Chan ceist duit a bhás go bráth: 'An Lon Dubh Báite'

This article discusses an enigmatic poem by the 18th century Gaelic poet Séamas Mac Cuarta, and three subsequent translations into English. The poem is written in the 'Trí Rann agus Amhrán' form, reminiscent of the English sonnet.

Collaborative Scholarship on the Margins: An Epistolary Network

This article explores collaborative scholarship on the margins of intellectual life in eighteenth-century England via a close examination of George Ballard's collected correspondence from women letter-writers. Ballard was both a man of trade and an antiquary, and his modest social status inhibited his freedom to move in scholarly circles. Ballard's only published book documented the lives and works of "learned ladies" of Britain from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and his female correspondents included the Anglo-Saxon scholar Elizabeth Elstob. His collected correspondence provides an insight into a network that operated outside of the major institutions of scholarship and far from the coffee houses of metropolitan life, but which supported its participants in their intellectual endeavours. By examining the collection materially, and by plotting the correspondents geographically, a more precise picture can be drawn of how women and lower-status men could engage in intellectual life from the peripheries of scholarly society. 

Women, letter-writing and the life of the mind in England, c.1650-1750

Drawing on national and regional letter collections dating from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this article explores women's experiences of the life of the mind through an analysis of their letter-writing. This study also highlights the shortcomings of the compartmentalised nature of scholarship on women's writing and intellectual lives and proposes the letter both as a beneficial historical source and methodological tool for research on women's mental worlds. By employing an inclusive definition of intellectual and creative life, and eschewing traditional benchmarks of achievement, this article contends that women took a full part in the cultures of knowledge of their time. 

Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween

Why do the English have ghost stories at Christmas? Why does US television have special Halloween episodes? Is this all down to Dickens, or is it a hangover of an ancient, pagan past? Why does it survive? Haunted Seasons explores these and related questions, examining the history and meaning of seasonal horror. It reaches back through archaeological evidence of ancient beliefs, through Shakespeare, and Victorian ghost stories, and the works of M.R.James, and onwards to radio and television. The broader genre of supernatural television is considered in relation to the irruptions of abnormality into the normal, along with the significance of time and the seasons in these narratives and their telling. Particular focus is placed on the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas strand and the Halloween episodes of The Simpsons to help us interpret the continued use of these seasonal horror stories and their place in society, from fireside to television.

Optimising drug solubilisation in amorphous polymer dispersions: rational selection of hot-melt extrusion processing parameters

The aim of this article was to construct a T–ϕ phase diagram for a model drug (FD) and amorphous polymer (Eudragit® EPO) and to use this information to understand the impact of how temperature–composition coordinates influenced the final properties of the extrudate. Defining process boundaries and understanding drug solubility in polymeric carriers is of utmost importance and will help in the successful manufacture of new delivery platforms for BCS class II drugs. Physically mixed felodipine (FD)–Eudragit® EPO (EPO) binary mixtures with pre-determined weight fractions were analysed using DSC to measure the endset of melting and glass transition temperature. Extrudates of 10 wt% FD–EPO were processed using temperatures (110°C, 126°C, 140°C and 150°C) selected from the temperature–composition (T–ϕ) phase diagrams and processing screw speed of 20, 100 and 200rpm. Extrudates were characterised using powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), optical, polarised light and Raman microscopy. To ensure formation of a binary amorphous drug dispersion (ADD) at a specific composition, HME processing temperatures should at least be equal to, or exceed, the corresponding temperature value on the liquid–solid curve in a F–H T–ϕ phase diagram. If extruded between the spinodal and liquid–solid curve, the lack of thermodynamic forces to attain complete drug amorphisation may be compensated for through the use of an increased screw speed. Constructing F–H T–ϕ phase diagrams are valuable not only in the understanding drug–polymer miscibility behaviour but also in rationalising the selection of important processing parameters for HME to ensure miscibility of drug and polymer.

Generalized collisional radiative model for light elements: C: Data for the B isonuclear sequence

A first stage collision database is assembled which contains electron-impact excitation, ionization,\r and recombination rate coefficients for B, B + , B 2+ , B 3+ , and B 4+ . The first stage database\r is constructed using the R-matrix with pseudostates, time-dependent close-coupling, and perturbative\r distorted-wave methods. A second stage collision database is then assembled which contains\r generalized collisional-radiative ionization, recombination, and power loss rate coefficients as a\r function of both temperature and density. The second stage database is constructed by solution of\r the collisional-radiative equations in the quasi-static equilibrium approximation using the first\r stage database. Both collision database stages reside in electronic form at the IAEA Labeled Atomic\r Data Interface (ALADDIN) database and the Atomic Data Analysis Structure (ADAS) open database.

