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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Philosophy as Practical Philosophy: A response to "Political Realism" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
First paragraph: From where should political philosophy take its normative orientation? According to self‐described “political realists,” political philosophy is not oriented by ordinary moral reasoning about values and obligations, but must take its ...
Hope, Simon James, Simon Hope
core   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenology and Austrian philosophy

open access: yes, 2020
The idea of an “Austrian philosophy” as a distinct historiographical category in the history of 19th- and 20th-century philosophy has been advanced and formulated in increasing detail since the 1970s.
Hopkins, B   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Die konstellasie taalbegrip-logika in die Middeleeuse filosofie (1): Augustinus tot Aquinas

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
The constellation language-logic in medieval philosophy (1): St Augustine to St Aquinas This series of two articles provides an in-depth overview of some of the most prominent (and some of the most underpublished) medieval thinkers’ stance on the ...
Johann Beukes
doaj   +1 more source

FAITH AND REASON: CHARTING THE MEDIEVAL CONCEPT OF THE INFINITE; pp. 3–45 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2012
The infinite, understood as transcendency, stood in the background of most medieval thinking. Embraced in the early Middle Ages by the concept of universal natural symbolism, which organized the reading of the syntax of natura, the infinite posed new ...
Rein Undusk
doaj   +1 more source

A History of ‘Religious History’

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Die konstellasie taalbegrip-logika in die Middeleeuse filosofie (2): Duns Skotus tot De Rivo

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
The constellation language-logic in medieval philosophy (2): Duns Scotus to De Rivo. This second in a series of two articles continues the attempt to provide an in-depth overview of some of the most prominent – and some of the most underpublished ...
Johann Beukes
doaj   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Basic philosophical texts in Medieval Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2008
Medieval Serbian philosophy took shape mostly through the process of translating Byzantine texts and revising the Slavic translations. Apart from the Aristotelian terminological tradition, introduced via the translation of Damascene’s Dialectic, there
Milosavljević Boris
doaj   +1 more source

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