Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority

Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E.

Heidi Marx-Wolf, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

Description

The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them. That all changed in the third century C.E., when a handful of Platonist philosophers—Plotinus, Origen, Porphyry, and Iamblichus—began to produce competing systematic discourses that ordered the realm of spirits in moral and ontological terms. In Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority, Heidi Marx-Wolf recounts how these Platonist philosophers organized the spirit world into hierarchies, or « spiritual taxonomies, » positioning themselves as the high priests of the highest gods in the process. By establishing themselves as experts on sacred, ritual, and doctrinal matters, they were able to fortify their authority, prestige, and reputation. The Platonists were not alone in this enterprise, and it brought them into competition with rivals to their new authority: priests of traditional polytheistic religions and gnostics. Members of these rival groups were also involved in identifying and ordering the realm of spirits and in providing the ritual means for dealing with that realm. Using her lens of spiritual taxonomy to look at these various groups in tandem, Marx-Wolf demonstrates that Platonist philosophers, Christian and non-Christian priests, and gnostics were more interconnected socially, educationally, and intellectually than previously recognized.

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Table of contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Chapter 1. How to Feed a Daemon: Third-Century Philosophers on Blood Sacrifice
Chapter 2. Everything in Its Right Place: Spiritual Taxonomy in Third-Century Platonism
Chapter 3. The Missing Link: Third-Century Platonists and « Gnostics » on Daemons and Other Spirits
Chapter 4. High Priests of the Highest God: Third-Century Platonists as Ritual Experts
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Link

https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15511.html

Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité tardive

Peter Van Nuffelen, Paris: Cerf, 2018

Description

La tolérance est une vertu cardinale dans les sociétés occidentales, et son histoire est souvent écrite comme un progrès linéaire jusqu’à son éclosion complète à l’époque moderne. Dans une telle perspective, des périodes antérieures comme l’Antiquité tardive apparaissent fortement comme des temps d’intolérance et de violence religieuse. Mais fait-on droit à des sociétés du passé en les étudiant à partir d’une conception moderne de la tolérance ? Ce livre montre comment, à partir de la pensée classique, l’Antiquité tardive développa des conceptions originales de la tolérance et de ses limites, qui étaient enracinées dans les idées antiques sur l’homme, la raison et la société. Il cherche ainsi à interroger notre propre conception de la tolérance qui, au lieu d’être l’aboutissement parfait d’une longue histoire, est aussi une conception spécifique et historique – avec ses propres limites.

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Table des matières

Préface

Introduction : Modernité, tolérance et Antiquité

Chapitre 1 : La conception tardo-antique de la tolérance

Chapitre 2 : La persuasion à l’épreuve

Chapitre 3 : La contrainte ou la transformation des habitudes

Chapitre 4 : Violence religieuse

Epilogue

Bibliographie

Lien

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/penser-la-tolerance-durant-lantiquite-tardive-by-peter-van-nuffelen-les-conferences-de-lecole-pratique-des-hautes-etudes-10-pp-189-paris-les-editions-du-cerf-2018-16-paper-978-2-204-12648/3D7C7FC7775ADB63247D87AD98F0289A

Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine

From Celsus to Paul of Aegina

Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer, Leiden: Brill, 2018

Description

In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE. New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine ‘compilers’. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates – on ethics and on the nature of the soul – with which they interacted.

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Table of contents

Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives – Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer

Broader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual Context

Between Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10–17 – George Kazantzidis

“Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease – Nadine Metzger

Individual Authors and Themes

Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health – Sean Coughlin

Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases – Orly Lewis

Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus – Melinda Letts

Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases – Julien Devinant

Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss – Ricardo Julião

Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions – Chiara Thumiger

“A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine – Chiara Thumiger

Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say – Anna Maria Urso

Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida – Ricarda Gäbel

Philosophy and Mental Illness

Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness – Marke Ahonen

Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice? – Christopher Gill

Galen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts – P. N. Singer

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/34931?contents=toc-44457

Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity

Encounters in the Abrahamic Religions, 6th-8th Centuries

Amirav H., Grypeou E., Stroumsa G.G., Leuven: Peeters, 2017

Description

This volume includes papers on ancient apocalypticism and eschatology in the crucial period prior to the advent of Islam in the Mediterranean basin, and through the period (the sixth to the eighth centuries) when this new religion took roots and established itself in the area. As these were important social, religious, and cultural phenomena, the contributors to this volume – specialists in Late Antique and Byzantine, Syriac, Jewish, and Arabic studies – have investigated them from a variety of angles and foci, rendering this volume unique in terms of its interdisciplinary approach and broad scope. In this regard, Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Late Antiquity should be read as complimentary to the previous volume in the series, New Themes, New Styles in the Eastern Mediterranean, where similar goals were set and met, namely to understand not only how the Christian and Jewish populations responded to the dramatic political and military changes, but also how they expressed themselves in existing, reinvented, and new literary means at their disposal.

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Table of contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Late Antique Apocalyptic: A Context for the Qur’an? – Averil Cameron

‘Their Evil Rule Must End!’ A Commentary on the Iranian Bundahišn – Domenico Agostini

Apocalyptic Thought Written for Monks? Some Texts and Motifs and Their Function in Greek and Syriac Antiquity – Matthias Binder

The Young Daniel: A Syriac Apocalyptic Text on the End, and the Problem of its Dating – Sebastian Brock

The End is Coming—To what End? Millenarian Expectations in the Seventh-Century Eastern Mediterranean – Lutz Greisiger

Managing Anger, Fear and Hope After the Fall of Jerusalem: ­Anastasius of Sinai, Antiochus, Zacharias of Jerusalem and Sophronius of Jerusalem – Yannis Papadogiannakis

Universal Salvation as an Antidote to Apocalyptic Expectations: Origenism in the Service of Justinian’s Religious Politics – István Perczel

A Revival in Jewish Apocalyptic? Change and Continuity in the Seventh–Eighth Centuries with Special Reference to Pirqe Mashiaḥ – Helen Spurling

Apocalyptic Ideas in Early Medieval Armenia – Robert W. Thomson

Byzantine Greek Apocalypses and the West: A Case Study – Pablo Ubierna

The Eschatological Kerygma of the Early Qur’an – Nicolai Sinai

Apocalypticism in Sunni Hadith – Christopher Melchert

‘A People Will Emerge from the Desert’: Apocalyptic Perceptions of the Early Muslim Conquests in Contemporary Eastern Christian Literature – Emmanouela Grypeou

Bibliography

General Index

Link

https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042935372&series_number_str=17&lang=en

Université du Québec à Montréal

Foreign Influences

Philosophy and the Circulation of Knowledge in Antiquity

Description and organization

How did Greek and Roman philosophers react to “foreign influences,” or “foreigners” (*xenoi*)? Did Greek and Roman philosophy and literature promote a stereotypical notion of the other, or do we always find different approaches to foreignness? Are stereotypes and prejudices the most common features of ancient representations of foreigners? When philosophers strive to expand the body of knowledge of their time, are they open or closed to the input that may come from other populations?

The Greek concept of the “foreigner” (*xenos*) is rather wide-ranging, as is clear from Socrates’ plea to his judges at the beginning of Plato’s *Apology*, that they tolerate his simple language as they would tolerate a foreigner from Ionia speaking the dialect of that region.

Before Socrates’ philosophical activity, the Presocratics, both physiologists and sophists, were all “guests” or foreigners (*xenoi*) in Athens—not citizens. Moreover, before the arrival of philosophers to mainland Greece, Greeks from Attica or the Peloponnese would go abroad to learn and acquire knowledge. According to Herodotus, Solon, one of the Seven Sages, traveled for ten years to Egypt and to the court of Cresus.

Solon went abroad to “philosophize”, i.e. to collect the wisdom of the learned foreigners.

This conference aims at surveying the different representations of foreigners provided by Greek and Roman philosophers. The goal is to establish whether these representations had an impact on the development of ancient philosophy. Selected papers will focus on the foreigners’

contributions to ancient philosophy and will explain how was possible that philosophy, from its origin through its development, was always intertwined with cultural exchanges around the Mediterranean, despite the different languages, the geographical and historical distances and the barrier of citizenship.

The conference will focus on archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman antiquity. We welcome papers on the notion of “xenos” from different perspectives (anthropological, literary, historical and philosophical).

Please send an abstract of 300-450 words and a short CV to : gili.luca [at] uqam.ca.

