Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia

Marriage and Fertility in a Catholic Society: Eighteenth-Century Quebec

There are similarities and differences in marriage and fertility behavior between early North American societies and their modern counterparts. This paper investigates the quantitative importance of differential fecundity, assortative matching, and marriage market search frictions in affecting marriage and fertility behavior in a Catholic society, 18 century Quebec. The model may provide an exp...

Keeping formation in-house deepens Catholic culture.

nder the prevalent model of leadership formation in Catholic health care — we would even say the default model — individual executives are chosen from a given health care organization and invited to participate with executives from their own system, or across systems, in a learning and development cohort. Sessions take place outside the executives’ usual environments, generally in a retreat-lik...

Rotorua Catholic Faith Based Community of Learning Achievement Challenges

Virtuous discourse: sensibility and community in late eighteenth-century Scotland

Reappraisals of the history and historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment abound these days. Yet however much is produced, authors continue to find new and interesting things to say. John Dwyer has certainly proved this in his excellent, fairly short study of the Scottish moralists. Dwyer, thankfully, has not taken the high road to philosophy but has investigated the output of the eighteenth...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...