but also to understand the complex role of power and hierarchy in both national and international contexts. Nygård and Strang underline the importance of recognizing the implications of the peripheral self-understanding of a few Nordic intellectuals in
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Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
be crossed. However, the push for a common past for the European Union, reflected in shared rituals for events as central to European identity as World Wars I and II, began to blur the line—in 1984 for World War I with the visit of François
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Eternity and Print
How Medieval Ideas of Time Influenced the Development of Mechanical Reproduction of Texts and Images
Bennett Gilbert
it back into itself. 32 Thus creator and creation are not names of entities but rather words suggesting a relationship of self-identity that must obtain but can obtain only within the “simple unity” of the divine nature. 33 The “splendors of the
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Boris Maslov
(Britannia, Columbia, Germania, Marianne) points to the ease with which they can be appropriated by the national state as foci of collective identity. 25 The prominence of abstract concepts in poetic texts that aspire to political relevance in this period
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Translating the Concept of Experiment in the Late Eighteenth Century
From the English Philosophical Context to the Greek-Speaking Regions of the Ottoman Empire
Eirini Goudarouli and Dimitris Petakos
Greek Nation: Enlightenment, Secularization, and National Identity in Ottoman Balkan Society, 1453-1821,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 16 (1998): 11-48; Dimitris Dialetis, Kostas Gavroglou, and Manolis Patiniotis, “The Sciences in the Greek Speaking
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“What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”
Homosexuality, Male Prostitution, and Intergenerational Sex in 1950s Italy
Alessio Ponzio
interpreted as a threat to morality, it could also compromise “reproductive citizenship.” 3 After 1945, children and youths in particular embodied hopes of national recovery. But they also incarnated fears and anxieties of a country that was searching for a
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Inaudito exemplo
The Abduction of Romsey’s Abbess
Linda D. Brown
striking number of labels and titles for Marie and sign-post the changes that marked her life. Marie, like her counterparts in the mid-twelfth century, experienced a range of identities as she developed from child and daughter to mature woman. Although many
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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“Amazing Rapidity”
Time, Public Credit, and David Hume's Political Discourses
Edward Jones Corredera
both a powerful source of political foresight and the spring of speculative desires that could ruin individual fortunes and derail the policy making of national banks. 48 As Pocock suggested in his exploration of temporalities in eighteenth
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Solicitor Brown and His Boy
Love, Sex, and Scandal in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Averill Earls
, participating in the national struggle … [Price] had a bad record. He had contradicted himself in the box time and again, and had failed to give a consistent account of any one incident.” 26 Judge Davitt saw the boy as one of those street-wise Dickensian youths
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Tuğçe Kayaal
citizenship defined as being at the intersection of Turkish-Muslim identity. The 1908 Young Turk Revolution, led by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), initially preached a message of “freedom and equality” for all the subjects of the Empire regardless
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