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Psalm 22 in the Light of René Girard’s Mimetic Theory

Bogoslovni Vestnik
The article examines the narrative of Psalm 22 from the perspective of René Girard’s mimetic theory. First, the psalm is briefly contextualized in the Christian interpretive tradition, and its basic narrative structure is outlined. Next, based on Girard’
Krešimir Šimić, Davor Vuković
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«Non tanto per el guadagno quanto per l’onore». Marco Zoppo, the italian courts and the humanists

Intrecci d'arte, 2017
Through a comprehensive speech so far never carried out, this article intends to reconstract the close web of human and professional relations maintain by Marco Ruggeri, known as Lo Zoppo (1432/33 - 1478) with humanists, his contemporary literates and ...
Giacomo Alberto Calogero
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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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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Svetlana Slapšak’s Feminist Essay: A Polygraph of Contemporary Culture

Czytanie Literatury, 2019
The article discusses the problem of the theory and practice of contemporary Serbian feminist essay. The text indicates how – at the turn of the 21st century – the essay participated in the reading of the nationalist culture of fear during the breakup of
Magdalena Koch
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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The Confines of Subjectivity: Spaces of Resistance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2019
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, despite the vast political changes during the last half-century since its publication and its various aesthetic shortcomings, remains one of the most important and relevant books of this century.
Marcin Tereszewski
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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