Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 254 p.; also includes facsimiles, graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-205). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

It is often noted that Deuteronomy 28 seems to parallel portions of a Neo-Assyrian treaty, 'The Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon', known as EST. However, while there are undeniably points of similarity between Deuteronomy 28 and EST, affinities to Deuteronomy 28 may also be found in curses from Old Aramaic epigraphs of the first-millennium. In this thesis I consider the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. I argue that the crux of the issue is the linguistic means of the transmission of these ancient Near Eastern curse traditions to Deuteronomy. Consideration of this is then the prerequisite to a study of the cultural means of transmission: treatments of this problem must encompass a far broader range of materials than hitherto considered, including the Old Aramaic inscriptions. My primary aim in this context is to ascertain whether we may characterize the relation of all these texts to Deuteronomy as one of influence or of intertextuality - terminological categories which I introduce in order to clarify the exact nature of the problem with more precision than that of previous studies. Ultimately it will be found that Deuteronomy 28 reflects a complex interplay between Mesopotamian and Levantine traditions, against previous interpreters who had referred Deuteronomy 28 to an exclusively Mesopotamian horizon. Nevertheless, we cannot consider this interplay to have stemmed from the influence of any one Old Aramaic or Mesopotamian text such as EST in terms of a direct literary connection. Rather, as putative Aramaic vectors of mediation must be posited between the Mesopotamian tradition and Deuteronomy due to the linguistic competence of Judaean scribes in the late monarchic period, this must be understood as a relationship of intertextuality. While the specific literary (or ritual) Vorlage is thus unreconstructable in terms of the documentary evidence, we can nevertheless hypothesize what the Northwest Semitic curse tradition from which this Vorlage was a part may have looked like, based upon the textual traditions to which we do have access - and this tradition is reflected in Deuteronomy 28.

This thesis presents image of varied methods of treatment in the past, based on analysis of recipes, which are recorded in medical manuscripts of the 15.-19. century stored in various scientific and cultural institutions in Jihočeský region and Plzeňský region. It contains also an inventory of these manuscripts and presents an attempt of their classification. This thesis also deals with authors of recipes, which are written in these medical manuscripts. In appendices can be found (besides previously mentioned inventory) pictures of some records in these manuscripts, a dictionary of less known Old Czech expressions and archaisms, which occured in this thesis, and a list of names.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / O colono português Gabriel Soares de Sousa apresentou à corte de Felipe II da Espanha, por volta de 1587, um dos mais importantes registros sobre o Brasil quinhentista, o Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587, e o bem menos conhecido Capítulos de Gabriel Soares de Sousa contra os padres da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil. Esta tese apresenta uma análise da história destes manuscritos quinhentistas, examinado como chegaram até os seus formatos atuais e as suas leituras através dos tempos. / The portuguese settler Gabriel Soares de Sousa presented to the court of Philip II of Spain, around 1587, one of the most important records of the sixteenth century Brazil, the Treaty of Brazil in 1587, and the less well known chapters of Gabriel Soares de Sousa against the Company's priests of Jesus in Brazil. This thesis presents an analysis of the history of these sixteenth century manuscripts, examined how they got their current formats and their readings over time.

While troubadour and trouvère repertoires have recently received fresh attention from music scholars, the study of medieval German vernacular song—Minnesang—continues to be located firmly outside the canon(s) of musicology. The present thesis seeks to re-insert Minnesang into musicological discourse by demonstrating the ways in which the repertoire has been constructed as musical, both by the creators of medieval manuscript sources and by modern scholars. The modern ontology of music as defined by notation and performance has prevented scholars from understanding manuscripts such as the Codex Manesse (C) as intrinsically musical. While the texts alone may have sufficed to enable their intended audiences to view them as musical entities, C’s 137 author miniatures further contribute to the manuscript’s musicality: the Minnesänger are depicted as authors and experiencing personae, revealing a strong concern for oral communication—which, in the Middle Ages, was inherently musical. The Jenaer Liederhandschrift (<b>J</b>) and other manuscripts equally reveal their musicality when scrutinised beyond the search for musical notation: through ordering and folio design. The thesis establishes the influence exerted by previous scholarship on today’s lack of interest in the music of Minnesang, and outlines the importance of scholarly discourse and its study in a historiographical context. Before the 1970s, an existing musical discourse on Minnesang encouraged musicologists and philologists to continue to engage in it—despite the fact that the dominant interest in contrafacture and rhythm found few answers in the surviving source material. A concluding case study of Walther von der Vogelweide’s Palästinalied exemplifies the musicality of medieval manuscripts and its complex (mis)construction by modern scholarship. The thesis provides the basis for a fresh assessment of the music of Minnesang: beyond the confines of modern ontologies of music, and as part of the study of medieval song.

With the help of sermon manuscripts from the time of the Spanish flu, held within the Church of Sweden, new light is shed on sermons held in the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The comparison shows, among other things, that a shift has been made in how God is portrayed. It also points to some challenging questions about suffering, hope and the role of eternity in preaching today.

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