Neagoe Basarab – modelul „omului desăvârșit și întreg” by Eugen Simion

“…Eugen Simion had commented the discursive levels of the chapters devoted to medieval diplomacy and art of the adorned speech (the parables and biblical parables), in the third part of this study the author focuses on the general meanings of the Teachings … Along with other specialists (Dan Zamfirescu, G. …”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Subsequently a related brief analysis is given of the ultimate commitment motivating the development of Greek philosophy and Medieval philosophy and theology. Distinguishing between conceptual knowledge and concepttranscending knowledge (concept and idea) brought the views of Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dengerink and Tillich into the discussion. …”
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Dragons, witches, and sorcerers in the advocacy space of national mythology [Review: Breeva Т.N., Khabibullina L.F. 'Russian Myth' in Slavic Fantasy. Moscow, Flinta, 2016] by O.E. Osovskiy

“…The authors have traced the genetic connection of contemporary Russian fantasy with Old Slavic folklore, European medieval literature, and Western mass culture. In this context, the special emphasis has been put on J.R.R. …”
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Teleologia i teologia. Nowożytne przemiany w rozumieniucelowości natury ludzkiej na przykładzie Kajetana i Lutra by Andrzej Persidok

“…This conviction, shared by both patristic and medieval theology, at the dawn of modernity undergoes profound transformation, and in time it becomes lost. …”
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Music Theory, Cultural Transfer, and Colonial Hybridity by Thomas Christensen

“…Using a range of examples from Medieval Arabic music theory, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s theory of harmony, and Schenkerian theory, it is shown that a global dissemination and absorption of music-theoretical ideas is rarely a straightforward process of import and export. …”
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A tese do "modelo doméstico" segundo A Dama Pé de Cabra de Herculano ou a forma humana da besta by Ana Paiva Morais

“…Sugere-se que a diferença entre a humanidade e a animalidade que está subjacente a algumas narrativas medievais como o romance cortês e o conto - tomando como exemplo a narrativa de Calogrenant no romance de Chrétien de Troyes Le Chevalier au Lyon – está intimamente ligada à busca da identidade humana na literatura medieval, e que Herculano em A Dama Pé de Cabra se baseia neste fundo cultural para desenvolver a sua própria tese sobre a relevância dos contos e lendas nacionais como narrativas historicamente relevantes e legitimadoras. …”
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n the identification of some characters in Plano Carpini’s “History of the Mongols” by Trepavlov V.V.

“…Research materials: The Wolfenbüttel copy of the “History of the Mongols” and its new Russian translation, Persian Arabic and Russian chronicles, Mongolian medieval writings of the 13th–17th century, historiographical literature on the Mongol Empire of the first half of the 13th century. …”
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Ecstasy’s Alembic: H.D.’s Poetics of Magic and Psychoanalysis in World War Two by Jane Augustine

“…À la fois pratique et théorie, la spiritualité de H.D. se manifeste sous diverses formes dans son œuvre, notamment à travers son désir d’éprouver l’extase grecque, le verbe biblique, l’éros mystique médiéval ou encore le discours psychanalytique. Rassemblés autour d’un rêve d’union entre spiritualité et sexualité, ces discours alimentent l’évolution des figures ou personae façonnées par la romancière et poète de sa période imagiste jusqu’à Trilogy, son long poème visionnaire écrit pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. …”
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Le bestiaire médiévaliste comme produit dérivé by Maud Pérez-Simon

“…Un premier élément de réponse est la séduction visuelle de l’ouvrage, lui-même hybride, inspiré de codes visuels liés au manuscrit médiéval mais aussi aux carnets de voyageurs de la période moderne. …”
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The influence of Christianity on Graeco-Roman medicine up to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…However, during the 5th century Nestorian Christians, fleeing from persecution by the Church, settled in Persia where they initiated a  blossoming of medical science during the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th centuries), coexisting with the Dark Ages of Medieval Europe. After this period Jewish and Christian doctors reintroduced Arabic versions of the works of the Greek masters from the teaching hospitals of Islam to the young European medical schools at Palermo and Montpellier. …”
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Influencia del voluntarismo de Duns Escoto en el origen del pensamiento moderno by Ignacio Miralbell Guerín, Claudia Muñoz Tobar

