Book Review: John R. Bawden, The Pinochet Generation. The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016, 304 p.

Book Review: John R. Bawden, The Pinochet Generation. The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016, 304 p.

This book collects papers by many eminent scholars and young researchers on the topic of confrontation and historical, cultural, and economic relationships between East and West, particularly focusing on how the Orient was experienced and interpreted by Western travellers, historians, and scholars (of past and present times) in the light of E.…[Read more]

The diagram depicts some ways in which faculty and staff development offerings are essential components in the discovery and charting of various pathways to intellectual leadership. Such opportunities facilitate and help to map potential paths made of stepping stones and milestones on the way to the horizon. Faculty and staff development…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 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]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]

This course provides a survey of sculptural forms in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds from the
time of Alexander the Great to Late Antiquity. Key sculptural media will be considered from
chronological and thematic perspectives. Attention will be given to contextual analysis, social
history, form, technique, commemoration, regionalism, the…[Read more]

The article discusses the manuscript Ny Kgl. Collection 606 8vo. The physical material and contents of the manuscript are described. Two decrees of King Erik Klipping are especially interesting: Erik Klipping’s Ordinance of Vordingborg 1282 and Erik Klipping’s Ordinance 1284. Both point to a connection with manuscript C 75 from the middle of the…[Read more]

This article is about the King Snio episode as it is presented in the Old Danish Rydårbøger (Annales Ryenses), whose four manuscripts are connected to each other. The manuscript E donatione variorum 3 8° is of particular interest as it differs from the other versions.

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]