This text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]

This issue of the PJES brings five new papers: E. M. Forster’s Last Love by Peter J Conradi Redeeming Time: Henry V’s Transition from ‘Comedian’ to King by David Livingstone Escaping the Women’s Sphere by Jana Valová Principles of Mood Selection in Psalm 20: A Diachronic Study on Psalm Translations from Old to Late Modern English by Kinga Lis…[Read more]

Issue of the PJES dedicated to old age in literature CONTENTS From the Editor Ageing into Old Age: Literary Conclusions and New Beginnings Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Ann Radcliffe’s Ruminations on the Ageing Body in The Romance of the Forest (1791) Roslyn Joy Irving, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Univ…[Read more]

This article investigates several discussions of “chemistry,” understood as an analysts’ category referring to theories and practices dealing with the structure and transformation of matter. By reading these texts (a treatise defending kīmiyāʾ by al-Fārābī, the famous passage from Ibn Sīnā’s Shifāʾ on transmutation, Ibn Taymiyyah’s fatwā…[Read more]