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Jacqueline Rose (Ed.), The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland 1286–1707. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 204.) Oxford, Oxford Universit…
2018
Love of Enemies in the Context of Antiquity
2001
Do we find the principle of ‘loving one's enemies’ or precursors thereof in pre-Christian antiquity? In the Greco-Roman tradition we find as a common maxim ‘helping friends and harming enemies’ combined with the talio and the Golden Rule. Only Socrates and some Roman stoics recommend never to take revenge. In the OT Lev 19.18 may possibly be interpreted as a commandment of loving one's enemies. The first to have understood Lev 19.18 in this sense seems to be Jesus. Christians have too rarely lived up to his commandment.
The evolution of the feudal income in the marquisate of Llombai (XVI-XIX centuries)
2006
Este artículo analiza la evolución de la renta feudal de un señorío valenciano particularmente bien documentado, el marquesado de Llombai, posesión de los duques de Gandía, en un período muy extenso que va de 1486 a 1819. Se estudia la renta nominal (tanto bruta como la neta, es decir la cantidad que percibía efectivamente el señor) y la renta real o deflactada, que es la más interesante, ya que tiene en cuenta el efecto de la evolución de los precios. Esta última muestra una tendencia a la baja durante el siglo XVI, lo que indica que no pudo resistir el efecto de la llamada revolución de los precios, una recuperación en el XVII, una vez superado el fuerte bache que supuso la expulsión de l…
Widerspruch als konstitutives Element der Wissensvermittlung in literarischen Texten des späten 16. Jahrhunderts
2019
In the second half of the sixteenth century, the transfer of knowledge is a con- flict situation: on the one hand, there is a generalised thirst for knowledge but, on the other, a fear of the circulation of new ideas on the part of both the secular and religious authorities. This was especially the case with regard to informa- tion related to the areas of medicine, astronomy, and alchemy-magic which was banned or censored. This paper argues that many authors relied on a Poetics of Contradiction in order to be able to transmit this information. Despite appa- rently opposing statements or thanks to their apparent opposition, they trans- mitted a meaningful message and allowed attentive, eliti…
« Confessioni vestrae nonnulla visum est addere, perpauca vero commutare. » L’approbation de la Confession de foi des Églises réformées de France, ma…
2019
Questo articolo analizza l'approvazione della Confessione di Fede durante quello che viene chiamato il primo sinodo nazionale delle Chiese Riformate di Francia, tenutosi a Parigi nel maggio 1559. Secondo la storiografia, i pastori riuniti a Parigi avrebbero modificato e promulgato il testo della Confessione da una bozza redatta e inviata ai parroci da Calvino. In questo articolo Gianmarco Braghi avanza l'ipotesi che nessun testo preparatorio di Calvino sia mai stato inviato al sinodo per l'approvazione. D'altra parte, un documento parigino, l'epistola-confessione Au Roy, scritta nel settembre 1557, servì da base per il testo della Confessione. Inoltre, nel maggio 1559, Calvino non si oppose…
An Institutional Perspective on Religious Freedom and Economic Growth
2017
AbstractThe increase in religion-related conflicts around the world emphasizes the urgent need for a better understanding of the role of religion and religious freedom on socio-economic development, both theoretically and empirically. While studies on the role of religion on economic development have existed as early as Weber (1905), there is a dearth of studies on the effect of religious freedom on economic growth, and the existing studies overlook possible negative impacts on economies by unrestricted religious freedom. Drawing on institutional theory, we propose that different types of religious restrictions can exert either positive or negative effects on economic growth. We test our pr…
Transnational monasteries: The economic performance of cloistered women
2015
Monastery research not only throws light on little-known aspects of Christianity in Africa, but also can make an important contribution to the understanding of the processes of social change and debates on globalization in African societies. The contemplative orders develop alternative economic forms, interact with their local environment, and build transnational networks or integrate into them. They emerge as local and transnational actors, change in the course of these processes, and contribute to the social change in the societies in which they participate. This interaction is the focus of the article, which is based on the analysis of a case study, a Benedictine abbey in Koubri, near t…
Le réexamen des lois de bioéthique, pour quel monde commun ?
2021
International audience; C omment une société fait-elle le point sur ce qui, pour elle, compte au point qu'elle ne saurait, en ces matières, transiger ? Peut-elle seulement, se regardant vivre et évoluer, instaurer de temps à autre, dans le flux et la vitesse, des stases pour se livrer à un auto-examen ? N'est-ce d'ailleurs pas cela l'éthique, dans la bioéthique : offrir collectivement le scrupule de la pause au coeur de la trépidation des courses à l'innovation ? Elle peut le faire en imagination, de façon prospective, en se projetant dans le temps. La récente réinitialisation d'un Haut-Commissariat au Plan servira une telle entreprise. Elle peut le faire à travers un travail de mémoire, co…
Theology on the Menu
2013
Les jeux vidéo comme instruments de techno-transe
2016
International audience; This article aims to reopen the genealogy of video games, studying the similarities they share with what the author calls ‘techno-trance devices’. These devices, which are contemporary to the first video games in the early 1960s, rely on the creative hijacking of laboratory instruments. They share numerous technical and media properties with video games. Moreover, there are some records of these techno-trance devices being used during religious practices at the time, which might lead to speculation of a latent trance influence in video games as apparatuses. These shared properties between video games and these devices, derived from counterculture, are thus studied th…