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Anna Maria Strada, Prima Donna of G. F. Handel
George Frideric Handel’s longest continuous collaboration with a leading singer took place between 1729 and 1737 with Anna Maria Strada del Pò (1703–1775), a soprano who may have …
Xenophon, the Philosopher
Xenophon was considered a talented writer and quick-witted political philosopher, which won him many readers and praise, especially during the Renaissance and early Modernity, but …
History Education as Content, Methods or Orientation?
Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education. This study examines the emphases which are included in …
Signs of Forgiveness, Paths of Conversion, Practice of Penance
This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to …
The Social Status of Languages in Finland and Lithuania
Finland and Lithuania stand for different ways of dealing with societal multilingualism and minority issues. However, in recent years, questions of language policy had been …
The Mongol Ilkhans and Their Vizier Rashid al-Din
The descendents of Cingiz Khan, ‘the World Conqueror’, founded a number of dynasties from Siberia to the Russian steppes. In 656 AH/1258 AD his grandson Hülegü destroyed the …
Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was professor in G teborg from 1935 to 1941. This episode of his life is little known, even though the Swedish years were very important. During that time of …
As Radical as Reality Itself
Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker’s and …
This Timecoloured Place
In the cultural debates of modernism the concepts of time and space were juxtaposed, representing disparate sensibilities, styles of art, even political camps. Artists and thinkers …
Langues et cultures en contact
Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890 - 1939)
Ellen Key (1849–1926) was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women’s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were …