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The Invisibility of the Soul and the Rhetoric of Dissent: Conscience and the Wycliffite Heresy

. Conscience also provides an obvious connection between religious dissent and political rebellion, which is why it must be central to any future account of Lollardy’s relationship to class struggle or sedition ... of political revolution—were thus clearly by no means unfounded. Indeed, as the Marxist historian Rodney Hilton notes: “Although the Lollards were usually quietist rather than politically militant

A Philosophy of Israel Education: A Relational Approach

, and pedagogy. This book is based on only three papers, titled, A Relational Philosophy of Israel Education; Making Israel Education Happen; A Culture of Israel Education; and an Epilogue. The subject of ... is written with basic ideas of Zionist Israeli nationalist approach, which calls Theodore Herzl as its hero. Author emphasizes that relational philosophy of Israel Education is based on two Educational

Transforming Attitudes Towards the Turk in Edward Ravenscroft’s Mamamouchi, or The citizen turn’d gentleman (1672) and Molière’s Le bourgeois Gentilhomme (1668)

it also deterministically brought about Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Its conception is a direct result of the diplomatic and political relations between France and the Ottoman Empire. The alliance that ... “Louis XIV had inherited a ticklish friendship with the Ottoman sultans from his royal predecessors; he had to balance its upkeep against the offence it gave to his European allies and the political

To and Fro Between Eros and Thanatos: What Where and the Death Drive

different object. This strikes a chord with how Beckett’s characters embody his poetics of ‘senility,’ and leads to the political implications of freedom without hope or meaning, which is the infinite task of ... “the Real is defined as the impossible qua discursive formalization” (142), and argues that the play assumes a political implication of its own by revealing this very inoperativity of the master’s

The Lonely Afterlives of Early English Queens

control any vestigial queenly status or authority, and guard against the exiled queen becoming a locus for alternative political factions. These queens-in-exile form the focus of this article, which seeks ... within it certain customary roles and an invested authority that could take on something akin to political office, dependent upon the individual. Yet along with such prerogatives, authority, and office

The Old English Pharaoh: A Neglected ubi sunt Poem

and more complex aspects of natural law, Christian doctrine, and natural philosophy. Indeed, it is possible that one question, like the one proposed by Pharaoh, results in a multi-layered answer that ... from the book of Baruch and including other political authorities and influential figures, including emperors and kings, and anyone deemed worthy of renown. The opportunity for variation and

The Six Ages of the World and Biblical Genealogy in Anglo-Saxon Encyclopaedic Notes

this subject is also charted. The following study investigates the ways in which encyclopaedic texts on the six ages were adapted, expanded and transmitted, and the religious and political motivations ... , its longer form is noteworthy in terms of its treatment of the six ages, its bilingualism and its potential relationship to contemporary political and theological concerns.13 The substance of the three

Life, Letters and Exile in Early Medieval England

fate and wild animals, depersonalized forces without malevolence. In Death of Alfred these are replaced by Earl Godwine, the consummate political player whose cruelty to the returning exiles is not to be ... rationalized in philosophical terms, but understood as the political exercise of violence by those in the kingdom “who wielded great power”. Alfred himself was taken to the island monastery of Ely, blinded on

Comparing Turkey and Iran in Political Science and Historical Sociology: A Critical Review

much more effective than democratic practices in sustaining political and economic development.2 Since then, these two countries have offered productive grounds for comparing and testing various ... political science and sociology have benefited much from the analysis of the above mentioned comparative topics. The aim of this essay is to locate and review the comparative works that have been conducted

The Aesthetics of the Human Beast: A Comparative Study of Zola’s L’Assommoir, Galdós’ La Desheredada and Crane’s Maggie

overcome Idealism and Romanticism, but above all as a reaction to the political, scientific, philosophical and, ultimately, social situation under the Second Empire. This most influential reorientation of ... century (Caudet, 1995) . Especially relevant in this transition is the positivist philosophy championed by Auguste Comte, who claims that there is a connection between single phenomena and some general

