Iakovos Argeios (ca 1660-1736) at the Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople. New evidence and answers for an old riddle Research into the history of the Patriarchal Academy at the beginning of the 18th century has been primarily based on the works of Manuel Gedeon and Tasos Gritsopoulos. These two h...
Wladimir d'Ormesson, a French diplomat at the Vatican, in praise of Francois Méjan's 1957 book, Le Vatican contre la France d'Outre-Mer, expressed with bitterness and regret that the "civilisation" which French missionaries had helped to spread in mission lands had sadly turned against French intere...
This article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance translations of classical myths, biblical exegesis) that inform the images of monsters which, as hybrid creatures blending human and animal characteristics, serve a dramatic function in Shakespeare’s King Lear. It means to q...
This article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance translations of classical myths, biblical exegesis) that inform the images of monsters which, as hybrid creatures blending human and animal characteristics, serve a dramatic function in Shakespeare’s King Lear. It means to q...
"We discuss the subjective experienc es of elderly people who show suicidal ideation and/or attempts at suicide, based on their own reports. We understand the concept of ‘subjective’ as referring to intrapsychic experience resulting from social, economic, relationship or biograph ical conditions. Al...
Yeh, Emily T. Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development. Ithaca ; London : Cornell university press, 2013. XVI-324 p. ("Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute"). ISBN : 978-0-8014-7832-1. The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met b...