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  1. Aesthetic Transgressions in Ancient Art Using the Example of Painted Sculptures

    Transgressions in art are crossings of frontiers that can radically change the familiar as part of a process of innovation. If a collective is able...
    Katharina Ute Mann in Transgression and Deviance in the Ancient World
    Chapter 2022

  3. Early Civilizations on the Iranian Plateau

    Persian civilization is one of the oldest in the world and was deeply influential in both West and South Asia. The core area of Persian civilization...
    H. K. Chang in Map** Civilizations Across Eurasia
    Chapter 2023

  4. Modern Relevance of the Plague of Cyprian

    In this final chapter, we consider the phenomenon of civilizational collapse through the lens of complex systems theory. The Roman Empire is analyzed...
    Mark Orsag, Amanda E. McKinney, DeeAnn M. Reeder in Interdisciplinary Insights from the Plague of Cyprian
    Chapter 2023

  6. The Evolution of Ancient and Modern Meaning of Economy in the West Until It Was Finally Settled

    The term “**gji” in the cultural circle of Chinese characters was transformed from the classical meaning of governance for the people to mean a...
    Tianyu Feng in The Cultural History of the Chinese Concepts Fengjian (Feudalism) and **gji (Economy)
    Chapter 2023

  7. Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Art of Governing

    During her long life, Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) had to struggle to preserve and to rule her important heritage: a Duchy that comprised the...
    Martin Aurell in Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts
    Chapter 2023

  8. Technology of Grandeur: Early Modern Aqueducts in Portugal

    Aqueduct construction remains an important yet understudied chapter in the history of early modern European technology and urbanism. Combining the...
    Anatole Tchikine in The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula
    Chapter 2020

  9. Logic in Early Modern Thought

    Katarina R. Peixoto, Edgar da Rocha Marques in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
    Living reference work entry 2020

  10. Alexandra of Denmark: Fashioning the Modern Consort

    For so relatively recent a queen consort, Alexandra (1844–1925) is a figure whose reputation has arguably found itself built on mythologised...
    Kate Strasdin in Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts
    Chapter 2023

  11. “Search the Scriptures; Search Your Experiences”: Reading the Bible Spiritually from the Reformation to Early Evangelicalism

    “How shall we prove the Spirit?” asked an exasperated Martin Luther (1483–1546) amid his battles with Rome, enthusiasts, and Erasmus over the proper...
    Ryan P. Hoselton in Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Quest for Evangelical Enlightenment
    Chapter 2023

  12. The Conflict Between Art and Society

    The denizens of scientific-technological civilisation are not interested in the ChristianChristian, Christendom faithFaith or the truthTruth of...
    Enno Rudolph, Johannes Picht in Georg Picht: A Pioneer in Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
    Chapter 2022

  14. A Parable and Ancient Fables: Sha** the Governance of Mining Activities and the Silver Trade in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century New Spain

    Castilian law, in its early sixteenth-century version, proved to be largely unsuitable for the Indies due to the cultural differences to Europe. The...
    Claudia Jefferies in Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond
    Chapter 2023

  16. Treasure Trove in Early Victorian Ireland and Scotland

    In Chapter 3, we consider how the law of treasure trove was understood and how it operated in Ireland and in Scotland at the opening of the Victorian...
    N. M. Dawson in A Modern Legal History of Treasure
    Chapter 2023

  17. Dosing the Ailing Subject: Reconnecting Early Modern Health and Thought

    This chapter discusses early modern efforts to boost intellectual activity and control bodily functions. Starting with Robert Hooke’s effort to...
    Lisa Jardine in Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period
    Chapter 2020

  19. Bei**g Union Medical College Hospital and China’s Modern Medical Development

    Peking Union Medical College Hospital occupies an important position in the history of modern medicine in China. It is regarded as the engine that...
    Daqing Zhang in Western Influences in the History of Science and Technology in Modern China
    Reference work entry 2021
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