Folded almanacs are fascinating manuscripts that display astrological content relevant to the practice of medicine. However, due to the lack of primary evidence demonstrating the almanac in practice, it is difficult to ascertain their actual use. Medieval Scholars have therefore concentrated on the almanac's sources, materiality and contextual evidence of apparent medical purpose. My thesis examines the metaphysical principles within the folded almanac, which exemplify the micro/macrocosm inherent in medieval astro-medicine. I argue that the folded almanac, as a material object and compilation of medical knowledge, situates the physician, patient and constellations within metaphysical ideas of body, time and space. Using the yet unstudied folded almanac from the National Library of Scotland, Acc 12059.3 (the Borthwick almanac) as a primary model, I demonstrate how this physical object, in dealing with the corporeal body, exhibits the unity of body, time and space. This approach reveals that the folded almanac (1) is a performative object that establishes medical authority, (2) tracks the progress of health and illness using Aristotelian and Thomist concepts of time, (3) maps the intersection of celestial and human bodies onto practical textual spaces. The culmination of these findings illustrates that the folded almanac engaged with a very technical but abstract branch of medieval medicine which sought to explain how, why, when and where illness was manifested, and also operated as an interventional tool for aiding in the restoration of health.

Submitted by Priscilla Araujo (priscilla@ibict.br) on 2018-08-02T20:01:51Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) StellaDourado_Doutorado_2018.pdf: 2203076 bytes, checksum: 2bd88b6ba375b1f1dc63977ddffef104 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-02T20:01:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) StellaDourado_Doutorado_2018.pdf: 2203076 bytes, checksum: 2bd88b6ba375b1f1dc63977ddffef104 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-27 / A pesquisa tem por tema o almanaque em coleção. O almanaque é um documento de informação e comunicação popular escrita utilizado por muitos anos como fonte de informação nas cidades e na zona rural do país. No caso específico deste estudo, é um objeto de coleção, onde apresenta-se como um dispositivo infocomunicacional de valor social, histórico e cultural. A coleção de almanaques es-tudada pertence à Família Carneiro Rezende, inaugurada pelo colecionador José Carneiro de Rezende, nas primeiras décadas do século XX. A pesquisa tem por objetivo representar o almanaque dentro de uma coleção particular que abrange o período entre 1906 – 2014, por meio das diferentes apropriações e usos que os colecionadores, utilizadores, leitores e guardadores fizeram da coleção, dando ao alma-naque um caráter de documento de informação e comunicação popular escrita. Atualmente, a coleção está sob a guarda de Hamilton Carneiro, publicitário e propagador da cultura popular no Estado de Goiás. Para a realização do estudo, foi feita uma pesquisa descritiva e exploratória que envolveu o emprego de técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas de coleta dos dados – análise descritiva e entrevistas. Para embasar o estudo, foi necessário ampliar o conhecimento acerca dos seguintes conceitos: alma-naque; comunicação popular escrita; cultura popular; leitura; coleção e documento. A análise descriti-va abrangeu 55 títulos e 241 exemplares de almanaques que formam a coleção no período de 1906 a 2014. A partir da análise, foi desenvolvida uma tipologia bibliográfica dos almanaques, levando em consideração o período, idioma, material ilustrativo, autores presentes e editores. Criou-se uma classi-ficação temática dos almanaques com os temas mais recorrentes nos almanaques no contexto da cole-ção. Foram identificados os rastros de leitura e usos em torno da coleção e apresentada a rede familiar de leitores. O estudo permitiu a representação do almanaque como documento informacional da cultu-ra popular escrita, no contexto de uma coleção particular. Com a análise descritiva e as entrevistas foi possível verificar os interesses de formação da coleção e dos usos atribuídos aos almanaques, demons-trando a relevância documental-informacional, sobretudo no campo durante a primeira metade do sé-culo XX, quando o almanaque representava uma das poucas fontes de informação impressa ao alcance da zona rural. Por meio do estudo do uso feito dos almanaques pelo colecionador, leitores, utilizadores e guardadores, constata-se que este possui um importante papel documental-informacional da cultura popular escrita e se apresenta como um dispositivo de aproximação e diálogo entre diferentes formas de linguagens, escritas e saberes. Concluiu-se que as apropriações e usos da rede familiar de leitores dos almanaques da coleção o caracterizaram como documento informacional da comunicação popular escrita e apresentam além dos valores infocomunicacional, social, histórico e cultural inscritos neste documento, a sua relevância para a formação e instrução pragmática da vida popular. / The research is about the almanac in collection. The almanac is a popular information and communi-cation document written for many years as a source of information in the cities and rural areas of the country. In the specific case of this study, it is an object of collection, where it presents itself as an infocommunicational device of social, historical and cultural value. The collection of the almanacs studied belongs to the Carneiro Rezende`s family and, it was inaugurated by the collector José Carneiro de Rezende in the first decades of the 20th century. The research aims to represent the alma-nac within a particular collection that covers the period between 1906 through 2014. Through on dif-ferent appropriations and uses, all the collectors, users, readers and keepers made from the collection, giving to the almanac a documentary character of information and a popular written communication. Nowadays, the collection is under custody of Hamilton Carneiro. He is an advertiser and propagator of popular culture in Goias state. To realize the study that was made a descriptive and exploratory re-search that involved the use of quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques – descriptive analysis and interviews. To support the ideas of the research, it was necessary increase knowledge about the following concepts: almanac; popular written communication; popular culture; reading; col-lection and document. The descriptive analysis took 55 titles and 241 copies of almanacs that form the collection from 1906 to 2014. A bibliographic typology of the almanacs were developed from the analysis, taking into account the period, language, illustrative material, present authors and publishers. A thematic classification of the almanacs created with the most relevant themes in the context’s col-lection, and were identified reading vestigial and uses around it. Also the family network of readers was presented. The study allowed the representation of the almanac as an informational document of the popular culture written in the context from a particular collection. Through the descriptive analysis and interviews, it was possible to verify the formation interests of the collection and the uses attributed to the almanacs, demonstrating the documentary-informational relevance, especially in the field during the first half of the 20th century. When the almanac has just represented one of the only sources of information printed to reach readers in the rural area. The use from the almanacs by the collector, readers, users and guardians was made by the study and was verified an important documental-informational paper of the written popular culture, and presents as displays like a device of approach and dialogue between different forms of languages, writings and knowledges. For that reason, it was concluded that the appropriations and uses of the family network`s readers of the almanacs collection were characterized as an informational document of the popular written communication. Also, it was presented besides the infocommunicational, the social, historical and cultural values, registered in this document, their relevance approach to the education and pragmatic instruction that come from the popular life.

