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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Documentación on line sobre libro antiguo
Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información, 2007 In a world in which the analogue is fast being abandoned in favour of the digital, we need to look back in order not to forget our origins and our textual culture.
Nicolás Bas Martín
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البیلوبیجیا الأنثروبودیرمیکیة أو تجلید الکتب باستخدام جلود البشر : دراسة تاریخیة [PDF]
المجلة الدولية لعلوم المكتبات والمعلومات, 2018 This study discuss the history of ‘Book Binding Phenomenon’ which meanthat using human skin in binding books. This Phenomenon has been appeared,virtually, during the 16th century, began in the 19th century and had disappearedat the beginning of the 20th ...
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Toruńskie Studia Bibliologiczne, 2018 Protection of antique book collections is a complicated and multistage process that demands deliberated maintenance among users, caretakers and owners as well as the appropriate conservation procedures.
Małgorzata Pronobis-Gajdzis +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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"ANAPUS KANTO": M. FOUCAULT NAUJOJI MORALĖS GENEALOGIJA
Problemos, 2003 Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas prancūzų postmodernisto ir poststruktūralisto M. Foucault posūkis į moralę. Foucault tyrinėjo tiesos režimų (epistemų) kaitą. Šį savo metodą vadino archeologija. Vėliau - susiejo tiesos režimų kaitą su galios žaidimų kaita.
Jūratė Baranova
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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