Some say it was used as a tactical harbor for Pirates during their raids on Sicilian coasts...But that's just Pelagian hearsay.
Some say that seagoing birds have souls, and Christ came to them as well as to humans.
I have actually been reading too much of the church fathers, in real life. I recommend it to everyone who no longer wants to be a normal person capable of conversation and fellowship with one's peers.
You know, the SEP isn't the first encyclopedia of philosophy. Does your picayune library not have any of the others, or are you just too lazy to drag your ass away from the computer?
Call me from your first 3/3, Ben, and I'll ask you that right back.
4:I had 3 other Philosophy Encyclopedias, but I got spywared, had to reinstall, and lost my favorites. They were inferior to Stanford.
The Routledge Encyclopedia is online for subscribing institutions. However, while its coverage is wider it's definitely shallower than the Stanford one.
What I've found helpful a few times is that 'Philosophical Books' regularly publishes 'state-of-the-art' survey articles in various areas and going back and finding them (they are long) has been a useful way in to literature where I'm either lost or my reading knowledge is restricted to undergraduate level stuff.
Using the on-line Philosopher's Index to find survey articles has also been helpful.
[Of course i've been working with a much smaller teaching load and only doing individual tutorials so not the same kind of thing (easier for me) ...]
On behalf of the Montesquieu entry, you're welcome.