Biblioteka Uniwersytecka

Prefazione . . IX
Avvertenza . . XI
Introduzione . . XIII

PARTE PRIMA - La libertà formale

I. Libertà divina . . 3
1. La physis di Dio . . 5
2. Libertà come negazione: il «no» . . 7
3. Libertà come atto finito e potenza infinita: l'assoluto libero arbitrio . . 9
4. Un antecedente del Dio pre-mondano: i «Weltalter» di Schelling . . 12
5. Libertà nelle parole originarie . . 16

II. Volontà umana . . 21
1. Volontà umana e libertà divina: un confronto . . 24
2. Caratteristiche della volontà umana . . 26
3. Il «sé» meta-etico . . 28
4. L'eroe tragico . . 29
5. Il confronto con Kant . . 32

PARTE SECONDA - Fenomenologia della libertà vissuta

I. Dalla filosofia dell'«è» alla filosofia della «e» . . 39
1. Nuovo pensiero e pensiero ebraico . . 42
2. L'inversione interna agli elementi . . 49
3. Dalla libertà come mero concetto formale alla libertà vissuta . . 53

II. Libertà di Dio . . 57
1. La libertà divina: condizione di possibilità della relazione . . 57
2. La creazione: posizione libera di un altro da sé? . . 61
3. La rivelazione: limitazione della libertà divina . . 72

III. Libertà dell'uomo . . 75
1. Libertà nell'istante . . 75
2. La chiamata per nome . . 82
3. Libertà dalla chiamata di Dio: la libertà responsorea . . 95
4. Libertà per la responsabilità . . 102
5. L'autonomia adempiuta in relazione . . 108

Conclusione . . 109
Nota bio-bibliografica . . 113
Indice dei nomi . . 131

Introduction . . 1
The History of Children's Library Design: Continuities and Discontinuities . . 7
Children's Media Culture: A Key to Libraries of the Future? . . 39
A Children's Public Library in Muscat, Oman . . 49
Building Excellent Libraries with and for Children . . 65
Programme: Jacksonville Public Library Children's and Teens' Libraries . . 83
Santiago Public Library: A Challenge for Children and Youth Adults . . 95
The Red Thread in Hjoerring . . 103
"Here you can go everywhere you want, sort of..." Building a New Children's Library . . 117
Children's Spaces From Around the World . . 131
Conclusion . . 143
Author Biographies . . 145

I. The Ancient Concept of Progress . . 1
II. The Prometheus Vinctus and the Progress of Scholarship . . 26
III. Morals and Politics in the Oresteia . . 45
IV. On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex . . 64
V. Euripides the Irrationalist . . 106
VI. The Sophistic Movement and the Failure of Greek Liberalism . . 92
VII. Plato and the Irrational . . 106
VIII. Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus . . 126
IX. The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece . . 140
X. Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity . . 156

Index of Passages Discussed . . 211
General Index . . 212

About the Contributors . . ix
Introduction . . 3

1 Changing Agrarian Landscapes across America. A Comparative Perspective . . 16
2 New England's Forest Landscape. Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History . . 44
3 Agricultural Transformation of Southern Appalachia . . 89
4 Dustbowl Legacies. Long-Term Change and Resilience in the Shortgrass Steppe . . 122
5 The Political Ecology of Southwest Michigan Agriculture, 1837-2000 . . 152
6 Agrarian Landscape Iransition in the Flint Hills ot Kansas. Legacies and Resilience . . 206
7 Water Can Flow Uphill. A Narrative of Central Arizona . . 238

Conclusion . . 272
Index . . 279

Abbreviations . . xv

Introduction . . 1
0.1. General
0.2. Aidos and Emotion
0.3. Shame and Guilt
0.4. Shame-Culture and Guilt-Culture

1. Aidos in Homer . . 48
1.1. How Things Look and What People Say
1.2. Aidos in Battle
1.3. Aidos towards Others: The Cement of Homeric Society
1.4. Aidos, Women, and Sex
1.5. Aidos, 'Intelligence', and Excess
1.6. Other Terms
1.7. Conclusion

