Historical Dictionary of Catholicism

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Catholicism and Democracy A Reconsideration

[1] It has long been believed that there is a relationship between a society‟s culture and its ability to produce and sustain democratic forms of government. The ancient Athenians maintained that their democracy depended, in part, on the fostering of “civic virtue” or democratic culture. Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and J. S. Mill also maintained that culture and democracy were related, ...

Building a Corpus-based Historical Portuguese Dictionary: Challenges and Opportunities

Historical corpora are important resources for different areas. Philology, Human Language Technology, Literary Studies, History, and Lexicography are some that benefit from them. However, compiling historical corpora is different from compiling contemporary corpora. Corpus designers have to deal with several characteristics inherent in historical texts, such as: absence of a spelling standard, ...

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...

Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britian

Anti-Catholicism in mid-Victorian Britain has had numerous historians, but none have posited a theory of religious prejudice to help explain it. This article argues that anti-Catholicism in midVictorian Britain can be interpreted as an example of prejudice rather than as a problem of differences over competing theologies on true religion. It suggests ways in which behavioral theory can help exp...