Volume 27 (2023), Edition 1-2

James Clavell’s The Last Valley (1971) is a singular film in the filmography of the Thirty Years War. A personal project of a British director and novelist of Australian origin, who had experience of fire in the Second World War, it presents the...

During the seventeenth century, Sapienta veterum was one of Francis Bacon’s most successful books. This short and highly condensed text employs and sometimes intriguingly appropriates various Classical myths to convey some of Bacon’s most...

At the close of the fifteenth century, the Neapolitan humanist Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) set out to write a number of treatises on Aristotelian themes. The article looks at his treatise De fortuna, showing that its most important influence is the...

The 18th century French Caribbean colonies were hotbeds of transatlantic trading practices which went far beyond the commerce of the big companies and merchant houses. Everyday commercial worlds were characterized by a multitude of less-formalized...

This article examines the discussion about the chiliastic interpretation of the Goldau landslide (1806) by the physician and lay theologian Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling, and puts it in the context of late Enlightenment debates about the concept of...

The essay tries to show that it is by no means recommendable to apply the term ,autosociobiography‘, which goes back to Annie Ernaux, exclusively to texts of the recent past. Rather, it seems worthwhile to give research on this genre a more...