2. From Hesiod to the Fifth Century . . 147
2.1. Hesiod
2.2. The Homeric Hymns
2.3. Elegiac and Iambic Poets
2.4. Pindar

3. Aeschylus . . 178
3.1. General
3.2. Crucial Passages
3.3. The Rejection of Aides
3.4. Aidos and Sebas

4. Sophocles . . 215
4.1. General
4.2. Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes

5. Euripides . . 265
5.1. Personal Honour and Status
5.2. Friends, Suppliants, and Guests
5.3. Honour, Reputation, Retrospective Shame, and Guilt
5.4. Sexuality and the Sexes
5.5. The Importance of Aidos

6. The Sophists, Plato, and Aristotle . . 343
6.1. Conscience and the Ordinary Athenian
6.2. Protagoras and Moral Education
6.3. Doing Wrong in Secret: Or Shame-Culture versus Guilt-Culture
6.4. Plato
6.5. Aristotle

Epilogue . . 432

References . . 435
Glossary . . 455
Index of Principal Passages . . 459
General Index . . 472

Acknowledgements . . ix
List of Figures . . x
List of Tables . . xv
List of Abbreviations . . xvi

1. Introduction . . 1
2. Wealthy Households: Theory, Sources, Methodology . . 21
3. The Agricultural Holdings of Large-Scale Households . . 55
4. The Domestic Consumption of Olive Oil . . 85
5. Cultivating the Olive . . 97
6. Processing Olives . . 131
7. Arboriculture and Ornamental Gardens in Ancient Greece . . 219
8. Conclusions . . 247

Bibliography . . 261
Index Locurum . . 285
General Index . . 291

Abbreviations . . xiii

1. Polyphemus the Linguist . . 1
1. Languages in Homer . . 1
2. The Cyclopes' Society . . 4
3. Language, Diet, and Laws . . 8
4. Communicating with Animals . . 11

2. Language in the Golden Age . . 18
1. The Nature of Language in the Golden Age . . 18
2. Early Languages . . 36
3. Hesiod, Homer, and the Golden Age . . 46
4. Animals in the Golden Age . . 57

3. Psammetichus' Children . . 68
1. The Experiment and its Background . . 68
2. First Words and First Gestures . . 83
3. Later Variations on Psammetichus' Trial . . 92
4. Ancient Reactions to the Experiment . . 107

4. The Invention of Language . . 112
1. Gods as Inventors of Language . . 113
2. Culture Heroes and First Men: Palamedes, Theuth, and Phoroneus . . 122
3. The Great Myth of the Protagoras . . 127
4. Fire and Language . . 147
5. Men Invent Language Together . . 158

5. Between Language and Speech . . 182
1. Introduction: Language, Speech, and Communication . . 182
2. The Languages of Primitive Peoples . . 184
3. Gestures and Mute Voices . . 195
4. Speaking Animals . . 207

Bibliography . . 213
Index Locorum . . 227
General Index . . 243

Preface . . vii
Abbreviations . . ix
Chronology . . xi
Maps . . xvi

Introduction . . 1
1. Conquest and Conqueror . . 12
2. Early Anglo-Latin Religious Prose . . 21
3. Science, Learning, and Instructive Stories . . 38
4. Early Anglo-Latin Historians, Scholars, Encyclopedists, and Entertainers . . 54
5. 'The Matter of Britain': Geoffrey of Monmouth . . 103
6. Early Anglo-Norman Poetry: Benedeit's Voyage of St Brendan . . 129
7. Anglo-Norman Verse Chronicles . . 146
8. English in the Earlier Period . . 169
9. Science, Learning, and Instruction: Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries . . 177
10. 'The Matter of Britain' in English: Layamon's Brut . . 198
11. Anglo-Latin Poetry: Songs and Satire . . 206
12. Saints' Lives and Visions . . 221
13. Anglo-Norman Romances . . 241
14. Romances and Outlaw Tales . . 262
15. Tales of Antiquity . . 276
16. Short Romances and Lais: Marie de France . . 290
17. Fables and Animal Stories: Marie de France and Others . . 313
18. Debate: The Owl and the Nightingale . . 332
19. Burlesque, Parody, Merry Tale . . 342
20. Early Middle English Religious Prose: the 'Katherine Group', the 'Wooing Group', and Ancrene Wisse . . 356
21. Moral and Religious Verse and Prose . . 374
22. English Romances . . 402
23. Lyrics: Anglo-Norman and Middle English . . 420
24. Drama . . 441
25. Later Chroniclers, Scholars, and Theologians . . 489
26. English Narrative in the Earlier Fourteenth Century: Robert Mannyng . .510
27. Earlier Fourteenth-century Alliterative Poems . . 521
28. Earlier Fourteenth-century Mystical Writing: Richard Rolle . . 541
29. Private Devotion: Henry of Lancaster's Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines . . 548
30. Wonders of the East: Mandeville's Travels . . 552

