1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910518197203321

Titolo

Trends in Statistical Codicology / / edited by Marilena Maniaci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2021

©2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 770 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; Volume 19

Disciplina

091

Soggetti

Codicology

Codicology - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Statistical Codicology. Principles, Directions, Perspectives -- FORMS AND TYPOLOGIES -- The Structure of Atlantic Bibles -- The Miniaturisation of Bible Manuscripts in the 13th Century: A Comparative Study -- Making a Count of Hagiographic Books. Quantitative Aspects of the Production and Dissemination of Latin Hagiographic Literature (2nd-15th Centuries) -- MATERIALS AND TOOLS -- Parchment in Byzantine Manuscripts of the 11th and 12th Centuries: Characteristics and Use -- Watermarks Galore. Observations on the Number and Homogeneity of Papers Used in Manuscripts and Incunabula -- An Experiment in Dating Documents through the Analysis of Watermarks: The Letter 'P' in Incunabula of the Low Countries -- MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES -- Quiring in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages -- The Art of Not Quartering Skins:Techniques Employed for the Subdivision of Bifolia in Byzantine Manuscripts -- The Arithmetic Properties of Lineation in Humanistic Manuscripts -- The 'Non-Unitary' Greek Codex: Typologies and Terminology -- The Third Dimension of the Book: Codicological Aspects of Multi- Textuality -- LAYOUT AND TEXT FORMATTING -- Canons and 'Recipes' for the Layout of the Medieval Book:New Observations and Verifications -- Divergences between the East and the West in the Construction and Management of the Written Space: General Principles and Specific Solutions -- A Medieval Puzzle. The 'Architecture' of the Page in



Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Codex Justinianus -- Words within Words : Layout Strategies in Some Glossed Manuscripts of the Iliad -- At the End of the Line: Text Continuity and the Division of Words in Byzantine Manuscripts -- SCRIPTS AND SCRIBES -- The Rhythm of the Scribe:A Serial Analysis of the Density of Writing in the Gospels of Henry the Lion -- The Scribe's Gesture and its 'Shadow':An Essay on the 'Modular Ratio' of Scripts -- Quantitative Codicology and Scientific Paradigms. A Typology of Latin Formulae in the Colophons of Western Manuscripts -- Concerning the (Re)discovery of French Scriptoria:Contribution of the 'Catalogue of Dated Manuscripts' -- Index of Written Sources.

Sommario/riassunto

The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, is one of the most original trends in codicological research, aiming not only to reconstruct on a sound basis the methods and processes used in book manufacture and their tendential evolution in space and time, but also to interpret them as the result of a dynamic interplay between various and often incompatible needs (of cultural, technical, social and economic nature) that book artisans had to reconcile in the best possible way. The present collection of essays in English translation was guided by the desire to offer a multifarious well-articulated picture of the application of statistical methodology to the various aspects of manuscript production, namely analysis of materials, characterization of book types, manufacturing techniques, planning and use of layout characterization of scripts and scribal habits. The volume aims to present to a wider readership a series of significant papers which have appeared over the last fifteen years, by means of which the statistical approach continues to demonstrate its vast potential.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139336403321

Autore

Carrigan Anthony <1980->

Titolo

Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / / Anthony Carrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-83391-9

1-136-83392-7

1-283-04087-5

9786613040879

0-203-83209-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 33

Disciplina

820.9/32

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Tourism in literature

Ecology in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Culture and tourism - Commonwealth countries

Tourism - Environmental aspects - Commonwealth countries

Tourism - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries

Ecocriticism

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

Introduction -- Part I. Tourism and nature: Visual perception and touristed landscapes; contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development; tourism, desecration, and sacred land -- Part II. Tourism and culture: Touristification and cultural sustainability; tourism and reindigenization -- Part III. Sex, tourism, and embodied experience: Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster; gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse -- Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies



of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures. By locating this argument in the context of interdisciplinary tourism research, the study shows how imaginative literature can extend some of this field's key theoretical concepts while