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The great synthesis: Willdenow’s Species plantarum (1797–1810) and his herbarium | Archives of Natural History
The herbarium of Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), the most important historical herbarium in Germany, is kept by the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin. Comprising some 40,000 speci...
Translation and Classical Studies | Translation and Literature
In the first case we speak of loanwords. Over time, these can become indistinguishable from native words; hardly anyone today knows that ‘kitchen’ and ‘cheese’ started as Latin loans, from coquina
Visages singuliers du Plutarque humaniste: autour d’Amyot et de la réception des ‘Moralia’ et des ‘Vies’ à la Renaissance, by Olivier Guerrier; Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800, by Reb
I recommend Guerrier's perceptive (if all too short) exploration of Amyot's use of doublets in his versions of Plutarch to anyone with an interest in sixteenth-century translation, for
Richard Allen Cave and Anna Meadmore (eds), Robert Helpmann: The Many Faces of a Theatrical Dynamo | Dance Research
The book will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the retrieval, reconstruction and revival of ‘lost’ ballets for modern audiences.
Old Knights of the Cross, up to Date with a Vengeance: Bram Stoker's Dracula as Unholy Grail Quest | Gothic Studies
Despite Van Helsing's assertion that the vampire hunters shall act as ‘old knights of the cross’, there has been little scholarly attention given to the influences of medieval literature and cultur...
Cat People: A Screening with Commentary | Film-Philosophy
79 pp. Anyone searching for a suitable image to define the word ‘encyclopaedic’ could hardly do better than provide an X-ray of Kim Newman's brain. ... Anyone approaching this book hoping for much by way of theoretical or philosophical discussion is
Earth Fellows - Edinburgh Earth Initiative
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Samuel Fleischacker, Adam Smith; John McHugh, Adam Smith’s ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’ A Critical Commentary | Journal of Scottish Philosophy
Anyone looking to dive deeper into Smith’s work, or to wade into it for the first time, would benefit from using these works as a guide in the process. ... The question for anyone aspiring to be a mature moral agent is how to properly construe these
Take My Breath Away: Review of Mila Zuo (2022) Vulgar beauty: Acting Chinese in the global sensorium | Film-Philosophy
Anyone interested in performance, in gender and sexuality, in race on an international stage, in Chinese politics and history in this century of suffering, needs to read this book. ... Anyone hungry, voracious perhaps, for interdisciplinary diasporic and
Balanchine and Constructivism: The Path to Neoclassicism | Dance Research
This article explores the dances that George Balanchine created in Russia between 1920 and 1924 and places them within the short movement of constructivism in dance. It concentrates on the choreogr...