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Rhyme

Rhyme   Reference library

T.V.F. Brogan, S. Cushman, K. S. Chang, R.M.A. Allen, W. L. Hanaway, and C. Scott

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

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2017
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... 57 (1984) ; M. T. Ikegami , Rhyme and Pronunciation (1984)—ME ; W. E. Rickert , “Semantic Consequences of Rhyme,” Literature in Performance 4 (1984); Chambers—Occitan; “Rhyme and the True Calling of Words,” in Hollander; W. E. Rickert , “B. de Cornulier, “Rime ‘riche’ et fonction de la rime,” Littérature 59 (1985) ; B. Nagel , Das Reimproblem in der deutschen Dichtung vom Otfridvers zum freien Vers (1985); Scherr, ch. 4; W. Harmon , “Rhyme in English Verse: History, Structures, Functions,” SP 84 (1987) ; L. M. Guinee and K. B. Payne ,...

Belief and Poetry

Belief and Poetry   Reference library

M. Krieger, S. Justice, M. P. Clark, and T. K. Sung

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

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2017
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...Marion , Etant donné (1997) ; Henri de Lubac , Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture , trans. M. Sebanc , 4 v. (1998) ; S. Hauerwas , With the Grain of the Universe (2001) ; S. ŽiŽek , On Belief (2001) ; J. Stout , Democracy and Tradition (2004) ; S. Mailloux , Disciplinary Identities (2006) ; S. ŽiŽek and J. Milbank , The Monstrosity of Christ (2009). M. Krieger ; S. Justice ( Cl. to Early Mod. ); M. P. Clark , T. K. Sung ( Early Mod. to Present...

Scottish Local and Family History

Scottish Local and Family History   Quick reference

David moody

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...and T. M. Devine ; while Ian Carter has brought a sociologist's perspective to the field. The Highland Clearances have received objective scrutiny from writers such as Malcolm Gray , A. J. Youngson , Eric Richards , and T. M. Devine . Philip Gaskell's Morvern Transformed ( 1968 , 1980 , 1996 ) is one of the few in‐depth local studies. Some of these specialists are in fact geographers, bringing with them a number of models on the uses of space. ‘It is now widely accepted that geography and history are inter‐related,’ wrote A. C. O’Dell and K....

34 The History of the Book in the Baltic States

34 The History of the Book in the Baltic States   Reference library

Jürgen M. Warmbrunn

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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...al ., eds., Buch und Bildung im Baltikum: Festschrift für Paul Kaegbein (2005) K. Garber and M. Klöker , eds., Kulturgeschichte der baltischen Länder in der Frühen Neuzeit (2003) Z. Kiaupa , The History of the Baltic Countries , 3e (2002) L. Kõiv and T. Reimo , eds., Books and Libraries in the Baltic Sea Region from the 16 th to the 18 th Century (2006) A.-M. Kõll , ed., The Baltic Countries under Occupation: Soviet and Nazi Rule, 1939–1991 (2003) P. Lotman and T. Vilberg , eds., The 20 th -Century Libraries in the Baltic Sea Region...

Universalism in Islam

Universalism in Islam   Reference library

Chandra Muzaffar

Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook

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2022
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Oxford University Press

... 1. M. Kamal Hassan , “Malaysia,” in John L. Esposito, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), volume 3, pp. 35–38; Hussin Mutalib , Islam and Ethnicity in Malay Politics (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990) ; Chandra Muzaffar, “Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and Human Rights in Malaysia,” in Claude E. Welch Jr. and Virginia A. Leary , editors, Asian Perspectives on Human Rights (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1990), pp. 107–141 ; K. J. Ratnam , Communalism in...

Welsh Local and Family History

Welsh Local and Family History   Quick reference

D. Huw Owen

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...bulk, and in some cases intimidating appearance, valuable information is often contained in these works, and also in more recent studies, including D. Walker's A History of the Church in Wales ( 1976 ), T. M. Bassett , Bedyddwyr Cymru/The Welsh Baptists ( 1966 ), R. Tudur Jones , Hanes Annibynwyr Cymru ( 1966 ) (on Welsh Independents), Gomer M. Roberts (ed.), Hanes Methodistiaeth Galfinaidd Cymru , 1 ( 1974 ), 2 ( 1978 ) (on Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, Presbyterian Church of Wales), and L. Madden (ed.), Methodism in Wales ( 2003 )....

