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Ein weiterer Zug seiner Originalität liegt in der Art, wie er deutsche und französische Kultur verarbeitet und zusammenführt. Ich wüßte keinen Kritiker in Europa, der mit derselben Sympathie und demselben Verständnis über Madame de... more
Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud, popularly known as Chirag-i Delhi, was the last great saint of the Chishti Silsilah in Delhi. He was the Disciple and the successor of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya. On the death of Shaikh Nasiruddin in 1356, it is... more
This paper intends to show the active participation of the Augustan Aelia Gala Placidia on the politics of her time and the autonomy she enjoyed when making her most important decisions during her youth, first in Rome and later on... more
This dissertation argues that martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life represented an essential aspect of early Byzantine masculine ideology. It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the... more
David Harrison and Richard Sharpley (eds), Mass Tourism in a Small World (Wallinford and Boston MA, CABI, 2017), ISBN13: 9781780648545
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian city of Jamshedpur, this chapter interrogates the political subjectivities that distinguish different types of insecurely employed people. For recently precarious labourforces in the... more
While the political center of Egypt moved increasingly to Cairo, natural disasters (as earthquakes, droughts, and the plague), communal strife, pirate attacks, administrative reform, and economic change shattered Alexandria’s urban fabric... more
This essay analyzes the Spanish-British political debate over the right to fell logwood and for the dominion of the Yucatan. It contextualizes archival material as well as printed treatises written by Britons who were engaged in the... more
This article deals with legitimizations of expansion of the Anglo-British Empire against the monarchy of Spain during the last quarter of the XVII century and the first of the XVIII century, and how they shaped British... more
Using the recently published online versions of the 1911 census of Ireland the Protestant community in County Cork before the War of Independence is reconstructed. Startling new evidence shows that more than 1/3 of the population were in... more
While the political center of Egypt moved increasingly to Cairo, natural disasters (as earthquakes, droughts, and the plague), communal strife, pirate attacks, administrative reform, and economic change shattered Alexandria’s urban fabric... more
RESUMEN: Estudio del debate historiográfico hispano de la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, en el que se revisaron los mitos fundacionales de los territorios de la Monarquía, de cuño histórico y jurídico, y el de la propia Monarquía, de base... more
A brief Q. and A. responding to the issue of what is the cause of the dark transcendent-denying state of modernity--perhaps the darkest time ever. The conclusion is that the real cause is the heavy poor deluded karma of most of the souls... more
Syracuse, great Byzantine capital, seat of the 'Stratega', knew a medieval decline but became a focal point of fortified structures during Early Modern Age within the Kingdom of Sicily. This wonderful and challenged city faced a new... more
A spectre is haunting Europe: decline or even decadence. Is it so new, or the last occurrence to date of a familiar ghost? The critical distance of the “longue durée” offered by the historian or the “distant look” by the anthropologist... more
... Los Novatores y el origen de España. El vocabulario hispano de probabilidad y la renovación del método histórico en tiempos de Carlos II. Autores: Eva Botella Ordinas; Localización: Obradoiro de historia moderna, ISSN 1133-0481, Nº... more
Le « phénomène Le Pen » désigne la somme constituée par l’élaboration d’une marquepolitique située à l’extrême droite et les réactions conflictuelles qu’elle suscite au sein de lasociété française. L’objectivation de ce phénomène réside... more
Henning Heldbjerg*, Anthony D. Fox, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Peter Sunde, Ainars Aunins, Dawn E. Balmer, Gianpiero Calvi, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Przemek Chylarecki, Virginia Escandell, Ruud Foppen, Anna Gamero, Iordan Hristov, Magne Husby,... more
The Mountain Coqui (Eleutherodactylus portoricensis) is a frog endemic to montane rainforests in the Cordillera Central and Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. Classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List and as vulnerable by the... more
Άρδην, τεύχος 46, Μάρτιος - Απρίλιος 2004
Bureaucratic power is a fact of life in the present political and administrative processes throughout the world. It is inherent in all administrative systems and so is the case in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Bureaucracy in J&K... more
The prevalence of dementia varies around the world, potentially contributed to by international differences in rates of age-related cognitive decline. Our primary goal was to investigate how rates of age-related decline in cognitive test... more
The Mountain Coqui (Eleutherodactylus portoricensis) is a frog endemic to montane rainforests in the Cordillera Central and Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. Classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List and as vulnerable by the... more
""Up until the First World War a number of staple exports formed the core of Britain’s industrial economy, employing a large workforce and developing the towns and cities associated with them. While the nineteenth century saw... more
Ciertos textos publicados entre la última década del siglo XVI y la primera quincena del siglo XVII (De La Puente, Fr. J., Tomo Primero de la Conveniencia de las dos Monarquias Catolicas, la de la Iglesia Romana y la del Imperio Español,... more
We investigated the feasibility of using genetic techniques to census pine marten (Martes martes) populations by genotyping non-invasively collected samples (plucked hair and scats), with particular reference to the genetically... more
"Up until the First World War a number of staple exports formed the core of Britain’s industrial economy, employing a large workforce and developing the towns and cities associated with them. While the nineteenth century saw the rapid... more