Deadline for submission: December 20, 2018. Decisions will be made by January 10, 2018. The conference proceedings will be published.

The organizers

Benoît Castelnerac (Université de Sherbrooke)

Luca Gili (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Laetitia Monteils-Laeng (Université de Montréal)

Contact

gili.luca [at] uqam.ca.

(Text by the organizers)

Link

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-philosophy-and-circulation-knowledge-antiquity

University of Wroclaw

Beliefs and Rituals in Antiquity

Description and organization

As far as the human memory can reach, ritual way of thinking and dealing with everyday life, is known and widely practiced. There is no known culture, that would be areligious, or that would not perform rituals of any kind. Different beliefs accompany people from the dawn of material culture, and don’t fade within the development of society or technology. Together with ritual activities, they play the role of group identification markers, and often are the main factors in actual policy towards other communities or groups. Beliefs can also determine human behaviours, as well as approaches towards different aspects of everyday life. They are also widely used to explain the nature and its laws, whenever these are not yet understood by people. But what was exactly the role of rituals and beliefs in ancient cultures? What does piety and blasphemy mean to them? How did they act with ritual layers of their lives? And what made them introduce ritual activities in almost (if not every) aspect of their existence?
The most important topics of the conference should be as follows:

Origins and development of ritual
Religious, magic, and everyday rituals
Common beliefs and ritual practices across space and time
Positive and negative aspects of beliefs and rituals – “black” and “white” magic
The role of beliefs and rituals in everyday life
Desecration and its aftermath
Beliefs and rituals as presented in textual sources
Reflections of beliefs and rituals in material culture
Cultural context of beliefs and rituals

This conference will take a comparative approach, taking a wide geographical and chronological sweep. We warmly invite scholars whose subject of study is the ancient world, including Greece, Rome, Egypt, Near East, India, and Far East. We invite linguists, philologists, historians, archaeologists, sociologists, and lawyers, hoping that this conference will be a forum for the wide range of specialists to exchange their ideas and results of research.
Proposals are now invited for individual papers or posters. Proposals must be attached as anonymous, and must not contain more than 300 words (in English).

They can be submitted by 31st January 2018 via conference registration form:
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Applications of doctoral students should be sent via e-mail, and approved by their supervisors (not in the text of proposal, which must remain anonymous, but with supervisor’s address in CC field), to the conference e-mail address:
beliefs@uwr.edu.pl

All relevant proposals will be accepted after the formal revision made by conference committee by 28th February 2018. The final program of the conference will be released by 31st of March 2018.

Contact

Any additional questions please to contact : beliefs@uwr.edu.pl

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Link

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Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers

in Late Antiquity

Mark Edwards, London: Routledge, 2012

Description

Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we may even discover that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the Platonic imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians and philosophers together under the porous umbrella of « monotheism », we ignore fundamental features of both traditions. To grasp what made Christianity distinctive, we must look at the questions asked in the studies here, not merely what Christians appropriated but how it was appropriated. What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians, and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments of the Presocratics? When pagans accuse the Christians of moral turpitude, do they know more or less about them than we do? What divides Augustine, the disenchanted Platonist, from his Neoplatonic contemporaries? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he dies?

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Contents: Preface;

Part I Christians and Pagans in Dispute: Quoting Aratus: Acts 17.28;

Some early Christian immoralities; Justin’s logos and the word of God;

Satire and verisimilitude: Christianity in Lucian’s Peregrinus; Xenophanes Christianus?;

Pagan and Christian monotheism in the age of Constantine;

Notes on the date and venue of the Oration to the Saints;

Dracontius the African and the fate of Rome.

Part II Gnostic Thought and its Milieu: Gnostics and Valentians in the church fathers;

Neglected texts in the study of Gnosticism;

Pauline Platonism: the myth of Valentinus;

The tale of Cupid and Psyche;

Porphyry’s Cave of the Nymphs and the Gnostic controversy.

Part III Christianity and the Platonic Tradition: Socrates and the early Church’

Origen’s Platonism: questions and caveats;

Ammonius, teacher of Origen;

Birth, death and divinity in Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus;

Porphyry and the intelligible triad;

The figure of love in Augustine and in Proclus the neoplatonist;

Index.

