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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Les écrits de Maximilian Lamberg à la frontière des genres et des styles [PDF]
The article deals with the work of Maximilián Lamberg (1729–1792), a Moravian nobleman and scholar of the Age of Enlightenment. Lamberg is the author of about twelve books written in French, which, however, are difficult to classify in terms of genre and
Jaroslav Stanovský
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Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Собранный автором материал позволяет оценить необходимость для России пропагандистских публикаций в западноевропейской прессе и понять основные направления приложения усилий литературных агентов, находившихся на службе России в царствование Петра I ...
Nikolaï Kopanev (†)
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Young Foucault's phenomenology: “A science of madmen and of genius”
Abstract The article shows that young Foucault's interest in phenomenology should not be understood as a more or less orthodox adherence to a singular philosophical program. Emphasis is given to the variety of contexts, meanings, and uses (or appropriations) of German phenomenology in France at the time when Foucault was interested in it at the ...
Elisabetta Basso
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The beginnings of scholarship on early medieval book illumination (1700-1850): between classicism and ethnicity [PDF]
This essay addresses historiographical and methodological issues about the very beginnings of the scholarship on early medieval manuscript illumination during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Charlotte Denoël
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Essai d’antologuer les préfaces des traductions roumaines du XIXe siècle
Insuffisamment exploités dans l’histoire et l’historiographie de la traduction roumaine, les discours préfaciers accompagnant les traductions roumaines du XIXe siècle montrent l’éclectisme des approches des traducteurs roumains dans une période de ...
Ioana Simina Frincu
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Ewangoa, a new threatened Central African genus of Euphorbiaceae‐Acalyphoideae
Abstract A new morphologically divergent genus and species of Euphorbiaceae from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ewangoa cardiophora, is described and illustrated. This taxon is easily recognised by its leaf‐opposed inflorescences, which are surrounded by a single cordiform involucral bract. Molecular phylogenetic evidence shows that Ewangoa is a
Olivier Lachenaud +3 more
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