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The spiritual life calls out to me. But is it self-indulgent?
This awareness makes me tilt towards a life that optimizes for this. But I also have very altruistic leanings, which could ...
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India’s first epigraphical reference to Halley’s comet found in Vijaynagara’s 15th-century copper plate; key details inside
Trending News: A copper plate inscription at Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple reveals India's first mention of Halley's Comet. The inscription dates back to June 28, 1456 C ...
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How Christian and Muslim Scholars Collaborated in Medieval Spain
A discussion of the thriving intellectual life of Medieval Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. During this period of time, Latin scholars arrived from all over the West to examine Arabic ...
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Byzantinistik - Byzantinistische Studien und Texte - Band 6
Sita Steckel, Niels Gaul, Michael Grünbart (Eds.) Networks of Learning Perspectives on Scholars in Byzantine East and Latin West, c. 1000-1200 (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2014) Cultures of learning and ...
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Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies – Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies - Brock University
The Institute also makes its Common Room available for functions of the Centre for Medieval Studies and to its students. The University, in welcoming the new programme, regards the Institute’s ...
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The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100
Credit: Jean Le Tavernier / Public Domain The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world’s first encyclopedias and lexicons. Created as both a ...