Almejando uma problematização geral do encontro entre as práticas educacionais e as literárias, a presente dissertação oferece uma especulação estórica sobre determinadas formas vigentes de governo das forças escriturais. Para tanto, investiga a figura pública do literato, tomando-a como catalisadora dos ditames relativos a um suposto bem escrever, os quais caberia à pedagogia transmitir, prescrever e disseminar para uma população de leitores eficazes, bem como de escreventes virtuais. Municiando-se do aporte analítico de Michel Foucault, o trabalho apropria-se especialmente das noções de função-autor e de sociedade de discurso, a fim de interpelar as investidas governamentalizadoras incidentes no ato de escrever, as quais tanto permitiriam-no e proliferariam-no dentro de alguns limites veridictivos, quanto distribuiriam-no apenas entre alguns eleitos e, assim, rarefariam-no. Dedicando-se, sobretudo, ao gesto procedimental foucaultiano, a pesquisa procura endereçar-se a seu locus empírico à moda arqueogenealógica, forjando um approach analítico que pudesse almanaquear as fontes de pesquisa, cobiçando minorá-las, esgueirando-se do que nelas houver de imperativo e potencializando suas adjacências, de modo a dar conta de seu nomadismo, sem a pretensão de totalizá-las. Constituem a superfície empírica da dissertação os discursos de posse da Academia Brasileira de Letras, contabilizados em 408 textos, no arco de 117 anos. Diante da massa discursiva aí presente, quis-se confeccionar, fragmentariamente e sem pretensão cronológica, uma história outra da literatura brasileira, menos fadada à lógica interna da instituição literária, e mais ocupada com as relações de poder que atravessam suas práticas, provocando efeitos tão exteriores quanto, à primeira sensação, desvinculados delas. Tratou-se, ali, não de isolar os preceitos do bem escrever relacionados às condições propriamente da lavra escritural, tais como o emprego de determinadas técnicas, nem a quantidade de escritos, sequer sua qualidade, mas de perspectivar o direito às belas-letras, o qual foi concedido, ao que parece, a quem pudesse exibir uma biografia tida por extravagante ou muito correta, quer escrevesse à moda de Machado de Assis, de Paulo Coelho ou, ainda, de Adelino Fontoura, quem sequer escreveu senão em cadernos particulares, encontrados e publicados apenas décadas após seu falecimento e eleição para a Academia. Desta feita, nos discursos de posse, nota-se que três vetores concorrem em grande medida para a governança da escrita, todos eles concernentes à esfera privada dos literatos: a) suas relações interpessoais, com destaque para sua atuação em família; b) os locais onde nasceram, residem e que frequentam; e c) a maneira de trajarem-se e de portarem-se em público. Conclui-se, assim, que os modos de governo da escrita, tal como se pôde compreendê-los, redundam em uma severa restrição do gesto escrevente, porque nem mesmo se trata de estipular genialidade ou engenhosidade, mas de forjar adequação e incorporação ao meio literário ou, então, o consentimento à condição de irrequieto consumidor da produção cultural. / Aiming at a general problematization of the encounter between the educational and the literary practices, this dissertation offers a story in a speculative manner about certain existing forms of governing the writing forces. To do so, this study investigates the public figure of the man of letters, taking it as the catalyzer of the precepts related to a supposed good writing, which presumably the pedagogy would transmit it, prescribe it and disseminate it for a population of effective readers and virtual writers. Based on the analytical contribution of Michel Foucault, this work specially makes use of the author-function and society of discourse notions in order to question the governmentalized assaults invested in the act of writing, which would allow and spread the act of writing within veridictive limits, as well as would distribute it across a few chosen persons, reducing its chance of creation. Committed to the Foucauldian procedural gesture, the research seeks to address to its empirical locus in an arche-genealogic mode, forging an analytical approach that could produce a kind of almanac effect on the sources, aiming at minimizing them, avoiding their imperative effects and enhancing their surroundings, in order to comprehend their nomadism, without totalizing them. The empirical surface of this dissertation are the inauguration speeches of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters, or ABL), summing 408 texts in a 117 year span. Given this discursive material, it was intended to fabricate, in a fragmented way and with no chronological pretension, a kind of other history of the Brazilian literature, diminishing its relation to the internal logic of the literary institution while paying attention to its power relations which prevails in its practices, generating effects such exterior as, by first sight, unrelated to them. The intent was not a matter of isolating the precepts of a good writing related to the conditions of a proper scriptural process, such as the use of certain techniques, nor the quantity or quality of the writings, but to foresee the right to belles-lettres, which was granted, it seems, to whom could display a biography taken by fancy or very correct, even if he would write according to the style of Machado de Assis, Paulo Coelho, or even of Adelino Fontoura who just wrote only in private notebooks, found and published only decades after his death and nomination to the ABL. It is possible to assume, from these inauguration speeches, that are three factors that contribute greatly to the governance of the writing, all of them pertaining to the private sphere of the men of letters: a) their interpersonal relationships, especially his family role; b) the places where they were born, living and attending; and c) their public behavior and clothing. Thus, to conclude, the ways of governing the writing, such as this study could understand them, results in a severe restriction of the scriptural gesture, for it has nothing to do with the supposed genius or cleverness, but with forging adequacy and incorporation to the literary milieu or, otherwise, forging a consent to the condition of a restless consumer of cultural productions.

