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(2025)This article studies economic inequality in late medieval Iberia, from the mid-thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth century, based on three observatories – Olite, Oriola and Vera – located in the north and southeast ...
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(2025)The fundamental inequality in Western societies is rooted in the position of those who are exposed to the risks inherent in economic life, even in a context of global growth. These risks create permanent insecurity, while ...
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(2025)The paper concerns the use of archaeological sources and methods as tools for understanding some specific economic and social developments of the fourteenth century. Since the changes that occurred during this period seem ...
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(2025)The abandonment of the long-term agricultural contracts, practically lifelong and hereditary, characteristic of the early Middle Ages, and the emergence of short-term mezzadria (sharecropping), the expression of a different ...
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(2025)How could the presence of robust nuclei of wealth be reconciled in Italian city-communes with the government of a popular “res publica” which was intended to be based on social peace? What were the effects of the anti-magnates ...
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(2025)In the historical period between the last decades of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth century, famine was one of the basic forms of inequality; in the economic systems of those times, which were ...
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(2025)The essay aims to analyse the sumptuary legislation which was the result of the legislative activity in the cities of Central-Northern Italy: it began at the end of the thirteenth century with a significant increase in ...
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(2025)This paper deals with the reviews of Kant’s pre-critical philosophy before 1770, which involve minor works such as Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, ...
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(2025)This paper introduces a grouping of experimental philosophical review journals around 1800, situated around editors associated with German idealism and German realism. By examining one journal edited by Reinhold the degree ...
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(2025)This paper explores the circulation of philosophical ideas in the early modern period by examining the elaboration and reception of Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis’s Discours sur les différentes figures des astres (1732), ...
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(2025)The introduction explains the main purpose of the project Philosophical Review in German Territories (1668-1799). It shows why philosophical reviews are not only mere intellectual modes of communication or cultural media, ...
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(2025)In 1682, Otto Mencke and Christoph Pfautz founded the Acta Eruditorum, the first fully-fledged German scientific journal. In this paper, I argue that this journal had a fundamental role in shaping the narrative on the rise ...
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(2025)Despite the review ethos introduced by the physician Albrecht von Haller when he took over the Göttingische gelehrte Nachrichten as chief editor in 1747, he wrote many self-reviews. This article examines von Haller’s ...
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(2025)The paper examines Friedrich Schleiermacher’s 1799 review of Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Schleiermacher’s critique, published anonymously in the Athenaeum, adopts a harsh and ironic tone, ...
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(2025)This essay focuses on a review of Johann G. Fichte’s The Destination of Man, published by Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher in the journal Athenæum in 1800. The author places the book within the context of the debates on the ...
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(2024)This chapter examines the historical and cultural intersections between the Mediterranean Sea (Mesogeios Thalassa – Dizhonghai 地中海 in Greek-Roman and Chinese sources), particularly the Greek-Hellenistic world and China. ...
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Chapter Why Should We Look at Chinese Sources on the Mediterranean from a Transcultural Perspective?(2024)In the postnational era, the demand to rethink national borders and embrace inclusive sentiments of shared interests and belonging is prompting scholars to explore new avenues of research. This introductory essay positions ...
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(2024)Wang Dayuan (14th century) travelled far and wide during the Yuan dynasty. On his two voyages he sailed to hundreds of places in Southeast Asia and India, also reaching the Near East and the coast of Africa. His work, the ...
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(2024)This chapter aims to examine Chinese knowledge and narratives about Malta over the centuries, providing a general overview of Chinese sources citing and/or describing this island, to reconstruct a historical panorama ...
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(2024)One aspect still scarcely investigated in the literature on the reception of Roman law in China is the image of the Romanist legal tradition emerging from Chinese sources during the late Qing and early Republican Era. This ...
