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ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Encounters with Modernity: Greek Historiography Since 1974
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Antonis Liakos
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ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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This article challenges and problematizes ancient Greek historiography as history. The first part presents the discussions of the last decades on the guiding principles of the writing of history in Classical antiquity.
Dimitrios Iordanoglou, Mats Persson
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Denys le Thrace, Georges Chœroboscus et Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq. La grammaire grecque pratique et théorique
Following on from a 2018 publication on the origin of the Greek lemmas listed in Bar Bahlūl’s Syro-Arabic Lexicon, this article seeks evidence for the existence of a Greek manual for Arabic-speaking students, composed by the famous Greek translator and ...
Nikolaï I. Serikoff
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A pionner of medical historiography in antiquity: Rodolfo del Castillo-Quartiellers (1845-1917)
This paper intends to be a biographic summary of Rodolfo del Castillo-Quartiellers (1845-1917), a famous ophthalmologist from Cádiz and renowned follower of Spanish medical positivism tendencies.
Francisco Herrera Rodríguez
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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: Metamorphoses of Suffering. The Non-Thematisation of Sexual Violence Against Children in Ancient Historiography. Children are seldom mentioned in ancient literature, and in contrast to modern efforts to protect children as well as possible, no ...
Peter Mauritsch
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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
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The “biography” in contemporary Greek historiography.
The author informs us about the use of the historical biography on behalf of contemporary Greek historiography. The information about the Greek case is accompanied by many reflections on the international debate about the historical biography.The author ...
Zanou, Constantina
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