In his Vita Antonii, Athanasius narrates a hostile encounter that his protagonist Antony has with a half-human, half-asinine creature which intrudes upon his solitude in the desert and dies a violent death after Antony banishes it. Many scholars have suggested that this...

The purpose of this paper is to trace the reception of the problem of evil in Armenian philosophical literature in Late Antiquity. As preliminary material, it offers a detailed discussion of the philosophical tenets of the debate as developed by the Neoplatonists, and e...

Contrary to previous assumptions, in the Ancien Régime ordinary subjects were allowed to entreat the emperor directly. The supplications addressed to Emperor Rudolf II and processed by the Imperial Aulic Council corresponded to the social backgrounds of the female or ma...