérèse-Anne Druart; Claudia Bornholdt; Susan L’Engle; Cristian Gaspar; and Rafael Chodos.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693326103321

Titolo

Investigation of the Challenger Accident: Report of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session / / by the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

District of Columbia : , : United States. Government Printing Office, , 1986

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 pages)

Collana

House report / 99th Congress, 2d session ; ; 99-1016

Soggetti

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Spacecraft

Space exploration

Aerospace engineering

112

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from resource description page (viewed June 02, 2022).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the report produced by the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology for the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003691219707536

Autore

Jost, Jürgen

Titolo

New directions in Dirichlet forms / Jürgen Jost ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society : International Press, c1998

ISBN

0821810618

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 277 p. ; 26 cm

Collana

AMS/IP studies in advanced mathematics, 1089-3288 ; 8

Classificazione

AMS 31C25

LC QA274.2.N49

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Dirichlet forms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484602403321

Titolo

The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective / / edited by William K. Cummings, Ulrich Teichler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783319117676

331911767X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, , 2543-0378 ; ; 13

Disciplina

370

370.9

370116

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher

International education

Comparative education

Higher Education

International and Comparative Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Relevance of the Academy: William K. Cummings and Ulrich Teichler -- The Conditions of Continuity and the Drivers of Change: William K. Cummings -- Coping with the Crisis: Academic Work and Changes in Greek Higher Education: Antigoni Papadimitriou -- Changing Academic Identities in the Context of a Managerial University – Bridging the Duality between Professions and Organizations Evidence from the U.S. and Europe: Liudvika Leisyte -- Teaching and Research in Binary Systems of Higher Education: Convergent or Distinctive Profiles? Egbert de Weert -- The Teaching and Research Nexus from an International Perspective: Akira Arimoto -- Congeniality and Research Productivity in State-Professional-Market Driven Systems of Mass Higher Education: Gerard A. Postiglione and Jisun Jung -- Growth Behavior of Research Collaboration with Heterogeneous Colleagues and



Research Commercial Activities in Korean Academics: Soo Jeung Lee -- Academics and Service to the Community: An International (European) Perspective: Bojana Ćulum -- Gender Differences in Research Scholarship among Academics: An International Comparative Perspective: Jisun Jung -- The Academic Profession: The Dynamics of Emerging Countries: Monica Marquina and Mariela Ferreiro -- The Impact of Government Policies on the Profiles and Attitudes of Academics in two Emerging Economies: Brazil and Mexico: Jorge Martínez Stack, Marion Lloyd, and Imanol Ordorika.-The Transformation of the Production and Circulation of Knowledge and the Pedagogic Synergy: A Research Study on Three Argentine Universities: Graciela C. Riquelme -- The Latin American University Model and the Challenges Posed by the Reforms: From the Perspectives of the Academics: Elizabeth Balbachevsky.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more internationalised and less likely to be organised along disciplinary lines. The private sector is more prominent, expectations from society are different and increasing, professional roles are evolving, and there is a new devotion to knowledge. This leads to questions about the attractiveness of an academic career and the quest for greater relevance of research. This book discusses in detail the themes that are common in this changed arena, such as the context for change, the relation of teaching to research, research productivity, applied and commercial research, and the relevance of teaching and research.