Peter Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | MAYA Design (United States) |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3525-8819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Constant Sense of Discovery
I Built That Building
Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
Elizabeth Elstob, known as “the Saxon nymph”, is much celebrated for her publications on Old English, Ælfric’s homily on St Gregory (1709), for example. Her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715) was the first AngloSaxon grammar in English. It was also notable for introducing a new printing fount for Anglo-Saxon, one that reproduced almost every letter in an authentic imitation of that found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first…
A Conspectus of Letters to and From Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641)
Sir Henry Spelman, a founding member of the Society of Antiquaries of London who may be considered the doyen of English antiquaries, made a substantial contribution through his many publications, particularly his Glossarium of 1626, his Concilia of 1639 and, together with his son John, the Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum of 1640. He pioneered the methodical study of historical documents, compiling a guide to the abbreviations and contractions found i…
A Psalter from Maillezais at Maynooth
A Psalter from the third quarter of the fifteenth century is preserved in the collections of St Patrick’s College now housed in the Russell Library at Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The psalter was evidently made in a Benedictine monastery in south-west France, probably Poitou. One particular saint occurs in both the calendar and the litany. St Rigomer, though little known elsewhere, was specially venerated at Maillezais in the marshes of bas-Po…
Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Fictional Origins of Organised Science
It is a commonplace that science fiction draws inspiration from science fact. It is a less familiar thought-though still widely acknowledged-that science has sometimes drawn its inspiration from science fiction. (Arthur C. Clarke’s idea of geostationary communications satellites is a well-known example.) However, the debt of science to science fiction extends beyond such specific examples of scientific and technological innovations. This essay ex…
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar
The first scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon had to learn it by direct contact with original sources. Work on a dictionary preceded that on a grammar, notably through the efforts of John Joscelyn, Archbishop Parker's Latin Secretary. Like Parker, Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641) found that many of his sources for early English history were in Anglo-Saxon. Consequently he encouraged the study of Old English by establishing a Lectureship in Anglo-Sa…
Disarming Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter LucasPeter Lucas teaches international human rights at New York University and the New School. His research focuses on human rights, media, and visual inclusion in Brazil. He recently co-authored a curriculum on nonproliferation and disarmament for the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs and Cyber School Bus, at http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/dnp
From Politics to Practicalities
Beginning in 1566 under the influence of Archbishop Parker, Anglo-Saxon was printed with special sorts to give enhanced authenticity to the material so published, which was used first to bolster the establishment of the Church and then to justify arguments relating to secular constitutional politics. The method of assembling a complete set of types for Anglo-Saxon was to add special sorts to an existing roman fount; the various examples of this p…
Environmental Ethics
Mind-Forged Manacles and Habits of the Soul
This article interprets the state of “subjection,” which Foucault took to be characteristic of the modern subject of power/knowledge, as an abiding psychic disposition analogous to Heidegger’s “inauthentic self-understanding.” The author begins by arguing, against prevailing orthodoxy, that in Discipline and Punish, Foucault is already centrally concerned with the power effects of forms of psychic self-relation. He then argues that the psychic st…
Mobile Devices and Mobile Data-Issues of Identity and Reference
As we begin to develop architectures to guide the engineering of context-aware computing systems, we will need to apply significantly more precision to the notion of "context" than is afforded by common usage of this term. In this essay, I identify three distinct realms of contextual reference. First, the physical context allows us to imbue our machines with a sense of "place" in the most literal sense of that term. Second, the device context con…
Junius, his Printers and his Types
Toward an Information Visualization Workspace
New user interface challenges are arising because people need to explore and perform many diverse tasks involving large quantities of abstract information. Visualizing information is one approach to these challenges. But visualization must involve much more than just enabling people to see information. People must also manipulate it to focus on what is relevant and reorganize it to create new information. They must also communicate and share info…
Visage
No abstract available.
The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care
When Old English studies were in their infancy in the seventeenth century, scholars such as Franciscus junius (1591–1677) had very little to study in print. With no grammar and no dictionary (until Somner's in 1659) they had to teach themselves the language from original sources. Junius, whose interest in Germanic studies became active in the early 1650s, was so proficient, not only at Old English, but also at the cognate languages that he became…
Collaboration and Transition in Initial Teacher Training
Setting the Scene/Overview The Transfer of Power Induction Managing the Beginning Teacher in School Supporting the Teacher in the Classroom Assuming Curricular Responsibility From Supervision to Mentoring The Continuing Need for Reflection The Need for a New Language New Forms of Knowledge Quality Assurance School Specific Enculteration The Future Role of Universities in Initial Training
Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations
The four-year wrangle over the ownership of what was then thought to have been the largest known meteorite, recognized near Melbourne in 1860, provides a fine-grained example of the interaction between scientific internationalism, metropolitan appetite for specimens, and colonial civic pride
Why Explore Antarctica
Learning to Teach in Higher Education
The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
(1991). The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale. English Studies: Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 501-512
Common Law Marriage
The expression “common law marriage” has layers of paradox. It now denotes, as Mr. J. C. Hall pointed out in a recent article in this Journal, a relationship whose characteristic is precisely that it is extra-marital. Previously, for many centuries, the validity of such a marriage was a matter not for the common but the canon law and so, before the Reformation, for the canon law of Rome, the ius commune , Maitland's “wonderful system” administere…
A. J. Bliss - 1921-1985
The cloud in the interpretation of The Old English Exodus
Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations
The four-year wrangle over the ownership of what was then thought to have been the largest known meteorite, recognized near Melbourne in 1860, provides a fine-grained example of the interaction between scientific internationalism, metropolitan appetite for specimens, and colonial civic pride
