Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Conklin Akbari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne Conklin |
| FAMILY NAME | Akbari |
| SIGNATURE | AKBARI S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum
Research on regional connectivities as formulated in terms of Mediterranean Studies, North Atlantic Studies, or Silk Road Studies necessarily invites us to consider exactly how the global intersects with the local. This article suggests some practical approaches to both research and exhibition planning that situate our study of the Global Middle Ages in a specific location. I draw upon Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony and New York, Chicago, …
Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
This paper describes a collaborative project designed to meet the needs of communities interested in Gə'əz language texts – and other under-resourced manuscript traditions – by developing an easy-to-use open-source tool that converts images of manuscript pages into a transcription using optical character recognition (OCR). Our computational tool incorporates a custom data curation process to address the language-specific facets of Gə'əz coupled w…
Practices of Commentary
Introduction
How might the decentring of commentary studies from its Greco-Roman and Eurocentric norms change the scholarly practice of doing intellectual history? What might it disrupt? What might it reveal? This special issue takes a global approach to commentary studies by bringing together researchers working on highly specific commentarial traditions to consider the learned traditions, local histories, and linguistic particularities of interpretive commu…
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
This Handbook produces a stereoscopic view of Chaucer’s works. Juxtaposing chapters by Middle English scholars with chapters by specialists in other fields – Latin and vernacular literature, philosophy, theology, and history of science – it offers a new perspective that uses the works of Chaucer to look out upon the wider world. Clusters of essays that place Chaucer’s works in “the Mediterranean Frame” and “the European Frame” are bracketed by gr…
One Loveheart at a Time
The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: it also serves as a powerful affective network, bringing together scholars in new and sometimes unexpected configurations. The affective language of emoji is fundamental to the growth of this community. Lab members coin new emoji …
The gift of shame
The Shape of the World
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West
Ovid and Ovidianism
This chapter concerns the medieval reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and his writings on love, especially the Ars amatoria and Heroides. Through the reception of the Metamorphoses (in commentary, translation, and adaptation) we can trace developments in medieval philosophical conceptions of change, while developments in the reception of Ovid’s works on love shed light on changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality. The chapter begins with an o…
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Embodying the Historical Moment
The sharp divide between sacred and secular objects is ultimately an arbitrary one: sacrality is less a quality inherent in the object itself than a product of the way in which the object is seen. This is particularly evident in medieval universal histories, in which all events are brought within the economy of salvation history, serving as threads in a larger fabric of the narration of the past. In the construction of this historical web, monume…
A Sea of Languages
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, soc…
Idols in the East
Idols in the East
Becoming human
Introduction
Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The Place of Thought
Mandeville's Travels
From Due East to True North
Since its publication in the late 1970s, Edward Said's masterful study Orientalism has been the foundation of virtually every effort to characterize literary descriptions of the Near and Middle East. Said argues that the Orient and the Occident mirror one another, locked in a mutually self- sustaining fiction. Yet, as Aijaz Ahmad has pointed out, Said's account of the origins of the idea of the Orient is, at best, plural; at worst, contradictory.…
The rhetoric of antichrist in Western lives of Muhammad
Reformation and Early Modern texts frequently suggest that Islam is the manifestation of satanic power, and represent the Prophet of Islam as an instrument of the devil, even as Antichrist. Such depictions have their source in medieval accounts of the life of Muhammad. This article surveys Latin, French, and English lives of Muhammad from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, including those found in the Vita Mahumeti, the Otia de Machomete, the…
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
Embodying the Historical Moment
The sharp divide between sacred and secular objects is ultimately an arbitrary one: sacrality is less a quality inherent in the object itself than a product of the way in which the object is seen. This is particularly evident in medieval universal histories, in which all events are brought within the economy of salvation history, serving as threads in a larger fabric of the narration of the past. In the construction of this historical web, monume…
The rhetoric of antichrist in Western lives of Muhammad
Reformation and Early Modern texts frequently suggest that Islam is the manifestation of satanic power, and represent the Prophet of Islam as an instrument of the devil, even as Antichrist. Such depictions have their source in medieval accounts of the life of Muhammad. This article surveys Latin, French, and English lives of Muhammad from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, including those found in the Vita Mahumeti, the Otia de Machomete, the…
The rhetoric of antichrist in Western lives of Muhammad
Reformation and Early Modern texts frequently suggest that Islam is the manifestation of satanic power, and represent the Prophet of Islam as an instrument of the devil, even as Antichrist. Such depictions have their source in medieval accounts of the life of Muhammad. This article surveys Latin, French, and English lives of Muhammad from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, including those found in the Vita Mahumeti, the Otia de Machomete, the…
From Due East to True North
Since its publication in the late 1970s, Edward Said's masterful study Orientalism has been the foundation of virtually every effort to characterize literary descriptions of the Near and Middle East. Said argues that the Orient and the Occident mirror one another, locked in a mutually self- sustaining fiction. Yet, as Aijaz Ahmad has pointed out, Said's account of the origins of the idea of the Orient is, at best, plural; at worst, contradictory.…
Mandeville's Travels
Introduction
Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The Place of Thought
Becoming human
Idols in the East
Idols in the East
A Sea of Languages
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, soc…
Embodying the Historical Moment
The sharp divide between sacred and secular objects is ultimately an arbitrary one: sacrality is less a quality inherent in the object itself than a product of the way in which the object is seen. This is particularly evident in medieval universal histories, in which all events are brought within the economy of salvation history, serving as threads in a larger fabric of the narration of the past. In the construction of this historical web, monume…
Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West
Ovid and Ovidianism
This chapter concerns the medieval reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and his writings on love, especially the Ars amatoria and Heroides. Through the reception of the Metamorphoses (in commentary, translation, and adaptation) we can trace developments in medieval philosophical conceptions of change, while developments in the reception of Ovid’s works on love shed light on changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality. The chapter begins with an o…
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
The Shape of the World
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians.1 For each the process has been the same: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic, who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation, which is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing (with one exception) in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers wit…
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
This Handbook produces a stereoscopic view of Chaucer’s works. Juxtaposing chapters by Middle English scholars with chapters by specialists in other fields – Latin and vernacular literature, philosophy, theology, and history of science – it offers a new perspective that uses the works of Chaucer to look out upon the wider world. Clusters of essays that place Chaucer’s works in “the Mediterranean Frame” and “the European Frame” are bracketed by gr…
One Loveheart at a Time
The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: it also serves as a powerful affective network, bringing together scholars in new and sometimes unexpected configurations. The affective language of emoji is fundamental to the growth of this community. Lab members coin new emoji …
The gift of shame
Introduction
How might the decentring of commentary studies from its Greco-Roman and Eurocentric norms change the scholarly practice of doing intellectual history? What might it disrupt? What might it reveal? This special issue takes a global approach to commentary studies by bringing together researchers working on highly specific commentarial traditions to consider the learned traditions, local histories, and linguistic particularities of interpretive commu…
Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
This paper describes a collaborative project designed to meet the needs of communities interested in Gə'əz language texts – and other under-resourced manuscript traditions – by developing an easy-to-use open-source tool that converts images of manuscript pages into a transcription using optical character recognition (OCR). Our computational tool incorporates a custom data curation process to address the language-specific facets of Gə'əz coupled w…
Practices of Commentary
Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum
Research on regional connectivities as formulated in terms of Mediterranean Studies, North Atlantic Studies, or Silk Road Studies necessarily invites us to consider exactly how the global intersects with the local. This article suggests some practical approaches to both research and exhibition planning that situate our study of the Global Middle Ages in a specific location. I draw upon Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony and New York, Chicago, …
History (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Classics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)