In the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear…[Read more]

Recent years have seen an infusion of new ideas into material philosophy through the work of the so-called ‘new materialists’. Poignant examples appear within two recent books: the first, Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett (2010), sets out to “enhance receptivity to the impersonal life that surrounds and infuses us” (2010: 4). The second, Element…[Read more]

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the majority of U.S. states adopted a novel code of legal practice for their civil courts. Legal scholars have long recognized the influence of the New York lawyer David Dudley Field on American legal codification, but tracing the influence of Field’s code of civil procedure with precision across s…[Read more]

State of the art article on reading in Antiquity (in German).

La presente comunicación pretende glosar algunos pequeños detalles biográficos de Luis Crespí de Valldaura, noble valenciano, hijo homónimo del II señor de Sumacàrcer, que fue uno de los primeros profesores del incipiente Studi General valenciano y rector del mismo entre los años 1506 y 1507. Además de esta presencia destacada en el ámbito u…[Read more]

Gózense, otrosí, los otros perlados, duques, marqueses, condes, cavalleros y scuderos, y todos los otros fieles cristianos que en esta santa enpresa han aconpañado a sus altezas, y ayudado con personas, armas y hazienda, pues plugo a Dios de dar tan glorioso fin y tan deseado.

Este fragmento de texto de lo que se ha venido en llamar sermón de…[Read more]

This short paper, rather than providing a thorough analysis of the very broad theme entailed by its title, aims only to programmatically outline the contours of a general framework for future research on structuralism and its genealogy. In essence, I wish to argue that mainstream approaches to structuralism’s history need to be significantly b…[Read more]

This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles. In Part I, I discuss the role of human sacrifice in terms of its radical potential to transform society and the role of class struggle in Athens. In Part II, I argue that the representation o…[Read more]

Biography of and tribute to the erudite Luigi Antonio Paolozzi (Chianciano Terme, 1706-1765), cancelliere of the Gran Duchy of Tuscany for Amiata and the Val di Chiana. It aims at highlighting the important role of Paolozzi in the historical context of the period, and reasses its weight. It follows the path of Paolozzi’s research as a local…[Read more]

Abstract: Nusantara Online is an Indonesian-made massively multiplayer online role-playing game that imaginatively reconstructs the history of the archipelago. As an “allegorithm” for the Indonesian nation, the game suggests a distinct model of digital nationalism, here dubbed “playable” nationalism. This concept captures the formulation of “Nus…[Read more]

For most people in the United States, war is almost always elsewhere. Since the Civil War, declared wars have been engaged on terrains at a distance from the continental space of the nation. Until the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon in September 2001, many people in the United States perceived war to be conflicts between the…[Read more]

Graduate Seminar of Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages & Renaissance

La presencia de hombres de letras italianos en la Península Ibérica durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516) constituye uno de los factores principales para el despegue del Humanismo hispano (Gómez Moreno, 1994). De entre tantos nombres ilustres, quizá sean Pedro Mártir de Anglería y Lucio Marineo Sículo los más conocidos, en especial…[Read more]

Anais Eletrônicos do V EPHIS Encontro de Pesquisa em História
da UFMG: Brasil em perspectiva: passado e presente
Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas – FAFICH
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
06 a 10 de junho de 2016

The text known to modern historians as Vita altera Bonifatii – the ‘second’ or ‘other’ Life of Boniface – is a very different text than the far better known Vita Bonifatii composed by Willibald in the decade after Boniface’s death. This paper presents some preliminary thoughts on the anonymous author’s purpose in writing the Life by placing the t…[Read more]

This paper provides an analysis of the attitude towards non-Franks in the late Merovingian period, distinguishing between the ethnic community of the Franks and the political community of the regnum Francorum, which were conceived of existing side by side. The paper attempts to show that, unlike in the early Carolingian period, ethnic labels were…[Read more]

This essay works toward three goals. First, it lays some groundwork for researching prophetic literature as a source for ancient Judean historical thought. Prophetic literature reveals a great deal about how ancient Judeans thought about and with their past, as it was represented in their literary repertoire. Second, it examines Isaiah 40-48, to…[Read more]

An exploration of Cyrus’s role and function in ancient Judean kingship discourse

This illustrates the psychiatrists who were appointed to Area Commands in the British Army during the Second World War, along with their commanding officers and other psychological staff at that Command. I found it a challenge to pin down people to places and times when researching my PhD – hopefully this will save others some trouble!