Joseph Priestley: the man who drew time

The Joseph Priestley House Museum at Northumberland, Pennsylvania became interested in Priestley's pioneering timelines as a complement to his better known work in chemistry, electricity, biblical scholarship and political radicalism. Boyd Davis wrote this short article for the newsletter published by the Friends of the museum. The article concentrates on the connections between Priestley, his French contemporary Barbeu-Dubourg and Benjamin Franklin at the time of the struggle for American Independence, and Priestley's two key chronographic innovations: the use of drawn or printed lines to represent the duration of lives, and the associated use of dots to show when the dates of such lives are in doubt or dispute. Keywords: timeline, chronographics

L'Écho de Paris

1887/07/08 (Numéro 1208).

Mélanges historiques sur la Champagne, l'Artois et la Picardie.

Contient : Extraits d'un livre de réception des chanoines de l'église de Troyes ; Ligues des nobles de Champagne, Vermandois, Beauvaisis, etc ; Extraits de l'obituaire de Saint-Étienne de Troyes ; Extraits des chartes de Montier-la-Celle ; Accord entre Blanche, comtesse de Champagne, et Érard de Brienne ; Pièces relatives à l'abbaye de Signy ; Accord entre Jean de Châtillon, comte de Porcien, et l'abbaye de Saint-Hubert en Ardennes ; Chartes des seigneurs de Bazoches ; Extraits du cartulaire de l'abbaye du Charme-aux-Nonnains ; Charte de Gisla pour Sainte-Gertrude de Nivelles ; Extrait du martyrologe de l'église de Laon ; Bulles et chartes relatives à la même église ; Notice sur Gaudri, évêque de Laon ; Chartes de Saint-Jean de Laon ; Chartes concernant le diocèse de Laon ; Fondation de la chapelle de La Neuville-en-Hez ; Notice d'une donation faite par Guillaume le Conquérant à Saint-Étienne de Caen ; Diplôme de Robert le Pieux pour Saint-Vaast, daté de 1039 ; Chartes concernant les comtés de Boulogne et de Ponthieu ; Extraits de chartes concernant le diocèse d'Arras ; Extraits concernant les comtes de Saint-Pol ; Extrait des titres de Saint-Vaast d'Arras ; Extraits concernant les comtes de Flandre ; Diplôme d'Eudes pour Saint-Vaast ; Charte du comte Albert pour l'abbaye de Saint-Quentin ; Charte de Baudouin, comte de Flandre, pour Saint-Pierre au Mont-Blandin ; Extraits du cartulaire du Mont-Saint-Martin ; Épitaphes diverses de l'Artois ; Funérailles de Louis de Male, comte de Flandre

Recueil de chartes de commune.

Contient : Châteauvillain ; Troyes ; Nogaro en Armagnac ; Narbonne ; La Beuvrière (cf. fol. 73) ; Reims ; Troyes ; Beaumont ; Châteauvillain (1236 ; cf. fol. 2) ; La Chapelle [d'Angillon] ; Joigny ; Lorris ; Dixmont ; Montargis ; Barcelone (cf. fol. 149) ; Selens et Saint-Aubin ; La Beuvrière (cf. fol. 14) ; Chaumont ; Saint-Bris ; Saint-Laurent-sur-Barenjon ; Voisines ; Le Moulinet ; Barlieu ; Crespy [-en-Valois] ; Montdidier ; Laon ; Soissons ; Abbeville ; Compiègne ; Saint-Quentin ; Corbie ; Saint-Josse-sur-Mer ; La Fère ; Beauvais ; Nanteuil ; Courmelles ; Breteuil ; Beaumont-en-Argonne ; Chaumont ; Saint-Omer ; Vaux près Mouzon ; Vaux, Saconin, Mercin ; Chacrise ; Tournai ; Crandelain, etc ; Ambleteuse ; Morsain, etc ; Mantes ; Ferrières ; Aizy ; Pargny ; Saint-Riquier ; Soissons ; Saint-Martin d'Issoudun (cf. fol. 182) ; Rouen ; Dreux ; Meaux ; Reims ; Chablis ; Chatillon-sur-Seine ; Sens ; Auxerre ; Cerny ; Dixmont ; Étampes ; Orléans ; Bourges ; Issoudun (cf. fol. 148) ; Beaufort-en-Vallée ; La Rochelle ; Villefranche [d'Allier] ; Montauban ; Nevers ; Castres ; Toulouse ; Habitants de la Terre d'Albigeois ; Aigues-Mortes ; Lorrez-le-Bocage ; Le Puy ; Saint-Céré ; Barcelone ; Chatillon-sur-Marne ; Raucourt et Héraucourt ; Mézières ; Chatillon-sur-Marne ; Saint-Hellier ; Coutumes d'Anjou et du Maine ; Ervy-le-Chatel ; Cerres, Montceaux, Chaussepierre ; Notice sur un ms. de Chroniques françaises, de la bibliothèque de Colbert (= Duchesne 79)

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