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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Human Capital 4.0: Readiness of Initial Vocational Education Programmes in Italy and Germany

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid pace of technological innovation and the advent of Industry 4.0 have profoundly transformed labour markets and the nature of work. This paper examines the preparedness of Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) programmes in Germany and Italy to meet the demands of Human Capital 4.0. Utilising a comparative analysis of three
Luca Antonazzo, Susanne Peters
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Apuntes históricos de la lógica matemática

Educación y Ciencia, 2011
Entrega elementos de la historia de la lógica y su consolidación como fundamento de la demostración en matemáticas. Se identifican cuatro etapas o periodos, más o menos bien definidos, por los que se considera ha pasado esta disciplina, de acuerdo con ...
Alfonso Jiménez Espinosa, Johann Verney Méndez Gamba
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Science under caesar-politarch's patronage

Антиномии, 2020
The subject of this article is the specificity of socio-cultural situation in which the individual professionally engaging in natural sciences and mathematics does act in politary society (ancient Egypt, ancient India and China, medieval Arab-Muslim ...
Vyacheslav Y. Vasechko
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Manuscript Codices in the Library Collection of the Cistercian Abbey in Szczyrzyc

The Person and the Challenges, 2015
The collection of manuscripts at the Cistercian library in Szczyrzyc amounts to 100 volumes, including four medieval codices dated between 1460–1494; 12 manuscript books dated to the 17 th century; 57 dated to the 18 th century, and 27 ...
Jolanta M. Marszalska
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Life and activity of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Історія науки і техніки, 2020
At the beginning of the VII century in the political life of the Near and Middle East, fundamental changes have taken place. The Arabs conquered a colossal territory, which included the lands of Iran, North Africa, North-West India, the Asian provinces ...
Maryam Seyidbeyli
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Robert Grosseteste: the geometry to solve the complexity of the world [PDF]

, 2013
Robert Grosseteste: the geometry to solve the complexity of the world, by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology. Italy Abstract: Robert Grosseteste, an English philosopher and scientist, Bishop of
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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