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Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth

open access: yesJournal of Personality, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 370-379, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood   +8 more
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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.
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

A Mercury Retrograde Kind of Day: Exploring Astrology in Contemporary New Age Spirituality and American Social Life

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2018
Astrology is a feature of everyday conversation and the local spiritual scene in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its “vortexes”. As part of a variegated new age spirituality, astrology “works” in three main ways that are examined in this ...
Susannah Crockford
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Gök Cisimleriyle İlgili Ayetleri İslam Öncesi Arap Kültür ve İnançları Çerçevesinde Okumak

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Bu çalışmada, Kur’an’da yer alan gök cisimlerini konu edinen ayetler, İslam öncesi Arap kültür ve inançları çerçevesinde ele alınmaktadır. Kur’an’da gökyüzü, gök cisimleri ve gök olayları ile ilgili çok sayıda ayet bulunması, bu olguların vahyin nazil ...
Abdulcabbar Adıgüzel
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Elementi di astrologia nel Decameron censurato di Luigi Groto

open access: yesActa Neophilologica, 2011
The censored version of the Decameron by Luigi Groto, which was published in 1588, was already the third censorship of Boccaccio's masterpiece during the Counter-Reformation.
Kristina Lazar
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RECALLING THE SUICIDE: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of “Good” Womanhood

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 428-449, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Delhi, this article examines middle‐class married women's stories about the suicides of their female neighbors. Paying attention to “what moves” women emotionally and “what matters” to them in recounting their stories of life and willful death, these stories are ethical commentaries on what ...
ANJALI KRISHAN
wiley   +1 more source

Astrology and mental illness

open access: yesArchives of Mental Health, 2013
Astrology is an ancient system which was said to be predictive of human nature, character and health, it has a very significant history and at times it gives an idea that it is nearly scientific, but, rigorous experiments with the available scientific ...
Krishna Murthy Kavirayani
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‘Matters of Household Proffit’: Sixteenth‐Century Manuscript and Print Exchanges in Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1477☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.
Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
wiley   +1 more source

The Symposium of Methodius of Olympus and the Critique of Fatalism

open access: yesReligions
This study examines a specific section of the Symposium by Methodius of Olympus, a Church Father of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, focusing on the critique of astrological fatalism.
Davide Tomaselli
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İbn Meymūn’un Astroloji Mektubu

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022
İbn Meymūn, Fransa’nın Montpellier şehrinden kendisine gönderilen bir dizi soruya cevap olarak astroloji konusundaki görüşlerini kaleme aldığı bir mektup yazmıştır.
Yasin Meral
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