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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.
Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Multiple audiences: revisiting historical film reception [PDF]

, 2013
Keynote for the 2013 ECREA Film Studies Conference, Lund, Sweden, 8-9 November ...
Biltereyst, Daniël
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Interpreting Humani Generis: The Evolution Controversy in the Melbourne Catholic Press, 1960–61*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 201-214, June 2024.
From mid‐1960 to early 1961, the Melbourne Catholic weekly newspaper The Advocate carried an extended controversy on evolutionary science and its compatibility with the teachings of the Church. An intra‐denominational debate among Catholic scientists, clergy and laymen, the controversy was shaped by the theological framework of Pope Pius XII's ...
Joel Barnes
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The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 209-230, June 2024.
ABSTRACT This article sketches an intellectual history of the distinction between Christian theology and Christian ethics. The twists and turns of that history have been obscured by a recent tendency to deny the distinction's usefulness, as part of a wider strategy for reasserting theology's relevance to modern social problems.
Sean Lau
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A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon's oratorical debut at Wittenberg University

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 363-378, June 2024.
Abstract The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform.
Isabella Walser‐Bürgler
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Neoplatonism and English Gothic Architecture [PDF]

, 2013
A letter written by Robert Grosseteste, the first chancellor of Oxford University and later Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, illustrates the role that Neoplatonism played in the creative process of the architect in the Middle Ages.
Hendrix, John S
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Elemente des Planeten (275) Sapientia [PDF]

Astronomische Nachrichten, 1890
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The Who, What, and How of Wisdom: An Exploration in Karl Barth and his ‘Descendants’

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 307-320, April 2024.
Abstract In light of recent interest among theologians in the category of wisdom, I offer my own reflection on the theme vis‐à‐vis the theology of Karl Barth, as well as two of his theological 'descendants' who have given a programmatic place to 'wisdom’ in their seminal projects: David Ford and David Kelsey.
Kyle McCracken
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.
This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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Identification and model-based compensation of Striebeck friction [PDF]

, 2006
The paper deals with the measurement, identification and compensation of low velocity friction in positioning systems. The introduced algorithms are based on a linearized friction model, which can easily be introduced in tracking control algorithms ...
Lantos, Béla, Márton, Lőrinc
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