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  ARTS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - TABLE OF CONTENTS
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blogs.salon.com /0002007/stories/2003/05/13/artsLiteratureScienceTechnologyTableOfContents.html   (3374 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russian Language and Literature
To profane literature belong the "Testament" Vladimir Monomachus, written in 1099, in which its author gives a recital of his enterprises; and the celebrated account of the battle of Igor ("Slovo" or "Polku Igorevie"), which was found in 1795 in the library of Count Musin Pushkin.
The most important monument of the literature of the sixteenth century is the "Domostroi", attributed to Sylvester, a priest who was the contemporary of Ivan the Terrible; Sylvester was, however, the compiler rather than the author of the work.
Russian literature lost its ecclesiastical character and assumed a lay form; and in ecclesiastical literature itself there was effected a transformation towards the modern, due to the reforms of Peter the Great.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13265a.htm   (8653 words)

  
 Literature - The Rusyns - Rusyn.org
Hence, Subcarpathian literature of the second half of the nineteenth century was in both theme and language characterized by resistance to magayarization.
Separated as it was from Rusyn literature in the Carpathian homeland and influenced by specific historical and political circumstances as well as a different linguistic situation in a diaspora environment, Vojvodinian Rusyn literature experienced its own internal and continuous dynamic.
Rusyn-language literature in the United States is connected with the large-scale immigration to North America that began in the 1880s and continued until the outbreak of World War I. In the 1890s the first of several Rusyn-language newspapers and annual almanacs began to be published, in which literary works, usually poetry and plays, appeared.
www.rusyn.org /?root=rusyns&rusyns=lit   (7473 words)

  
 John Locke -- Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His knowledge of medicine and occasional practice of the art led, in 1666, to an acquaintance with Lord Ashley (afterwards, from 1672, Earl of Shaftesbury).
On his return to England, early in 1666, he declined an offer of further service in Spain, and settled again in Oxford, but was soon induced by Shaftesbury to spend a great part of his time in London.
it met with immediate success, and led to a voluminous literature of attack and reply; young fellows of colleges tried to introduce it at the universities, and heads of houses sat in conclave to devise means for its suppression.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/l/locke.htm   (7767 words)

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