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Companion to the Cavendishes
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press,

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"The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jane and Elizabeth; family members' work and patronage in other media such as music, architecture, and the visual arts; their participation in contemporary developments in politics, philosophy, and horsemanship; and the networks in which they moved both in England and in continental Europe. It also covers the work of less well-known family members such as the poet and biographer George Cavendish and the composer Michael Cavendish. This volume combines path-breaking scholarship with discussion of existing research, making it an invaluable resource for all those interested in this fascinating and diverse group of men and women."--Publisher's website.


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Nanotecnociência e Humanidade
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Coimbra, Portugal : Coimbra University Press,

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A nanotecnologia explora as novas propriedades derivadas da manipulação controlada de materiais na dimensão de seus átomos e moléculas. Atualmente, os processos nanotecnológicos já incrementam quase todos os setores produtivos, inclusive o alimentar. Para compreender as dimensões morais deste recente avanço tecnocientífico, o livro percorre aspectos técnicos e as recentes abordagens éticas da nanotecnologia.
Ao final, a análise realizada por Monique Pyrrho e Fermin R. Schramm nos revela que as implicações morais da chamada revolução nanotecnológica vão além dos possíveis riscos


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XVIIIe, un sie`cle de de´cadence ?
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Bruxelles : Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles,

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Sans doute peu de lecteurs du XXIe siècle répondraient-ils positivement à la question posée en tête de ce volume. Et le fait même de la formuler pourra paraître incongru à certains. Ce serait ignorer, cependant, qu'en plein siècle des Lumières, de nombreuses voix se sont élevées afin de mettre en doute les progrès dont on se targuait généralement dans les différents domaines de la connaissance, des arts, ou de la littérature. Et ces voix n'émanaient pas que des anti-Philosophes, loin de là ! Dans le camp philosophique lui-même, en effet, les plus grands auteurs - Rousseau, bien sûr, mais aussi Voltaire ou Montesquieu, par exemple - n'ont pas manqué de comparer défavorablement leur propre époque aux précédentes, jugées plus fastes, plus sages, ou comme ayant fait preuve d'un goût plus sûr. L'Antiquité, cela va sans dire, se taille la part du lion dans ces flatteuses appréciations, mais aussi, notamment, un XVIIe siècle que l'éclat du Roi-Soleil nimbe encore d'un énorme prestige. Tour à tour, tous les domaines de la vie sociale sont passés au crible par les censeurs des turpitudes du siècle : décadence des mœurs et de l'art de gouverner, laxisme des couvents, recul de la musique religieuse « inspirée » devant un art désormais voué au seul plaisir, vogue dangereuse du « trop facile » roman, utopies aventureuses menaçant l'ordre social, etc. Face à ce constat plutôt inquiétant, nombreux sont les auteurs qui finissent par se résigner à imputer aux "lois de l'histoire", ou même parfois à celles de l'évolution de l'espèce humaine, cette "décadence" somme toute inévitable puisqu'elle se trouve en germe dans tous les apogées. On se convainc par conséquent, en lisant ce volume, que derrière le masque optimiste des Lumières et le rêve qu'elles portent d'un avenir meilleur, les hommes du dix-huitième siècle pressentaient avec acuité, mais non sans trouble, l'approche d'une impasse sociétale qui allait bientôt conduire aux bouleversements que l'on sait. Entre nostalgie d'un passé déjà révolu et anticipations audacieuses d'un futur encore espéré, la tension était manifestement devenue trop forte. À l'appel du Groupe d'étude du XVIIIe siècle de l'Université libre de Bruxelles, une quinzaine de chercheurs belges, français et italiens se sont penchés sur ce thème, sans doute trop peu étudié jusqu'à présent.


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Morus ad Craneveldium literae Balduinianae novae : More to Cranevelt : new Baudouin letters
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Leuven : Leuven University Press,

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Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen Morus ad Craneveldium. Litterae Builduinianae novae. More to Cranevelt. New Baudouin Letters Leuven:Leuven University Press ,1998 9789061867920.


