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Rachel Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Is Beric a Briton?: the Representation of Cultural Identity in G.A. Henty’s Beric the Briton (1893) and Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Outcast (1955)
    2009
    Co-Authors: Rachel Johnson
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    This article is an investigation into differences in the representation of cultural identity represented in Beric the Britain by G.A. Henty (1893) and The Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff (1955). G.A. Henty (1824-1902) and Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) both present narratives of Britain under Roman invasion through the character of a young protagonist, initially perceived in both narratives as the product of a British tribal chieftain’s family with a clear cultural identity. Henty wrote in the second half of the nineteenth century at the height of imperial expansion when the sense of English cultural identity was strong. In contrast, Rosemary Sutcliff, writing post-empire, represents a more complex sense of identity. I investigate the mixed cultural identity of Sutcliff’s protagonist against the foundation of the exclusively British cultural identity of Henty’s Beric, thus foregrounding the increasing destabilization of cultural identity demonstrated in these two texts.

  • is beric a Briton the representation of cultural identity in g a henty s beric the Briton 1893 and rosemary sutcliff s the outcast 1955
    2009
    Co-Authors: Rachel Johnson
    Abstract:

    This article is an investigation into differences in the representation of cultural identity represented in Beric the Britain by G.A. Henty (1893) and The Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff (1955). G.A. Henty (1824-1902) and Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) both present narratives of Britain under Roman invasion through the character of a young protagonist, initially perceived in both narratives as the product of a British tribal chieftain’s family with a clear cultural identity. Henty wrote in the second half of the nineteenth century at the height of imperial expansion when the sense of English cultural identity was strong. In contrast, Rosemary Sutcliff, writing post-empire, represents a more complex sense of identity. I investigate the mixed cultural identity of Sutcliff’s protagonist against the foundation of the exclusively British cultural identity of Henty’s Beric, thus foregrounding the increasing destabilization of cultural identity demonstrated in these two texts.

Andrew Breeze - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Ancient Britons and Cronton, Lancashire
    Northern History, 2020
    Co-Authors: Andrew Breeze
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    CRONTON (SJ 4988), formerly in Lancashire and now in Merseyside, is a village (with an old cross) two miles north of Widnes. It is recorded as Crohinton and Growynton in 1242, Crouington in 1246, and Crouwenton in 1333. These forms have puzzled scholars. Ekwall proposed an interpretation from Old English crawena tun, 'settlement of crows, homestead where crows gather', though he admitted that the lack of a in the first element counted against this; Mills doubtfully suggests 'farmstead at the place with a nook (Old English croh)'.1 Yet there seems a likelier solution. Cronton is four miles west of Penketh and Great Sankey, which have Celtic names. The first means 'wood end' (cf. Welsh pen and coed), the second may mean 'treader, trampler' (cf. Welsh sangi), originally referring to Sankey Brook.2 That may help us with Cronton. The first element seems equivalent to Middle Welsh crowyn 'shed for animals, sty, coop, kennel'. This is attested in the medieval Welsh laws, which declare that a sucking pig in its sty (parchell yn y growyn) is worth a penny.3 At Cronton there hence appears to be a Brittonic form meaning 'shed', probably for pigs, to which Old English tun 'farmstead' has been added. Such an interpretation would have parallels. Loose, south of Maidstone in Kent, has an English name meaning 'pig-sty' (Old English hlose).4 The hamlet of Cororion (SH 5968), near Bangor in North Wales (and figuring in the twelfth-century Four Branches of the Mabinogi), is 'Gwrion's sty (creu)'.5 The Cornish cognate of creu is krow, found on the map at Colgrease 'middle hut' (SW 7958), a farm near Newquay, Cornwall.6

  • Britons in West Derby Hundred, Lancashire
    Northern History, 2020
    Co-Authors: Andrew Breeze
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    LANCASHIRE has many Celtic toponyms and almost no Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Maps make the point clear. One of pre-English toponymy will include the names of Cark, Cuerden, Haydock, Mellor, Penketh, Sankey, Treales, Werneth, Wigan, and so on, where the forms are evidently not English. The pattern is repeated by the element eccles (cf. Welsh eglwys ‘church’), with instances at Eccles near Manchester, Eccleston near St Helens, Eccleston near Chorley, Great Eccleston and Little Eccleston on the Wyre near Poulton, and Eccleshill near Darwen.2 These place-names are striking evidence for the early Celtic inhabitants of what is now Lancashire. In mute contrast are maps of Anglo-Saxon settlements and cemeteries for the pre-conversion period. On them, Lancashire is a blank.3 But can one say more on Lancashire’s Celtic toponyms? Very much so, it seems. Some years ago Pamela Russell, formerly of Liverpool University, set out the evidence they give for Britons in West Derby Hundred (one of the five medieval hundreds of southern Lancashire, effectively the coastal area between Mersey and Ribble). Her discoveries of Celtic place-names in the archives are significant, but her linguistic analysis needs revision. What follows thus has three functions: it examines her philological comments on Celtic and other toponyms; sets out implications of a revised account of them; and compares similar material from the rest of south Lancashire. It should thereby show what local place-names can tell historians and others. If it does, it provides an exercise repeatable for many other English hundreds, especially those in northern England. Pamela Russell’s paper comments on fifteen toponyms in West Derby Hundred and one outside it. The places concerned are Maghull, Alt, Broni Damfield, Incer Field, Dwerefield, Haydock, Ince, Walton (three times), Dowlache, Louchangile, Cundlache Bridge, Carketon, Brettargh Holt, and Bretland. They can be arranged in five geographical groups, as follows:

