Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reno Stagni.pdf: 4141111 bytes, checksum: 2cc8002a9378efb09dbf78cce5de9654 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The objective of this study is to analyze, among the multiple aspects that permeate the alchemical tradition, one that treats the relation between image and text as a way to the knowledge stored in the books, and to try to evidence some aspects of the use of the image as a tool to decode the verbal text. Therefore it was chosen, as case study, the manuscript La Génération et Opération du Grand OEuvre pour Faire de l Or (The Generation and Operation of the Great Work to Make Gold), anonymous manuscript, copied in the first quarter of the XVII century, whose comparison with alchemical works related to that same period provided the analysis, object of this study / O objetivo deste estudo é analisar, dentre os múltiplos aspectos que permeiam a tradição alquímica, aquele que trata das relações entre imagem e texto como via de acesso aos conhecimentos guardados nos livros, e tentar evidenciar alguns aspectos do uso da imagem como instrumento de decodificação do texto verbal. Para tanto foi selecionado, como estudo de caso, o manuscrito La Génération et Opération du Grand OEuvre pour Faire de l Or (A Geração e Operação da Grande Obra para Fazer Ouro), manuscrito anepígrafo, copiado no primeiro quartel do século XVII, cujo confronto com outras obras alquímicas do mesmo período, propiciou a análise, objeto deste estudo

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

This thesis explores the growing interaction between England and foreign countries comparing their trade with contemporary later sixteenth century and seventeenth century English emblems. The emblems used are those available over the internet from several different library and university sources. As England expanded its trade throughout the world, English emblems began to show the exchange occurring between England and its various trading partners. Historians have largely overlooked this valuable source of information. By studying emblems historians gain invaluable insight into the economy, society, politics, religion, and other matters with which England was concerned.

Lys de la royauté ou croix de l’Église, l’espace des villes médiévales se caractérise par les marques qu’y ont apposées les institutionsmédiévales. À la fin du Moyen Âge, les nouvelles élites urbaines s’approprient ce marquage de l’espace public par l’image en yimposant leurs propres signes. Elles affirment alors leur présence sur la scène publique et artistique. Aux XIVe et XVe siècles, ledécor civil se fait l’expression tangible de cette transformation sociale ; des signes emblématiques et de petites sculptures figuréesinvestissent l’espace urbain. L’institution municipale fait édifier un bâtiment emblématique, l’hôtel de ville, dont le portail armoriéfait écho aux emblèmes qu’elle fait placer dans les lieux stratégiques. Les particuliers, à leur tour, transposent à leurs habitations cesmodes de représentation monumentale. Officiers ou marchands, ces hommes nouveaux couvrent leurs résidences de blasons, figuresreligieuses ou emblématiques. Les ensembles décoratifs, en les rattachant à un métier, une institution ou une paroisse, disent laposition sociale et les valeurs morales que revendiquent les commanditaires bourgeois. Ceux-ci, par la présentation de leurs insignespersonnels, de leur devise ou de leur nom, mettent en scène leur identité, introduisant dans l’espace public urbain des fragments desubjectivité. Des petites figures singulières et radicales se déploient : corps nus et exposés, scènes grotesques et allégoriques, quifigurent la déchéance possible pour valoriser le statut. Structurés et hiérarchisés, ces décors forment un système relationnel danslequel l’ascension répond à l’exclusion, signes d’un ordre social en transformation. / Whether royal lily or Christian cross, the space of medieval towns is characterized by the marks placed on it by medieval institutions.At the end of the Middle-Ages, the new urban elites make the process of marking the city their own by imposing their own signs onthe public space. Thus, they assert their presence on the public and artistic scene. In the 14th and 15th century, civilian decorationbecomes the tangible expression of this social transformation ; emblems and small sculptural figures conquer the urban space. Anemblematic edifice, the town hall, is erected by the municipal institution, whose emblazoned portal echo other emblems placed atstrategic locations. Private citizens, in turn, transplant into their homes these monumental modes of representation. Officers ormerchants – these men of a new kind – cover their residences with coats of arms, religious or emblematic figures. By linking them toa profession, an institution or a parish, these decorative programs state the social standing and moral values that those affluentcommissioners claim for themselves. By presenting their personal insignia, their motto or their name, they put their identity on stage,thereby introducing fragments of subjectivity in the public and urban space. Some singular and radical small figures begin toproliferate: exposed, naked bodies, grotesque and allegorical scenes that foreshadow one’s possible downfall in order to exalt one’scurrent status. Structured and hierarchically organized, these decors form a relational system in which social promotion dialogueswith exclusion : telltale signs of a social order in transformation.

The following thesis highlights intercultural misunderstandings that can occur due to different semantic values of emblems, a gesture generally defined as having an accepted verbal translation in a certain culture or community. To illustrate such problems, the semantic meanings of sixteen emblems in Colombia and Germany are analyzed. Misunderstandings caused by the use of these emblems are then explained from a communicative point of view, using Austin’s speech-act theory.