Bibliographical Notes—Further Reading . . 563
Index of headings and main sub-headings . . 583
Index of first lines of poems and verse extracts . . 587
Index of works . . 589
Index of authors . . 591

List of characters . . ix
Chronology . . xi
List of Figures . . xv
List of Abbreviations . . xix
Note to the Reader . . xxi

INTRODUCTION . . 1

1. THE TRIAL OF SPENCER COWPER . . 10
Dead Bodies Float . .  14
Scientific Reputations . . 18
An Anatomy of London Doctors . . 22
Dead Dogs and Public Science . . 25
False Man's Cruelty . . 30
Summing up . . 34
Zara's story . . 37

2. PARTISAN FEUDS . . 45
The Whigs . . 46
The Tories . . 54
Hertford Tories . . 59
Popular Politics and Party Rivalries . . 63

3. QUAKERS . . 70
Persecution . . 71
Spiritual Warfare . . 77
The Lustful Quaker . . 82
The Trial Verdict and its Aftermath . . 89
Consequences . . 95

4. MORAL PANIC AND MARITAL AFFAIRS . . 98
Rethinking Religion . . 100
Rethinking Marriage . . 109
The Quakers, Marriage, and Morality . . 113
Sarah Cowper and the Slavery of Marriage . . 116
Will Bigamy . . 125
Justifying Polygamy . . 132
Manley and the New Atalantis . . 138

5. FANATICS AND FALSE BRETHREN . . 142
Sacheverell and his Sermons . . 144
The Trial . . 148
Hypocrisy . . 160
Sacheverell and Print Fever . . 166
Censorship and Censuring . . 181
Fanaticism . . 186
Sacheverell's Longer-term Legacy . . 190

6. DESPAIR AND DEMONISM . . 193
Melancholic Despair and Suicide . . 197
The Despair of the Deist and Atheist . . 202
Shifting Attitudes . . 206
Animal Spirits . . 207
A Political Witch-hunt . . 213
Jane Wenham . . 220
The Debate over the Impossibility of Witchcraft . . 228
Vindicating Jane Wenham . . 237

CONCLUSION: AN EXCEPTIONAL STORY? . . 241

Glossary . . 247
Endnotes . . 253
Further Reading . . 267
Index . . 273

List of Abbreviations . . xi
Map of Russian Empire, 1912 . . xiv
Introduction. The Storyteller and His Story . . 1

1. Transcaucasia: Boyhood and Family on an Imperial Frontier, 1849—1865 . . 18
'On Ancestors [O predkakh]': Men and Masculinity . . 21
Frontier Women and Imperial Imagination . . 37
Conclusion: A Grandmother's Tale . . 48

2. Imperial Identity: Corning of Age in New Russia, 1865-1881 . . 57
The University and 'Studenthood' . . 61
Odessa and St Petersburg: The Railway Man in an Age of Empire . . 69
Conclusion: A New Russian . . 86

3. Kiev: Dreaming in the Victorian 1880s . . 90
'The Reality That Surrounds Us': Imperial Economy and Polity . . 96
Public and Private Lives . . 113
Imagining Autocracy . . 127
Conclusion: A Tale of the Counter-reforms . . 134

4. A City of Dreams: St Petersburg, the Empire of the Tsars, and Imperial Horizons in the Gilded Age (1889—1903) . . 138
Gospodin Minister: Witte as Imperial Official . . 144
The Witte System and the Empire of Gold . . 153
Fathers and Sons on the Road to War . . 170

5. From Exile: Memories of Re volutionary Russia, 1903—1912 . . 189
From Summer 1903 to October 1905: War, America, and Revolution . . 195
The Nightmare of 1905 . . 215
Conclusion: 'My Six-Month Ministry' . . 231

Conclusion: From the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, 1915 . . 241

Notes . . 254
Bibliography . . 291
Index . . 309