Some particulars connected with the history of baptismal fonts

Jena philosophy, historicism, and literature energized nineteenth-century European intellectual life. Their key concerns were time and meaning, quintessentiallyRomantic, but they s...

Abstract The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is ‘Gladstone’ to modern biographers. In ord...

A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural ...

The chapter constitutes the first detailed study of how early lexicographers and printers exploited typography to present the description of the meaning of words and their morpholo...

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