The privilege of poverty : Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the struggle for a Franciscan rule for women by Joan Mueller

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Fragments as history : Magdalen College Oxford MS Lat. 143 and the Augustinian hermit friars

Funding: The research for this article was completed during a visiting fellowship at Magdalen College University of Oxford.This paper begins with a close examination of the manuscript books and copying practices of a fifteenth-century cleric in Winchester diocese, William de Lacuna (died c. 1474), whose books were early accessions to the library of Magdalen College Oxford. It details a group of historical annals Lacuna included, arguing first that one of these, a Speculum institucionis ordinum et officiorum ecclesie, otherwise extant in multiple witnesses from continental Europe (transcribed in the appendix), documents both a shared interest in the alleged early origins and priority of the order of the Augustinian Hermit Friars and the efficacy of annalistic fragments in promoting their version of history. This Speculum owes much to Franciscan and Augustinian texts produced in fourteenth-century Erfurt, where Henry of Friemar and other chroniclers of the Augustinian hermit order had worked. The other key text Lacuna copied in this group of annals is then shown to be a condensed version of Friemar’s treatise on the origins of his order, previously unrecognized evidence for the reception of Friemar’s work. The paper ends by considering the reasons for copying these texts in Winchester in the later fifteenth centuryPeer reviewe

Political uses of Nemo militans deo se implicat negotiis secularibus (2 Tim 2:4): : the Italian communes in the late Middle Ages

This paper explores political uses of the biblical maxim «Nemo militans deo se implicat negotiis secularibus» (2 Timothy 2:4), starting with its application to officeholding by Bernardino da Siena and Nicolò de’ Tudeschi (Panormitanus). It outlines something of the exegesis of «Nemo militans» on which they drew and briefly discusses how its language of detachment was adopted in the Italian communes before assessing the impact of Bernardino's words in fifteenth-century Siena and Florence. Tracing changing contexts, the paper documents some of the opportunities and limitations of reading and not reading scripture while thinking politics.Peer reviewe

The Akulmiut: Territorial dimensions of a Yup'ik Eskimo society

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1989This monograph is an ethnohistoric and ethnographic study of 19th and 20th century land and resource use of the Akulmiut, a Yup'ik-speaking Eskimo society that occupied the inland tundra region between the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers of western Alaska. The study examines the relationship between the patterns of spatial organization and wild resource utilization and resource distribution. Ethnographic studies have shown there is considerable variability in socioterritorial organization, which according to one recent theory, applied to this study, can be accounted for by examining the distribution of critical food resources in terms of density and predictability. The Akulmiut were selected for this study because of their unique situation among Alaskan Eskimos in terms of their subsistence economy and geographic location. With an economy based on fishing, utilizing non-salmon species of the low, marshy moist and wet tundra ecosystems, the adaptation of the Akulmiut is distinct among Alaskan Eskimos. Using data for the Akulmiut, this study tests the hypothesis that a territorial system occurs under conditions of high density and predictability (in time and space) of critical resources. Between groups or societies, the Akulmiut exhibited a territorial system of land use and occupancy as predicted when critical resources are dense and predictable. The study found that the key resource species of whitefish (Coregonus sp.) and northern pike (Esox lucius) exhibited resource distribution parameters characterized as predictable in time and location and were abundant or dense. Spatial organization showed that all primary villages and storage and processing facilities were situated where pike and whitefish could be readily intercepted during their annual migrations. The Akulmiut maintained exclusive use through overt defense, but also by means of cultural principles of land and resource use, ceremonial activities, and naming conventions. Dispersion of the population at other times ensured maintenance of a broader area for use in harvesting another key resource, blackfish (Dallia pectoralis). Dispersion was an efficient means of signaling areas used by the group, but also served to monitor incursions throughout the territory. This type of analysis was found to hold promise for explaining the diversity of socioterritorial organization among Alaskan Eskimos

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Fashioning the “Order of Saint Clare”. A rule illuminated by Neri da Rimini : Princeton University Library MS 83 in context

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Factors influencing dietary compliance amongst Australian diabetics

Managing the socio-economic burdens associated with the exponential global growth of diabetes diagnosis, poses one of the greatest challenges to modern health systems. Whilst there is no known cure for diabetes, many of the negative health impacts can be successfully minimised through formal therapy, dietary modification and exercise. In particular, dietary modification is considered an important first step and crucial for positive diabetes management and therapy outcomes. Despite this knowledge and extensive support and education provided by the health system, diabetes educators report that many people with diabetes are unable or unwilling to practice recommended dietary modification. This study empirically tests a model of factors that have been shown to play a role in influencing dietary compliance and confirms the importance of self-efficacy in this behaviour. The findings of this study are translated using a social marketing framework into recommendations for diabetes health educators