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Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire

open access: yesPerspectives Médiévales, 2020
The article focuses the Santo Cáliz or, in Valencian, Sant Calze housed in the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). According to a legend elaborated in Aragon between the 11th and 14th centuries, the object, a 1st century vase mounted in a chalice during the ...
Sophie Albert
doaj   +1 more source

Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type : an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study explores the variation in levels of bonding social capital experienced by individual churchgoers, drawing on data generated by the Australian National Church Life Survey, and employing a five-item measure of church-related bonding social ...
Baker C   +27 more
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Thorncliffe Formation: A proglacial to subglacial lacustrine basin sequence, Greater Toronto Region, Canada

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Map of Lower sediment (LS) thickness is a surrogate for the distribution of Thorncliffe Formation (TF) and ~75% of TF thickness from the slope of Niagara Escarpment east to Brighton. Inset images show the LS sequence at the Don Valleys brickyards (DVBY) and undeformed TF sand and gravel (~15 m) below Newmarket Till (NT) at sites L and Co.
David R. Sharpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization and conservation of the stone used in the Cathedral of Granada, Spain

open access: yesMateriales de Construccion, 1995
This paper summarizes a study carried out on the Granada Cathedral which includes studies of indicators, factors and mechanisms of deterioration. A complete chemical and physical characterization of altered and unaltered material from the quarries and ...
R. Villegas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entheogens in Christian Art: Wasson, Allegro and the Psychedelic Gospels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In light of new historical evidence regarding ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson’s correspondence with art historian Erwin Panofsky, this article provides an in-depth analysis of the presence of entheogenic mushroom images in Christian art within the ...
Brown, Jerry, Brown, Julie M.
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Adaptive Sampling for BRDF Acquisition

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We propose a data‐driven adaptive sampling strategy that predicts the optimal sampling pattern and count for BRDF acquisition from a single image, reducing capture time while preserving quality. Abstract The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) describes the ratio of incoming radiance to outgoing radiance for all possible pairs of ...
Behnaz Kavoosighafi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Acoustics of St Paul’s Cathedral, London

open access: yesAcoustics
The acoustics of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, have been discussed in previous studies as a space of historical, cultural, societal, and architectural interest in the capital city of the United Kingdom. This paper presents the results from recent acoustic
Aglaia Foteinou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A note on the St. John Co-Cathedral marble tombstones : the artisans, foreign and Maltese [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The aim of this brief study is to modestly review the documentation principally in the notarial archives concerning the tombstones, mainly in the period 1678 to 1819 and the marble craftsmen, local and foreign, who executed their masterpieces so expertly.
Debono, John
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
wiley   +1 more source

Rural is different: rural is special [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Those of us who live, work, worship and minister in the countryside know all too well that rural is different, that rural is special. Yet for us country folk there remain so many frustrations that secular policies may be driven by an urban agenda and ...
Francis, Leslie J.
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