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Prokop von Caesarea
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag,

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Prokop (6th century AD) came from Caesarea in Palestine and received a rhetorical and juridical education. From 527 onwards, he was a secretary and legal adviser on the staff of the emperor's commander Belisar, whom he accompanied to all the battlefields. In his main work ("Wars", Bella), stylistically and linguistically oriented towards the classical models of Greek historiography, he described the wars of Emperor Justinian (527-565) against the Persians, the Vandals in North Africa and the Goths in Italy. As a supplement to this work, he wrote a polemic (invective) under the title Anékdota ("The Unpublished"), in which he painted the image of the emperor and his entourage in the darkest colours, while in a panegyric entitled "Buildings" (De aedificiis) he glorified the same emperor, especially his work as a builder - a paradox that is difficult to interpret.In this introduction, the three works of Prokop are presented in detail and overarching themes, especially the claim to truth, the sources, the credibility and method as well as Prokop's historical thinking, are dealt with according to the current state of research. Prokop (6. Jahrhundert n. Chr.) stammte aus Caesarea in Palästina und absolvierte eine rhetorische und juristische Ausbildung. Seit 527 gehörte er als Sekretär und Rechtsberater zum Stab des kaiserlichen Feldherrn Belisar, den er auf allen Kriegsschauplätzen begleitete. In seinem stilistisch und sprachlich an den klassischen Vorbildern der griechischen Geschichtsschreibung orientierten Hauptwerk ("Kriege", Bella) beschrieb er die Kriege Kaiser Justinians (527-565) gegen die Perser, die Vandalen in Nordafrika und die Goten in Italien. Als Ergänzung zu diesem Werk verfasste er unter dem Titel Anékdota ("Unveröffentlichtes") eine Schmähschrift (Invektive), in der er das Bild des Kaisers und seines Umfelds in den schwärzesten Farben malte, während er in einer Lobschrift (Panegyrikus) mit dem Titel "Bauten" (De aedificiis) denselben Kaiser, insbesondere dessen Wirken als Bauherr, verherrlichte - ein schwierig zu deutendes Paradoxon.In der vorliegenden Einführung werden die drei Werke Prokops ausführlich vorgestellt und auch übergreifende Themen, vor allem der Wahrheitsanspruch, die Quellen, die Glaubwürdigkeit und Methode sowie das Geschichtsdenken Prokops, auf dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung behandelt.


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Fonthill Recovered : a cultural history
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Year: 2018 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

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Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey's tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man's excesses. Beckford's Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. 'Fonthill Recovered' draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I's Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords' wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.


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S/confinare : I rapporti culturali italo-svizzeri tra associazionismo, editoria e propaganda (1935-1965)
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Bern ; [Lausanne] : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,

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Il presente volume affronta per la prima volta l'ambito dei rapporti italo-svizzeri da una prospettiva metodologica che fa riferimento agli studi culturali, alla storia delle idee e alla storia degli intellettuali. In una serie di saggi - basati su documenti spesso inediti scaturiti dallo scavo archivistico che le autrici e gli autori hanno condotto nell'ambito del progetto ricerca FNS «La gita a Chiasso. Trent'anni di sconfinamenti culturali tra Italia e Svizzera (1935-1965)» - si ricostruisce la complessa mappa delle relazioni che tra gli ultimi anni del regime fascista e l'immediato dopoguerra stava alla base della mediazione culturale tra i due paesi. Emergono così nodi e crocevia di una rete che attraversa i confini, in cui si intrecciano interessi culturali, economici e politici.


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Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World : decolonial challenges to the humanities and social sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.


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Sustaining New Orleans : Literature, local memory, and the fate of a city
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Year: 2006 Publisher: New York : Taylor & Francis,

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This book pursues two meanings of the phrase, "sustaining New Orleans." One is the perpetuation of the images and ideas and tales of New Orleans sustained in public memory--local and not--through a range of activities and media, widely read literature notable among them. The other references the concept sustainability understood here to mean the struggle to balance the competing demands of social justice, environmental health, and economic growth. This book argues that these two definitions of sustaining New Orleans are mutually constitutive. It further argues that widely read literature set in the city, through its engagement with urban folkways that shape and reshape public memory, has participated, for good and ill, in the framing of the city's problems, the proposed solutions to those problems, and the perceived effectiveness of those solutions.


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Teilung geistiger Arbeit per Computer : Eine Kritik der Digitalisierung
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ISBN: 3779970481 Year: 2022 Publisher: Weinheim : Beltz Verlagsgruppe,

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