An examination of the influences on twentieth-century wind music would be incomplete without the consideration of composer, organist, pianist, conductor, teacher, and critic Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). Students from the United States began studying with Boulanger between World War I and World War II, and continued to travel to study with her for over fifty years. The respect awarded this legendary French woman was gained as a result of her effectiveness as a teacher, her influence on the development of each student's unique compositional style, and her guidance of an emerging American musical style. The correlation between the teacher's lessons and the compositional output of her students must be explored. Boulanger did not compose specifically for winds, and she did not encourage her students to compose for the wind symphony. However, this document will outline the influence that this powerful pedagogue exerted over the creation of repertoire by her students by providing insight into the pedagogical style and philosophical foundations of Boulanger as reflected in the literature and by the writings, comments, and compositions of three successful students who composed literature for the wind symphony: Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Leslie Bassett (b. 1923), and Donald Grantham (b. 1947). Three significant works for winds will be considered including Copland's Emblems, Bassett's Lullaby for Kirsten, and Grantham's Variations on an American Cavalry Song.

Text in Afrikaans / This research describes the coats of arms and emblems of hospitals and nursing colleges in the Republic of South Africa, an aspect of nursing's heritage and history have not yet been described. Data were collected by means of questionnaires. An extensive literature review on heraldics and an analysis of the meanings contained in the symbols appearing on these devices were done. The analysis resulted in the following; the uniqueness of the individual devices, the development of nursing and nursing education, the influence of values, norms, ideals, culture, religion and history on the selection of symbols. The heraldic meanings of symbols and the meanings indicated in the questionnaires were compared with the identified core concepts for nursing. The overall finding was that any congruence was purely circumstantial. / Hierdie navorsing beskryf die wapens en embleme van hospitale en verpleegkolleges in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 'n aspek van die erfenis en geskiedenis van verpleging wat nog nie vantevore beskryf is nie. Inligting was deur middel van vraelyste ingesamel. 'n Uitgebreide literatuuroorsig oor die heraldiek en 'n ontleding van die betekenisse van die simbole soos aangetref op die wapens/embleme, is gedoen.Uit die analisering is die volgende bevind; die uniekheid van die individuele wapens/embleme, die ontwikkeling van verpleging en verpleegonderrig, die invloed van waardes, norme, ideale, kultuur, godsdiens en geskiedenis op die keuse van simbole. Die heraldiese betekenis van simbole en die betekenis wat in die vraelyste daaroor aangedui is, is met die geidentifiseerde kembegrippe vir verpleging, vergelyk. Die algemene bevinding is dat enige ooreenkoms bloot toevallig is. / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)

Considering that during the Baroque there was arguably nothing more enigmatic than the emblematic tradition, this thesis discusses how emblems played a role in the configuration of subjectivities in New Spain and, more precisely, in their production of symbolic imagery. Through the analysis of the poetic, political, and philosophical functions of the 1680 Neptuno alegórico (Allegorical Neptune), this this study discusses the concepts of "emblem,"ekphrasis"," "syncretism," and "neoplatonic tradition" in one of the most rethorical and multifaceted texts of the humanist writer and Hieronymite nun sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695). / Graduate / mplundin@gmail.com

Text in Afrikaans / This research describes the coats of arms and emblems of hospitals and nursing colleges in the Republic of South Africa, an aspect of nursing's heritage and history have not yet been described. Data were collected by means of questionnaires. An extensive literature review on heraldics and an analysis of the meanings contained in the symbols appearing on these devices were done. The analysis resulted in the following; the uniqueness of the individual devices, the development of nursing and nursing education, the influence of values, norms, ideals, culture, religion and history on the selection of symbols. The heraldic meanings of symbols and the meanings indicated in the questionnaires were compared with the identified core concepts for nursing. The overall finding was that any congruence was purely circumstantial. / Hierdie navorsing beskryf die wapens en embleme van hospitale en verpleegkolleges in die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 'n aspek van die erfenis en geskiedenis van verpleging wat nog nie vantevore beskryf is nie. Inligting was deur middel van vraelyste ingesamel. 'n Uitgebreide literatuuroorsig oor die heraldiek en 'n ontleding van die betekenisse van die simbole soos aangetref op die wapens/embleme, is gedoen.Uit die analisering is die volgende bevind; die uniekheid van die individuele wapens/embleme, die ontwikkeling van verpleging en verpleegonderrig, die invloed van waardes, norme, ideale, kultuur, godsdiens en geskiedenis op die keuse van simbole. Die heraldiese betekenis van simbole en die betekenis wat in die vraelyste daaroor aangedui is, is met die geidentifiseerde kembegrippe vir verpleging, vergelyk. Die algemene bevinding is dat enige ooreenkoms bloot toevallig is. / Health Studies / M.A. (Verpleegkunde)

The following thesis highlights intercultural misunderstandings that can occur due to different semantic values of emblems, a gesture generally defined as having an accepted verbal translation in a certain culture or community. To illustrate such problems, the semantic meanings of sixteen emblems in Colombia and Germany are analyzed. Misunderstandings caused by the use of these emblems are then explained from a communicative point of view, using Austin’s speech-act theory.