Freemasons often referred to an ideal of “humanité” (Humanität, umanità, humanity) in order to bridge all differences separating mankind. In doing so, they rendered these differences all the more visible, especially in the international arenas. This was definitely the case when freemasons tried to deduce from this ideal “universal” standards…[Read more]

कोविड महामारी से निपटने के लिए विज्ञान की भूमिका को सर्वोपरि बताया गया। लेकिन विज्ञान के नाम पर अनेक ऐसी चीजें भी हुईं, जिसने इस विभिषिका को निर्मित करने तथा इसे और भयावह बनाने में योगदान किया। इस दौरन सांख्यिकी के आंकड़ों को विज्ञान बनाकर प्रचारित किया गया तथा दुनिया के अधिकांश हिस्से को लॉकडाउन में धकेल दिया गया। ऐसे में सवाल यह…[Read more]

Pramod Ranjan wirft einen Blick aus Indien auf die Coronakrise und das wissenschaftliche Verständnis von der Welt, das oft erwähnt, aber meist ignoriert wird, sowie die Frage, wem das nutzt.

Die übertriebene Angst vor Covid-19 hat die menschliche Zivilisation und Kultur in Gefahr gebracht. Die Richtung, in die sich die Menschheit bewegte, br…[Read more]

The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiatives aiming to integrate chymistry into the medical curriculum. If its practical applications in pharmacy and its relationship with patronage have been examined by historians, the theoretical part of the chymiatria programme still remains to be…[Read more]

Scientific diagrams could and did appear in unexpected places. This essay discusses such an example: the diagrams that the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century scholar George-Gregory Chioniades added to a manuscript of John of Damascus’s Fountain of Knowledge as part of his commentary on the text. I argue that the diagrams were a very important, if…[Read more]

This excel file contains the raw data behind the digital scholarly edition of the glosses to the first book of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville published at: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/edition

In this introduction for the special section on “Exclusions in the History of Media Studies,” we begin by calling attention to the constituting role that exclusion has played in the historiography of media studies. Exclusions linked to gender, race, language, colonialism, geopolitical location, and institutionally sanctioned privilege play sub…[Read more]

The Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]

16 दिसंबर 2012 को दिल्ली में हुए सामूहिक बलात्कार कांड के विरोध में हुए प्रदर्शनों ने रायसीना हिल्स को हिला कर रख दिया। अन्ना हजारे के भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन के बाद यह दूसरा बड़ा आंदोलन था, जिसमें उत्तर भारत का शहरी मध्यवर्ग बड़े पैमाने पर हिस्सा ले रहा था। अन्ना के आंदोलन की तुलना में इस आंदोलन में युवाओं की हिस्सेदारी बहुत ज्यादा थी।…[Read more]

This book brings sheds light on some hitherto unexplored aspects of the life and works of Dr Bhimarao Ambedkar, arguably the greatest influence on Indian society in modern times. It is a maiden attempt to provide authoritative and comprehensive information on these two topics.
Pramod Ranjan, a well-known scholar of Dalit-Bahujan ideology, has…[Read more]

Tarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]

In the 19th century, a unique combination of scientific, social, political and cultural factors attracted crowds of visitors from all over the world to the Dolomite Mountains. This phenomenon had its epicenter in Fiemme Valley and in the town of Predazzo, where Michele Giacomelli and his family hosted a great number of these travelers in their…[Read more]

Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]

Peter Jordan war von 1531 bis 1535 als Buchdrucker in Mainz aktiv. In seiner Presse entstanden zum einen gegenreformatorische Schriften wie eine Schmähschrift gegen Luther, Predigten und eine deutsche Bibelübersetzung, zum anderen aber auch deutschsprachige Wissens- und Gebrauchstexte, bspw. zum Kurbaden, zur Tintenherstellung, zur K…[Read more]

Centred on the eclectic sources of early modern neo-atomistic medicine, this chapter examines the physiological theory of German alchemist Daniel Sennert (1572–1637) and Dutch engineer Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637). Both university-trained physicians, they followed Galenic medicine in explaining the structure and functioning of the human body at the…[Read more]

This paper draws on the letters and messages and newspaper clipping held by the BBC Written Archives Centre in relation to the 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a case study for considering how we understand the historical reception of programming. This production is particularly useful in this regard because it achieved a certain…[Read more]

‘Folk horror’ has often been considered, following Mark Gatiss’ description of the genre, as centrally focused on a particular ‘obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and superstitions’. While these elements are clearly significant, they become more problematic when opening up the genre to include texts from beyond Britain. Not only…[Read more]

Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
11 de diciembre de 2021

How could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? “With God, for fatherland and humanity?” is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]