1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457845003321

Autore

Mallette Karla

Titolo

The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 [[electronic resource] ] : a literary history / / Karla Mallette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-21228-5

9786613212283

0-8122-0479-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages series

Disciplina

850.9/9458/09021

Soggetti

Italian literature - Italy - Sicily - History and criticism

Italian literature - To 1400 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Sicily (Italy) History 1016-1194

Sicily (Italy) History 1194-1282

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Toward a literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily -- An archeology of the Sicilian park -- Frederick II and the Genesis of a Sicilian romance culture -- Rereading Le Origini: Sivilian romance poetry and the language of natural philosophy -- Beyond Le Origini: Sicilian romance poetry in a feminine voice -- Vernacularity and Sicilian culture -- "In youth, the soul attains its desire" (from the Siqilliyyat) / Ibn Hamdis -- "Because of long-lasting grief" (from the Siqilliyyat) / Ibn Hamdis -- "Oh, garden of love" / Ibn Hamdis -- "You tortured me with the two elements" / Ibn Hamdis -- "Oh, blonde tribe, my blood is on your hands" / Abu Musa -- "My tears expose my love"  / Abu Musa -- "Oh, Favara of the two seas!" / Al-Atrabanishi -- "Pass round the golden carnelian-red [wine]" / Al-Buthayri and Ibn Bashrun -- "The radiant moon has been extinguished" / Abu al-Dawʼ -- "He sought solace" / Abu Hafs -- Introduction to al-Idrisi's Geography -- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr -- The daughter of Ibn ʻAbbad and Frederick II -- Henricus Aristippis's preface to his translation of Plato's Phaedo, ca. 1156 -- Preface to a translation of Ptolemy's Almagest / by an



unknown translator, ca. 1160 -- On the death of William and the arrival of the Germans / Hugo Falcandus -- Lament on the death of William II / Peter of Eboli -- Hunting with birds / Frederick II -- Frederick II and Lucera -- Innocent IV excommunicates Frederick -- The destruction of Lucera -- Introduction to the Book of Sydrac -- "Maravigliosamente" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Armor non vole" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Or come pote sí gran donna intrare" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "A l'aire claro ò vista ploggia dare" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Dolze meo drudo" / Frederick II -- "Sei anni ò travagliato" / Mazzeo di Ricco -- "Già mai non mi conforto" / Rinaldo d'Aquino -- "Ancor che l'aigua per lo foco lassi" / Guido delle Colonne -- "Oi lassa 'namorata" / Anonymous.

Sommario/riassunto

When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular.Karla Mallette has written the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Where other scholars have separated out the island's literature along linguistic grounds, Mallette surveys the literary production in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Romance dialects, in addition to the architectural remains, numismatic inscriptions, and diplomatic records, to argue for a multilingual, multicultural, and coherent literary tradition. Drawing on postcolonial theory to consider institutional and intellectual power, the exchange of knowledge across cultural boundaries, and the containment and celebration of the other that accompanies cultural transition, the book includes an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian. The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 opens up new venues for understanding the complexity of a place and culture at the crossroads of East and West, Islam and Christianity, tradition and innovation.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911007001803321

Autore

Embankments Dams, and Slopes Technical Committee

Titolo

Highway 1 Rat Creek Embankment Failure : 2021 Reconnaissance and Analysis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-5231-5531-0

0-7844-8457-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 pages)

Collana

Geotechnical Special Publications ; ; v.337

Altri autori (Persone)

BluntsParker

FisherReid

GregoryPhillip

HuangJhih-Rou

JohnsonKenneth A

KozaciOzgur

LindemanJustin

ManousakisJohn

SitarNicholas

Disciplina

627.8

Soggetti

Dams - Design and construction

Dam failures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Participants and Authors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 :  Executive Summary -- Chapter 2 :  Brief Description of the Performance of Highway 1 System during the January 27 to 28, 2021, Precipitation Event -- 2.1   Highway 1 System Performance -- 2.2   Highway 1 Failure at the Rat Creek Drainage Crossin -- Chapter 3 :  Geographic and Geologic Setting -- 3.1   Rat Creek Geology -- References -- Chapter 4 :  Brief Big Sur Highway 1 History -- 4.1   Big Sur Highway 1 History as a System -- 4.2   Rat Creek Section History and Performance -- References -- Chapter 5 :  Data Collection Activities -- 5.1   Prefailure Data and



Geometries -- 5.2   February 25, 2021, Site Activities -- 5.2.1   Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging Acquisition -- 5.2.2   Exposure Mapping and Sampling -- 5.2.3   Radiocarbon Dating of Exposure Samples -- 5.3   Satellite-based Assessments -- References -- Chapter 6 :  2020 Dolan Fire -- References -- Chapter 7 :  Climate and Precipitation -- 7.1   General Climate and Precipitation History of Big Sur, California -- 7.2   January 26 to 28, 2021, Precipitation Event -- References -- Chapter 8 :  Tree Debris Dam Formation and Breach -- Chapter 9 :  Debris Flow -- 9.1  Photographic Record along the Debris Flow Path at Rat Creek -- Chapter 10 :  Upstream Collection Basin and Debris Volumes -- 10.1   Size of Upstream Collection Basin -- 10.2   Calculation of the Amount of Water Reaching Highway 1 -- Reference -- Chapter 11 :  Overtopping of Highway 1 and Embankment Erosion -- Chapter 12 :  2021 Rat Creek Roadway Repair -- References -- Chapter 13 :  Summary and Recommendations -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

GSP 337 provides an overview of the reconnaissance and analysis done of the embankment failure caused by Rat Creek onto Highway 1 in Northern California.