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Science, Technology and Religion: The Exchange Between Enlightenment Europe and Imperial China
HoST, 2021 The European Enlightenment fostered a sense of progress through a delineation of universal human rights as well as through a reductionist mathematization of nature.
Davis Robert V.
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Paleontological data provide information on natural environments prior to human influence, which are useful for tracking changes in ecosystem functioning through time. During the Late Pleistocene, about 10% of terrestrial mammalian species were extinct in South America.
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Musicologica Brunensia, 2014 Jesuit college and the St. Joseph seminary in Klatovy held a not very numerous ensemble of musicians in the 17th and 18th centuries. Based on the extant sources, it is possible to reconstruct the journeys of the ensemble in the region. They indicate that
Vít Aschenbrenner
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The politico-religious usage of the queen's chapel, 1623-1688 [PDF]
, 1999 After setting its foundation within the context of prevailing domestic and international religious and political developments, the chief occupants of the Queen's Chapel under Henrietta Maria are revealed to be Oratorians.
Baldwin, David John Peter
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University as a City and University as a State: Methodological Tools of William Clark
Высшее образование в России, 2022 William Clark’s methodological tools applied to the study of the history and philosophy of higher education are presented in a series of articles 1996-2003 and especially in his book “Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University” (2006 ...
V. K. Pichugina, Z. A. Lurie
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Benedictus Pererius and the Ordo Doctrinae. Lessons and Texts in the First Jesuits’ Philosophy
Noctua, 2015 Contrary to a long-lasting caricature, which depicted the Jesuits as prone followers of the pedagogical dictate of Aristotle, the Jesuits were among the firsts to challenge his established order of books and questions. In the second half of the Sixteenth
Cristiano Casalini
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Noctua, 2015 The first case of comprehensive Jesuit philosophical textbook, the Cursus Conimbricensis stands as a hallmark of the Jesuit way of teaching philosophy during the second half of the Sixteenth century.
Mário S. de Carvalho
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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