  • elaphus the Briton st germanus and bede
    The Journal of Theological Studies, 2002
    Co-Authors: Andrew Breeze
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    Cet article s'interroge sur l'identite d'un certain Elaphus, evoque dans l'Histoire Ecclesiastique de Bede comme un notable breton (de Grande-Bretagne) rencontre par Germain d'Auxerre lors de ses missions contre les Pelagiens (Ve siecle). S'agit-il d'un chef celte, d'un Saxon ou d'un notable de tradition romaine?

Ririn Oktavia Sari - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • analisis faktor faktor yang mempengaruhi peningkatan jumlah siswa pada lembaga pendidikan non formal Briton international english school di makassar
    AKMEN Jurnal Ilmiah, 2017
    Co-Authors: Andi Widiawati, Ririn Oktavia Sari
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    This research was purposed to determine the factors of academic motivations, career development and corporate brand image which affect the increase of student numbers at non formal English course Briton International English School among the courses business competition. The models used in this research were the method of documentation, questionnaire, and literature study using Likert scale. The method to determine the sample was purpose sampling and the analysis method was multiple linear regression method. The results of this research showed the variables of academic motivations, and brand image had significant and positive influences in increase of student numbers at non formal English course Briton International English School, while career development had positive influences but not significant parcially in increase of student numbers at non formal English course Briton International English School. The results of this research also showed the variabel of brand image is the dominan variabel influences in increase of student number at non formal English course Briton International English School. The implications of this research was purposed to help the corporate to be able to maintain the brand image as the main marketing strategy, for example by maintaining quality and providing the service to fulfill the variety of customer needs in learning English as the challenges to face ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) today.

Mary Anne Kahoe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • association of a photoreceptor specific tetraspanin protein rom 1 with triton x 100 resistant membrane rafts from rod outer segment disk membranes
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002
    Co-Authors: Kathleen Boeszebattaglia, Janice Dispoto, Mary Anne Kahoe
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    Abstract This study reports the isolation and characterization of a Triton X-100-resistant membrane fraction from homogenates of rod outer segment (ROS) disk membranes purified free of the surrounding plasma membrane. A portion of the ROS disk membrane was found to be resistant to Triton X-100 extraction at 4 °C. This detergent-resistant fraction was isolated as a low buoyant density band on sucrose density gradients and exhibited an increase in light scattering detected at 600 nm. Biochemical analysis of the Triton X-100-resistant fraction showed it to be enriched in cholesterol and sphingomyelin relative to phospholipid and in phospholipid relative to protein compared with the soluble fraction. The Triton X-100-resistant membranes described herein did not arise simply from partial solubilization of the ROS disk membranes because detergent-treated low buoyant density fractions isolated from homogenates with octyl glucopyranoside had cholesterol and sphingomyelin content indistinguishable from that of solubilized ROS disk homogenates. Analysis of proteins associated with the Triton X-100-resistant fraction showed it to be enriched in the rim-specific protein ROM-1 and caveolin; surprisingly, the fusion protein peripherin/rds (where rds is retinal degeneration slow), also localized to the disk rim, was entirely absent from the membrane raft domain. The lipid profiles of the Triton X-100-resistant membranes were virtually identical in preparations homogenized in either the light or dark. Slightly more ROM-1 was recovered from samples prepared in the light (23%) than from samples prepared in the dark (13%), but peripherin/rds could not be detected in either preparation. When the Triton X-100-resistant membranes were treated with methyl-β-cyclodextran to deplete membrane cholesterol, the resultant membranes contained slightly lower levels of ROM-1, specifically in the dimeric form. Cholesterol depletion also resulted in the collapse of the large caveolin complex to monomeric caveolae. The results presented herein characterize a pool of ROM-1, a photoreceptor tetraspanin protein, that may play a regulatory role in peripherin/rds-dependent fusion.

N. J. Higham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Britons in Anglo-Saxon England - Britons in Anglo-Saxon England
    2009
    Co-Authors: N. J. Higham
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    The number of native Britons, and their role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German 'past'. Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany, while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even dominant. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on this complex issue, by bringing together contributions from different disciplinary specialists and exploring the interfaces between various categories of knowledge about the past. They assemble both a substantial body of evidence concerning the presence of Britons and offer a variety of approaches to the central issues of the scale of that presence and its significance across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. Nick Higham is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. Contributors are: Richard Coates, Martin Grimmer, Heinrich Harke, Nick Higham, Catherine Hills, Lloyd Laing, C. P. Lewis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, O. J. Padel, Duncan Probert, Peter Schrijver, David Thornton, Hildegard L. C. Tristram, Damian Tyler, Howard Williams, and Alex Woolf.