Since there are not any epigraphic sources from the times before Roman invasion of Dardanian Kingdom (Mbretëria dardane), stone monuments with Latin inscriptions period represent a source enormous importance for study beliefs and cults on Dardan soils, both during rule, forgods various cults, which were relicts earlier times, represented first century A.D.According to results studies about 600 ...

RICHARD KIECKHEFER, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 219, illus., £20.00/$39.50, £6.95/$9.95 (paperback). Magic in the Middle Ages is meant to be a general textbook on anything covered by the term "magic"-defined in the most generous sense as a cultural form in Europe between the years c. 500 to 1500. It succeeds admirably. Be...

RICHARD KIECKHEFER, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 219, illus., £20.00/$39.50, £6.95/$9.95 (paperback). Magic in the Middle Ages is meant to be a general textbook on anything covered by the term "magic"-defined in the most generous sense as a cultural form in Europe between the years c. 500 to 1500. It succeeds admirably. Be...

Among the many interesting paintings the Metropolitan Museum has recently had the good fortune to receive as loans from Mrs. Payne Whitney there is one that is not only entertaining but also somewhat puzzling.' It shows a pair of young lovers. The man is paying court to the woman by putting his arms tenderly round her, and she shows her satisfaction in a rather surprising way, pressing his litt...

Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

To understand the ethical aspect of paying attention to waste, this article is grounded in the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas, who argues that an openness to the ‘Other’ is a sign of the ethical. If we are complacent, we cannot act ethically. The horror, fear, shock and disgust we feel when confronted by waste jolts us out of our complacency. We recognize in waste not only the humanity of the o...

The figures associated with nouvelle théologie were shaped by, and in turn gave shape to, their own chapter of the modernist crisis, which Étienne Fouilloux defines as “the rereading foundational message [of gospel] light [nineteenth-century] scientific advancements.”1 Insofar this crisis dogmatic authority religious experience called into question relationship human action to spiritual versus ...

Michael Reed's 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account uncomfortable relationship between Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints and core symbol Christianity: cross. Reed persuasively demonstrates that taboo was late development in Saint history locates much taboo's roots anti-Catholicism early to mid-twentieth century.This article presents mo...