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
Learning to Teach in Higher Education
The cloud in the interpretation of The Old English Exodus
A. J. Bliss - 1921-1985
Common Law Marriage
The expression “common law marriage” has layers of paradox. It now denotes, as Mr. J. C. Hall pointed out in a recent article in this Journal, a relationship whose characteristic is precisely that it is extra-marital. Previously, for many centuries, the validity of such a marriage was a matter not for the common but the canon law and so, before the Reformation, for the canon law of Rome, the ius commune , Maitland's “wonderful system” administere…
The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
(1991). The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale. English Studies: Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 501-512
Why Explore Antarctica
Learning to Teach in Higher Education
Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations
The four-year wrangle over the ownership of what was then thought to have been the largest known meteorite, recognized near Melbourne in 1860, provides a fine-grained example of the interaction between scientific internationalism, metropolitan appetite for specimens, and colonial civic pride
The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care
When Old English studies were in their infancy in the seventeenth century, scholars such as Franciscus junius (1591–1677) had very little to study in print. With no grammar and no dictionary (until Somner's in 1659) they had to teach themselves the language from original sources. Junius, whose interest in Germanic studies became active in the early 1650s, was so proficient, not only at Old English, but also at the cognate languages that he became…
Collaboration and Transition in Initial Teacher Training
Setting the Scene/Overview The Transfer of Power Induction Managing the Beginning Teacher in School Supporting the Teacher in the Classroom Assuming Curricular Responsibility From Supervision to Mentoring The Continuing Need for Reflection The Need for a New Language New Forms of Knowledge Quality Assurance School Specific Enculteration The Future Role of Universities in Initial Training
Visage
No abstract available.
Toward an Information Visualization Workspace
New user interface challenges are arising because people need to explore and perform many diverse tasks involving large quantities of abstract information. Visualizing information is one approach to these challenges. But visualization must involve much more than just enabling people to see information. People must also manipulate it to focus on what is relevant and reorganize it to create new information. They must also communicate and share info…
Junius, his Printers and his Types
Mobile Devices and Mobile Data-Issues of Identity and Reference
As we begin to develop architectures to guide the engineering of context-aware computing systems, we will need to apply significantly more precision to the notion of "context" than is afforded by common usage of this term. In this essay, I identify three distinct realms of contextual reference. First, the physical context allows us to imbue our machines with a sense of "place" in the most literal sense of that term. Second, the device context con…
Environmental Ethics
Mind-Forged Manacles and Habits of the Soul
This article interprets the state of “subjection,” which Foucault took to be characteristic of the modern subject of power/knowledge, as an abiding psychic disposition analogous to Heidegger’s “inauthentic self-understanding.” The author begins by arguing, against prevailing orthodoxy, that in Discipline and Punish, Foucault is already centrally concerned with the power effects of forms of psychic self-relation. He then argues that the psychic st…
From Politics to Practicalities
Beginning in 1566 under the influence of Archbishop Parker, Anglo-Saxon was printed with special sorts to give enhanced authenticity to the material so published, which was used first to bolster the establishment of the Church and then to justify arguments relating to secular constitutional politics. The method of assembling a complete set of types for Anglo-Saxon was to add special sorts to an existing roman fount; the various examples of this p…
Disarming Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter LucasPeter Lucas teaches international human rights at New York University and the New School. His research focuses on human rights, media, and visual inclusion in Brazil. He recently co-authored a curriculum on nonproliferation and disarmament for the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs and Cyber School Bus, at http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/dnp
The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar
The first scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon had to learn it by direct contact with original sources. Work on a dictionary preceded that on a grammar, notably through the efforts of John Joscelyn, Archbishop Parker's Latin Secretary. Like Parker, Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641) found that many of his sources for early English history were in Anglo-Saxon. Consequently he encouraged the study of Old English by establishing a Lectureship in Anglo-Sa…
A Psalter from Maillezais at Maynooth
A Psalter from the third quarter of the fifteenth century is preserved in the collections of St Patrick’s College now housed in the Russell Library at Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The psalter was evidently made in a Benedictine monastery in south-west France, probably Poitou. One particular saint occurs in both the calendar and the litany. St Rigomer, though little known elsewhere, was specially venerated at Maillezais in the marshes of bas-Po…
Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Fictional Origins of Organised Science
It is a commonplace that science fiction draws inspiration from science fact. It is a less familiar thought-though still widely acknowledged-that science has sometimes drawn its inspiration from science fiction. (Arthur C. Clarke’s idea of geostationary communications satellites is a well-known example.) However, the debt of science to science fiction extends beyond such specific examples of scientific and technological innovations. This essay ex…
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
A Conspectus of Letters to and From Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641)
Sir Henry Spelman, a founding member of the Society of Antiquaries of London who may be considered the doyen of English antiquaries, made a substantial contribution through his many publications, particularly his Glossarium of 1626, his Concilia of 1639 and, together with his son John, the Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum of 1640. He pioneered the methodical study of historical documents, compiling a guide to the abbreviations and contractions found i…
Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
Elizabeth Elstob, known as “the Saxon nymph”, is much celebrated for her publications on Old English, Ælfric’s homily on St Gregory (1709), for example. Her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715) was the first AngloSaxon grammar in English. It was also notable for introducing a new printing fount for Anglo-Saxon, one that reproduced almost every letter in an authentic imitation of that found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first…
I Built That Building
A Constant Sense of Discovery
History (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Classics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (6 works)