Der von 1662 bis 1687 als Rektor der Zwickauer Lateinschule wirkende Christian Daum (1612 –1687) hinterließ eine der größten Privatsammlungen eines Barockgelehrten. Sie wurde von seiner Heimatstadt erworben. Der Nachlass enthält neben 5.300 Briefen ca. 6.000 Briefmanuskripte, 6.780 Bücher mit zugehörigen handschriftlichen Bibliothekskatalogen, Schülerverzeichnisse, Schulgeldregister, Manuskripte sowie 24 Schreibkalender Daums.

This paper presents a description of the history of German immigration to the central region of Rio Grande do Sul. This is the initial study that has the sequence showing the development of German-language printed and its attempt to preserve the history of this nation. To illustrate this attempt to preserve, it are analyzed in this work, the five stories of Hilda Siri, published in the almanac Serra Post Kalender between the years 1952 and 1956. This almanac was chosen because it marks the time when circulated (1922 1960) and the author presents relevant texts in the years when she published in this almanac, focusing in large part on remembering. This work is divided into four chapters, respectively, the history of immigration, of the theories on memory and history, the press in German journalism in Southern Brazil and literary analysis of the stories by Hilda Siri. In this analysis the points are seen as historic and that are relevant to the development of these texts. / Este trabalho apresenta a descrição de parte da história da imigração alemã para o Brasil, centrando-se no Rio Grande do Sul. Este é o estudo inicial que tem como seqüência mostrar o desenvolvimento da imprensa em língua alemã e sua tentativa de preservar a história deste povo. Para exemplificar esta tentativa de preservação, são analisados, neste trabalho, as narrativas de Hilda Siri, publicadas no almanaque Serra Post Kalender entre os anos 1952 e 1956. Foi escolhido este almanaque, pois ele caracteriza a época em que circulou (1922 1960) e a autora apresenta textos relevantes nos anos em que publicou. Os textos narrativos estão centrados, em sua maioria, na rememoração. Este trabalho está dividido em quatro capítulos tratando, respectivamente, da história da imigração, das teorias sobre memória e história, da imprensa jornalística em língua alemã e da análise dos textos de Hilda Siri. Nesta análise são observados os pontos considerados históricos e que são relevantes para o desenvolvimento destes textos.

Almejando uma problematização geral do encontro entre as práticas educacionais e as literárias, a presente dissertação oferece uma especulação estórica sobre determinadas formas vigentes de governo das forças escriturais. Para tanto, investiga a figura pública do literato, tomando-a como catalisadora dos ditames relativos a um suposto bem escrever, os quais caberia à pedagogia transmitir, prescrever e disseminar para uma população de leitores eficazes, bem como de escreventes virtuais. Municiando-se do aporte analítico de Michel Foucault, o trabalho apropria-se especialmente das noções de função-autor e de sociedade de discurso, a fim de interpelar as investidas governamentalizadoras incidentes no ato de escrever, as quais tanto permitiriam-no e proliferariam-no dentro de alguns limites veridictivos, quanto distribuiriam-no apenas entre alguns eleitos e, assim, rarefariam-no. Dedicando-se, sobretudo, ao gesto procedimental foucaultiano, a pesquisa procura endereçar-se a seu locus empírico à moda arqueogenealógica, forjando um approach analítico que pudesse almanaquear as fontes de pesquisa, cobiçando minorá-las, esgueirando-se do que nelas houver de imperativo e potencializando suas adjacências, de modo a dar conta de seu nomadismo, sem a pretensão de totalizá-las. Constituem a superfície empírica da dissertação os discursos de posse da Academia Brasileira de Letras, contabilizados em 408 textos, no arco de 117 anos. Diante da massa discursiva aí presente, quis-se confeccionar, fragmentariamente e sem pretensão cronológica, uma história outra da literatura brasileira, menos fadada à lógica interna da instituição literária, e mais ocupada com as relações de poder que atravessam suas práticas, provocando efeitos tão exteriores quanto, à primeira sensação, desvinculados delas. Tratou-se, ali, não de isolar os preceitos do bem escrever relacionados às condições propriamente da lavra escritural, tais como o emprego de