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Papyri Copticae Magicae, volume 1, Formularies
In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
In: Beiheft 48,1
This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them - heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text
Kvinnor och politik i det tidigmoderna Norden: Rapport till 26:e Nordiska historikermötet i Reykjavík den 8-12 augusti 2007
In: Ritsafn Sagnfræðistofnunar 40
"Hlustaðu á þína innri rödd": Kvennaframboð í Reykjavík og Kvennalisti 1982 - 1987
In: Smárit Sögufélags
Þannig er saga okkar": Um sagnritunarsjálfsögur og skáldsöguna Hundadaga eftir Einar Má Guðmundsson
In: Íslenskar kvikmyndir; Ritið, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 249-273
ISSN: 2298-8513
The ambiguity between reality and fiction haunts Einar Már Guðmundsson's novel Hundadagar (Dog Days, 2015), as it is a fictional narrative about factual, historical figures and events, such as Jörgen Jörgensen, Rev. Jón Steingrímsson, Finnur Magnússon and Guðrún Johnsen, while the same can be said about many other novels labeled as postmodernism. Canadian literary scholar Linda Hutcheon coined the concept of historiographic metafiction to describe fictions as such, which are "intensely self-reflexive", while "paradoxically lay claim to historical events and personages". Hutcheon suggests that historiographic metafictions fully illuminate the very way in which postmodernism entangles itself with both the epistemological and ontological status of history. This paper begins with an introduction to Hutcheon's theoretical contributions on postmodernism, postmodern literature and the relationship between history and fiction, followed by a reading of Hundadagar as a historiographic metafiction. The narrator's strategies—such as parataxis, metanarrative comments, we-narrative discourse and documentary intertext—largely indicate an imitation, a revelation, or say, a parody of the process of historian's writings. The paper further suggests that it is the Icelandic financial crisis in 2008 that prompts the narrator to revisit the 18. and 19. century, since the financial crisis takes the role of a rupture of the Enlightenment ideals, leading to disorder and chaos. Moreover, the narrator finds an uncanny similarity between the past and the present, as if the history has been repeating itself. The spectre of history keeps (re)appearing in a deferred temporality. While revisiting the past, the narrator also (re)visits the present in an allegorical way. In a word, as a historiographic metafiction, Einar Már Guðmundsson's Hundadagar is "fundamentally contradictory, resolutely historical, and inescapably political", just as Hutcheon's perception of postmodernism.
Fræðamörk: Um markalínur milli heimspeki og grannvísinda hennar í rannsóknum á hruninu
In: Íslenskar kvikmyndir; Ritið, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 275-327
ISSN: 2298-8513
The astonishing range of writings about the social causes and consequences of the Icelandic 2008 financial crisis proffers a unique opportunity to analyse comparative-ly how scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences deal with one and the same subject. How does the scholarly approach differ regarding the employment of theories, hypotheses, empirical data and concepts? Is the methodology of the humanities noticeably different from that of the social sciences? Did the boundaries of philosophy and related sciences change in times of crisis, momentarily or permanently?
The Coptic martyrdom of John of Phanijōit: assimilation and conversion to Islam in thirteenth-century Egypt
In: The history of Christian-Muslim relations 3
Poslednij vrag naroda
The book is based on new sources that disclose unexplored aspects of the history of Tartastan (1917 - 1937)