An unstudied manuscript in Princeton contains lectures delivered by the youthful Jacques Sirmond at the Jesuit college of Pont-a-Mousson. In contrast to the received picture of Jesuit pedagogues as devoted rhetoricians, Sirmond explained Aeneid books 3 and 12 in a self-consciously historical way, concentrating especially on Roman law and religion and their interaction. His concerns are discusse...

We explored the notions of life and death as perceived and presented in a 15th century Croatian literary text, Slovo Mestra Polikarpa, in which master Polikarp, a well-learned man of medieval times, engages in a lengthy dialogue with Death itself. This contrast/debate is a rare piece of medieval literature, not only by its Old Croatian language, but also by the angular Glagolitic script in whic...

studying the comparison between bahrame gour’s story in shahnameh and the ancient, historical texts in this article we studied the differences between two historical and fictional narrations of bahram e gour’s story. to obtain this aim we studied historiographer’s point of view and on the other hand the firdowsi’s narration has been represented. in order to explain the differences we defined tw...