Paris’s Choice (1670) by Charles Davenant: A Seventeenth-Century Play Preserved in a University Manuscript Miscellany

addition, the selection of texts in miscellanies is indicative of the general preferences of certain milieux—which makes them fruitful for a reassessment of the literary canon—and may even bear political ... against limiting their critical editions to printed sources, those texts being relatively corrupt (1967:xiii). 9 Marotti has noted that manuscript miscellanies and anthologies may even indicate political

Chambers of Consciousness and Houses of Life: Nietzschean Hermeneutics in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan

alternative readings to such ambiguities and contradictions. All in all, I explore the ontology The Great God Pan lays out as a discourse that both lies neighbour to and slices across Nietzsche’s philosophy ... . ( 2005 ). Nietzsche and philosophy . Hugh Tomlinson (Trans.) . Continuum. Deleuze , G. ([ 1968 ] 2013 ). Difference and repetition . In P. Patton (Trans.) . Bloomsbury. Eckersley , A. ( 1992 ). A theme in

The Wanderer and the Legacy of Pathetic Fallacy

. Lynch (Eds.), Understanding emotions in early Europe (pp. 73 - 99 ). Brepols. Bennett , J. ( 2010 ). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things . Duke University Press. Bennett , J. ( 2015 ). Systems ... and things: On vital materialism and object-oriented philosophy . In R. Gruisin (Ed.), The nonhuman turn (pp. 223 - 240 ). Minnesota University Press. Bethurum , D. ( 1957 ). The homilies of Wulfstan

The Role of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589) in the Introduction and Dissemination of Spanish Loanwords in the English Language

of Elizabeth I, laying the foundations of the future British Empire in the face of growing religious, political and commercial rivalry with Spain under Philip II. Thus, English readers of the ... Geographical Journal , 75 ( 6 ), 536 - 539 . The Hakluyt Society ( 1998 - 2023 ). https://www.hakluyt. com. Accessed 14 March 2023 . Valdeón , R. A. ( 2019 ). Translation, a Tudor political instrument . Target

Security in the Persian Gulf

Gulf as a sub-region has historically encountered political, military, economic and societal threats which were internally and externally redefined according to the changing security dynamics of the ... Has University , Istanbul/ Turkey Gulf1 as a sub-region has historically encountered political, military, economic and societal threats which were internally and externally redefined according to the

Security in the Persian Gulf

Gulf as a sub-region has historically encountered political, military, economic and societal threats which were internally and externally redefined according to the changing security dynamics of the ... Has University , Istanbul/ Turkey Gulf1 as a sub-region has historically encountered political, military, economic and societal threats which were internally and externally redefined according to the

La représentation panique dans le théâtre de Jan Fabre

would allow us to justly critique an innovative theatre. But most of all, I want to propose a different perspective. It is with the use of the philosophy of the French intellectual Clément Rosset, that I

Hidden Hoards, Past Pains: Treasures, Ancestors, and Ghosts in Beowulf and in the Nibelungenlied

capital to symbolic capital”: treasures and agricultural products were transformed into honour and political success (2005, 184). Referring to approximately the same period, it has been stated that many ... phenomena”, in the sense that they intermingle all types of institutions and many aspects of society: the implications can be religious, juridical, moral, political, familiar, economic and aesthetic (Mauss

Echoes of Eriugena in the Old English Boethius

reference to the Neoplatonic, and more specifically Eriugenian, philosophy of exitus and reditus, the idea that all things come from and return to God. This idea is one of the central propositions in John ... Scottus Eriugena's Periphyseon, and a very similar passage is to be found in book V of that work, the ultimate chapter of the Periphyseon centring on the philosophy of reditus.1 This is not the first echo

Prophecy as History: A New Study of the Prophecies of Merlin Silvester

text. This article offers a new study of early manuscripts containing the Prophecies, and considers their place in English political culture. It argues that the Prophecies were composed in England during ... ’, and the object of political interpretation well into the 1600 s (Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1990, 351; see also Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1989, 1992). Critics have accounted for the collection’s supposed