This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250–1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shih ab al-Din Ahmad b. `Abd al-Wahh ab al-Nuwayri's (d. 1333) …
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This thesis examines the Solomonic grimoire manuscripts between 1400-1800. Grimoires, as books of magic materials, claim an ancient lineage from the time of King Solomon of Israel. Modern scholarship has attempted to argue either for or against such a claim, but has not adequate…
The subject of this dissertation is the Nikol'skij Apocalypse Codex, a 13th-century Russian Church Slavonic manuscript (MS 1 of the Nikol'skij Collection, Fond 32 in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia). This codex is the oldest extant Slavic manuscrip…
This dissertation consists of the examination and analysis of almost 250 Armenian manuscripts (of which 167 were tabulated into a spreadsheet program and are listed in Appendix 5) ranging in date from the 12th to late 19th centuries, in order to determine what type of bookbindin…
The subject matter of this thesis is manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. Its first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond over the past 25-30 years, as well as recent trends and turns in the historiography …
Liquid Territory examines Indonesian Sama people's engagements with maritime space and their representations of maritime spatial practices toward two ends. First, to illustrate alternative ways to approach the study of insular Southeast Asia from maritime perspectives, and secon…
This dissertation examines the reception of an early Christian text – the Acts of Thecla – in sixth-century Syriac Christianity by offering an analysis of the sixth-century Syriac manuscript BL Add. 14,652 as a series of roughly sequential textual acts. These textual acts includ…
Background Head and neck cancer is the 7th most common cancer worldwide, with the majority of new cases arising in low- and middle- income countries. Patients from low- and middle- income countries often present with advanced disease and require extensive surgical and multimodal…
Background. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) are essential to the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). However, little data are available to determine whether their efficacy in reducing hospital…
The Ethiopian tradition of manuscript production, despite being the longest-lived in the Christian world, is one of the most understudied. This dissertation, based in part upon a series of field reviews conducted with scribes and manuscript craftsmen in the Ethiopian highlands b…
During the second season of the Society for Private Musical Performances (1918-1922), known in Austria as the ‘Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen’, the members began to transcribe orchestral music for their chamber ensemble (Meibach, 1984). Previously, the Society had pr…
This thesis presents the history of Islam in 11th/17th – 12th/18th century North Africa from a new angle. Our focus is the history of the Nāṣiriyya brotherhood, a spiritual community that emerged along Morocco’s Southeastern Saharan frontier during the mid-11th/17th century. Bas…
The art of organ transcription can be traced to the literature for organ surviving from the fourteenth century. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, the development of Romantic-style organ building inspired organ transcriptions that showcased the capabi…
Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is an established risk factor for a distinct subset of Head and Neck Cancers (HNCs). People living with HIV (PLWH) are more likely to smoke and harbor oral HPV infections, putting them at higher risk for HPV-related HNCs. Whereas …
The value of inducibility remains a major source of interest both as a predictor for recurrent clinical atrial fibrillation (AF) post atrial flutter (AFL) ablation, and as a potential endpoint for AF ablation. Developing predictors of AF recurrence post atrial flutter ablation a…
The collision of cosmic projectiles with a terrestrial planet’s surface forms topographic depressions, known as impact craters. Since planetary surfaces are continuously bombarded, these features can be observed on nearly all solid bodies in the Solar System. On airless bodies w…
Commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) involving children is understood to be a pervasive public health problem that negatively impacts individuals, families, and communities (Greenbaum, 2020). Combined efforts of the United States government, federal agencies, organizations such …
This thesis seeks to provide a provisional edition of Baptista Massa's "De Fructibus Vescendis," a fifteenth-century treatise on the medicinal qualities of fruits. Included is a description of the manuscripts and textual tradition, as well as discussion on some distinctive featu…