Lien

https://www.routledge.com/Christians-Gnostics-and-Philosophers-in-Late-Antiquity/Edwards/p/book/9781138115682

University of Reading

LGBT+ Classics: Teaching, Research, and Activism

 

Description and organization

Organised by: Katherine Harloe, Talitha Kearey, and Irene Salvo

The Women’s Classical Committee UK is organising a one-day workshop on Classics and Queer studies to highlight current projects and activities that embrace the intersections of research, teaching, public engagement, and activism.

The day will feature a series of talks and a roundtable bringing together academics in Classics (and related fields), LGBT+ activists, museum curators and those working in other areas of outreach and public engagement. We intend to explore how LGBT+ themes are included in Classics curricula; how public engagement with queer Classics and history of sexualities can contribute to fight homophobia and transphobia; and the ways in which the boundaries between research, teaching, and activism can be crossed. The roundtable will focus in particular on strategies of support for LGBT+ students and staff, current policies in Higher Education, and what still needs to be improved. Confirmed speakers include: Beth Asbury, Clara Barker, Alan Greaves, Jennifer Grove, Rebecca Langlands, Sebastian Matzner, Cheryl Morgan, and Maria Moscati. Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University) will deliver the keynote address ‘Queer Classics: sexuality, scholarship, and the personal’.

We are also reserving time during the day’s schedule for a series of short (five-minute) spotlight talks by delegates. Through this session, we hope to provide a chance for delegates to share research projects, teaching programmes, and experiences related to LGBT+ issues. We are particularly interested in spotlight talks on:

– new queer and gender-informed work in classics, ancient history, archaeology, papyrology, philosophy, or classical reception;

– fresh ideas on teaching the history of queerness through texts and material culture;

– the difficulties and discriminatory experiences encountered by members of staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and early-career researchers, because of their gender identity and/or sexual orientation.

If you would like more information or to volunteer to give one of these talks, please e-mail Irene Salvo, LBGT+ liaison officer, salvoirene@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 5th December 2017.

People of any gender expression or identity who support the WCC’s aims are welcome to attend this event. For further details, see our website at http://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/.

Attendance is free for WCC UK members, £10 for non-members (to cover catering costs). You can join the WCC UK here https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/join-us/ (and if you’re a student, underemployed, or unemployed, membership is only £5). As with all WCC events, travel bursaries will be available for students and the un/under-employed.

The WCC is committed to providing friendly and accessible environments for its events, so please do get in touch if you have any access, dietary, or childcare inquiries. For a full statement of the WCC’s childcare policy please see here https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/events/.   

Programme

09.45 – Registration desk opens

10.15 – Welcome and Introduction, with a message from Deborah Kamen (Seattle), Co-Chair of the Lambda Classical Caucus

10.30 – Sebastian Matzner (KCL, London): Queer Connections: Classics and the Gay Science

10.55 – Beth Asbury, Jozie Kettle, Clara Barker (Oxford): Out in Oxford: Hidden Stories in Plain Sight

11.30 – Coffee break

11.45 – Spotlight Talks

Alan Greaves (Liverpool): Transgender Lives in Classics: An Example of Museum-based Learning
Kate Nichols (Birmingham): Working with Students to Queer University Collections
Rebecca Mellor (York): Queer There and Everywhere
Chris Mowat (Newcastle): The Place of Classics in LGBT Public History
Mara Gold (Oxford): Beyond Sappho: Classics and the Development of Modern Lesbian Culture
Jessica Moody (Birkbeck): Lesbian Hellenism? How Fin de Siècle Female Classicists Challenged our Queer Histories

13.00 – Lunch

14.00 – Jen Grove and Rebecca Langlands (Exeter): Ancient Artefacts and Sex Education: Exploring Gender and Sexual Diversity with the University of Exeter’s “Sex & History” project

14.35 – Cheryl Morgan (co-chair of OutStories Bristol): How Not to Erase Trans History

15.00 – Nicki Ward (Birmingham): Sharing Good Practice: A Model for Embedding LGBTQ Inclusivity in the Curriculum.

15.25 – Maria Moscati (Sussex): Starting as Researcher and Becoming an Activist

15.50 – Coffee break

16.05 –  Round table on policies and support strategies with Clara Barker (Oxford), Simon Chandler-Wilde (Reading), Alyssa Henley (SupportU), Alan Greaves (Liverpool) and Jessica Moody (ECU).

