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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Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education.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 …
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 …
Stereoscopic London
The book is about Oscar Wilde’s, George Bernard Shaw’s and Arthur Wing Pinero’s plays written and performed in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The …
The Question of Understanding Otherwise
Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the …
The Influence of Text Type on Word Order of Old Germanic Languages
The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types: poetry, original prose and …
«Phaedra» – Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine
Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of …
Klaus Mann – A European-American Author
Klaus Mann (1906-1949) was a prolific author who engaged in constantly different fields, from journalism to novels, plays and autobiographies. An exile in the United States, he had …
Revisiting Walt Whitman
The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples of his influence as well as …