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KentNavalesi , to AcademicsUnite group
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Loving the commentary on academic publishing at the end of this review (Speculum, April 2018).

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Aside from her wide array of primary sources, the author adduces the requisite secondary literature in English, French, German, and her native Italian. But she has been so poorly served by her translators that one wonders whether she might not have been better off writ- ing in Italian. Malapropisms abound: "< desecrating' for demeaning (138), "extrapolated* for extracted (156), "interlocutors" for intermediaries (294), "incontinence" for infidelity (298). Medieval verses are said to constitute a "limerick (138). Most often one can guess at the meaning, as in " went back on his steps? (68) or "recomposing the schism" (268). But sometimes the meaning is opaque, as "the interaction with pre-existing schemes has no con- strictive value> (333) or " the involution of the heresy" (334). Dogberry only knows what is meant by *deflagrating" (304). The publisher Brill cuts costs by eschewing copyediting avoids sending out review copies unless asked, and yet demands $194 for a monograph of average size, placing it beyond the means of individual purchasers. Jacques Fournier would have known how to deal with them. RoBERT E. LERNER, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
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    • bud_t , to AcademicChatter group
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    I finally created a account and profile at the urging of a colleague, so I've gone down that rabbit hole in the past week.

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    KentNavalesi ,
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    I've never understood the appeal of academia.edu. It was spammy and enshittified since it first started.

    KentNavalesi , to antiquidons group
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    Online lecture: "To catch a thief. On late antique thieves, policemen, neighbours, and unexpected benefits of divination," by Robert Wiśniewski

    March 27, 5:40pm– 7:00 pm (CET)

    Free and open to the public

    https://events.ceu.edu/2024-03-27/catch-thief-late-antique-thieves-policemen-neighbours-and-unexpected-benefits-divination

    Description: Theft is probably one of the most annoying aspects of social life. It is by no means the most dramatic one, but it is one of those things you constantly have in mind. In most Slavic languages, a thief (‘złodziej’ in Polish, ‘злодій’ in Ukrainian, ‘zloděj’ in Czech) literally means an evildoer, as it was this kind of wrongdoing that almost everybody had to deal with. But while theft likely existed in all human societies, it changed over time: how much the thieves stole, what they stole, who stole and from whom, and how people protected themselves - all of these evolved over time. In short, theft has its history and can be a subject of historical research. Late Antiquity is a good period to study it because, in this era, thieves become more visible than before. This paper, examining documentary and literary evidence, will seek to answer questions about how people dealt with theft, attempted to apprehend thieves and recover goods, and, most importantly, what impact theft and the methods of dealing with it had on communities and individuals.


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    KentNavalesi , to AcademicsUnite group
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    Sharing this again because the University of president is meeting with the faculty Senate soon to discuss the matter.

    If you live in and value , please sign this petition to oppose efforts to dismantle shared governance at UKY!

    https://mastodon.social/@knavalesi/112061401232515337

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