Sen said that working closely with Treharne gave her exposure to people she would never have met without taking on a thesis project as an undergraduate. "The first thing you unlearn is don't look at text first, which is hard to do because they are interesting texts," she said. The size, illustrations, binding and blemishes all say something about the book's origins and intended use, which in turn indicate who the readers might have been. "It contains so much history and so many lives of so many people who have touched it."įor medievalists, seeing the manuscript is critical to understanding it. "I got to be in physical contact with this book that I am writing so much about," Sen said. Over the summer Sen traveled to Exeter, England, to see medieval manuscripts, then spent time in the British Library looking at a facsimile copy of its Beowulfmanuscript. She is also interested in the monster mother, how the fear of a woman's sexual prowess extends into fear of women's reproductive capacity. "The big question motivating my thesis is: Why, consistently over the years, is feminine embodiment so terrifying?" Sen said. She finds those same themes showing up throughout medieval literature and in modern stories, including recent movies where Scarlett Johansson and Angelina Jolie play characters whose monstrosity lies in being sexually attractive and seductive women in Under the Skin and Beowulf, respectively. The monstrous female locates the monstrosity in the femininity." "A female monster is just a monster that happens to be female. "I got interested in the idea of the monstrous feminine, which is different from a female monster," said Sen, who is majoring in English with a minor in philosophy. "There are all these really weird, interesting medieval stories with dragons and snakes and monsters and people fighting them," said Sen, who is studying these monsters and their current incarnations as part of an undergraduate Hume Humanities Honors Fellowship through the Stanford Humanities Center. In the course, taught by her mentor Elaine Treharne, the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of English, Sen began thinking about the way medieval monsters, which are rife in literature of the time, live on today in movies, literature, comic books and music. Solr indexing process and incorporated into the Solr index for record display.Rukma Sen began her fascination with female monsters in medieval literature during a class on Beowulf, which describes the Swedish warrior Beowulf, who battles the monster Grendel and eventually takes on both Grendel's mother and a dragon. Modifying thisĪnd running the generate-html.sh script will generate new HTML, which will then be picked up by the The HTML representations of each record is generated by the convert2HTML.xsl script.
#Snales in medieval manuscripts windows#
If you have GitHub Desktop installed on your machine, this should include Git Shell alias posh-git, which is a package for Windows PowerShell that will allow you to execute BASH shell scripts. The scripts require a terminal running BASH.
curl is included with posh-git (see below).
These tools will need to be installed on your local machine, if you do not already have them. The indexing scripts require curl, tidy alias HTML tidy and xmllint. generate-solr-document.sh manuscripts.xquery mss_solr_index.xml manuscript įor the Solr record type you should use manuscript for manuscripts, person for people, place for places,Īnd work for works.
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