The Protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: Evidence from religious minorities in the former Holy Roman Empire

The Protestant Ethic and Work: Micro Evidence from Contemporary Germany

Few studies in the social sciences have spurred more controversy than Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. At the core of Weber’s theory lies a connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates the impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes and whether any such connection still exists. To b...

The Protestant Ethic versus the "New Ethic"

John Dee and the alchemists: Practising and promoting English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire

This paper investigates John Dee’s relationship with two kinds of alchemist: the authorities whose works he read, and the contemporary practitioners with whom he exchanged texts and ideas. Both strands coincide in the reception of works attributed to the famous English alchemist, George Ripley (d. c. 1490). Dee’s keen interest in Ripley appears from the number of transcriptions he made of ‘Ripl...

Superior Courts in Early-Modern France, England and the Holy Roman Empire

the relationship between efl learners linguistic and logical intelligence and the frequency and types of informal fallacies and evidence in argumentative writing

مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی وجود رابطه ی ممکن میان هوشهای زبانی و منطقی زبان آموزان انگلیسی و تعداد و انواع مغلطه های زبانی و شواهد در متنهای استدلالی آنان انجام پذیرفته است.بدین منظور، 70 زبان آموز با سطح زبانی متوسط به بالا از دو موسسه زبان انگلیسی در ایران انتخاب شده و پرسشنامه های مزبوطه را تکمیل نموده و متنی استدلالی نوشتند. متون نوشته شده مورد بررسی قرار گرفته و نمرات پرسشنامه ها محاسبه شده ...