The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature (Oxford Handbooks)

History

Hexter, Ralph

Townsend, David

Europe

Oxford University Press

Sentence Comprehension: The Integration of Habits and Rules (Language, Speech, and Communication)

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumulated habits. The authors argue that the sentence is the natural level at which associative and symbolic information merge during comprehension.The authors develop and support an analysis-by-synthesis model that integrates associative and symbolic information in sentence comprehension. This integration resolves problems each approach faces when considered independently. The authors review classic and contemporary symbolic and associative theories of sentence comprehension, and show how recent developments in syntactic theory fit well with the integrated analysis-by-synthesis model. They offer analytic, experimental, and neurological evidence for their model and discuss its implications for broader issues in cognitive science, including the logical necessity of an integration of symbolic and connectionist approaches in the field.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bever, Thomas G.

Townsend, David J.

Psychology & Counseling

Bradford Books

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumulated habits. The authors argue that the sentence is the natural level at which associative and symbolic information merge during comprehension.
The authors develop and support an analysis-by-synthesis model that integrates associative and symbolic information in sentence comprehension. This integration resolves problems each approach faces when considered independently. The authors review classic and contemporary symbolic and associative theories of sentence comprehension, and show how recent developments in syntactic theory fit well with the integrated analysis-by-synthesis model. They offer analytic, experimental, and neurological evidence for their model and discuss its implications for broader issues in cognitive science, including the logical necessity of an integration of symbolic and connectionist approaches in the field.

Growing Up On The Farm captures for posterity the flavour of rural life in picturesque Herefordshire, showing how the countryside was worked and kept by the Townsend family and their near neighbours during the post war years of the fifties and sixties. Born at the end of the second world war David Townsend witnessed the immense changes that ended a way of life that had remained untouched for centuries, giving a clear insight into our rural social history and providing a definitive record for future generations to look back on.

Growing Up On The Farm

Biographies & Memoirs

Authors OnLine Ltd.

John of Glastonbury's chronicle represents an attempt to summarise the lore and learning about Glastonbury Abbey and its past available in the fourteenth century, a body of knowledge which changed very little before the Reformation. The author drew on a large number of sources and edited these skilfully to form his narrative, while preserving the earlier text almost intact. The result is the fullest medieval account of the abbey and its legends. A translation is included, which makes the important text available in English for the first time, and the whole volume is designed as a companion to John Scott's edition and translation of William of Malmesbury's twelfth-century account of the abbey's history.

Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey: An Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates

Carley, James P.

Boydell Press

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric (Cultures of Latin)

Ancient Civilizations

Cambridge University Press

Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy (Cultures of Latin)

In school improvement, nothing can be taken for granted, and nothing is ever as easy as its most enthusiastic proponents contend. Good ideas are usually only as good as the context into which they are introduced, and the next greatest innovation can quickly become the latest shipwreck on the beachhead of public education. All the simple solutions seem to have been tried, yet the really tough problems remain.This book was written in response to a demand from teachers for more specific information on how to do school improvement. The authors have distilled over twenty-five years of experiences in more than 300 schools into six chapters that capture both the pragmatic and the theoretical in ways that can empower educators to take action. Each chapter outlines one of the six essential components that form the essential equation for school improvement. To help educators apply these concepts immediately, this information is generously supplemented by numerous questionnaires, checklists, templates and team-building activities developed or adapted through work within schools. (2012-07-17)

The Essential Equation: A Handbook for School Improvement

Education & Teaching

Adams, Pamela

Schools & Teaching

Brush Education

Do They Play Cricket in Ireland? is the inside story of a rollercoaster ride that took the Boys in Green from rank amateurs to playing Test matches, and dismissing England for 85. Every stage of the journey is charted by a writer who was at the heart of the action: instrumental in Ed Joyce joining Middlesex and the tactician who helped Ireland win their first global tournament. Read about stunning victories over Pakistan, England and the West Indies, Eoin Morgan's debut at Eton, an annoying redhead's spiky spats with Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen and the Namibian farming community, the fastest century in World Cup history, a cricket-loving former IRA commander and a six-hitting sheep strangler. As friend and confidant to many of the players and coaches who took Ireland to the top table of world cricket, David Townsend is uniquely placed to tell this remarkable story. Written in diary format, in a chatty, humorous style, the book is part travelogue as it follows the team through more than 20 countries and across five continents.

Do They Play Cricket in Ireland?: A 25-Year Journey to a Test Match at Lord’s

Pitch Publishing Ltd

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