Writing the Absent: Virtual Presences in Early Modern Romance Literature, 16th-17th Centuries. (Romanisteg 2023, Leipzig)

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Writing the Absent: Virtual Presences in Early Modern Romance Literature (16th-17th Centuries) September 24-27, 2023, Romanistentag Leipzig Before its success linked to the advent of digital technology, the term “virtual” was used for seven centuries in an exclusively philosophical or mechanical context. In its most common sense since scholastic times virtual (“virtualis”, from “virtus”) is … Read more

Francesco Montorsi, Memory of the Ancients. Literary traces from Antiquity to the 12th and 13th centuries

Francesco Montorsi Memory of the Ancients Literary traces from Antiquity

This essay addresses the question of how a past, that of the 12th and 13th centuries, represented, transmitted, used, lived another past, that of the Greek and Latin worlds. It then aims to identify and interpret the literary traces of the memory of Antiquity in a corpus of vernacular texts (ancient novels, chronicles, translations of … Read more

Meditation: a technique known for centuries to stop pain

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Verified on 07/25/2022 by PasseportSanté Mindfulness meditation is increasingly popular, but it is not new. It has been used for centuries and centuries by humans, first among Buddhists before becoming more popular in the West. There are many virtues: anti-stress, stimulating the immune system… Recently, scientists from theUniversity of San Diego in California have looked … Read more

Meditation: a technique known for centuries to stop pain

A technique known for centuries to stop pain.webp

Verified on 07/25/2022 by PasseportSanté Mindfulness meditation is increasingly popular, but it is not new. It has been used for centuries and centuries by humans, first among Buddhists before becoming more popular in the West. There are many virtues: anti-stress, stimulating the immune system… Recently, scientists from theUniversity of San Diego in California have looked … Read more

A technique known for centuries to stop pain

A technique known for centuries to stop pain.webp

Verified on 07/21/2022 by PasseportSanté Mindfulness meditation is increasingly popular, but it is not new. It has been used for centuries and centuries by humans, first among Buddhists before becoming more popular in the West. There are many virtues: anti-stress, stimulating the immune system… Recently, scientists from theUniversity of San Diego in California have looked … Read more

Victims of witch hunts between the 16th and 18th centuries soon to be officially exonerated in Scotland

Victims of witch hunts between the 16th and 18th centuries

Nine women are burned for witchcraft on a riverbank in Dumfries, Scotland (April 13, 1659). MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY / PHOTONONSTOP EThey were accused of spoiling the crops, of changing into animals to commit their misdeeds, even of dancing with the devil. In Europe, between the sixteenthand and the XVIIIand century, thousands of women and, … Read more

Scotland could pardon nearly 3,000 ‘witches’ executed between 16th and 18th centuries

A bill supported by the majority MPs in the Scottish Parliament should come back this summer on the conviction for witchcraft of thousands of individuals. including a large majority of women. There was fire. Almost three centuries after the death of the last “witch” in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament could pardon some 2,600 … Read more

Meister Eckhart, mysticism beyond the centuries

Meister Eckhart mysticism beyond the centuries

“What good are poets in times of distress? », wondered the poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). One could add: and what good are mystics at the hour of catastrophes, these incandescents whose words burn with their love for God? John of the Cross, Thérèse of Avila, Bernard of Clairvaux… Of these best-known names, the … Read more