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The Discovery of Merlin --$t2. Writing the History of Merlin --$t3. The British Merlin --$t4. The Curious Career of Merlin the Astrologer --$t5. Merlin's Magic --$t6. A Demonic Heritage --$t7. Merlin in Europe --$t8. Love and Death --$tConclusion: The Measure of Merlin --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMerlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the historical' figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was, and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real-and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the 'long-lost' history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin's magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. 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La vita, il processo e l'eredita? dell'hacker Aaron Swartz 210 $aMilano$cMilano University Press$d2022 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a979-1-255-10004-1 330 $aLa vita troppo breve dell'hacker Aaron Swartz - morto suicida l'11 gennaio del 2013 - ha tantissimi aspetti incredibili. Piccolo genio dell'informatica cresciuto in un sobborgo di Chicago, incontra, da adolescente, studiosi del calibro di Tim Berners-Lee e Lawrence Lessig e lavora con loro per costruire le architetture informatiche, e le licenze d'uso, del futuro. Con un cambio di vita radicale, decidera? poi di dedicarsi all'attivismo politico e tecnologico proprio mentre i suoi coetanei piu? talentuosi sfruttano l'onda della Silicon Valley per arricchirsi. Lui dedichera?, invece, le sue energie e il suo talento a combattere per l'open access, per la sicurezza delle comunicazioni, per l'anonimato e per "liberare" contenuti e cultura dai confini, e pedaggi, delle grandi banche dati. A un certo punto, pero?, il governo degli Stati Uniti d'America lo prendera? di mira e, lentamente, la potente macchina giudiziaria americana lo stritolera?. Il suo insegnamento, le sue teorie, la sua passione sono ancora oggi, a distanza di dieci anni dalla sua morte, esempio per tantissimi utenti, hacker e cittadini della societa? dell'informazione. 330 $aThe short life of hacker Aaron Swartz, who died by suicide on 11 January 2013, has many incredible aspects. A small computer genius who grew up in a Chicago suburb, he met, as a teenager, scholars of the calibre of Tim Berners-Lee and Lawrence Lessig and worked with them to build the computer architectures, and licences, of the future. In a radical change of life, he will then decide to devote himself to political and technological activism; in the meantime, his talented colleagues are taking advantage of the Silicon Valley wave to get rich. Instead, he will devote his energies, and talent, to fight for open access, secure communications, anonymity, and freeing content and culture from the confines, and paywalls, of big databases. At some point, however, the US government will target him and, slowly, the powerful American judicial machine will crush him. His teaching, his theories, his passion are still today, ten years after his death, an example for many users, hackers and citizens of the information society. 606 $aBiography and non-fiction prose$2bicssc 610 $aAaron Swartz 610 $aComputer crimes 610 $aCreative Commons 610 $aHacking 610 $aOpen Access 610 $aOpen culture 615 7$aBiography and non-fiction prose 700 $aZiccardi$b Giovanni$4auth$0179760 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910910489303321 996 $aAggiustare il mondo. La vita, il processo e l?eredità dell?hacker Aaron Swartz$94296095 997 $aUNINA