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A Symposiastic Background to James [PDF]
, 2011 The Epistle of James is not commonly seen in relation to early Christian common meals. At the same time, the work is preoccupied with the common life of an early Christian community, which in turn was, generally speaking, closely related to the way in ...
Smit, P.B.A.
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]
, 2017 Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul's Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31) [PDF]
, 2010 George H. van Kooten, “Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul’s Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades [PDF]
, 2003 Almost four decades ago, Donald Russell published in this journal an analysis of the first sixteen chapters of theLife of Alkibiades, which consist largely of short self-contained anecdotes about Alkibiades' childhood, youth and early career (Russell ...
Duff, Timothy E.
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Classica Cracoviensia, 2016 Alexander, his Teacher and his Status of Philosophy in Plutarch of Chaeronea: an Inquiry into the Meaning of a Certain Exchange of Letters The principal focus of the present article is the exchange of letters quoted by Plutarch of Chaeronea ...
Joanna Komorowska
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Die Erfindung kosmopolitaner Politik durch die Stoiker [PDF]
, 2010 This lecture explores the political import of Chrysippus' account of why and how one should live as a citizen of the cosmos, and it makes a case for seeing this account as the invention of political cosmopolitanism.
Brown, Eric
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