16.35 – Concluding discussion

17.15 – Keynote address by Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham):Queer Classics: Sexuality, Scholarship, and the Personal18.15 – Drinks reception

Contact

salvoirene@gmail.com.

(Text by the organizers)

Link

https://wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/events/

Langage des dieux, langage des démons,

langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité

L. G. Soares Santoprete, P. Hoffmann (eds.), Turnhout: Brepolis, 2017

Description

Le présent ouvrage est issu de recherches menées dans le cadre de l’ancien projet ‘CENOB’ (Corpus des énoncés de noms barbares) soutenu par l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche. Par ‘noms barbares’, on désigne dans les religions anciennes des noms ou enoncés proférés, principalement en contexte rituel, et dont l’efficacité dépend d’une opacité sémantique, d’une étrangeté, voire d’une inintelligibilité. Afin de mesurer l’écart qui constitue le caractère ‘barbare’ de ces noms, cet ouvrage rassemble une série d’enquêtes sur divers dossiers – en majorité des textes médio – et néoplatoniciens – qui permettent de comprendre les théories à travers lesquelles l’Antiquité a pensé la relations, et principalement la communication, entre les divers êtres peuplant le Monde – hommes, démons et dieux – chacune de ces classes ayant sa langue, son mode d’expression, sa façon de se situer dans l’ordre hiérarchique du Réel et de se rapporter aux autres. D’Homère à Proclus, à Damascius et au Ps.-Denys l’Aréopagite, de nombreuses théories nous ont été conservées, par exemple sur la langue des dieux et le travail étymologique qui régit leur nomination, sur la ‘voix’ des démons et leur mode de communication avec les hommes, ou encore sur les limites du langage humain, devant qui se dérobent les Principes divins. Dans toutes ces études se noue une liaison forte entre littérature, philosophie et histoire des religions méditerranéennes anciennes, avec le souci de décrire les systèmes de pensée qui entouraient les rituels.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Table de matières

Préface
Gérard FREYBURGER et Laurent PERNOT

Avant-Propos
Jean-Daniel DUBOIS, École pratique des hautes études – Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Introduction
Luciana Gabriela SOARES SANTOPRETE, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitāt Bonn-Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Philippe HOFFMANN, École pratique des hautes études – Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Langage des dieux, musiques des hommes – Michel TARDIEU, Collège de France

Le nom des dieux, la langue des dieux chez Homère – Pierre CHIRON, Université Paris-Est – Institut universitaire de France

Langage des dieux et langage des hommes dans les Oracles chaldaïques – Helmut SENG, Goethe-Universitāt, Francfort-sur-le-Main

Rituels et énoncés barbares dans la Pistis Sophia – Mariano TROIANO, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Le dire à haute voix : une nouvelle approche des textes de Nag Hammadi – Claudine BESSET-LAMOINE, Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes

Le démon de Socrate et son langage dans la philosophie médio-platonicienne – Claudio MORESCHINI, Université de Pise

La voix des démons dans la tradition médio- et néoplatonicienne – Andrei TIMOTIN, Académie roumaine (IESEE)/Institut de Philosophie ‘Alexandru Dragomir’, Bucarest

L’étymologie dans la procession de l’Étant à partir de l’Un et dans la remontée de l’âme jusqu’à l’Un selon Plotin – Luciana Gabriela SOARES SANTOPRETE, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitāt Bonn-Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Jamblique : universalisme et noms barbares – Adrien LECERF, Centre Léon Robin – CNRS, Paris

Intellection humaine, inspiration démonique et enthousiasme divin selon Proclus – François LORTIE, Université Laval, Québec -École pratique des hautes études

Adad chez les néoplatoniciens : une lecture assyriologique – Cyntia JEAN, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – Université Libre de Bruxelles

L’ ‘entretien’ philosophique d’ après le commentaire de Proclus au Premier Alcibiade de Platon – Sophie VAN DER MEEREN, Université-Rennes-2

Parler de rien. Damascius sur le principe au-delà de l’Un – Marilena VLAD, Institut de Philosophie ‘Alexandru Dragomir’, Bucarest

