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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Cognitive Theories of Galant Music at the Margins of Experience
Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 293-339, October 2025.ABSTRACT Leading cognitive studies of galant music treat schematism as both a device and an ethos. The devices – whether called pre‐fabs, tiles or schemata – undergird a mechanistic and passive ethos of inventiveness. In vision and practice, this constellation of approaches directs inquiry away from a musical depth that one contemplates and towards a ...
Edmund J. Goehring
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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ÁgoraBaltasar Álamos de Barrientos’ Tacito español, ilustrado con aforismos (1614) can be interpreted through a Foucauldian framework to explore shifts in early modern political thought.
Carolina Ferraro
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Montesquieu.it, 2020 A reflection by Montesquieu on the relationship between absolutism, idleness and politeness (“EL” XIX, 27) is connected, through a note later deleted in the manuscript, to chap.
Sergio Audano
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« L’ombre de Brutus » : l’action politique de Gaston d’Orléans et les valeurs de « l’ancienne Rome »
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021 True to the memorialists and satirists of the seventeenth century, contemporary historiography generally assesses Gaston d’Orléans’s political activities of the 1630s with reference to ‘ancient Rome’s’ republican values, celebrated by Balzac and ...
Delphine Amstutz
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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Tacitus on the Parthians [PDF]
, 2017 Tacitus is the only Roman historian who devoted his works to such an extent to Rome’s eastern neighbor – the Parthian Empire. Scholars have researched the problem of Tacitus’ attitude towards the Parthians on many occasions.
Dąbrowa, Edward
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«Pugnam fugientum more petebant». Flaminius' march to Lake Trasimene between epic and historiography
GriseldaonlineThis paper deals with a passage from Silius Italicus’ Punica (v 28-33): Flaminius’ army marches towards Lake Trasimene disregarding the divisions between the troops and the usual order of march.
Luigi Maria Guerci
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