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Casting Characters in the Dark Ink of Melancholy: Figures of Dissent and Imprisonment in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Etudes Epistémè, 2015
Seventeenth-century English character-books were popular collections of short essays cataloguing the different types or “characters” of the city. These octavo or duodecimo pamphlets belonged neither to the field of theology nor to that of medical studies.
Claire Labarbe
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Former Slaves on the Move: The Plantation Household, the White House, and the Postwar South as Spaces of Transit in Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012
Travel writing has been central to the American literary canon. From all possible backgrounds, origins and spaces, religious dissenters, immigrants and others have described their travelling experiences in North America.
Gimeno Pahissa, Laura
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Historical aspects of religious conflicts in England and their reflection in the caricature of the late XVIII - early XIX century

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
The article analyzes the process of reflection of the most important religious conflict s i n English caricature at the turn of XVIII-XIX centuries: Anglo-French, anglicano-dissenters and ProtestantCatholic.
Elena Sergeevna Stetskevich, Mikhail Stanislavovich Stetskevich   +1 more
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Korean Buddhism in the Era of ‘Spiritual, but Not Religious’: Adapting to Contemporary Society

Religions
The shift toward modernity has come with many changes that affect religion. This article investigates some of those changes with the aim of showing how Korean Buddhism is adjusting to contemporary spirituality.
Brian D. Somers
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The Reformation of the Future: Dating English Protestantism in the Late Stuart Era

Etudes Epistémè, 2017
In late Stuart England, print genres such as histories and almanacs were happy to put a precise date on the Reformation, but 1517 was not widely memorialised. This was partly because the complex history of English Protestantism meant that different dates
Tony Claydon
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L’obole de Charon

Socio-anthropologie
The eighteenth-century British funeral system was largely controlled by the Anglican clergy. Tasked with administering funeral rites, it supplemented its income through optional extras and benefitted from selling churchyard concessions to the emerging ...
Tristan Portier
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History of formation and doctrine religious organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Волинський благовісник, 2019
As it happens with any heretical doctrine that takes part of the Christian truth for a whole, the further it goes from the fullness of the truth, the more it parasitizes on parts of that truth.
Denis Klyukovsky, priest Alexander Khoroshko   +1 more
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The Hussites or the Tartars? The Secret of the Depictions of Helmets in the Battle Scenes of St Hedwig’s Altarpiece in the Bernardine Church in Wrocław

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2017
St Hedwig’s Altarpiece, or the so-called: „Bernardine Panels”, was created c. 1430-1440. The panels depict the Mongol (Tartar) invasion and the Battle of Legnica in 1241.
Olgierd Ławrynowicz, Wojciech Wasiak
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PENAL LAW IN THE 18TH CENTURY: CHANGING THE PLACE AND ROLE OF CATHOLICS IN IRISH SOCIETY

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
In the late XVII - early XVIII centuries, the English parliament passed a number of restrictive laws for Irish Catholics and dissenters. The penal laws were designed to maintain Protestant authority in Ireland and prevent rebellion against the English ...
N. Lagoshina
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Freedom of expression and ultima ratio societatis [PDF]

Crimen (Beograd)
Writing about freedom of expression and ultima ratio societatis essentially means engaging in the analysis of the relationship between the individual and the authorities.
Ilić Goran P.
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