Anthologies of historiographical speeches from antiquity to early modern times : rearranging the tesserae / / edited by J. Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826951003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 90-04-34186-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (558 pages)
• Collana: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric, , 1875-1148 ; ; Volume 7
• Disciplina: 907.2
• Soggetti: Historiography - History; Rhetoric - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Old Words in New Books / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda -- Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches in Antiquity / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido -- Historians’ Speeches in Rhetorical Education: Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Selection from Thucydides / Roberto Nicolai -- Speeches of Historians and Historiographical Criticism: Timaeus’ Speeches in Polybius’ Book xii / José María Candau -- The Speeches in Justin’s Corpusculum Florum: The Selection and Manipulation of Trogus’ Historiae Philippicae / Luis Ballesteros Pastor -- A Word from the General: Ambrosianus B 119 sup. and Protreptic Speeches in Byzantine Military Manuals / Immacolata Eramo -- A Medieval Anthology: Juan Fernández de Heredia’s Crónica Troyana / María Sanz Julián -- The Byzantine Influence: Heredia’s Tucídides and the Contiones Thucydidis of Lapo da Castiglionchio / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido -- Speeches, Letters, and Chronicle: Fernando de Pulgar’s Anthology in manuscript 9–5173 Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid / Teresa Jiménez Calvente -- Prefaces in Anthologies of Contiones / Joaquín Villalba Álvarez -- Remigio Nannini’s Orationi Militari / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido -- Henri ii Estienne’s Conciones siue orationes ex Graecis Latinisque ; historicis excerptae / M. Violeta Pérez Custodio -- François de Belleforest’s Harangues militaires / Victoria Pineda -- Melchior Junius: Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches in the Teaching of Rhetoric / David Carmona -- L’utilità che si caua d’un libro: The Culture of Compendia and the Reading of Contemporary Italian Warfare in Nannini’s Orationi militari / Carmen Peraita -- Modern History in Nannini’s and Belleforest’s Anthologies / Xavier Tubau -- Oratory and Political Debate in the Last Decades of the Roman Republic: Cassius Dio’s Reconstruction (with Some Notes from Remigio Nannini’s Orationi Militari) / Ida Gilda Mastrorosa -- A Humanist History in the Italian Vernacular: The Speeches in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories / Robert D. Black -- The Trésor des livres d’Amadis as an Anthology of Speeches / Florence Serrano -- From Italy to Europe: Seventeenth Century Collections of Orationes Fictae / Valentina Nider -- Appendix: Contiones. Printed Anthologies of Speeches (1471–1699) / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
• Sommario/riassunto: Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.

Biogas for Rural Areas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557619703321
• Autore: Ferrer Ivet
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Soggetti: Environmental science, engineering and technology; Technology: general issues
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Bioenergy is renewable energy obtained from biomass-any organic material that has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. Biogas is among the biofuels that can be obtained from biomass resources, including biodegradable wastes like manure, sewage sludge, the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes, slaughterhouse waste, crop residues, and more recently lignocellulosic biomass and algae. Within the framework of the circular economy, biogas production from biodegradable waste is particularly interesting, as it helps to save resources while reducing environmental pollution. Besides, lignocellulosic biomass and algae do not compete for arable land with food crops (in contrast with energy crops). Hence, they constitute a novel source of biomass for bioenergy.Biogas plants may involve both high-tech and low-tech digesters, ranging from industrial-scale plants to small-scale farms and even households. They pose an alternative for decentralized bioenergy production in rural areas. Indeed, the biogas produced can be used in heaters, engines, combined heat and power units, and even cookstoves at the household level. Notwithstanding, digesters are considered to be a sustainable technology that can improve the living conditions of farmers by covering energy needs and boosting nutrient recycling. Thanks to their technical, socio-economic, and environmental benefits, rural biogas plants have been spreading around the world since the 1970s, with a large focus on farm-based ; systems and households. However, several challenges still need to be overcome in order to improve the technology and financial viability.