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ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries +2 more
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Regards croisés sur les transferts culturels gréco-roumains : bilan d’un siècle (xxe siècle)
In this approach I will attempt to sketch, using the work of a vast range of Greek and Romanian intellectuals, the reciprocal interests, thematic resemblances as well as a few important research directions pursued by both sides throughout the 20th ...
Anna Tabaki
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History
Abstract This article examines how the Palestinian Authority has used postage stamps as a tool to construct national identity, shape collective memory, and convey political messages during what it hoped would be a transition to statehood. The analysis focuses on three themes of stamps issued between 1994 and 2023: the struggle for independence and ...
Ido Zelkovitz, Yehiel Limor
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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His article is devoted to the problem of relationship of the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Iconium in the reign of Michael VIII (1259-1282). The author concludes that this problem is not rightfully disregarded in the historiography, since the ...
K.V. Belyiy
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate's Attorney at Law
Having grown up in a poor household in Argentina, Rolando García went on to become an important science administrator, playing a leading role in large‐scale weather and climate research projects. ABSTRACT With a few exceptions, the history of climate studies is currently dominated by work on scientists from North America and Europe, often those with ...
Robert Luke Naylor
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This study explores the historicization of Hagia Sophia in the early classical Ottoman chronicles and examines how its perception evolved in the half century following the conquest.
Sedat Akdoğmuş, Bilge Ar
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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