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In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of
enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses,
was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise
reduce the existence of the enslaved. Letters, memoirs, and
philosophical treatises of the enslaved and formerly enslaved bear
testament to the methods used to dehumanize them. In Empire of
Brutality, Christopher Michael Blakley explores how material
relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the
intellectual dehumanization of the enslaved. By reconsidering
dehumanization in the light of human–animal relations, Blakley
offers new insights into the horrific institution later challenged
by Black intellectuals in multiple ways. Using the correspondence
of the Royal African Company, specimen catalogs and scientific
papers of the Royal Society, plantation inventories and manuals,
and diaries kept by slaveholders, Blakley describes human–animal
networks spanning from Britain's slave castles and outposts
throughout western Africa to plantations in the Caribbean and
American Southeast. They combine approaches from environmental
history, history of science, and philosophy to examine slavery from
the ground up and from the perspectives of the enslaved. Blakley's
work reveals how African captives who became commodified through
exchanges of cowry sea snails between slavers in the Bight of Benin
later went on to collect zoological specimens in Barbados and
Virginia for institutions such as the Royal Society. On
plantations, where enslaved people labored alongside cattle,
donkeys, horses, and other animals to make the agricultural
fortunes of slaveholders, Blakley shows how the enslaved resisted
these human–animal pairings by stealing animals for their own
purposes--such as fugitives who escaped their slaveholder's grasp
by riding stolen horses. Because of experiences like these, writers
and thinkers of African descent who survived slavery later attacked
the institution in public as fundamentally dehumanizing, one that
corrupted the humanity of both slaveholders and the enslaved.
As MOS devices are scaled to meet increasingly demanding circuit
specifications, process variations have a greater effect on the
reliability of circuit performance. For this reason, statistical
techniques are required to design integrated circuits with maximum
yield. Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Design of MOS VLSI
Circuits describes a statistical circuit simulation and
optimization environment for VLSI circuit designers. The first step
toward accomplishing statistical circuit design and optimization is
the development of an accurate CAD tool capable of performing
statistical simulation. This tool must be based on a statistical
model which comprehends the effect of device and circuit
characteristics, such as device size, bias, and circuit layout,
which are under the control of the circuit designer on the
variability of circuit performance. The distinctive feature of the
CAD tool described in this book is its ability to accurately model
and simulate the effect in both intra- and inter-die process
variability on analog/digital circuits, accounting for the effects
of the aforementioned device and circuit characteristics.
Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Design of MOS VLSI Circuits
serves as an excellent reference for those working in the field,
and may be used as the text for an advanced course on the subject.
In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American
Literary Tradition, author Christopher Brown argues that African
American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots.
Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the
present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its
many forms—including its conventions, paradoxes, and
contradictions—is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown
begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks
to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored
archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and
competence of their authors. Brown also examines early slave
autobiographies such as Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Mary
Prince’s History, which were both written in the form of legal
petitions. These works invoke scenes of black competence and of
black madness, repeatedly and simultaneously. Early Black writings
reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused
to acknowledge Black competence. By including scenes of black
madness, these narratives critique the violence of the law and
predict the failure of future legal counterparts, such as Plessy v.
Ferguson, to remedy injustice. Later chapters examine the works of
more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George
Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied
topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of
"colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with
jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions
between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and
its perils.
Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are
now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of
passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal
ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty
cutting-edge writings on diverse aspects of the transition to
adulthood.
"In no uncertain terms, Crossroads opens our eyes to our
responsibility to the adolescents who are now growing up without
sacred rituals and hence without knowledge of spiritual roots in
their culture. Many of the writers have first-hand experience and
first-rate ideas of how to transform this cultural crisis.
Crossroads also challenges us to integrate our own inner
adolescent. Piercing insight with realistic hope " -- Marlon
Woodman The Ravaged Bridegroom
The story of a former slave and America's first Black Episcopal
priest is an inspiring model for living a full life of service and
love. This book, appropriate for children but engaging enough for
adults, begins by describing the reality of slavery during Jones's
life. Absalom Jones purchased his wife's freedom before his own and
dedicated himself to living the Christian faith. Through the
difficulties and challenges of his time, he answered the call to
serve the church and was ordained a priest and deacon to serve the
first Black Episcopal Church in the United States. The first Black
priest in the Anglican Communion continues to be one of the most
important historical figures in the Episcopal Church. As the church
pays attention to its own sins of racism, this book offers
encouragement, guidance, hope, and inspiration. Jones's life is an
example of what it means to follow Jesus through faithful,
courageous, and selfless living of the way of love.
