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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Islamisasi Makassar Abad 17; Kajian tentang HUbungan Umara dan Ulama Nusantara
Buletin Al-Turas, 2018 ; Arrival event of three Moslem scholars from Malay Empire in early seventeenth century to Makassar can be attested how close relationship between among Moslem scholar and umara in the Indonesian Archipelago at the time. In the context of Islamization of
Mulyono Damopoli
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Gambling with Women, Estates and Status in Long Eighteenth Century-Comedy
Etudes Epistémè, 2021 This article discusses gambling and inheritance as two types of property transfer presented on the long eighteenth-century stage and investigates the relationship each has with gender and social status. Comparing Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance (1685) with
Beth Cortese
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Seventeenth-century theories of emotion and their contemporary relevance
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2006 This paper takes a look at seventeenth-century theories of emotion, and their influence on contemporary philosophical and psychological approaches to the subject.
Gábor Boros
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De l'honorable ennemi au compagnon de fortune
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2008 The 150 years of the close cohabitation with the Ottoman Empire has certainly left numerous traces in the Hungarian culture. With regard to literature, the relative poorness of available documents does not allow us to even to venture in the road of the ...
Györgyi Mate
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La Palatine, une spectatrice paradigmatique ? De l’intérêt du théâtre : usages, goûts, expérience
Etudes Epistémè, 2022 The “spectatorial motif” is a recurrent one in the voluminous correspondence of Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz, Princess Palatine and Duchess of Orléans.
Sylvaine Guyot
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal 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
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Ignorance as a Productive Force in Complex Storyworlds
Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2021 This article aims to show how attention to the history of ignorance can bring to light salient qualities of key texts from the past, and in doing so illuminate not just the history of the book and the history of reading.
Elspeth Jajdelska
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal 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
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