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Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt: The Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Plant Identifications in Alternative Egyptology in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoText to a presentation on the misrepresentation of ancient Egyptian psychoactive consumption in academic publications and public media that was given by me at the Alternative Egyptology Symposium, hosted by the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 14-04-2021. There is an academic paper in preparation.
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Rozum, idea, filologia. Historia intelektualna w kontekstach literatury in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoREASON, IDEA, PHILOLOGY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN LITERARY CONTEXTS (WRITTEN
ON THE MARGINS OF CYPRIAN NORWID’S “MILCZENIE” (“SILENCE”))
The article examines the 19th century evolution of history of ideas and its relatedness to literary studies.
The debate whether philology, philosophy, and history are autonomous humanistic disciplines or
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Rozum, idea, filologia. Historia intelektualna w kontekstach literatury in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoREASON, IDEA, PHILOLOGY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN LITERARY CONTEXTS (WRITTEN
ON THE MARGINS OF CYPRIAN NORWID’S “MILCZENIE” (“SILENCE”))
The article examines the 19th century evolution of history of ideas and its relatedness to literary studies.
The debate whether philology, philosophy, and history are autonomous humanistic disciplines or
they…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited 60 millones de muertos el año de la pandemia: Grandes cifras in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEl año de la pandemia no murieron cuatro millones de personas. Murieron casi 60 millones, de diversas causas, entre ellas un número indeterminado por Covid-19. Las grandes cifras engañan mucho, y más si están intervenidas y subvencionadas.
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic Medicine: From Astral Causation to Pharmacology and Therapy in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoPestilential diseases formed a category of epidemic and often fatal diseases, whose outbreak, causes and treatment were challenging to explain in the Renaissance. In exploring this theme in sixteenth–century Galenic medicine, I examine the Platonic account of “occult” diseases and treatment that was proposed by the French physician Jean Ferne…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Corruption: A Bibliography in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA bibliography on public corruption (moral, political, financial, judiciary) especially focusing on contemporary Spain. From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’ (2021), http://bit.ly/abibliog
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En tiempos de los cíclopes in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoComentamos en este artículo la figura de los cíclopes en Homero y en Vico, leyéndola como un arquetipo cultural y psicológico de la sociedad protohumana. Los dos aspectos complementarios del mito (como tradición cultural que se remonta a la prehistoria, y como estructura psicológica, referida a la socialización y al desarrollo psicológico individ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited PSOE: A Bibliography in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA bibliography on the Spanish political party Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) – from ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology’ http://bit.ly/abibliog
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sobre mundos paralelos in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el uso de las nociones de multiverso y realidades paralelas en cosmología (Brian Greene) y en literatura (Philip Pullman).
_________________________________________________________________________________________English abstract: A note on the use of the notion of a multiverse and parallel worlds in…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Aristocratic neo-Gothicism in fourteenth-century Iberia: the case of Count Pedro of Barcelos in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoOne of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFocusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “Por mi Señora, la Reina Catalina.” Las donaciones de Leonor López de Córdoba al monasterio cordobés de San Pablo (1409) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDesde que Alan Deyermond, entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado , consiguiera vencer toda reticencia académica para que la obra de Leonor López de Córdoba pasase de ser una delicada rareza literaria a ser introducida con pleno derecho en el canon de la literatura hispánica medieval , la investigación sobre la autora nacida en Calatayud, aunqu…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Hoy Venezuela. Ensayos para entender un país complejo in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Book Review: Luis Rothkegel. Luis. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoLuis Rothkegel. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRussian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRussian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited I Laugh Because it’s Absurd: Humor as Error Detection in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Censura y autocensura en la temprana imprenta hispánica: el linaje Villandrando, condes de Ribadeo, y los «Claros varones de Castilla», de Fernando de Pulgar in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoEl lugar de importancia en la historia de la cultura hispánica medieval que ocupan los Claros varones de Castilla (BETA texid 1714) es absolutamente indiscutible. Su autor, Fernando de Pulgar, desde su evidente y marcado “pensamiento literario forjado en el tránsito de la Castilla enriqueña a la isabelina”, es considerado por muchos como el más…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article describes how the Polish intellectuals G.E. Groddeck (1763–1825) and Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) referenced and analysed events connected with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It aims to show how treatments of ancient Athens changed after 1795, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to be an independent count…[Read more]
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