OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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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 ...
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(2024)This chapter is an analysis of the China-Mediterranean connection of the Nestorian monk Rabban Sauma, the first known Chinese-born person to visit the European Mediterranean, in the History of Mar Yahballaha and Rabban ...
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(2024)Beginning with Zhang Qian’s mission during the reign of Emperor Wu, the Han expansion westwards brought new geographical knowledge. Gan Ying’s arrival on the shores of the Persian Gulf in 97 CE established a new and extreme ...
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(2024)This chapter deals with a preliminary analysis of the journey that Du Huan 杜環 took toward Western countries, during the Tang dynasty (618–907). In particular, it investigates the perception of the Mediterranean area, ...
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(2024)1963 was an exceptional year for Italian literature because it was marked by six or seven works that play a decisive role in the history of their respective authors: in addition to Libera nos a malo, Meneghello’s first ...
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(2024)Self-commentary plays a fundamental role in Meneghello’s work. It is part of an intrinsically autobiographical prose, where the individual dimension, constantly dropped into the collective one, is charged with a documentary ...
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(2024)The analysis of the dynamics of the international reception of a literary work permits examination of its ability to respond to the needs of a new horizon of expectation. It is particularly significant to observe the ...
