In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. ...She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy.
Reference work for musicologists, music theorists,
performers, and music lovers
Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination
than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems
...presents in-depth essays on the most important works in this
tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day.
Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both
historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as
a multi-volume essay collection by leading experts, The
Book of Requiems is an authoritative reference publication
intended as a first port of call for musicologists, music
theorists, and performers both professional and student. Volume I
treats the Requiem's liturgical and chant background, the craft of
early Requiem composition, and eight of the earliest composed
Requiems, from c. 1450 to c. 1550.
Contributors: M. Jennifer Bloxam (Williams College), David J.
Burn (KU Leuven), Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven / Alamire
Foundation), Fabrice Fitch (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Tess
Knighton (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Sarah Ann Long
(Michigan State University), Honey Meconi (University of Rochester
/ Eastman School of Music), John Milsom (Liverpool Hope
University), Stephen Rice (freelance performer, editor, and writer
on Renaissance music).
In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament
voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron
saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago.
Saint and ...Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of
saints and the controversy over national patron sainthood to
provide an original account of the diverse ways in which the early
modern nation was expressed and experienced by monarch and town,
center and periphery. By analyzing the dynamic interplay of local
and extra-local, royal authority and nation, tradition and
modernity, church and state, and masculine and feminine within the
co-patronage debate, Erin Rowe reconstructs the sophisticated
balance of plural identities that emerged in Castile during a
central period of crisis and change in the Spanish world.
Reviewed: Aldo Manuzio: il rinascimento di Venezia (Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia, 19 March–31 July 2016). Catalogue edited by Guido Beltramini and Davide Gasparotto, with essays by Cesare de ...Michelis, Guido Beltramini, Matteo Ceriana, Davide Gasparotto, Laura Nuvoloni, Stephen Parkin, Paolo Sachet, Federica Toniolo, David Landau, Helena K. Szépe, and Mario Infelise. Venice: Marsilio, 2016. 376 pp. with 130 colour and 25 black and white illustrations. €45 ISBN: 978–88-317–2361-9. Aldo Manuzio has always been recognized as a fundamental figure in the history of book publishing, and the products of his press have long been admired as works of art in their own right. However, the nature of the relationship between Aldo's pivotal work as a printer and the simultaneous revolution that occurred in the visual arts in Venice at the time is difficult to assess. The recent exhibition, Aldo Manuzio: il rinascimento di Venezia, addressed this problem by presenting the printer's work within the broader context of Venetian intellectual and artistic culture at the turn of the sixteenth century. Curated by Davide Gasparotto, Guido Beltramini, and Giulio Manieri Elia, the Aldo exhibition wove an historical narrative through a rich display of ninety-five beautiful objects, which illustrated the technical innovations, rapid developments, and refinement of the literary and artistic creations of the period.
Historians of Renaissance art have long been familiar with Giovanni Aurelio Augurello's interest in painting and sculpture, while historians of alchemy are aware of his lifelong dedication to the ...gold-making art immortalized in his masterpiece, Chrysopoeia (1515). Yet the problem of how these interests intersect in the poet's work has either been disregarded or framed within outdated categories such as occultism and hermeticism. In a dialogue with recent theoretical work on intermediality, and based on the identification of several key artistic allusions in Augurello's Chrysopoeia, this article proposes to interpret them beyond the conventions of ekphrasis. A remarkable focus on artistic techniques, processes, and materials, we argue, defines the self-referential blend of poetry and alchemy inscribed in Chrysopoeia. Rather than being the expression of an occult or hermetic mentality, this poem's fascination with the materiality and poetics of artworks, we propose, is attuned with the Northern Italian aesthetics nurtured by Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Campagnola, and other artists of the time.
The present study aims to discuss the data on levels and distribution of rare earth elements, including Y, (REYs) in leaves of three different citrus species (lemon, orange, and tangerine) and ...provide additional information about the major, minor and trace elements in two biological certified reference materials (CRMs), Apple leave (NIST SRM 1515) and Rye grass (ERM CD281). In all samples, element concentrations were determined by High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. The obtained data display substantial variability in the distribution of REY elements, not only between different citrus species but also between different genera of plants indicating their different uptake and accumulation abilities. Measured concentrations of REYs in citrus leaves were substantially lower compared to the literature values, although the fractionation indices were comparable. The data for CRMs provide additional information for the 14 elements in NIST SRM 1515 and the 30 elements in ERM CD281, including rare earth elements. Keywords: citrus leaves, rare earth elements, trace elements, Apple leave (NIST SRM 1515), Rye grass (ERM CD281)
To assess the expression of nestin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in rat retina after optic nerve transection.
Rats were randomly divided into normal control group, sham group and ...operation group, and used for establishing an animal model of optic nerve transection. Retinal specimen of each group was collected at 3, 48h, 7 and 14d postoperative. Nestin and GFAP expressions on sagittal sections were analyzed by immunohistochemical staining, and protein extraction was analyzed by Western blot.
Immunohistochemical analysis showed that nestin positive staining was rarely detected in normal control group and sham group, while sham group showed weak positive staining at 3h postoperative, the reaction gradually increased at 48h postoperative, and reached its maximum at 7d postoperative, and then decreased at 14d postoperative. Compared to the expression of GFAP, there was not statistically significant obvious difference among three groups (
>0.05). Result of Western blot method was consistent with that of immunohistochemical method.
The expression of nestin increased in a time dependent fashion in Müller cells of retina following optic nerve transection, which was statistically significant, but there was no obvious difference in GFAP expression. The results indicate that an increase in colloid synthesis in retina following optic nerve transection can improve the retinal neurons' environment.
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