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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 292-310, April 2025.
Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 201-215, April 2025.
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.
Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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Beauty, Ethics and Numbers in Boethius’ Quadrivial Treatises

Aisthesis, 2018
The convergence of the Neoplatonic/Neopythagorean approach with the Aristotelian organization of the sciences is one of the most interesting features that characterizes the two influential mathematical treatises on On Arithmetics (De institutione ...
Cecilia Panti
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Mellan ideal och praktik

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Theme: The Children’s Library Saga and the Swedish Teachers’ Magazine’s Publishing House. Logo: The Swedish Institute for Children's Books Between Ideals and Practice: Barnbiblioteket Saga and the “Indian Books” – the Example of Den siste ...
Ulf Boëthius
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Sheep Ahoy: Exploring sheep management and its role in Viking Age economy through multiproxy analyses at Löddeköpinge, Sweden

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2024.
Abstract Sheep and their wool were paramount to Viking Age economies. The importance of wool cannot be underestimated, especially as the woollen sail was implemented on ships in general during this period. This paper investigates sheep management and landscape use in Viking Age Löddeköpinge in Scania, southern Sweden, through a multiproxy approach ...
Stella Macheridis, Katie Faillace, Meredith Hood, Kerry L. Sayle, Edward Inglis, Richard Madgwick   +5 more
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God and Time

Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 9-10, October 2024.
Abstract This article introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical research on God and time, without presupposing any familiarity with either philosophy of religion or philosophy of time. To start with, aspects of the topic are compared to some structurally similar ideas in secular philosophical thought about time and ethics.
Natalja Deng
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Clocks, Time and Omniscience [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
I suggest there is no such thing as “time itself.” I use this term in the same sense that philosophers of time use it. One has said, “It is important not to confuse the actual physical clock that measures time with time itself, ….” This paper is ...
Russell Belding
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Pursuit of the concept of validity: A dialogue

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 5, Page 479-491, October 2024.
Abstract This is a dialogue between Lisa and Max on Dag Prawitz's work concerning the concept of deductive validity. Lisa first explains Prawitz's criticisms of the presently prevailing non‐epistemic analyses of validity. Then Lisa describes three different ways in which Prawitz attempted to develop an epistemic concept of validity.
Cesare Cozzo
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