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The Philosophy, Theology, and Rhetoric of Marius Victorinus
Pagan rhetor, (Neo-)Platonist philosopher, Christian theologian This collection of essays is devoted to the rhetoric, Neoplatonic philosophy, and Christian theology of Marius Victorinus, a mid-fourth-century professor of rhetoric and philosopher who converted to Christianity late in life. Scholars from eight different countries, some of whom have not previously published in English, reflect on debates about his writings and theological development. These topics include Victorinus's deployment of philosophical sources for trinitarian theology, possible connections in his work to Origen, Augustine, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Gnosticism, as well as his contributions to Latin rhetoric and dialectic. Contributors include Jan Dominik Bogataj, Michael Chase, Nello Cipriani, Stephen A. Cooper, Volker Henning Drecoll, Lenka Karfíková, Josef Lössl, Václav Němec, Thomas Riesenweber, Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena, Miran Špelič, Chiara O. Tommasi, John D. Turner, and Florian Zacher. The chapters in this volume are of great interest to students of late antique philosophy, Christian theology, and Latin rhetoric.
Joining Efforts to Improve Data Quality and Harmonization Among European Population-Based Cancer Registries
Population-based cancer registries are an essential information source for quantifying the impact of cancer in a population and its evolution, planning and evaluation of cancer control policies and healthcare systems. In the last decades, the information provided by cancer registries has improved dramatically in quality and quantity. Technological advances and record linkage have contributed to data improvement. Therefore, clinical data collected by cancer registries such as stage, treatment, co-morbidity, etc. contribute to treatment effectiveness assessment and identification of inequality in health care access at the population level. The reliability and utility of the information provided by cancer registries depend on the quality of the data collected. On the other hand, cancer registries' data harmonisation is crucial for data use and comparability.
Reversing Babel
Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conquered, from Old English into Latin? Solving this puzzle meant asking questions about what medieval writers thought about language and translation, what created the need and desire to translate, and how translators went about the work. These are the questions Reversing Babel attempts to answer by providing evidence that comes from the world in which not just Norman translators of law but any translators of any texts, regardless of languages, did their translating Reversing Babel reaches back from...
The Summa Halensis
For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This volume brings together leading scholars in the field to undertake a major study of the major doctrines and debates of the so-called Summa Halensis (1236-45), which was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris, above all, Alexander of Hales, and John of La Rochelle, in an effort to lay down the Franciscan intellectual tradition or the first time. The contributions will highlight that this tradition, far from unoriginal, laid the groundwork for later Franciscan thought, which is often regarded as formative for modern thought. Furthermore, the volume shows the role this Summa played in the development of the burgeoning field of systematic theology, which has its origins in the young university of Paris. This is a crucial and groundbreaking study for those with interests in the history of western thought and theology specifically.
Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters
Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani’s life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume. Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sándor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.
The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid: Clm 4610, The Earliest Documented Commentary on the Metamorphoses
The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Today, Ovid’s famous work is one of the touchstones of ancient literature, but we have only a handful of scraps and quotations to show how the earliest medieval readers received and discussed the poems—until the Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 4610. This commentary, which dates from around the year 1100 is the first systematic study of the Metamorphoses, founding a tradition of scholarly study that extends to the present day. Despite its significance, this medieval commentary has never before been published or analysed as a whole. ...
Les femmes en mouvement – L’univers sentimental et intellectuel des romancières du début du XIXe siècle
Ce volume se consacre tout particulièrement à une série de romancières dela génération nées dans les années 1760 et 1770, dont certaines, longtemps oubliées, se retrouvent aujourd’hui au centre de l’intérêt de la recherche. Selon le système d’une écriture du mouvement, on peut distinguer plusieurs types de déplacements, d’échanges, de transports intérieurs. Si les déplacements prennent, pour certaines, la forme de trajets diplomatiques et de voyages à vocation touristique, ils sont pour beaucoup des voyages contraints, provoqués par les violences de l’Histoire qu’il faut fuir en terre d’exil. L’expérience traumatisante de l’émigration et du déracinement qu’elle implique travaille en profondeur les romans du tournant du siècle. Le mouvement dans un deuxième sens nous conduit à mettre au jour l’intense et diverse circulation des idées et des œuvres à travers l’Europe du début du XIXe siècle.
Nuages romantiques – Des Lumières à la Modernité
La poétisation du nuage au XIXe siècle est l’un des objets privilégiés du romantisme, que les textes réunis dans ce volume considèrent dans toutes ses variations. L’âge romantique est celui du nuage, phénomène céleste qui devient un objet sémiologique complexe prenant très souvent un sens figuré. Avec la métaphorisation et la dématérialisation de ses caractéristiques physiques, le nuage acquiert, dans les différentes poétiques littéraires, le statut d’un symbole et/ou la fonction d’un dispositif textuel qui dévoile des émotions et des sentiments cachés. Les textes littéraires qui modélisent ainsi les nuages leur confèrent souvent une dimension autoréflexive et les utilisent pour mettre en fiction de phantasmes théologiques, oniriques et érotiques.
La Germania di Pirandello tra sogno e realtà
Gli studi raccolti in questo volume abbracciano un ampio ventaglio di temi, che comprende la trasposizione di elementi biografici sul piano della finzione nelle opere pirandelliane, le modalità specifiche con cui l’autore fece proprie sia la cultura ed il paesaggio – incluso quello urbano – che la letteratura e la filosofia della Germania (dal classicismo di Goethe, attraverso l’idealismo ed il romanticismo fino a Schopenhauer e Nietzsche, Theodor Storm ed Arthur Schnitzler), il suo riflettere tendenze del suo tempo (tra le altre, naturalismo ed espressionismo); ed ancora la profonda conoscenza che Pirandello ebbe della drammaturgia tedesca, l’influenza che esercitò sul teatro e le sue relazioni con il cinema in Germania. Il volume segue percorsi di ricerca solo recentemente aperti dagli studi pirandelliani, sviluppandosi intorno ai grandi temi legati al rapporto di questo autore con la Germania, la cui conoscenza si presentava fino a questo momento ancora lacunosa. Una particolare attenzione è dedicata alla ricostruzione topografica ed alla documentazione relativa ai soggiorni di Pirandello a Berlino.
Taste and the Ancient Senses
Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theor...
