Helena ROSENBLATT, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

This chapter gives an overview of the history of recording and publishing epigraphic sources in Demotic language and script from the Late Period to Greco-Roman Egypt (seventh century bce to third century ce), for example, on stelae, offering tables, coffins, or votive gifts. The history of editing such texts and objects spans over two hundred years. Here, the important steps and pioneering publications on Demotic epigraphy are examined. They start from the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt found the Rosetta stone, until the twenty-first century.

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History of Warships from Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

The Journal of Military History ◽

10.2307/120506 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 712

Author(s):

Clark G. Reynolds ◽

James L. George

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

History Of ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Twenty First Century

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Random Pandemic Perambulations: A Brief History of Literary Walks in the Age of Corona

Comparative Critical Studies ◽

10.3366/ccs.2021.0402 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (2-3) ◽

pp. 187-207

Author(s):

Peter Arnds

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

First Century ◽

History Of ◽

Oriented Movement ◽

Twenty First Century

This article focuses on the concept of randomness as the absence of goal-oriented movement in literary walks. The literature of walking displays the happenstance of adventure as one of the great antidotes to our inane, highly technologized, digitalized twenty-first-century lifestyle. In the end, however, such randomness may reveal itself as not so random after all, as the purpose of the journey, its inherent telos, discloses itself while travelling or in hindsight. This article provides brief glimpses into the history of literary walks to examine this tension between apparent randomness and the non-random. By drawing on a range of cultural theories and theorizations of travel and especially of walking, I look at literary foot travel in the nineteenth century, the Romantics and American Transcendentalists, some great adventure hikes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the urban and rural flâneur. In doing so the article does not lose sight of the question of how we can instrumentalize the literature of walking for life during the current pandemic.

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