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4 days ago · As the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II sought to create a cultural capital that would rival the great cities of the Islamic world and the classical era. Castel del Monte was one of Frederick‘s most ambitious projects, designed to embody his vision of a perfect fusion between art and science.
4 days ago · When Thomas was 14, a military conflict between the Italian Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX spilled into the abbey, prompting Thomas’ parents to enroll him at the studium generale (university) recently established by the emperor in Naples. There, not only did he discover the works of Aristotle, but also the Dominican order, which he ...
Is there any modern approach to philosophy that denies the primacy of language to approach Philosophy? See title. In other words: After the linguistic turn, as far as i understand it, the philosophy turned to stress the importance of language in grasping the world and to formulate answers regarding the foundational problems in philosophy.
5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The current King of the United Kingdom and King of Norway are agnatic members of this house, meanwhile the King of Spain and King of ...
5 days ago · In his best-selling fugitive slave autobiography of the era “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas,” he described the depravity of slavery and his master’s overseer: “Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was ...
2 days ago · The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia. Related conflicts include the 1754 to 1763 ...
4 days ago · The whole of A New Negro, some 428 pages and 60 portraits, reads now as a complex, if bulky, sign of both the individual achievements of black men and women as abolitionists, soldiers, and artists, and of the twentieth century’s “New Negroes,” the “progressive” classes of the race, who were forming numerous self-help institutions ...
