Puritans and Performers in Early Modern Dorset

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,...

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased considerably in the past two decades, the problematic character of the evidence for suicide has led to afocus on attitudes to suicide at the expense of empirical investigations. The latter have largely confirmed the link between social isolation and suicide, po...

Health educators--the new puritans.

Kurtz, a journalist and Cosmopolitan columnist, sees Western society's obsession with health and health-related behavior as a kind of religion that is grounded in the worship of self. The "new puritans" of her title are health educators, do-gooders who would "deprive people of the privilege of taking responsibility for themselves." Physicians have been cast by the public as the priests of the...

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,...