Individuals as Universals: Audacious Views in Early Twelfth-Century Realism

Universals as Individuals: Reply to Levine

Two views of conceptual realism

ness, eternality, and immutability. Moreover, in so far as the qualities of the whole are true also of the parts of that whole, these characteristics are inherent i n the newly synthesized .Idea. A. man who becomes a political figure ideally would possess the qualities of knowledge, maturity, decisiveness, honesty, tact, far-sightedness, 1 . Ritter, EPP, 165. 59

Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Werewolf Renaissance.

In the late twelfth century, northern European Jewish mystics engaged in a sustained, unprecedented effort to explore the theological meaning of werewolves. This article seeks to anchor this surprising preoccupation in contemporary European religious culture, arguing that medieval Jews and Christians found werewolves "good to think with" in exploring the spiritual status of the (mutable, unstab...

To Have an Ethos Transplant, as It Were: Iranian Organizations in Washington DC in Early 21st Century

Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork from 2004 to 2006 among a range of Iranian organizations in Washington, D.C., this article argues that the studied organizations were engaged, without being always necessarily aware of it or formulating it as such, in what we may call an “ethos transplant:” a transformation of “Iranian character” and political culture to make it more susceptibl...

Views on the treatment of venereal disease in the early nineteenth century as reflected in the writings of Samuel Cooper.

Samuel Cooper was born in 1780 into a family in easy circumstances. After serving an apprenticeship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he obtained his degree in 1803 and settled in Golden Square. In 1806 he won the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the best essay on " Diseases of the Joints ", and in 1807, at the immature age of 27, he wrote " The First Lines ...