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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Renaturalisation and revaluation: Nietzsche's 'postmoralism' in 'On the Genealogy of Morality' [PDF]

This paper argues that there are significant fault lines between key themes and critical perspectives within the "Genealogy" and that such tensions, and the effects they generate, have a significant bearing upon the nature and plausibility of a ...
Urpeth, Jim
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Bonbons and Bolsheviks: The Stigmatization of Chocolate in Revolutionary Russia [PDF]

, 2018
This essay examines how and why how the official Party attitude toward chocolate changed rather dramatically during the first two decades of Communist rule.
LeBlanc, Ronald D.
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Review Article of Mourad, Suleiman Ali. 'Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship' [PDF]

, 2009
Shah, Mustafa
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The protestant work ethic revisited: A promising concept or an outdated idea? [PDF]

The main task of this paper consists in gauging the analytical value of Max Weber´s Protestant Work Ethic, and in tackling the question of whether and how the concept is still used in current research and theory building.
Modrack, Simone
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Livre dentro dos muros : o caso de Madre Brígida de Santo António (1576-1655) [PDF]

Via Spiritus, 2011
When we think about cloistering what immediately comes to mind are the histories of women who, for various reasons, were forced by their families to become nuns.
Leonardo Coutinho de Carvalho Rangel
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Interpretation of the concept zuhd (asceticism) in the early islamic period

, 2022
Gulnora Khudayberganova
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Religious Life [PDF]

, 2001
Religious life is a generic term for a variety of forms of Christian life that originated, as a radical response to the gospel, in the rst century and continue to develop in the present, predominantly among Roman *Catholics and *Eastern Orthodox but also,
Schneiders, Sandra Marie
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