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DIE ARBEIT DES ÜBERSETZENS: RILKE UND MICHELANGELO („SE ’L MIE ROZZO MARTELLO‘‘)
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 194-216, April 2025.ABSTRACT This essay examines Rainer Maria Rilke's reception of the sculptor and poet Michelangelo in the context of interest in the Renaissance around 1900, focusing first on the Stundenbuch, the Florenzer Tagebuch and the story ʻVon einem, der die Steine belauschtʼ (from the prose collection: Geschichten vom lieben Gott).
Astrid Dröse, Jörg Robert
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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The Representation of Hercules. Ockham's Critique of Species [PDF]
, 2015 This paper reconsiders Ockham's critique of the species theory of cognition. As Ockham understands this theory, it says that the direct objects of cognition are mental representations, or species.
Adriaenssen, Han Thomas
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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DE L’EXEMPLE À L’EXEMPLUM: RÉFLEXIONS SUR LEUR EFFICACITÉ RHÉTORIQUE [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2011 Between exemplum as a model and "for example" slipped into an argument, one can see two distinct worlds. We rather see there a continuum between two rhetorical uses of the example.
Thierry HERMAN
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Chemistry – A European Journal, Volume 30, Issue 70, December 13, 2024.From the stink to the stars! The reputation of organoselenium species changed drastically in the past fifty years. While at the beginning of their history they were notoriously famous for their toxicity and infernal smell, organoselenides are nowadays recognized for their fundamental role in redox biology and as green organocatalysts.
Andrea Madabeni +7 more
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Studia Romanica PosnaniensiaIn the well-known exemplum about the simple man who constantly repeated the Ave Maria, a plant plays a central role in the narrative: it is a sign that reveals to witnesses and readers the spiritual value of the main character.
Agata Sobczyk
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Disciplined Comparison in the Undergraduate Theory and Method Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 163-167, December 2024.ABSTRACT This article details the author's reimagining of the undergraduate theory and method course, in which intentional, disciplined comparison is employed to challenge and problematize traditional narratives about Religious Studies as an academic discipline.
Christopher Jensen
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L’arbre qui cache une forêt de significations : l’exemple de don Juan Manuel
Revista de Literatura MedievalEl exemplum XXVI del Libro del conde Lucanor (1335) merece que nos detengamos en el motivo del árbol, tercer personaje por derecho propio de esta fábula alegórica ‒junto con las personificaciones de la Verdad y la Mentira, dos conceptos clave en la obra
Constance Carta
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Introducción: En torno a la fábula esópica medieval
Atalaya, 2015 This is an introduction to the monograph and the main research areas of for the “Aesop’s Fables in Spanish Literature in the Fourteenth Century” project (FFI2012-32265).
María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre
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