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Pre-Eighteenth-Century Traditions of Revivalism: Damascus in the Thirteenth Century [PDF]
, 2005 This article examines whether it is possible to trace eighteenth and nineteenth-century revivalist thought to earlier ‘medieval’ examples. The discussion is centred on the issue of ijtihad/taqlid, which featured prominently in revivalist thought.
Hirschler, Konrad
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Cape lives of the eighteenth century
Contree, 2013 No abstract available.
Elizabeth van Heyningen
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Bibliothecae.it, 2023 Between Eighteenth and Twentieth century the archive of Arezzo Cathedral’s Chapter is object of many operations of documents’ tidying up by the canons themselves.
Riccardo Neri
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Carya nux‐taurinensis comb. nov., a fossil‐species incorporating Carya globosa (Juglandaceae)
TAXON, EarlyView.Abstract The type material of the almost forgotten fossil‐species Juglans nux‐taurinensis is newly analysed, a lectotype is designated, and new conspecific material detected at the Italian type locality La Morra is described. We show that Juglans nux‐taurinensis must be reassigned to Carya because the locule cast of the nutshell shows two inner ...
Edoardo Martinetto +3 more
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Aspecte ale paradigmei culturale a secolului al XVIII-lea: interdicția întru surparea superstiției norodului [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2016 The paper proposes a gradual presentation of main forms of superstitions of the Middle Age. It was taken into account the statements expressed by the representatives of the church (official, semiofficial and personal) on the one hand and on the other ...
Laura Bădescu
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Practical Christianity: Religion in Jane Austen\u27s Novels [PDF]
, 2017 A beloved English novelist of the late eighteenth century, Jane Austen captures the attention and emotion of readers through timeless insights into the inner workings of the human heart as characters navigate society, family life, and love.
Toal, Erin R
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Anglo-Dutch premium auctions in eighteenth-century Amsterdam [PDF]
, 2012 An Anglo-Dutch premium auction consists of an English auction followed by a Dutch auction, with a cash premium paid to the winner of the first round. We study such auctions used in the secondary debt market in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. This was among
Boerner, Lars +2 more
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Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment
Approaching Religion, 2011 Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary and more diverse than ...
Niklas Pietilä
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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