determinadas técnicas, nem a quantidade de escritos, sequer sua qualidade, mas de perspectivar o direito às belas-letras, o qual foi concedido, ao que parece, a quem pudesse exibir uma biografia tida por extravagante ou muito correta, quer escrevesse à moda de Machado de Assis, de Paulo Coelho ou, ainda, de Adelino Fontoura, quem sequer escreveu senão em cadernos particulares, encontrados e publicados apenas décadas após seu falecimento e eleição para a Academia. Desta feita, nos discursos de posse, nota-se que três vetores concorrem em grande medida para a governança da escrita, todos eles concernentes à esfera privada dos literatos: a) suas relações interpessoais, com destaque para sua atuação em família; b) os locais onde nasceram, residem e que frequentam; e c) a maneira de trajarem-se e de portarem-se em público. Conclui-se, assim, que os modos de governo da escrita, tal como se pôde compreendê-los, redundam em uma severa restrição do gesto escrevente, porque nem mesmo se trata de estipular genialidade ou engenhosidade, mas de forjar adequação e incorporação ao meio literário ou, então, o consentimento à condição de irrequieto consumidor da produção cultural. / Aiming at a general problematization of the encounter between the educational and the literary practices, this dissertation offers a story in a speculative manner about certain existing forms of governing the writing forces. To do so, this study investigates the public figure of the man of letters, taking it as the catalyzer of the precepts related to a supposed good writing, which presumably the pedagogy would transmit it, prescribe it and disseminate it for a population of effective readers and virtual writers. Based on the analytical contribution of Michel Foucault, this work specially makes use of the author-function and society of discourse notions in order to question the governmentalized assaults invested in the act of writing, which would allow and spread the act of writing within veridictive limits, as well as would distribute it across a few chosen persons, reducing its chance of creation. Committed to the Foucauldian procedural gesture, the research seeks to address to its empirical locus in an arche-genealogic mode, forging an analytical approach that could produce a kind of almanac effect on the sources, aiming at minimizing them, avoiding their imperative effects and enhancing their surroundings, in order to comprehend their nomadism, without totalizing them. The empirical surface of this dissertation are the inauguration speeches of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters, or ABL), summing 408 texts in a 117 year span. Given this discursive material, it was intended to fabricate, in a fragmented way and with no chronological pretension, a kind of other history of the Brazilian literature, diminishing its relation to the internal logic of the literary institution while paying attention to its power relations which prevails in its practices, generating effects such exterior as, by first sight, unrelated to them. The intent was not a matter of isolating the precepts of a good writing related to the conditions of a proper scriptural process, such as the use of certain techniques, nor the quantity or quality of the writings, but to foresee the right to belles-lettres, which was granted, it seems, to whom could display a biography taken by fancy or very correct, even if he would write according to the style of Machado de Assis, Paulo Coelho, or even of Adelino Fontoura who just wrote only in private notebooks, found and published only decades after his death and nomination to the ABL. It is possible to assume, from these inauguration speeches, that are three factors that contribute greatly to the governance of the writing, all of them pertaining to the private sphere of the men of letters: a) their interpersonal relationships, especially his family role; b) the places where they were born, living and attending; and c) their public behavior and clothing. Thus, to conclude, the ways of governing the writing, such as this study could understand them, results in a severe restriction of the scriptural gesture, for it has nothing to do with the supposed genius or cleverness, but with forging adequacy and incorporation to the literary milieu or, otherwise, forging a consent to the condition of a restless consumer of cultural productions.

