A Mistaken Attribution to Lady Mary Shepherd by Deborah Boyle

“…In addition to the 1824 and 1827 books known to have been written by Lady Mary Shepherd, another philosophical treatise, published in 1819, has sometimes been attributed to her. …”
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Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene by Stephen Collis

“…This paper, composed formally as an homage to Duncan’s own use of the “daybook” model, re-reads The H.D. Book as a treatise on time, working out a poetics in response to Charles Olson’s challenge, posed in the essay “Against Wisdom as Such,” to conceive of the poetic act as a practice of “bending time.” …”
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Proces nawrócenia się Abrahama w interpretacji Filona z Aleksandrii by Mateusz Wyrzykowski

“… The article aims to present a reinterpretation of the history of Abraham's calling in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria. The text of Genesis (12:1-4) describes the patriarch's immediate reaction to the command to leave Haran. …”
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De computo de Rábano Mauro. O texto e as iluminuras do Santa Cruz 8 e do Alc. 426 by Maria Coutinho

“…The aim is then to reflect on the reasons of a parcelled copy of the work, accompanied by the finger reckoning images, and to determine the affinity between the two manuscripts considering not only their proximity, but also their striking differences, specially on Hrabanus’s illuminations.The study will have a concise introduction on the relevance of the computus for the high Middle Ages and a brief presentation of the general contents of Hrabanus’s treatise.…”
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« Au fracas de la foudre, les animaux intelligents s’éveillèrent » by Agnès Bouvier

“…Félix Pouchet, in Heterogeny or Spontaneous generation Treatise (1859), argues, against Pasteur and Milne-Edwards, for the existence of a « genesical force » inside matter at the beginning of the universe, still active in the formation and transformation of species. …”
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CALCULATED RISKS: EXPLORING PLAGUE ETHICS WITH LUTHER AND BARTH by A. Hancock

“…Martin Luther’s 1527 treatise on plague ethics and Karl Barth’s treatment of the “will to health” in Church Dogmatics are discussed with attention to questions of health and risk. …”
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HERAKLEİTOS: KOSMOS'TAN İNSAN'A by Hakan Poyraz

“…Accordingly, the goal of this paper will be an evaluation of such a methaphisical treatise from which the idea of the unity of man with the universe can be derived.…”
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The Surgery of Celsus’ De Medicina by James W. Blatchford, III, MD

“…Celsus’ De Medicina (first century ce) is the first comprehensive treatise on medicine and surgery to survive from antiquity. …”
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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“…The motif was transformed during the Early Baroque Era to a poetical picture and during the first half of the 17th Century it has been applied in several Emblem books encluding enormously favourite and influential treatise Pia desideria written by Jesuit Herman Hugo and edited in Antwerp in 1624. …”
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LINEN SIEVES – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN'S MUSICOLOGICAL WRITINGS (ANGI ISTVÁN: SITE DE IN, EDITURA MEDIA MUSICA, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2014) by Attila FODOR

“…Both provocative and meditative, the title-metaphor invites the reader not only to explore the content of this book, but also to familiarize itself with the significant and original aesthetic view of the author, elaborated in a two-volume treatise, Lectures on Music Aesthetics (Oradea University Press, 2004.) …”
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Self-Love or Diffidence? Malebranche and Hume on the Love of Fame by Julie Walsh

“…Hume’s discussion of pride and sympathy in the Treatise shows direct engagement with Malebranche’s discussion of ‘imitation’ in the Search. …”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. …”
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Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe by M. Mujinga

“…Using the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe as a case study, the aim of this paper was to challenge the church’s traditional sacramental theology and propose a theological treatise that has relevance in the context of pandemics like Covid-19. …”
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Descartes on Natural Signs and the Case of Sensory Perception

“…The objective of this paper is to counter this view and present two related points: first, Descartes’ identification of brain states with signs established by nature in the Treatise on Light (AT XI.4/G.4) amounts to a genuine attempt at understanding the causal structure of sensory perception. …”
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Conway's Demonstration of a Mediator Between God and Creatures by Douglas Bertrand Marshall

“…In her sole philosophical treatise, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Anne Conway (1631-1679) offers a demonstration of the proposition that, in addition to God and creatures, there is a being whose essence is the medium between God’s essence and creatures’ essence. …”
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Rhetorical Mixture: Hermogenes and Hybridity in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Javiera Lorenzini Raty

“…Hermogenes of Tarsus’ innovative stylistic theory is arguably the most neglected, yet most influential rhetorical source of stylistic and generic hybridity in Renaissance England. His treatise On Ideas of Style (Περὶ ἰδεῶν) presented mixture both as a quality of all styles, and also as a core value of dignified styles, encouraging writers to compose hybrid texts and to read the literary tradition with attention to its combination of forms. …”
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Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania by Tomas Riklius

“… Despite the abundance of theological treatises in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late 16th century, only five of the eighty-six known titles deal with the use of sacred images and reveal the opposing sides of Catholics and Protestants in such confessional debates. …”
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On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

“…First, a brief exploration of De vulgari eloquentia, Dante’s own treatise on language and poetry, will determine whether the poet theorises rhythm and sound semantics in this work, and whether he considers smaller textual units than the word. …”
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The Points of Concurrence Theory in Guidobaldo del Monte’s Scenography by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…This study regards the De scenis, the sixth book of Perspectivae libri sex, written by Guidobaldo del Monte in 1600, entirely devoted to theatrical scenography. The treatise elaborates a scientific method of universal validity to construct scenes, based on the theory of the points of concurrence explained in the first book of this work, a theory that deeply influenced the history of perspective and descriptive geometry. …”
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Why Can’t Saint Victorinus of Poetovio Be the Author of the Homily “On the Ten Virgins”? by Nikolay A. Khandoga

“…Victorinus of Poetovio — the treatise «On the creation of the world», the fragment «On the life of Christ» and the interpretation of «On Revelation» — in order to identify the author of the homily. …”
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