"The Cure of Bytyng" in London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 (ff. 56r-61r)

London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 is a codex in one volume which dates from the late fifteenth century. It houses a collection of practical treatises and tracts in English and Latin, in verse as well as in prose, on different topics including prognostications, nativities, medical astrology, reproduction, toxicology, bloodletting, etc. In this paper, the Middle English anonymous treatise on venomous bites, written in prose and held in folios 56r to 61r, is taken into consideration. The objective is twofold: on the one hand, to examine the contents, transmission and sources of the text and, on the other, to describe it from a physical standpoint. Investigation on those aspects of the treatise contained in Wellcome MS 411 can shed some light on the function and diffusion of the text, and may also prove significant for a better understanding of it.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Digital Editing of Early Modern English Handwritten Texts: Handling Scribal Errors and Corrections

An important philological question is how to edit texts. An edition always entails interpretation of the text and also of the socio-cultural context in which the manuscript was created and used. In new philological theory, and contrary to more traditional approaches, the individual manuscript versions, i.e., the textual witnesses, are regarded as valuable in their own right, as every textual witness tells us something about the culture of manuscripts (Carlquist 2004: 112). This is the approach followed for the digital editing of Early Modern English scientific writing in The Malaga Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Prose. In this paper, we discuss the challenges that producing such type of edition pose. We will particularly focus on the issue of scribal errors and corrections and how the editor can treat and capture them in the edition. The texts included in the above-mentioned corpus will be analyzed for the purpose. The corpus includes manuscripts from the Hunterian Collection (Glasgow University Library), the Wellcome Collection (London Wellcome Library) and the Rylands Collection (University of Manchester Library). With regard to text types, these manuscripts hold specialized texts, surgical and anatomical treatises, as well as recipe collections and materia medica. References Calle-Martín, Javier et al. 2017. The Malaga Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Prose (MCEMESP). Málaga: University of Málaga. Available from http:// modernmss.uma.es/. Carlquist, Jonas. 2004. Medieval Manuscripts, Hypertext and Reading. Visions of Digital Editions. Literary and Linguistic Computing 19/1: 105-118.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Medieval medical recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MSS 404 and 5262

This paper seeks to explore the similarities between different unidentified texts, chiefly London, Wellcome Library MSS 404 and 5262, which are catalogued as a leechbook and a recipe collection, respectively. For the purpose, a brief description of each text will be first provided; then, the recipes in these texts will be analysed and their connections will be highlighted with a view to casting some light on possibly shared material and textual tradition.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

ETHNICITY AND CONFLICT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

This paper examines the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict. The analysis relies on a theoretical model of conflict (Esteban and Ray, 2010) in which equilibrium conflict is shown to be accurately described by a linear function of just three distributional indices of ethnic diversity: the Gini coefficient, the Hirschman-Herfindahl fractionalization index, and a measure of polarization. Based on a dataset constructed by James Fearon and data from Ethnologue on ethno-linguistic groups and the "linguistic distances" between them, we compute the three distribution indices. Our results show that ethnic polarization is a highly significant correlate of conflict. Fractionalization is also significant in some of the statistical exercises, but the Gini coefficient never is. In particular, inter-group distances computed from language and embodied in polarization measures turn out to be extremely important correlates of ethnic conflict.

Primordial black hole evolution in two-fluid cosmology

Several processes in the early Universe might lead to the formation of primordial black holes with different masses. These black holes would interact with the cosmic plasma through accretion and emission processes. Such interactions might have affected the dynamics of the Universe and generated a considerable amount of entropy. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the presence of primordial black holes on the evolution of the early Universe. We adopt a two-fluid cosmological model with radiation and a primordial black hole gas. The latter is modelled with different initial mass functions taking into account the available constraints over the initial primordial black hole abundances.We find that certain populations with narrow initial mass functions are capable to produce significant changes in the scalefactor and the entropy.Fil: Gutiérrez, Eduardo Mario. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía; ArgentinaFil: Vieyro, Florencia Laura. Universidad de Barcelona; España. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía; ArgentinaFil: Romero, Gustavo Esteban. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía; Argentin

Didáctica de la traducción literaria: una propuesta

En el presente artículo, se realiza una propuesta de programación para la asignatura Traducción Literaria Inglesa perteneciente a la Licenciatura en Traducción e Interpretación. En primer lugar, se presenta la programación general, que se divide en nueve unidades didácticas, estructuradas en bloques ordenados por etapas o períodos literarios, exceptuando la primera unidad que es introductoria. A continuación, se explica la metodología empleada, los objetivos (tanto de enseñanza como de aprendizaje) y el sistema de evaluación. La exposición de la programación abreviada de las distintas unidades constituye la siguiente sección. Por último, se desarrolla una unidad didáctica en concreto para la que se proponen actividades y tareas específicas.G.I. HUM 767 (ayudas a Grupos de Investigación de la Junta de Andalucía) / Editorial Comares (colección interlingua

Lexical study of the field of sickness in an English mediaeval manuscript (GUL MS Hunter 509, ff. 1r-167v).