This thesis deals with the monitoring of wireless nets in terrain. The author will be browsing terrain and there will be extracted some information about accessible wireless nets. For parameters of wireless nets we consider for example the name of wireless net, signal strength, type of security etc. These parameters (of wireless nets and position) are going to be recorded and saved into the database. Using this database it will be possible to perform some further operations like generation maps of wireless networks or detection positions of access points, etc..

Most energy sources are derived from the sun, directly or indirectly. Stopping the increase of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will likely require more reliance on current rather than ancient terrestrial solar input. Yet which forms of renewable energy are most appropriately used is a significant question for the twenty-first century. This dissertation concerns the potential supply of biomass energy crops as a renewable energy source in Massachusetts. Biomass represents a low-efficiency solar collector, and supplying society with an important portion of its energy from biomass would require a great deal of land. The cellulosic biomass crop evaluated in this research is switchgrass, among the most studied of possible biomass crops. The study looks at biomass energy crop potential from three perspectives. First, a biomass crop supply function is developed for switchgrass by 1) using a GIS model to estimate land availability by current land use and soil type; 2) using a crop-growth simulation model to estimate potential switchgrass yields; 3) estimating marginal production cost by land parcel; and 4) calculating a supply function from marginal production costs. Total technical potential is estimated to be about 1.3 million dry metric tons of switchgrass per year, though financial constraints would likely limit production to some portion of the estimated 125,000 metric tons per year that could be produced on existing grasslands. Next, the study examines circumstances under which landowners might opt to make land available for biomass crop production. The social challenge of minimizing biomass energy cost is described. Potential biomass crop landowner decisions are characterized in a theoretical utility maximization model, with results suggesting that non-price attributes of crop production are likely important to landowners. Finally, an empirical study using a landowner survey assesses interest in growing biomass crops, and uses contingent valuation (CV) to estimate landowner willingness to accept (WTA) land rent for biomass crops. The median estimate is $321/ha/yr, with a much-higher mean estimate of $658/ha/yr (based on a parametric estimator). While the realistic potential for biomass crops is some fraction of technically feasible potential, there are other potentially important roles for biomass crops in Massachusetts, for example in preserving unused farmland that would otherwise revert to forest.

Der von 1662 bis 1687 als Rektor der Zwickauer Lateinschule wirkende Christian Daum (1612 –1687) hinterließ eine der größten Privatsammlungen eines Barockgelehrten. Sie wurde von seiner Heimatstadt erworben. Der Nachlass enthält neben 5.300 Briefen ca. 6.000 Briefmanuskripte, 6.780 Bücher mit zugehörigen handschriftlichen Bibliothekskatalogen, Schülerverzeichnisse, Schulgeldregister, Manuskripte sowie 24 Schreibkalender Daums.

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