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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 1. Perception of abortion throughout the centuries and by religions. [PDF]

Int J Gynaecol Obstet
Benagiano G, Gemzell-Danielsson K, Habiba M, Mancuso S, Shantha-Kumari S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

2. Meaning as a Problem in Contemporary Religious Thought

, 1958
To judge from the public voice and countenance of religion in America at least, there is a preoccupation in religion with happiness at the expense of meaning. But between the two poles of happiness and meaning there is considerable distance. This chapter
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold L., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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Negotiating Faith in the Sixteenth Century: Edmund Horde's Personal Notebook in Trinity College Dublin 352

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
wiley   +1 more source

Epizelus (Hdt 6.117): A Medical History Critique and Reappraisal. [PDF]

Soc Hist Med
Ford JC.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence and Innovation in the Greco-Roman Medical Tradition: The Reading and Writing Practices of a Tenth-Century Monk. [PDF]

Soc Hist Med
Marchiori SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
wiley   +1 more source

History as Therapy: A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework for Meaning-making and Well-being. [PDF]

Integr Psychol Behav Sci
Simonenko NP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
wiley   +1 more source