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From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest empires and centers of civilization, the Mediterranean generated globalization and multiculturalism. It gave birth to the three great monotheisms--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--religions of the book, of the land and of the sea. Over the centuries, the Mediterranean witnessed the rise and...

This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference "Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain," held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet). Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates Early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume - all written by experts in the field teaching in the United Kingdom, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, India and Germany - focus on a selection of...

This volume focuses on religion from a trans-cultural and international perspective. Its aim is to open up new perspectives on how religions might coexist peacefully within 21^st century societies and simultaneously contribute to global pacification. Can a religion cope peacefully with the existence of other religions, without having to abandon its own claim to truth, and if so, what already inherent, specific characteristics would have to be emphasized? Or is secular culture the path to convince different religions of a shared ideal of peaceful co-existence? These questions are...

Der vorliegende Band prasentiert Margot Kruses wichtigste Aufsatze zur Moralistik, von den spaten sechziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die Studien, zum groten Teil auf Deutsch, einige auf Franzosisch, gliedern sich in zwei Sektionen. Die Abhandlungen der ersten Sektion behandeln im Anschluss an eine Einfuhrung zentrale moralistische Konzepte in den Schriften von La Rochefoucauld, von Mlle de Scudery, von Chamfort und v. a. von Pascal. Die zweite Sektion ist dem Umfeld der groen franzosischen Moralisten gewidmet. Zudem kommen Vorlaufer und parallele...