Physics in Minerva’s Academy; Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriation…

Monograf ini menjelaskan bagaimana, setelah pertempuran mengenai filosofi René Descartes, filosofi alam Newton menemukan tanah subur di Universitas Leiden. Pandangan dan metode filosofis alam Newton, bersama dengan perbedaan yang mendasarinya, selaras dengan kebijakan institusi-agama Universitas Leiden, yang mendorong para profesor dan mahasiswa untuk memisahkan teologi dari filsafat. Selain i…

Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713

Perjanjian Utrecht (1713), yang mengakhiri Perang Suksesi Spanyol, adalah tonggak sejarah global. Pertunjukan Perdamaian bertujuan untuk memikirkan kembali arti penting Perjanjian Utrecht dengan menjelajahi hubungan antara budaya dan politik. Terlalu lama, sejarawan budaya dan politik telah mempelajari hubungan internasional awal modern secara terpisah. Dengan mempelajari aspek politik serta bu…

Rock Art and the Rock Surface: Neolithic Rock Art Traditions of Britain, Irel…

This chapter explores the rock art of the British Isles and northernmost Europe, highlighting contrasts between the regional patterns and considering some points of similarity in the effects of producing rock art. Acknowledging the difficulty with identifying a Neolithic period in northern Scandinavia, the range of Scandinavian rock art that is likely to have been made in the period c. 4000–1…

4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes…

The project reported on in this monograph has been concerned with the archaeology of the Batanes Islands, an archipelago that must have been settled quite early in the process of Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan southwards into the Philippines. A multi-phase archaeological sequence covering the past 4000 years for the islands of Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang and Siayan is presented, extending from …

«A Marvellous and Strange Event» Racconti di nascite mostruose nell'Inghil…

In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investiga…

“Colonised by Wankers”: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…

Greening the Greyfields : New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of L…

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Napoleonic Divorce Law in Poland (1808-1852)

Pada tahun 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte menciptakan Kadipaten Warsawa dari tanah Polandia yang telah dialihkan ke Prancis oleh Rusia. Kode Sipilnya juga diterapkan di Kadipaten baru itu dan, berbeda dengan Gereja Katolik, ia mengizinkan pembubaran pernikahan melalui perceraian. Buku ini memberikan sudut pandang baru tentang penerapan regulasi perceraian Napoleonik di tanah Polandia antara 1808-1852…

Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Late Medieval Polan…

Dalam volume ini, Maciej Mikuła menganalisis teks-teks yang ada dari Ius municipale Magdeburgense, kumpulan paling penting dari Hukum Magdeburg pada akhir Abad Pertengahan di Polandia. Ia membahas berbagai tradisi terjemahan dari kumpulan tersebut; penerapan Hukum Magdeburg di kota-kota; bagaimana perbedaan antara versi dapat mempengaruhi penerapan hak; dan bagaimana penemuan percetakan memeng…

The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …

This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…