, refrain from engaging in online political commentary, and choose not to maintain potentially lucrative or personally rewarding online presences.” 46 These are real harms, not virtual ones. Finally, Pinker’s employment of an evolutionary psychology model
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 104–116
Depictions of Women in the Works of Early Byzantine Historians and Chroniclers
Between Stereotype and Reality
Ecaterina Lung
imperial secretary and governor of Constantinople and is best known for writing a History of the reign of Emperor Maurice that justified the deposing of the usurper Phokas by stressing his vicious character. John Malalas (c. 491–578) was a model for later
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Book Reviews
Hegelianisms without Metaphysics?
David James, Bahareh Ebne Alian, and Jean Terrier
pursuit of the good life, which cannot. Instead, she advocates a model with three levels: (1) the general form of life of a collectivity, manifested in its culture and its political structure; (2) smaller organised forms of life, for instance the life of
Teppo Eskelinen
, who faced no risks. The banks had changed their business model from traditional risk management to mere loan origination: they created new securities from ‘pools’ of outstanding loans (the process is called ‘securitisation’), and thus could keep some
Pious Women in a “Den of Scorpions”
The Piety and Patronage of the Eleventh-Century Countesses of Brittany
Amy Livingstone
the wife of Count Geoffrey Grenonat, and Constance of Normandy (see Table 1 ). Following the model of Queen Esther from the Old Testament, each of these women helped their husbands and sons cultivate relationships with the church. 5 Table 1 Modeling
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 45–61
African Dawn
Keïta Fodéba and the Imagining of National Culture in Guinea
Andrew W. M. Smith
years of tyranny. This disjuncture between his “aesthetics and politics” is, in the model of Gary Wilder, a function of pragmatic anticolonialism, “a warning against presumptively treating his political acts as self-evident or one-dimensional.” 8 Fodéba
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- 102–121
Revisiting the Menkiti-Gyekye Debate
Who Is a Radical Communitarian?
Motsamai Molefe
characterises an African moral thought. Secondly, I demonstrate that Menkiti actually does not necessarily deny nor reject rights per se; instead, he is proposing an alternative political model that prioritises duties/obligations for the sake of the common good
Deliberation and Courts
The Role of the Judiciary in a Deliberative System
Donald Bello Hutt
level. As it happens, we can find systemic perspectives, for example, in the work of Habermas (1996) , particularly in his idea of a two-track model of democracy, as well as in Cohen’s (1997) . Yet, the perspective has gained distinctiveness by
The Complexity of History
Russia and Steven Pinker’s Thesis
Nancy Shields Kollmann
’s argument does jibe with what many of us experience today. The historian in me, however, worries. His Eurocentrism raises a flag: he implies a single path into a peaceable modernity following the European model, leaving one to wonder about paths not taken
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 41–53
Editorial
Some Senses of Pan-Africanism from the South
Christopher Allsobrook
’, which encourage rational autonomy, self-directed, endogenous development models and tolerance for ethno-cultural diversity. Valery Ferim shares Ugwuanyi’s worry that Pan-African solidarity since the turn of the 20 th century has failed to prevent the