Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik

Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de geste. It includes the chansons of Ogier, Roland, William (Guillaume), Saxon epic poetry, the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Berthe with the Big Feet, and Renaut de Montauban

Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization.

The QT interval, an electrocardiographic measure reflecting myocardial repolarization, is a heritable trait. QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) and could indicate the presence of the potentially lethal mendelian long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Using a genome-wide association and replication study in up to 100,000 individuals, we identified 35 common variant loci associated with QT interval that collectively explain ∼8-10% of QT-interval variation and highlight the importance of calcium regulation in myocardial repolarization. Rare variant analysis of 6 new QT interval-associated loci in 298 unrelated probands with LQTS identified coding variants not found in controls but of uncertain causality and therefore requiring validation. Several newly identified loci encode proteins that physically interact with other recognized repolarization proteins. Our integration of common variant association, expression and orthogonal protein-protein interaction screens provides new insights into cardiac electrophysiology and identifies new candidate genes for ventricular arrhythmias, LQTS and SCD

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik

Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de geste. It includes the chansons of Ogier, Roland, William (Guillaume), Saxon epic poetry, the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Berthe with the Big Feet, and Renaut de Montauban

Les premiers vers du Cligès

Beckmann Gustav Adolf. Les premiers vers du Cligès. In: Romania, tome 122 n°485-486, 2004. pp. 202-205

Le vers, le verset et le contexte. Encore le Roland d'Oxford et la Bible. À propos de Roland 1423 et suiv., 2393, 2477 et 2616.

Beckmann Gustav Adolf. Le vers, le verset et le contexte. Encore le Roland d'Oxford et la Bible. À propos de Roland 1423 et suiv., 2393, 2477 et 2616.. In: Romania, tome 122 n°487-488, 2004. pp. 532-542

Von Belin, einem Rätsel am Jakobsweg, von der Begräbnisliste des PseudoTurpin und von Herzog Naimes

According to the Pseudo-Turpin (PT, around 1150), the Frankish Roncevaux victims were buried at Blaye, Arles, Bordeaux and, astonishingly enough, at Belin, a small place some 40 km south of Bordeaux. The following article is devoted to three questions: 1) What did the PT see at Belin? 2) According to what principles did he distribute the individual warriors among the different places? And 3) what predestined tiny Belin for its part in the tradition? Ad 1) At Belin, the PT adopted a local (probably rather rudimentary) tradition that a certain tumulus was the tomb of Roncevaux victims. (This tradition, however, fell into oblivion shortly after the PT, possibly because the tumulus was destroyed during the construction of Belin castle or, at any rate, because the tradition came into unsuccessful conflict, a) for Oliver, with the rapidly consolidating and more appealing Blaye tradition claiming by then also Oliver, and b) for other heroes, with what was told in their own chansons de geste.) Ad 2) The PT distributed the burials according very simple principles recognized hitherto only in part: for Roland’s tomb at Blaye, the PT could not disregard a tradition which at that moment was already firm for Roland only (not yet for Oliver, let alone Turpin); Belin received those warriors whose home, in the opinion of the PT, was still so far away that the survivors, despairing of transporting the decaying corpses till there, decided for a collective emergency burial – an idea which also accounted for the simple form of the‚ tomb’ he saw. The other corpses were distributed among France’s two most renowned cemeteries, at Arles and Bordeaux, depending on which of the two was closer to the individual warrior’s home. In keeping with this, Duke Naimes was buried at Arles, because for the author of the PT, Naimes was‚ of Bavaria’, not, of Bayonne’. 3) At Belin, the tumulus-based tradition, preexistent to the PT, probably owes its existence to the fact that pilgrims and warriors returning from Spain considered Belin –on the same grounds as Blaye, but at other times– as‚ the first place in France proper’ and therefore as the first place where Charlemagne could have fulfilled his moral duty of burying the corpses‚ in native soil’