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(2024)Recent historiography has presented some early modern Eastern Christians as transnational and transcultural subjects in a global world. This study focuses on the long-distance mobility of Greek Catholic Melkite monks from ...
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(2024)Penance in the form of confession became a strong marker of Catholic identity from the Council of Trent onwards. In terms of Scholastic theology, the “form” of the sacrament consists of the absolution given to the penitent ...
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(2024)In the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople, the political and cultural elite of the Byzantine Empire, who had chosen the path of exile, did everything in their power to encourage Europe to oppose Ottoman expansion in ...
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(2024)The article is devoted to the Narrative on the Sign of the Cross by Maximus the Greek. The text belongs to the first half of the 16th century, a period when Muscovy definitively asserted itself on the European and Mediterranean ...
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(2024)The aim of this study is to re-examine the question of the alleged Byzantine origin of the consecration ritual of the Wallachian princes and to reconstruct the liturgical scenario and the political context in which this ...
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(2024)The Republic of Letters was an extensive network of scholars, scientists, artists and many other actors, which was formed mainly in Western Europe during the early modern era as a space of communication, dialogue and ...
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(2024)This paper examines selected icons and images from the Ruthenian (early modern Ukrainian and Belorussian) lands to explore forms of cultural and religious exchange, framed within the concepts of interconfessionality, ...
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(2024)Research on the Greek Orthodox medico-philosophers (combining the expertise of both a medical doctor and a philosopher) in the early modern period must consider their great mobility outside the Ottoman Empire. A classic ...
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(2024)This paper explores the nexus between the use of the modern Greek language and interconfessional transfer, focusing on the early modern vernacular Greek editions of the New Testament. The point of reference for later ...
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(2024)The authors present a research project in progress between the University of Siena and the University of Tennessee at Martin, through which they investigate the knowledge of students of the Medical course and of the Health ...
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(2024)This chapter written by different Authors claims and offers a new (yet ancient) view of medicine: the great knowledge of biomedical fields blended with treatment devoted to patient care as a person with a view to developing ...
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(2024)The crucial topics of this chapter focus on the recognition of the meaning of life and death as part of a natural cycle and a new approach for taking care of patient at the end of life. The author discusses and describes ...
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(2024)The reflection dedicated to Medical Humanities focuses on the objective of promoting advancing people-centered approaches and a process of integrating medical practice and humanities through greater awareness of medical practice.
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(2024)In this Chapter the author retraces the history of the physician-patient relationship from antiquity up to the present. The author focuses on ethical statements and pays particular attention to deontological rules of the ...
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Chapter Tra autobiografismo e confessio: verso un osservatorio sull’autobiografia latina tardoantica(2025)This paper introduces the Proceedings of the International Workshop entitled "In aula ingenti memoriae meae". Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina, which was held in Siena on 13 and 24 June 2024 and represented ...
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(2025)From the nugae of Sidonius, numerous and important pieces of information about the author's biography emerge. He recounts events from his daily life (stays with friends, dinner invitations, financial difficulties, impatience ...
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(2025)This study examines some of the ways in which Dracontius’ prison experience is represented and dramatized in his ‘prison writings’: Satisfactio, Epithalamium Ioannis et Vitulae (Romul. 7), De laudibus dei (last section of ...
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(2025)This article studies the role of the autobiographical element in confessional literature, particularly in St Patrick’s Confessio . After a general reflection on the function of autobiography in 5th-6th century confessions ...
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(2025)The Eucharisticos, composed by Paulinus of Pella in fifth-century Marseille, stands out for the contrast between the author’s professed gratitude for God’s mercy and the persistence of his aristocratic values – especially ...
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(2025)This paper focuses on poem 1 (and partly 2) as a case study to assess the kind of autobiography depicted in Ausonius’ Ephemeris. Our analysis reveals a linguistic and metric poikilía, an interweaving of everyday life and ...
