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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Revue Annales du patrimoine numéro 15 [PDF]

Annales du Patrimoine, 2015
Revue Annales du patrimoine, Faculté des Lettres et des Arts, Université de Mostaganem, Algérie, Numéro 15/2015. - Revue Annales du patrimoine/Annals of Heritage Journal, Faculty of Letters and Arts, University of Mostaganem, Algeria, Issue 15/2015.
Annales du patrimoine
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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Revue Annales du patrimoine numéro 19 [PDF]

Annales du Patrimoine, 2019
Revue Annales du patrimoine, Faculté des Lettres et des Arts, Université de Mostaganem, Algérie, Numéro 19/2019. - Revue Annales du patrimoine/Annals of Heritage Journal, Faculty of Letters and Arts, University of Mostaganem, Algeria, Issue 19/2019.
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Revue Annales du patrimoine numéro 21 [PDF]

Annales du Patrimoine, 2021
Revue Annales du patrimoine, Faculté des Lettres et des Arts, Université de Mostaganem, Algérie, Numéro 21/2021. - Revue Annales du patrimoine/Annals of Heritage Journal, Faculty of Letters and Arts, University of Mostaganem, Algeria, Issue 21/2021.
Annales du patrimoine
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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