Zephaniah

Zephaniah   Reference library

Rex Mason and Rex Mason

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
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3,468 words
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...Series, 13 (Leiden: Brill). Sabottka, L. (1972), Zephanja, Versuch einer Neuübersetzung mit philo-logischem Kommentar , BibOr 25 (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute). Seybold, K. (1991), Nahum, Habakuk, Zephanja , ZB, (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag). Smith, J. M. P. (1911), ‘Zephaniah’, in Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah and Joel , ICC (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark), 159–263. Smith, L. P., and Lacheman, E. R. (1950), ‘The Authorship of the Book of Zephaniah’, JNES 9: 137–42. Taylor C. L. (1956), ‘The Book of Zephaniah’, IB 6 (New York:...

Additions to Daniel

Additions to Daniel   Reference library

George J. Brooke and George J. Brooke

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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...Schürer, E. (1987), The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ , iii. pt. 2, rev. and ed. G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Goodman (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark), 722–30. Steussy, M. J. (1993), Gardens in Babylon: Narrative and Faith in the Greek Legends of Daniel , SBLDS 141 (Atlanta: Scholars Press). Wills, L. M. (1990), The Jew in the Court of the Foreign King: Ancient Jewish Court Legends , HDR 26 (Minneapolis: Fortress). Ziegler, J. (1954), Susanna, Daniel, Bel et Draco , Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 16/2 (Göttingen:...

Lamentations

Lamentations   Reference library

P. M. Joyce and P. M. Joyce

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
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..., ConBOT 21 (Lund: Gleerup). McDaniel, T. F. (1968), ‘The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations’, VT 18: 198–209. Miller, A. (1991), ‘The Mistreated Child in the Lamentations of Jeremiah’, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence to Join the Waiting Child (London: Virago), 114–26. Mintz, A. (1984), Ḥurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature (New York: Columbia University Press). Morgenstern, J. (1956), ‘Jerusalem—485 B.C.’, HUCA 27: 101–79; (1957), 28: 15–47; (1960), 31: 1–29. O'Connor, K. M. (1992), ‘Lamentations’, in C. A. Newsom and...

Industrial History

Industrial History   Quick reference

David Hey

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...heritage. Its achievements include the preservation of Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet (now a museum), Shepherd's Wheel (a water‐powered site for grinding cutlery), and Wortley Top Forge. The literature on the history of technology is considerable. See, for instance, T. K. Derry and T. I. Williams , Short History of Technology (1960) , R. F. Tylecote , A History of Metallurgy (1976) , and A. E. Musson and E. Robinson , Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution (1969). Popular and academic interest in industrial archaeology, a term...

James

James   Reference library

Rainer Riesner and Rainer Riesner

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
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Religion
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10,287 words
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...Johnson, L. T. (1995), The Letter of James (New York: Doubleday). Karrer, M. (1989), ‘Christus der Herr und die Welt als Stätte der Prüfung. Zur Theologie des Jakobusbriefes’, Kerygma und Dogma, 35: 166–88. Kirk, J. A. (1969–70), ‘The Meaning of Wisdom in James’, NTS 16: 24–38. Klein, M. (1995), ‘Ein vollkommenes Werk’: Vollkommenheit, Gesetz und Gericht als theologische Themen des Jakobusbriefes (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer). Konradt, M. (1998), Christliche Existenz nach dem Jakobusbrief (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck). Lautenschlager, M. (1990), ‘Der...

Agricultural History

Agricultural History   Quick reference

David Hey

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...suffered by the rural poor. The debate is particularly concerned with the late 18th and 19th centuries. The questions raised by George Bourne and the Hammonds are still not resolved to everyone's satisfaction. See, for example, K. D. M. Snell , Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660–1900 (1985) , M. Reed and R. Wells (eds), Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside, 1700–1880 (1990) , Alun Howkins , Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1870–1923 (1985) , and Nicola Verdon , Rural Women...

Colossians

Colossians   Reference library

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, OP and Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, OP

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
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Religion
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10,129 words
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...Philem 19; 1 Cor 16:21; Richards 1991 : 173–7 ). References Abbott, T. K. (1897), A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles to the Ephesians and to the Colossians , ICC (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark). Aletti, J.-N. (1993), Saint Paul: Épître aux Colossiens , Ebib ns 20 (Paris: Gabalda). Anderson, C. P. (1992), ‘Laodiceans, Epistle to’, ABD iv. 231–3. Balch, D. (1992), ‘Household Codes’, ABD iii. 318–20. Bandstra, A. J. (1964), Law and the Elements (Kampen: Kok). Barrett, C. K. (1994), Paul: An Introduction to his Thought (London: Chapman)....

