Search results for "Classics"

Rome re-imagined : twelfth-century Jews, Christians and Muslims encounter the eternal city

2011

This collection examines the image of Rome through Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian descriptions of the eternal city. Placing the twelfth-century renaissance into a Mediterranean context. The city of Rome is revealed as a multi-vocal object of desire and a contested ideal.

Repercussions of Evolutionism in the Spanish Natural History Society

2001

In 1871, during the markedly libe ral environment created by the Sexennial Revolution (1868-1874), the Spanish Natural History Society (SEHN) was founded) It was established at the instigation of an active group of naturalists whose primary objectives were to promote the study of Natural History in Spain, discuss the most relevant problems relating to this discipline, and have a vehicle through which to publish their work. This early initiative was highly successful, with the number of members in the first three decades fluctuating between 290-300 and, in some years, exceeding four hundred. University professors and teachers from the Faculties of Science, Medicine and Pharmacy; researchers …

The New Deal: A Global History. By Kiran Klaus Patel. Princeton University Press. 2016. xii + 435pp. £24.95.

2017

The World of Anglo-Saxon Learning

2007

D uring the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools were among the finest in Europe. From English schools came the great masters whose writings instructed generations, centuries even, of Insular and continental students alike: one has only to think of the works of Aldhelm, Bede and Alcuin, which were copied and studied intensively up to the twelfth century and beyond. This achievement is all the more remarkable when one considers that the Anglo-Saxons were among the first peoples in Europe who were obliged to learn Latin as a foreign language if Christianity - a religion of the book par excellence - was to flourish. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, English schools benefited from the instructi…

Internal and External Conditions for the Discovery of Nuclear Fission by the Berlin Team

1983

My subject concerns the constellation of conditions which led to the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann.1 It is on purpose that I mention all three names of the Berlin team and that I order them alphabetically, in spite of the fact that today Hahn is usually credited with the discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei. Stressing Hahn’s name, however, ignores the fact that Hahn himself called Fritz Strassmann a codiscoverer. It is absolutely wrong to attribute Hahn’s attitude to modesty and to regard that as the motive that caused him to let his young assistant share his fame. I am much more convinced that it was the cooperationof all three scientists…

Vers une historiographie des politiques des traductions en Belgique durant la période française

2014

The language policy of the French Revolution is known today especially for the imposition of the national language and the oppression of dialects and regional languages in France. This pilot study focuses on a less-known phenomenon of that period: translation policy. From 1790 on, several decrees stipulated the translation of national laws and decrees into the regional languages of France and some languages of other European countries. We will illustrate this translation policy focusing on translations of political and administrative texts from French into Flemish in Belgium (which was annexed by the French Republic in 1795 and remained French until the end of the Napoleonic era). We will n…

Heródoto I 53 y su transmisión en la literatura griega cristiana

2013

El oráculo de Delfos ofrece una respuesta al rey lidio Creso que provocará su ataque contra los persas y su propia derrota. Este oráculo que aparece como un hexámetro dactílico por vez primera en la Retórica de Aristóteles llamará la atención de los apologistas cristianos. Pero la transmisión del mismo, a partir de Eusebio de Cesarea, se verá alterada por la interpolación del término ποταμὸν que romperá el esquema métrico del hexámetro. Después podremos distinguir las fuentes de los autores bizantinos que utilizan este oráculo dependiendo de si respetan la forma que nos ofrece Aristóteles o la que aparece en el texto de Eusebio. Así pues, nuestro estudio consistirá en un análisis de la tran…

Not a current fashion, but a truth since 1884

2011

We thank Kucharz [1] for the valuable historical comment to our review focusing on the role of oral infection on systemic diseases [2]. The majority of scientists today write and read the English language whereas articles in Polish and German are scarcely known outside of Poland and Germany, respectively. For these reasons, the contribution of Kaczorowsky [3] is commonly forgotten in medical literature, but the letter of Kurchaz properly acknowledges this pioneer researcher in the periodontal medicine. We also thank Blum [4] for adding his results [5,6] to our review article. As the number of references citable is limited, we did not cite the articles written by Blum et al. [5,6], but we re…

Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany

2016

What is the purpose of portraying a branch from a pear tree in bloom and fruit, of listing hundreds of citrus varieties or of dissecting a huge truffle? When Cosimo III (1642–1723), the penultimate grand duke of the Medici dynasty, commissioned artists and botanists alike to create comprehensive visual and textual catalogues of Tuscan flora, aesthetics and curiosity seemed to go hand in hand with a demonstration of knowledge and prosperity. This article deals with the collection of botanical paintings by Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648–1730), housed in the Casino della Topaia close to the city of Florence, and with the mainly handwritten work of the grand ducal botanist Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–17…

Images of Chalices in Transylvanian Panel Paintings

2014

Abstract The study of the items illustrated on mural and panel painting, in connection with still existing items, can document medieval material culture. The representation of chalices on almost half of such paintings from Transylvania is a proof of its important symbolist value in religious rituals. These representations also certify the high level of the goldsmiths’ art from Transylvania. The present study is intended both as a repertory and an analysis of these sacral objects illustrated in mural and panel paintings.