CHARLES WEBSTER (ed.), The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth century, (Past and Present Series), London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, pp. x, 445, £5.95. Reviewed by Andrew Cunningham, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History ofMedicine. Everyone who is familiar with the jealousy with which librarians guard their copies of Past and Present will welcome this addition t...

The article discusses the role of Christian messianism in process emanpcipation man and society. On one hand, would be nothing without its institutionalization by Church, on other history Christianity has shown that there have always been stark contradictions between two institutions Church: hierarchy messianism. In context this vocational dilemma author explores exceptional significance as a r...

Anthropology is nothing if it not a particular way of describing the world. Yet what most precious to – terms and concepts that mark as discipline can also be tricky. When resurgent boundaries exclusions twist truth telling faking in any which way, anthropology might find new urgency thinking about conceptual life tries express. How engages has always depended on (attention to) how are used, so...