Intrigue

The ways in which the battle of Lepanto was imagined by contemporaries proves to be a combination and confluence of international and domestic political pressures, celebratory ritual, print practices, and the currency of intellectual ideas. The understanding of the Turkish adver…

The study makes a narrative ethical assessment of intrigue contained in the Jacob story (Gen. 25:19--35:29). Following Paul Ricoeur's theory of narrative, it presents (1) the configuration of more or less heterogenous elements in the narrative, (2) ethical refigurations of the s…