Domestic Buildings

Domestic Buildings   Quick reference

Malcolm Airs

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...are a particularly valuable source in conjunction with other administrative records such as parish rate books and registries of deeds . Stephen Porter , Exploring Urban History ( 1990 ), is a useful introduction to the available sources, and the chapter by D. M. Palliser on sources in M. W. Barley (ed.), The Plans and Topography of Medieval Towns in England and Wales ( 1976 ), should also be consulted. The secondary literature is diverse and voluminous, and most major cities and many towns have extensive bibliographies. However, few of the books...

26 The History of the Book in the Nordic Countries

26 The History of the Book in the Nordic Countries   Reference library

Charlotte Appel and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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History, Social sciences
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5,240 words
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...K. B. Jensen , ed., Dansk Mediehistorie (4 vols, 1996–2003) L. Nielsen , Dansk bibliografi 1482–1600 (3 vols, 1919–35); 2e (5 vols, 1996) — Den danske bog (1941) E. Petersen , ed., Living Words and Luminous Pictures (1999) faroe islands M. Næs , Fra spadestik til global udfordring (2005) finland T. Boman et al ., eds., Bibliografi över Finlands bokhistoria 1488–1850 före 1991 (1993) Fennica: The National Bibliography of Finland , www.fennica.linneanet.fi , consulted Sept. 2007 C.-R. Gardberg , Boktrycket i Finland (3 vols, 1948–73) K. K....

Esther

Esther   Reference library

Carol Meyers and Carol Meyers

The Oxford Bible Commentary

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2022
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7,114 words
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...Characterization in the Book of Esther , JSOTSup 186 (Sheffield: JSOT). Fox, M. V. (1990), The Redaction of the Book of Esther (Atlanta: Scholars Press). Fuchs, E. (1982), ‘Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative’, Mankind Quarterly , 23:149–60. Gendler, M. (1976), ‘The Restoration of Vashti’, in Elizabeth Koltun (ed.), The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives (New York: Schocken Books), 241–47. Hallo, W. W. (1983), ‘The First Purim’, BA 46: 19–29. Hoglund, K. (1992), Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine and the...

The Poor

The Poor   Quick reference

David Hey

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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...designs of the Revd J. T. Becher. His ideas were influential in the creation of the new national system ten years later. His solution to the problem of rising numbers of poor was to care for the old and infirm and the children, but to deter the ‘idle and profligate’ who, he believed, were avoiding work by making life within the workhouse harsher than it was outside. The New Poor Law met with considerable opposition, particularly in Wales and northern England, where ratepayers felt that the old system worked well enough. See K. D. M. Snell , Parish and...

37 The History of the Book in Sub-Saharan Africa

37 The History of the Book in Sub-Saharan Africa   Reference library

Andrew Vlies

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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...by the Ottoman state press at Istanbul in 1877 . Jan Carl *Juta established a commercial publishing firm in Cape Town as early as 1853 ; it remains the oldest continuously productive publishing house in the country. Commercial English-language publishing began in earnest with T. M. *Miller in 1893 . After World War II, local publishing expanded, with *Timmins , *Balkema , and Struik setting up as trade and Africana publishers. Oxford University Press and Purnell had both entered the local market by the 1960s , and significant local oppositional presses...

Population Levels and Trends

Population Levels and Trends   Quick reference

David Hey

The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)

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2009
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History, Local and Family History
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...3rd ser., 44 (1952). Major contributions to the study of historical demography since the appearance of Wrigley and Schofield's book include L. Bonfield , R. Smith , and K. Wrightson (eds), The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure ( 1986 ), Peter Clark and David Souden (eds), Migration and Society in Early Modern England ( 1987 ), R. M. Smith (ed.), Regional and Spatial Demographic Patterns in the Past ( 1990 ), David Levine and Keith Wrightson , The Making of An Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560–1765 (...

9 Missionary Printing

9 Missionary Printing   Reference library

M. Antoni J. Üçerler

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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...C. J. Brokaw , ‘On the History of the Book in China’, in Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China , ed. C. J. Brokaw and K. Chow (2005) T. F. Carter , The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward , 2e (1955; repr. 1988) A. Chan , Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome (2002) C. Clair , A Chronology of Printing (1969) H. Cordier , L’Imprimerie sino-européenne en Chine (1901) T. Doi , ‘ Das Sprachstudium der Gesellschaft Jesu in Japan im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert ’, Monumenta Nipponica , 2 (1939), 437–65 W....

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