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AIMS - This article describes and analyses prisoners’ experiences of drug treatment in prison in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The article examines how prisoners experience drug treatment, control and sanctions as related to three main topics, namely motivation; the content of the measure and relations to staff; and control and sanctions. METHODS & DATA - The article is based on data from twelve prisons, three in each of the four countries; 91 interviews with prisoners; and around six months of observation. The two main kinds of drug treatment measures are drug treatment units and day programmes. RESULTS - Prisoners described several motives to participate in drug treatment measures: to leave drugs and crime; to renew relations with family and friends; to solve health problems; and to improve their prison conditions. Prisoners found that drug treatment measures offered possibilities to acquire new ways of being. Staff behaviour seemed to be more important to prisoners than the methods used, and some prisoners seemed more positive to staff involved with the drug treatment than to other staff. A surprising finding was the prisoners’ limited critique of controls and sanctions. We see this as embedded in the situation of being a prisoner, and also in relation to contexts outside prison. CONCLUSION - In discussing their experiences in the treatment units, prisoners are not so concerned about the rehabilitative features or the controls and sanctions. They evaluate their present situation in light of a future, which is their real concern. This is in line with a main task for staff, which is to prepare prisoners for release.

The Greco-Roman book was a papyrus roll. It was unitary, i.e. the contents were homogeneous in the sense that it contained sometimes one text, sometimes many or all, opera omnia, by one author. In late antiquity too, the book, although different in form and material, looked the same. But during the early Middle Ages a change took place. The so-called miscellany, or multitext book, was born, a book where many texts by many different authors, copied by one or many scribes, are held together in one volume. It was no less than a revolution and it is a frequently discussed question exactly how, where and when this happened, as is also the typologies, the functions, the geographical and social spreading of this new type of book. The multitext book became very common in the schools and universities of Western Europe, with an all-time high during the 13th century. From a typological point of view the books are small, with the text in one column, written in cursive, informal scripts and without decoration. They are private products, meant to be used within a rather closed circle and not designed for distribution or for the market. In research they have often been neglected and in library catalogues sometimes described as ”nullius momenti” (of no importance or value). Taking as the point of departure a multitext book, a 15th century manuscript, today at the University Library in Lund, I look at the miscellany as a codicological research object, at the terminological confusion regarding its definition and how the physical make-up of the book mirrors its function.

Annelie Bränström Öhman om Lina Sjöberg, Genesis och Jernet Rochelle Wright om Cecilia Lindhé, Visuella vändningar Roland Lysell om Henrik Wallheim, En underbar berättelse om ridderliga äventyr Karl Axelsson om Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology, red. Steven M. Cahn & Aaron Meskin samt English Literature in Context, red. Paul Poplawski Martin Fredriksson om Gunnar Petri, Författarrättens genombrott Eva Nilsson Nylander om Stefano Fogelberg Rota, Poesins drottning Anders Mortensen & Peter Westerlund om Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlsson, Hamlet eller Hamilton?

The article offers information on the cataloguing of the medieval manuscripts at the library of Lund University in Sweden. It deals with the history and contents of the collection of medieval manuscripts at this university's library. It also discusses the problems of manuscript cataloguing, and it summarizes the historical tradition from the 17th century and continues on to center on the 20th century development with the conflict between the German analytical school and the Anglo-Saxon summary catalogue. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was initialized to facilitate the cataloguing of these manuscripts.