Este artículo presenta un estudio del léxico referente al ámbito científico de la medicina que se encuentra recogido en la obra System of Physic, depositada en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Glasgow (MS Hunter 509). El tratado principal es una traducción al inglés de un original latino y el texto del manuscrito en cuestión data de la segunda mitad del siglo quince. Para el estudio, se ha seleccionado el campo semántico correspondiente a la enfermedad y se han clasificado los términos de forma jerarquizada siguiendo un enfoque onomasiológico. In this article, a lexical study on the specific scientific field of medicine found in the work System of Physic, held in Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 509, is carried out. The main treatise is a Middle English translation from a Latin original and the text of the manuscript under consideration dates to the second half of the fifteenth century. For the study, the semantic field of sickness has been selected and the terms have been hierarchically classified following an onomasiological approach

Un curioso ejemplo: anillos no isomorfos con anillos de polinomios isomorfos

El objetivo de este Trabajo de Fin de Grado es desarrollar la teoría que servirá de base para el resultado citado en el artículo. Por un lado, al probar un isomorfismo entre dos anillos de polinomios sobre distintos anillos de coeficientes, se realiza un estudio de algunas construcciones sobre módulos, habituales del álgebra conmutativa: Producto Tensorial, Álgebra Tensorial, Álgebra Simétrica, y sucesiones exactas escindidas. De la misma forma, para probar que los anillos de coeficientes de partida no son isomorfos debemos introducir nuevos conceptos matemáticos: automorfismos del cuerpo de los números reales, construcciones de pre-órdenes, e incluso se introduce un teorema geométrico conocido como Teorema de Poincaré.Grado en Matemática

Orthographic standardization in middle english documentary texts

Standardisation has been defined as “the reduction of variation in language, or […] as the selection, elaboration and codification of a particular dialect” (Hope, 2000: 51). When language users are unconsciously sensitive to linguistic variation, natural processes of competition are triggered; these “operate independently for each linguistic variable, producing the hybrid features of Standard English” (Hope, 2000: 52). The term ‘Standard English’ is commonly used in sociolinguistics “to denote the primarily written, especially printed, usage of educated people” (Leith and Graddol, 2007: 83). The focus of this paper is on written usage, but that found in manuscript, rather than print, form. The reason for choosing handwritten texts as the object of study has to do with the fact that the origin of Standard English can be traced back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when manuscripts were the main vehicle for the written word, because “specific changes in writing practices are identifiable in those centuries” (Wright, 2020: 4). It has been argued that the early stage of standardisation is characterised by the reduction of grammatical and orthographical variants (Wright, 2020: 13). Therefore, the present paper evaluates the level of orthographic standardisation in Middle English documentary texts by assessing the competition of old and new spellings. For the purpose, the occurrence and use of the pair forms /, / and / are investigated in a specific text-type. The source of evidence comes from A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD), version 2017.1 (Stenroos, Thengs and Bergstrøm, 2017-), which comprises transcriptions of 2,017 English documentary writings from the period 1399-1525. The corpus consists of administrative texts and letters from different urban centres, which allow to analyse the supralocal spread of the spellings under consideration as well as the adoption of orthographic innovations in this type of writing.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The dialectal provenance of London, Wellcome Library, MS 5262

This paper takes into consideration the language found in London, Wellcome Library, MS 5262, a one-volume codex from the early fifteenth century which holds a medical recipe collection. The manuscript, written in Middle English (and with a few fragments in Latin), represents a fine exemplar of a remedybook, a type of writing that has been traditionally considered to be popular. The main aim is to study the dialect of the text contained in folios 3v-61v in order to localise it geographically. The methodology followed for the purpose is grounded on the model supplied by the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English (LALME) (McIntosh et al. 1986), which consists of several stages including the completion of a survey questionnaire, the creation of the linguistic profile of the text and the application of the ‘fit’-technique (McIntosh et al. 1986, vol. 1: 10-12; Benskin 1991). Extralinguistic features of the manuscript may also be taken into consideration. This comprehensive analysis will help us to circumscribe the dialectal provenance and/or local origin of the text accurately.The present research has been funded by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia (grant number P07-HUM-02609) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant number FFI2011-26492)