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Discussion on the Date of the Construction of the Church of Beheading of John the Baptist in Kerch
The discussion on the date of the construction of the Church of Beheading of John the Baptist in Kerch has been being continuing from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. P. I.
Aleksandr Il’ich Aibabin
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Epitaph Dedication to Gumilyov by His Fellow Acmeists: a Play of Obvious and Secret Meanings
The issue of secret commemoration of N. S. Gumilyov by his associates is discussed in the article. Attention is paid to the role of the frame text — titles, dedications, dating of poems — in the formation of the crypto text, hiding information.
L. G. Kihney, A. V. Lamzina
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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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The study deals with a unique epitaph monument of Chrudim couple of Thomas Lvík of Domažlice and his wife Salomena Francová of Liblic (after 1619). The central scene of the epitaph represents very rare iconography – Allegorical Crucifixion.
Ondřej Jakubec
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Stanisław Grochowski Pamiątka nagrobna Samuela Głowy – cykl i jego edycja
Stanisław Grochowski’s “Pamiątka nagrobna Samuela Głowy” – cycle of poems and its author Summary The main focus of the article is the critical edition of Stanisław Grochowski’s hitherto unpublished work, “Pamiątka nagrobna Samuela Głowy”.
Norbert Pilarz
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