...Natalie Zemon Davis Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 208 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, ed. Kit Kincade...

... approach account for the wide interest in his works, extending to circles that extend far beyond the disciplines of classical studies and the history of philosophy. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 columns BEHIND THE VEIL...

...Pierre Hadot The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2006 Translated by Michael Chase C O L U M N S ISIS HAS NO VEILS Pierre Hadot Translated by Michael Chase In 1814, when the archduke...

...” to the exploit of others. Scientists cannot change institutions; political actors cannot dispense with the operations of power. Veblen asks much of us: for he struggled to undrape the veils of power while puncturing false hopes in the prospects of democracy. His quietism situates itself within this awful...

..., “concealment seems to be just the point.” The Father remains, throughout the ordeal of judgment, “concealed behind Christ's less concealed concealment.” 166 Authorizing removal of the veils of Moses and Synagoga, it is clear, changed nothing in Suger's mind about the hiddenness of God and the superiority...

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...”). The case of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (not quite effaced by Istanbul) is also intriguing. In the apse, the ninth-century mosaic of the Virgin and Child is now veiled from view in the church's recent reincarnation as a mosque. Veiling was a potent means of temporary erasure in both “Eastern...

.... Habitual solidity too familiar to see yields to possibility too unfamiliar to see. Late and early, early, late, end, beginning—all are swirled into a mist that veils the world. The black and white of status quo blends to a color I don't know, transition that I cannot name, but I salute...

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... that made them culturally distinct from Old Christians had nothing to do with Islam. The sincerity of their faith in Christianity fell under suspicion if they dyed their fingers with henna, insisted on veiling their hair and faces with almalafas, took regular baths, preferred the meat of circumcised...

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... of sixteenth- century Spain, New Christians had to defend the idea that the practices that made them culturally distinct from Old Christians had nothing to do with Islam. The sincerity of their faith in Christianity fell under suspicion if they dyed their fingers with henna, insisted on veiling their hair...

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... unclear just what the story is. Carelessness in writing and editing throughout—including a subject-verb clash in the book's final sentence—has rendered key passages obscure. Everist describes Delsarte's voice as feeble, broken, veiled, and ready to be extinguished twice in the same paragraph, first...

... the monastery. Very few of the women visitors wear veils. The shared pilgrimage to Aya Yorgi (Saint George, in Greek) is perhaps the best attended and most important in the contemporary religious landscape of the Middle East. Moreover, it is one of the most visited holy sites in Istanbul but is part...

... on graphic lucidity, since the rapid drying of the plaster surface necessitated the meticulous planning of the overall design and left little room for coloristic improvisation. Color, associated with oil paint and veils of translucent hue, came to be seen as prototypically...

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