First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the
long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of
return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages.
Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century:
monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age
that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less
remote. Arthurianism, the practice of invoking and emulating the
legendary Arthur of post-Roman Britain, was thus an instance of
medieval medievalism. This book provides a comprehensive history of
the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under
Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that
the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal
understanding of the myth of King Arthur's return to the Brittonic
Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological
interpretation of the myth. A central figure in this work is Arthur
of Brittany (1187-1203), who, for more than a generation, was the
focus of Arthurian hopes and their disappointment.
This collection of essays asks contributors to take the
capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about
what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have
existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality
and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer
medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality
and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and
materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.
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Arthurian Literature XXIX (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Bart Besamusca, Christopher Michael Berard, Dorsey Armstrong, …
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The influence and significance of
the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter
and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century
Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modernArthur of
the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III's
abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of
Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge
of the French manuscript sources for Malory's first tale, in
particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by
Cornwall in Malory's literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the
pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering
key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as
Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of
Durham;Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors:
Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field,
Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, JulianM. Luxford, Ryan Naughton,
Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith
Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze
the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on
multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the
determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the
most important area of economic freedom for legitimacy. In
addition, the results also indicate that democracies are not
necessarily more legitimate than autocracies and that wealthier
countries are, ceteris paribus, perceived as less legitimate. Due
to the strong quantitative approach, this thesis contributes not
only to the political theory of liberalism and to the field of
institutional economics but also enriches the debate on how a
legitimate state ought to be.
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old
Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was
transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It
focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes
the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's
postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the
traditional characteristics of land tenure became subverted by the
dynamic contractual relations of a commercial economy and assesses
the political consequences of the law reforms that were
necessitated by these developments. Nineteenth-century reforms
seeking to reconcile the common law with modern commercial
practices embraced new democratic expressions about the economic
and political power of labor, and thereby encouraged the idea that
slavery was an essential element in sustaining republican
government in Virginia. By the 1850s, the ownership of human
property had replaced the ownership of land as the distinguishing
basis for political power, with tragic consequences for the Old
Dominion.
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Arthurian Literature XXXIII (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Christopher Michael Berard, Erich Poppe, Georgia Henley, …
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R2,238
Discovery Miles 22 380
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A wide range of Arthurian
material is discussed here, reflecting its diversity, and enduring
vitality. Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling Historia regum
Britannie is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's reception in
Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary
culture. Two essays deal with the Middle English Ywain and Gawain:
the first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem
alongside Chretien's Yvainand the Welsh Owein, while the second
considers Ywain and Gawain with the Alliterative Morte Arthure in
their northern English cultural and political context, the world of
the Percys and the Nevilles. It isfollowed by a discussion of
Edward III's recuperation of his abandoned Order of the Round
Table, which offers an intriguing explanation for this reversal in
the context of Edward's victory over the French at Poitiers. The
final essay is a comparison of fifteenth- and twentieth-century
portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T.H. White, as both idea and
locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip. The volume is completed
with a unique and little-known medievalGreek Arthurian poem,
presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham
University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F.
Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University,
Tallahassee. Contributors: Christopher Berard, Louis J. Boyle,
Thomas H. Crofts, Ralph Hanna, Georgia Lynn Henley, Erich Poppe
As MOS devices are scaled to meet increasingly demanding circuit
specifications, process variations have a greater effect on the
reliability of circuit performance. For this reason, statistical
techniques are required to design integrated circuits with maximum
yield. Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Design of MOS VLSI
Circuits describes a statistical circuit simulation and
optimization environment for VLSI circuit designers. The first step
toward accomplishing statistical circuit design and optimization is
the development of an accurate CAD tool capable of performing
statistical simulation. This tool must be based on a statistical
model which comprehends the effect of device and circuit
characteristics, such as device size, bias, and circuit layout,
which are under the control of the circuit designer on the
variability of circuit performance. The distinctive feature of the
CAD tool described in this book is its ability to accurately model
and simulate the effect in both intra- and inter-die process
variability on analog/digital circuits, accounting for the effects
of the aforementioned device and circuit characteristics.
Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Design of MOS VLSI Circuits
serves as an excellent reference for those working in the field,
and may be used as the text for an advanced course on the subject.
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Arthurian Literature XXXV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Andrew Rabin, Carl B. Sell, Christopher Michael Berard, …
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The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur
are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The rich
vitality of both the Arthurian material itself and the scholarship
devoted to it is manifested in this volume. It begins with an
interdisciplinary study of swords belonging to Arthurian and other
heroes and of the smithswho made them, assessed both in their
literary contexts and in "historical" references to their existence
as heroic relics. Two essays then consider the use of Arthurian
material for political purposes: a discussion of Caradog's Vita
Gildae throws light on the complex attitudes to Arthur of
contemporaries of Geoffrey of Monmouth in a time of political
turmoil in England, and an investigation into borrowings from
Geoffrey's Historia in a chronicle of Anglo-Scottish relations in
the time of Edward I, a well-known admirer of the Arthurian legend,
argues that they would have appealed to the clerical elite. Romance
motifs link the subsequent pieces: women and their friendships in
Ywain and Gawain, the only known close English adaptation of a
romance by Chretien, and the mixture of sacred and secular in The
Turke and Gawain, with fascinating alchemical parallels for a
puzzling beheading episode. This is followed by a discussion of the
views on native and foreign sources of three sixteenth-century
defenders of Arthur, John Leland, John Prise and Humphrey Llwyd,
and their responses to the criticisms of Polydore Vergil. In
twentieth-century reception history, John Steinbeck was an ardent
Arthurian enthusiast: an essay looks at the significance of his
annotations to his copy of Malory as he worked on his adaptation,
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. The volume moves to
even more recent territory with an exploration of the adaptations
of Malory and other Arthurian writers that occur in the comic books
by Geoff Johns about Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, King of Atlantis.
The book is completed by a reprint of a classic essay by Norris
Lacy on the absence and presence of the Grail in Arthurian texts
from the twelfth century on.
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old
Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was
transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It
focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes
the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's
postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the
traditional characteristics of land tenure became subverted by the
dynamic contractual relations of a commercial economy and assesses
the political consequences of the law reforms that were
necessitated by these developments. Nineteenth-century reforms
seeking to reconcile the common law with modern commercial
practices embraced new democratic expressions about the economic
and political power of labor, and thereby encouraged the idea that
slavery was an essential element in sustaining republican
government in Virginia. By the 1850s, the ownership of human
property had replaced the ownership of land as the distinguishing
basis for political power, with tragic consequences for the Old
Dominion.
In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American
Literary Tradition, author Christopher Brown argues that African
American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots.
Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the
present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its
many forms—including its conventions, paradoxes, and
contradictions—is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown
begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks
to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored
archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and
competence of their authors. Brown also examines early slave
autobiographies such as Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and Mary
Prince’s History, which were both written in the form of legal
petitions. These works invoke scenes of black competence and of
black madness, repeatedly and simultaneously. Early Black writings
reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused
to acknowledge Black competence. By including scenes of black
madness, these narratives critique the violence of the law and
predict the failure of future legal counterparts, such as Plessy v.
Ferguson, to remedy injustice. Later chapters examine the works of
more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George
Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied
topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of
"colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with
jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions
between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and
its perils.
First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the
long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of
return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages.
Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century:
monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age
that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less
remote. Arthurianism, the practice of invoking and emulating the
legendary Arthur of post-Roman Britain, was thus an instance of
medieval medievalism. This book provides a comprehensive history of
the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under
Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that
the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal
understanding of the myth of King Arthur's return to the Brittonic
Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological
interpretation of the myth. A central figure in this work is Arthur
of Brittany (1187-1203), who, for more than a generation, was the
focus of Arthurian hopes and their disappointment. CHRISTOPHER
MICHAEL BERARD is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at
Providence College. He completed his PhD at the University of
Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies.
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