Silence divin et pouvoir sacré : la théologie négative, de Plotin au Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite – Ghislain CASAS, École pratique des hautes études – École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Les fondements néoplatoniciens du logos théologique chez le Pseudo-Denys l’Aréopagite – Daniel COHEN, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – Université Libre de Bruxelles

L’Hymne au soleil de Martianus Capella : une synthèse entre philosophie grecque et théosophie barbare – Chiara Ombretta TOMMASI, Université de Pise

Bibliographie générale
Index des sources anciennes
Index nominum
Index des thèmes
Index des termes grecs

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503578972-1

LaborEst

Living in the mediterranean world

Living in the Mediterranean World, LaborEst, Inserto speciale, n.14, 2017

Description

The LaborEst scientific journal, published twice a year, was established in 2008 by Edoardo Mollica within the homonymous LaborEst research lab – Economic Evaluations and Real Estate Appraisals Lab. The scope of the journal is to strengthen the vital link between scientific research and territorial needs.

The estimation culture and the economic evaluation of programs, plans and projects are driving disciplines and core topics of the scientific journal.

The LaborEst scientific journal is a place of interdisciplinary discussion on issues affectingMetropolitan Cities, and a room for dialogue among different researchers at national and international levels, sharing experiences on issues concerning the Inner Areas of the less-developed regions, in a perspective of competitive territorial growth and broadly of local development.

In particular, the published contributions disclaim general issues relating to:

  1. Heritage and Identity
  2. Local Development: Urban Space, Rural Area, Inner Areas
  3. Urban Regeneration, PPP, Smart Cities
  4. Mobility, Accessibility, Infrastructure
  5. Environment, Energy, Landscape

LaborEst is a biannual open access journal and authors retain their copyrights. No charges apply for submission, processing or publishing in LaborEst.

All proposed papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, run by at least two scholars of Italian and foreign universities, where both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

In addition to the ordinary volumes, special issues are occasionally published, in general monographs on specific topics or reports collection of conferences’ proceedings, symposia, seminars, study meetings’ output and other scientific events organized by LaborEst or with its sponsorship.

Since 2015, the journal is also published online as electronic open access journal.

(Text by the editors)

Table of contents

Ancient and new religious co-habitations between the shores of the Mediterranean M. Monaca, M. Mormino  p.3

Zeus Homarios: il vincolo dell’identità Achea nel Mediterraneo M. Kamenou,  p.9

The Horoscop of Constantinople under the Light of Ancient Astrological Texts  A.Pérez-Jiménez, p.16

Religious Coabitation and Magical Sincretism in Mediterranean Area: Hekate in Greek Magical Papyr IV (1390 – 1495). N.LopezCarrasco,  p.25

Between Town and Countryside, between Pagans and Christians: some Suggestions in Arnobius’ Adversus Nationes.

C. Tommasi,  p.33

Islam and the Christians in the 7th and 8th centuries: between refutation and definition. M. Monaca, p.46

The ‘Melkite’ Churches between the Empire and the Caliphate. Conflicts and Coexistence at the End of the Ninth Century: the Evidence of the Eighth Ecumenical Council (869-870). M.Mormino,  p. 51

Between Constantinople and Rome: Isaac Argyrus and the palamite controversy (1350-1380).  R.Caballero-Sánchez, p.56

Interculturality and Interreligiosity in the Late Antique Sicily of Benedetto Radice: Greeks, Latins, Arabs, Christians and Muslims   T. Sardella, p.63

Muslims in Sicily. Media Representation and Actual Realities, R. Barcellona, A. Bencivinni p.70

Sacred Places and Multiple Identities. Pilgrimage, Devotion and Religious Cohabitation in Ancient and Contemporary Times, L. Carnevale, p.78

Religious Superdiversity between Global and Local: some Remarks on a Research Project about Rome A.Saggioro, p.84

Christians and Jews in Muslim Land: Forms and Strategies of Protection, Cohabitation and Integration in Modern and Contemporary Tunisia, S. Speziale  p.90

European Youth in Struggle against the West: between Fundamentalism and Social Redemption, N.Pettinato p.98

The Mediterranean World: from the Globalization of Indifference to the Development of Welcome, P. P. Triulcio p. 101

Reflection from a Philosophical Point of View on Living in the Mediterranean World, G. Giordano p.104

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