Virginia Langum
Biographic Data
| ID | 6800642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Langum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Langum |
| SIGNATURE | LANGUM V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interdisciplinarity
Academic Writing
It has often been acknowledged that English is the dominant language of scholarly publication. While the disadvantage this poses to English as an Additional Language (EAL) academics is controversial, it is clear that some senior academics and doctoral researchers perceive that EAL writing affects idea creation. This article surveys the research on EAL academic writing and the particular challenges it poses for doctoral researchers in the humaniti…
Prairie Madness
In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was widespread concern about the fate of immigrants to the United States. One area of particular concern was mentally ill immigrants, as illustrated in contemporaneous screening procedures, asylum reports, government commissions, popular media, fiction, and scientific studies. This article examines the depiction of one mentally ill immigrant in O. E. Rølvaag's novel Giants in the Earth within …
Setting store by sources
ources are vital to research in the humanities. Yet their waters rarely run clear. They may demand certain skills -linguistic, historical, statistical -to penetrate them. They might lurk in incomplete catalogues or may branch off from other sources. They may be known but difficult to collect or filter. They might also be created out of confluence between researchers and research participants, for example through interviews. They may surface uncom…
Academic writing, scholarly identity, voice and the benefits and challenges of multilingualism
Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800
In 1700, Andrew and William Monroe and Hugh Gordon were prosecuted for the murder of Alexander McKenzie near to Alness in Scotland. The motive given by the court was a family argument over property-William was married to McKenzie’s daughter. The course of evidence highlighted a series of disputes that led to physical fights between the various parties: McKenzie’s friend, John Ross, had called Andrew a ‘Bugar and sone of a whore’ to which Andrew, …
Visions of North in Premodern Europe
The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is 'made' through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is from this starting point that this volume explores how the North was perceived from ancient times up to the early modern period, questioning who, where,…
“The Wounded Surgeon”
Langum ally dextrous than medicine as surgery can be both punitive and restorative.3Surgical incision and amputation by the surgeon-priest appear in confessional texts from medieval England.4However, during this same period, the late fourteenth century and fifteenth century, Christus chirurgus "Christ the surgeon" also emerges in religious texts.Rather than the punitive, surgical model of corrosive purging and excommunicative severing charted by …
I människan själv, eller utanför
The article examines how the causes of Black Death were conceived and discussed in two distinct contexts: learned sources from late medieval England and oral Swedish legends that were collected and recorded many centuries after the outbreak. While focused on discussions of a particular disease – plague or what is known as the bacterium yersinia pestis – the geographical, chronological and material range enables a greater perspective upon the cont…
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 25(2), pp. 306–307
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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery." The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 25(2), pp. 306–307
“The Wounded Surgeon”
Langum ally dextrous than medicine as surgery can be both punitive and restorative.3Surgical incision and amputation by the surgeon-priest appear in confessional texts from medieval England.4However, during this same period, the late fourteenth century and fifteenth century, Christus chirurgus "Christ the surgeon" also emerges in religious texts.Rather than the punitive, surgical model of corrosive purging and excommunicative severing charted by …
I människan själv, eller utanför
The article examines how the causes of Black Death were conceived and discussed in two distinct contexts: learned sources from late medieval England and oral Swedish legends that were collected and recorded many centuries after the outbreak. While focused on discussions of a particular disease – plague or what is known as the bacterium yersinia pestis – the geographical, chronological and material range enables a greater perspective upon the cont…
Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800
In 1700, Andrew and William Monroe and Hugh Gordon were prosecuted for the murder of Alexander McKenzie near to Alness in Scotland. The motive given by the court was a family argument over property-William was married to McKenzie’s daughter. The course of evidence highlighted a series of disputes that led to physical fights between the various parties: McKenzie’s friend, John Ross, had called Andrew a ‘Bugar and sone of a whore’ to which Andrew, …
Visions of North in Premodern Europe
The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is 'made' through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is from this starting point that this volume explores how the North was perceived from ancient times up to the early modern period, questioning who, where,…
Academic writing, scholarly identity, voice and the benefits and challenges of multilingualism
Setting store by sources
ources are vital to research in the humanities. Yet their waters rarely run clear. They may demand certain skills -linguistic, historical, statistical -to penetrate them. They might lurk in incomplete catalogues or may branch off from other sources. They may be known but difficult to collect or filter. They might also be created out of confluence between researchers and research participants, for example through interviews. They may surface uncom…
Interdisciplinarity
Academic Writing
It has often been acknowledged that English is the dominant language of scholarly publication. While the disadvantage this poses to English as an Additional Language (EAL) academics is controversial, it is clear that some senior academics and doctoral researchers perceive that EAL writing affects idea creation. This article surveys the research on EAL academic writing and the particular challenges it poses for doctoral researchers in the humaniti…
Prairie Madness
In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was widespread concern about the fate of immigrants to the United States. One area of particular concern was mentally ill immigrants, as illustrated in contemporaneous screening procedures, asylum reports, government commissions, popular media, fiction, and scientific studies. This article examines the depiction of one mentally ill immigrant in O. E. Rølvaag's novel Giants in the Earth within …
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Academic writing (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Europe (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works)