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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

2016
Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world.
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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

2011
Introduction: friendship : the quest for a human -- Friendship of mutual perfecting in Augustine's confessions and the failure of classical amicitia / C. Stephen Jaeger -- The gift of friendship : beneficial and poisonous : friendships in the Byzantine Greek passion of Sergius and Bacchus / Stavroula Constantinou -- Where textual bodies meet : Anglo ...
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Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age

The Modern Language Review, 2001
These essays consider Edmund Spenser's literary origins, his representations and influences on sixteenth-century culture, and his impact on later writers. His long and short poetry is considered, as well as his prose.
Andrew Hadfield, Patrick Cheney, Lauren Silberman   +2 more
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Time- and Age-Awareness in Early Modern Russia

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1993
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie has observed that in medieval Montaillou ”time was always vague,” so that “history was absent or almost absent from Montaillou culture.” According to the inquisition record on which LeRoy Ladurie depended, Montaillou villagers often found it difficult to determine exactly how long ago a given event had occurred.
Daniel H. Kaiser, Peyton Engel
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Editing Early Modern Women in the Digital Age

2016
Because the recuperation of early modern women's texts has burgeoned at precisely the point that the digital medium started providing new possibilities for editing, early modern women's writing stands in a unique relationship to online editing and knowledge-construction.
Smith, Rosalind, Pender, Patricia
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The Church in the Early Modern Age

2016
The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early modern Christianity re-oriented the Church to such an ...
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[Ageing in the early modern age].

Medicina nei secoli, 2011
In ancient medicine, aging had been interpreted as a natural process due to extinction of innate heat, so that human body become cold and dry. Aristotle used the example of a burning lamp to explain the old age and natural death as the decrease of the flame because of the failure of fuel, the natural moisture.
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Perceiving the city: reflections on Early Modern Age

Critical Quarterly, 1994
L'A. examine l'histoire de la ville de l'Antiquite jusqu'au Moyen-Age et a l'epoque moderne. Il s'efforce de suivre une approche comparable a celle d'Italo Calvino. Selon l'A., la ville est l'expression de valeurs et, a ce titre, elle est riche en significations et peut s'offrir a la meditation.
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