“… En este trabajo desarrollamos una discusión que busca aclarar y fundamentar la tesis de que el voluntarismo tardo medieval, principalmente el de Duns Escoto, es un factor cuya consideración es indispensable para entender el origen del pensamiento moderno y su deriva en una cultura de la libertad y la innovación como fines en sí mismos. …”
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Distance in Art or the Art of Distance: the Illusory Search for Depth and its Treatment in the First Landscape Representations by Fernando Linares, Isaac Mendoza

“…With the Renaissance, an authentic landscape view began to develop through deductive reasoning and the visual experience of the image, thus surpassing the basic and flat medieval iconography. The Renaissance perspective, as a ‘symbolic form’, helped to value space as something different from the flat surface on which it is painted, although it was not the only system used to represent the three-dimensional spatiality of the scene, being one more among other possibilities. more perceptive and intuitive. …”
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The Wandering Jew as Monster: John Blackburn’s <i>Devil Daddy</i> by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

“…The figure does not easily fit the common definition of a monster and yet, the Wandering Jew is extraordinary. In the medieval and early modern sources of the legend, the Wandering Jew, who once sinned against Christ and is therefore doomed to be an immortal eyewitness to the Passion, serves as a model for the faithful. …”
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Sur la biométrie des mandibules et des dents humaines d’Ishango (LSA, République démocratique du Congo) by Rosine Orban, Patrick Semal, François Twiesselmann

“…The reference material comprises measurements of australopithecines, of Homo erectus, of Neandertals, and of fossil and recent Homo sapiens sapiens (medieval inhabitants from Belgium and contemporaneous inhabitants from Congo). …”
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Review of the Book "Local History of Iran in the Islamic Period until the Seventh Century AH" by Morteza Nouraei

“…Therefore, the process of reconstructing and reviewing texts in the form of finding main elements in the method and perspective has in fact been able to show the rich tradition of local historiography in Iran during the medieval period. This book illustrates the evolutionary trend of local historiography in Iran until the seventh century. …”
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The Administrative Structure of Narva and Its Role in Promoting of “Unusual Trade” in Livonian-Russian Borderlands During the 15th and Early 16th Centuries by Valentina A. Yakunina

“…This article focuses on the study of administrative-legal framework of medieval Narva and its influence on development of the town’s economic potential within Livonian-Russian trade. …”
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Gustav Shpet, Immanuel Kant and Terminist Logic by Maryse Dennes

“…In his book Appearance and Sense Gustav Shpet, comparing Immanuel Kant’s transcendental logic with the traditional probleтs of the philosophy of language, thought it appropriate and conceptually effective to turn to the medieval scholastic debate on universals. Later, in the Hermeneutics and Its Problems, he goes back to this discussion and notes that it was the framework in which the thirteenth-century tradition of “terminist” logic was formed. …”
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venta del prebostazgo de Bilbao durante la Guerra de Sucesión: movilización de recursos para la hacienda de Felipe V en el contexto de la construcción de un nuevo régimen (1704-170... by Rafael Guerrero Elecalde

“…Este oficio, de origen medieval, fue desempeñado de forma hereditaria desde 1605 por la familia Idiáquez, hasta que Felipe V decidió su reincorporación al patrimonio real y su posterior venta para financiar la guerra. …”
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Exemples d’habitats aristocratiques sur les sites des rues Eugène-Desteuque et Ponsardin à Reims/Durocortorum by Magalie Cavé, Stéphane Sindonino, Sabine Groetembril

“…Thus, at the end of Antiquity and for the duration of the medieval period, the two sites remained intra muros, located, nonetheless, only a few meters from the ramparts in the case of rue Ponsardin. …”
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Preliminary assessment of structural masonry damage in Malbork Castle by Krzysztof Grzyb, Łukasz Drobiec, Jakub Zając, Kacper Drobiec

“…The castle in Malbork is one of the most representative brick buildings in the world and an excellent example of medieval defensive and residential architecture in Central Europe. …”
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