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Generare in comune. Teorie e rappresentazioni dell'ibrido nel sapere zoologico dei Greci e dei Romani.

2008

Di cosa parlavano veramente i Greci e i Romani quando si riferivano a quelli che noi chiamiamo oggi "ibridi"? Generare in comune si configura come un viaggio nelle teorie della riproduzione del mondo antico, per arrivare a marcare una serie di differenze antropologiche fra "Noi" e "Loro" attraverso le quali si tenta di riorientare il dibattito bioetico contemporaneo. Lo sguardo sul mondo antico si configura così come una sorta di dispositivo per l'esplorazione di prospettive inedite da contrapporre da un lato al misticismo della natura, dall'altro alla bestializzazione dell'umano e alla mercificazione della vita.

Special issue in Honor of Prof. Miguel Julve on the occasion of his 65th Birthday

2019

The Holocaust, the Founding of Israel and the Arab-Israeli War in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press

2011

The fact that the gap between the founding of the state of Israel and the end of the Holocaust was only three years (almost to date), creates, at least in retrospect, a strong link between the two events. Articulating this view, Walter Harrelson has written that ‘[A] shamed world was certainly ready, after the Holocaust and the struggle of Jews from Europe to get to Israel, to support the Partition Plan that led to the establishment of the state.’1 Yehuda Bauer has argued that the birth of a nation ‘bridges the gap between an unconquered past tragedy and the hope for the resurrection of an almost mortally wounded people’.2 Peter Novick also agrees that the link exists, although in less cert…

Vann, Robert E. (2009): Materials for the sociolinguistic description and corpus-based study of Spanish in Barcelona. Toward a documentation of collo…

2009

The Hungarian Nation: From Hungary to Magyarország

2009

This chapter’s title is a linguistic pun that needs explanation. Magyarorszag means ‘Hungary’ in Magyar. But scholars writing in languages that used to be minority ones in the Hungarian section of Austria-Hungary are careful to distinguish between multiethnic historical Hungary and the ethnically Magyar nation-state that emerged after World War I. Obviously, this distinction originated due to the 19th-century insistence on the part of Magyar politicians that the Magyar language should be spoken by all the inhabitants of the multiethnic and multilingual Kingdom of Hungary. But one can find the first recorded instance of conscious distinguishing between Hungaris and Magyaris in the 1778 Latin…

Finnish Students at Medieval Universities

2019

The chapter begins with a discussion about the importance of the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Sweden in connecting Finland to the Western European cultural sphere. The story continues by the foundation of Turku Cathedral School, the first school in Finland, at the turn of the fourteenth century.

The Correspondences of Luigi Cremona and Placido Tardy in the Libraries of Genoa

2018

We describe the historical framework and the main issues (biographical, scientific, political, etc.) of the correspondences of Placido Tardy and Luigi Cremona in the libraries of Genoa, which constitute an important contribution to the reconstruction of the History of Mathematics in the Italian “Risorgimento”. In particular, we mainly deal with the Cremona-Tardy, Betti-Tardy and Cremona-Guccia correspondences. Tardy’s letters are preserved at the Genoa University Library and Cremona’s letters at the Mazzini Institute of Genoa.

The Treasure in Law and Early Archaeology

2012

The problem of who should be the rightful owner of a discovered treasure, and its distribution between the finder, the owner of the land on which the treasure was found and the fisc, is as ancient as it is difficult. The parable of the treasure hidden in a field (Matthew 13:44) hinted at that problem: the man who had found the treasure in the field buried it again and bought the field. Evidently, the Bible assumed that only the owner of the land where the treasure was buried had any claim to it. Some historians of law suggested a rather simple pattern that focused on two huge legal traditions. The Roman legal tradition had ruled the ancient empire. After the end of the Middle Ages, many par…

Comment on the Letter to the Editor by Professor Reiber

2009

Gilliéron, Jules (1854–1926)

2006

Jules Gillieron, born in Switzerland, became a professor of dialectology in Paris and thus the founder of the scientific dialectology in France. A dialect grammar and a phonetic atlas of the Roman Valais, both published in 1880, were expanded to the huge Linguistic atlas of France (ALF), published with E Edmont 1902–1910. Permanent explanatory notes and valuable monographs as interpretations of the maps supplemented the atlas. ‘Dialect’ was considered as a linguistic system with signs having an expression plane and a content plane—a structural approach.