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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Cotton and Wool Quilted and Embroidery Bedcover

, 2008
Decorative bed covers in the 17th and 18th centuries were usually a sign of wealth. In this particular quilt, the markers embellished a star quilt pattern with crewel embroidery.
Beards, Daniel E.
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

Technique-aware Digital Embroidery Simulator with Gaze and Voice Interaction

Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
This paper deals with problems related to craft software development oriented to handmade embroidery, created as a simulation of the stitching process by following the needle movement path.
Stefan Bozov, Elena Zaharieva-Stoyanova
doaj   +1 more source

Embroidery machine

, 1993
The computerized embroidery machine is primarily used to stitch a thread design on cloth. The three main components of the machine are: the computer, the electronic circuits and the embroidery frame.
Lara, Sonny, Kuo, Wilbert T., Benedicto, Bernardo T., Sozon, Sherwin K., Reaport, Richard L.   +4 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Declaring independence: the enduring impact of Judy Chicago's installation artwork 'The Dinner Party' and Kay Lawrence's 'Parliament House Embroidery' [PDF]

, 2010
The Bicentenary celebrations which occurred in the United States on July 4, 1976 and in Australia on January 26, 1988 were historically significant, but also provided women with the opportunity to write their history into the narrative of both nations ...
Baguley, Margaret, Kerby, Martin
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Gu’s Embroidery

Asian Social Science, 2009
In Chinese embroidery history, the Gu’s embroidery (originally a boudoir craft from Lu Xiang Yuan) as a famous brand, was well introduced and accepted during its commercialization. In fact, the Gu’s Embroidery became the synonym of all embroideries at that time, and further exerted a far-reach influence upon the “Four Renowned Embroideries” existing in
openaire   +2 more sources