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2013, Pottery, Pavements, and Canthari
This study touches on vessels whose shape is their foremost characteristic (at least from our point of view): what form or forms are evoked by the word "cantharus"? The term poses philological problems since it originally meant the wine cup of Bacchus, but in Roman times it took on the additional meaning of a water fountain. Reminiscences of its first meaning, however, continued into Early Christian times. The term appears in the poetic descriptions of ancient churches written by Paulinus of Nola, who was also sponsored some of these projects. Parts of Paulinus’ constructions at Cimitile near Naples still survive.
2014
Religion is alive and well all over the world, especially in times of personal, political, and social crisis. Even in Europe, long regarded the most “secular” continent, religion has taken centre stage in how people respond to the crises associated with modernity, or how they interact with the nation-state. In this book, scholars working in and on Europe offer fresh perspectives on how religion provides answers to existential crisis, how crisis increases the salience of religious identities and cultural polarization, and how religion is contributing to changes in the modern world in Europe and beyond. Cases from Poland to Pakistan and from Ireland to Zimbabwe, among others, demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence of religion’s role in the contemporary world.
Orality and Literacy, 2016
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2014
This article (re-)introduces Risālat al-Bayān al-aẓhar, a short and by all appearances unfinished treatise by the Coptic scholar al-Rashīd Abū ’l-Khayr Ibn al-Ṭayyib (d. after 1270), to exemplify the pivotal role played by the works of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī during the ‘Renaissance’ of Copto-Arabic literature in the 13th and 14th centuries. Rāzī’s œuvre left its mark on both content and form of systematic religious thought in Eastern Christianity. Whilst the Risāla is available in a partial edition since 1938, it has never been studied so far. As we shall see, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s critique of Rāzī’s deterministic concept of human agency as outlined in the Muḥaṣṣal came in an attempt to counteract what he perceived as a detrimental effect of the mounting popularity which Rāzī’s works enjoyed among contemporaneous Christian readers. The critique is based on a rich patchwork of sources that is characteristic of 13th century Copto-Arabic encyclopaedism.
Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue assembles the most complete range of studies on Socrates and the Socratic dialogue. It focuses on portrayals of Socrates, whether as historical figure or protagonist of ‘Socratic dialogues’, in extant and fragmentary texts from Classical Athens through Late Antiquity. Special attention is paid to the evolving power and texture of the Socratic icon as it adopted old and new uses in philosophy, biography, oratory, and literature. Chapters in this volume focus on Old Comedy, Sophistry, the first-generation Socratics including Plato and Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristoxenus, Epicurus and Stoicism, Cicero and Persius, Plutarch, Apuleius and Maximus, Diogenes Laertius, Libanius, Themistius, Julian, and Proclus.
La chaîne d'union
Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales, 2024
En el De princ. nat. 6 Tomás de Aquino presenta una clasificación de los cuatro sentidos principales en los que dos cosas, o sus principios internos, pueden ser consideradas idénticas: según el número, según la especie, según el género y por analogía. Al revisar las fuentes sobre las que se está fundando, que son principalmente el capítulo sobre lo 'uno' en Metaf. V 6 de Aristóteles, y secundariamente los comentarios de Avicena y Averroes, nos encontramos con que el Aquinate en principio deja de lado una gran cantidad de distinciones más complejas presentes en esos comentarios. La presentación de las exposiciones de Aristóteles, Alejandro de Afrodisias, Avicena y Averroes nos permitirá determinar en qué medida Tomás de Aquino es dependiente de ellos en su presentación de la doctrina de la analogía, puesto que Tomás de Aquino usa la versión sintética de la clasificación de lo 'uno' , pero a la hora de explicarlo apela a las otras divisiones propuestas por Aristóteles en Metaf. V 6 y sus comentaristas.
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Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) 2024 Conference : Anthropology and Education, 2024
International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2016
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Springer eBooks, 2018
Вісник науки та освіти, 2023
Revista CEFAC, 2024
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016