From Romanticism to New Age

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...

A Study of English Romanticism

James Vigus reads British Romanticism and Continental Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia

t least thirty English translations of works by the German dramatist August von Kotzebue appeared in 1799 alone, and were consumed by an eager public.1 That was admittedly a bumper year, but throughout the 1790s and early 1800s copious novels, plays and ballads from Germany, France and even Scandinavia were translated and adapted by more or less successful British writers. The paradox was that ...

MARK-AGE population: From the human model to new insights

iriam Capria,b,∗,1, María Moreno-Villanuevac,1, Elisa Ceveninia, Elisa Pinia, aria Scurti a, Vincenzo Borelli a, Maria Giustina Palmasb, Marco Zolid, Christiane Schöne, nne Siepelmeyere, Jürgen Bernhardte, Simone Fiegl f, Gerben Zondagg, nton J.M. de Craenh, Antti Hervoneni, Mikko Hurmei, Ewa Sikora j, Efstathios S. Gonosk, onstantinos Voutetakisk, Olivier Toussaint l, Florence Debacq-Chainiaux...

Metformin: From medieval age to new therapeutic targets

Int J Diab Dev Ctries | January-March 2008 | Volume 28 | Issue 1 prevalence of adult obesity in the United States has more than doubled from 15% in the late 1970s to 31% in 2000.[4] Among adolescents the prevalence has tripled from 5% to 15% over the same period.[4] Faced with this dramatic epidemic of obesity and on the basis of some studies,[2] metformin therapy might be considered a potentia...