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JOHN OF ANTIOCH, INFLATED AND DEFLATED. OR: HOW (NOT) TO COLLECT FRAGMENTS OF EARLY BYZANTINE HISTORIANS
Prompted by the recent publication of two conflicting editions of John of Antioch, this paper raises two methodological issues. First, it is pointed out that both editions are unsatisfactory because they fail to apply the methodology tried and tested by F. Jacoby in his Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. No distinction is made between collecting fragments and reconstructing the work, nor is the Minimalbestand of fragments presented in a clear and unambiguous way to the reader. Second, the paper suggests that the discussion is vitiated by a lack of reflection on the basic notions with which the research is conducted. In particular, the question is raised if it is in every case possible to identify the original text as composed by its author and it is suggested that the concept of \"living text\", indicating that a text could be adapted and changed by successive readers and copyists, should also be extended to early Byzantine historiography. In other words, the quest for the \"original\" John of Antioch may be ultimately doomed to fail.
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The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion
Fashion is one of the world's most important creative industries. It is the major output of a global business with annual U.S. sales of more than $200 billion-larger than those of books, movies, and music combined. Everyone wears clothing and inevitably participates in fashion to some degree. Fashion is also a subject of periodically rediscovered fascination in virtually all the social sciences and the humanities. It has provided economic thought with a canonical example in theorizing about consumption and conformity.
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The Manuscripts of Asconius and Pseudo-Asconius
A neglected manuscript of the text of the commentaries of Asconius and Pseudo-Asconius clarifies the relationship of the known fifteenth-century witnesses to the text. I argue that the stemma is properly bipartite, originating from two copies, made by Poggio and Bartolomeo da Montepulciano, of the manuscript they discovered at St Gall.
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Replies to Critics
I reply to comments by my critics. David Davies defends Jerrold Levinson’s definition of art from my criticism by invoking an analogy with lying. Lie-attempts fail, Davies holds, by failing to deceive, not by failing to generate lies at all. Perhaps art is similar. In response, I offer an analysis of lying showing that a lie-attempt can fail to generate a lie at all. The analogy, then, fails to offer an alternative model of how X-attempts succeed and fail. Keith Lehrer proposes that my notion of relevant similarity is best understood in terms of exemplarization, and I am happy to accept that this is at least part of the picture. But where Lehrer suggests that I shift my emphasis from the artist’s intention to the artist’s choice, I argue that appeal to intention per se remains crucial to my account. Sherri Irvin argues that the artist must determine what is required for two works to count as relevantly similar. I accept this, since it incorporates the determination of relevant similarity within the art-attempt. Irvin also suggests that, according to my view, a successful copy-attempt satisfies the criteria for being a successful art-attempt, an undesirable result. In response, I further develop the notion that making an art-attempt involves being responsible for the way in which the work satisfies the criteria for arthood.
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Sergius of Radonezh illuminated from the Litsevoi Letopisnyi svod to the Litsevoe zhitie
The Litsevoi Letopisnyi svod (vol. Osterman II) devotes 56 folios and 76 miniatures to Sergius of Radonezh’s Vita in the yearly entry for 6900, September 25. The Litsevoe Zhitie Sergiia Radonezhskogo (LZHSR, c.1589‑1592), held by the Russian National Library in Moscow (RGB fonds 304/III nº 21) comprises 381 folios and a unique iconographic program of 653 miniatures. Both manuscripts were executed at the Muscovite Court by artists groomed to fulfill official orders. Comparison of LLS and the LZHSR provides us with a more profound understanding of the work of Muscovite court illuminators and copyists. It can definitely be likened to what was done at that time in the workshops of some Western printers or painters. There is evidence of reutilizations of the same material or motives, of corrections and repentances, adjustments, from one set to another, one would say from one edition or printing to another.
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Notaries, Truth, and Consequences
The marks of stylized, notarial truth are everywhere in the archives of Europe and the Americas, in documents that aggressively demand the reader's belief in the notary's word. Even the most routine transactions are full of formulaic professions of the notary's faithfulness and appeal to the notion that he was there properly equipped to register what mattered.
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The History of a History: The Variant Versions of the Sulalat al-Salatin
This essay details the variation that the text of the Sejarah Malay has taken over time, explicating the work that philologists have done to discern the original source. Chambert-Loir analyzes the many variants, compares them to one another, and separates what is text from what is commentary or addition, elucidating the evolution of the text alongside the scholarly commentary that always accompanies it.
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