Leopold Von Ranke (1795–1886): Criticizing an Early Modern Historian

Franz von Baader’s Criticism of Modern Rationalism A Brief Overview

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Introduction to the English Edition

In his letter to the prospective contributors to the Cambridge Modern History, one of the greatest collaborative works of history published in the twentieth century, British historian Lord Acton triumphantly declared that “the long conspiracy against the knowledge of truth has been practically abandoned, and competing scholars all over the civilized world are taking advantage of the change.” Ci...

Early Modern Literature and Cartography: An Overview

401 In the past two decades, early modern studies have witnessed sudden and dramatic development in areas in which cartography and literature overlap and inform each other. Maps have traditionally been used to sustain and illustrate the study of history, but now literary critics are studying them in order to detect how they mix observation and fantasy, elements vital to poetry and fiction and t...

Leopold Schenk (1840-1902).

Leopold Schenk attained international fame by his contributions to the science of embryology. The first chair of embryology in any medical school was established for him in the University of Vienna. This article briefly describes his life and his work.