Abstract This essay is intended to provide a wide-ranging reconstruction of the history of the concept of parrhesia in relation to its political implications.  Moving from Michel Foucault’s reading of the concept, the paper gives a succinct overview of its use in classical Greece and

Abstract The entry explores some aspects of the history of the concept of ‘redemption, focusing on its juridical background. Attention is given to the close relationship between the interpretation of Jesus’ salvific action by early Christian authors, on the one hand, and the pra

Download PDF The Temple as Sanctuary and the Right of Asylum (Tiziana Faitini) Abstract The entry deals with some aspects of the history of the concept of ‘temple’. In the Western tradition, the temple coincides, at least to some extent, with the territorialisation of the sacred. It i