Medieval literature has deeply shaped modern through many different channels. Sometimes entire works were translated or paraphrased into languages, sometimes medieval motifs, themes, figures, concepts impacted texts. This article examines one remarkable example, Werner Bergengruen’s highly popular novella “Die drei Falken” (1928) the source of inspiration which was loosely Boccaccio’s story tol...

Abstract Global professional service firms (GPSFs) are key actors in contemporary capitalism. They (co-) produce and disseminate new business practices, linking firms, sectors, countries, integrating them into a global system. We examine second, less studied function of these firms: underpinning capitalism’s status hierarchies. ask whether have emerged as producers corporate nobility—as an exte...

desires of saving souls’ (p. 87). Personal assurance was deemed to be essential and those who denied it were accused of Arminianism, yet preachers strove to undermine it, for fear of laxity creeping in. Robert Baillie prescribed ‘a diligent effort “to make our personall Election sure” ’ (p. 99). On the one hand, divine grace is irresistible, but on the other the preacher demands effort from the...

“At that time, the generally accepted idea that the differences between the brain of [non-human) mammals (cat, dog, monkey, etc.) and that of man are only quantitative, seemed to me unlikely and even a little offensive to human dignity... but do not articulate language, the capability of abstraction, the ability to create concepts, and, finally, the art of inventing ingenious instruments... see...