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The memorable service and monastic humility – the history of Stanisław Konarski’s heart

Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2016
The article concentrates on an interesting 130-year-old artefact located in the Krakow church of Piarists – the decoration of the place where Stanisław Konarski’s (1700–1773) heart was buried. Konarski was a monk of the Pious Schools in the 18th century,
Ryszard Mączyński
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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A Hellenistic Metrical Epitaph

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2003
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Thomas Drew-Bear
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Une épitaphe bilingue inédite (grec-latin) de Henchir Fortnat (région de Kalaat Senane, Tunisie)

Antiquités Africaines
A prospecting tour carried out in 2018 in the vicinity of Kalaat Senane, near the “Table of Jugurtha”, made it possible to locate at Henchir Fortnat, an archaeological site long identified as being the center of a private estate owned by senator C ...
Ali Chérif, Michèle Coltelloni-Trannoy
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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 440-459, September 2025.
For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
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Epitaph of Merki Found in Hambukol

Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2019
The article offers editio princeps of a Greek epitaph discovered during the archaeological work of the Canadian Mission in Hambukol, a locality situated on the right-hand bank of the Nile, several kilometres to the north of Dongola, the capital of the ...
Adam Łajtar
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“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–1973

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 460-478, September 2025.
This article explores the challenges faced by American and Australian advisors working in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam, from 1968 to 1973, with a focus on the persistent belief that ineffective Vietnamese leadership was the principal obstacle to a successful pacification process. It examines how advisors identified underperformance among officials
Tom Richardson
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Epitaph in Romanian, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian Historiography [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului, 2013
This study briefly analyzes achievements of Romanian, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian historiography referring to epitaphs. There are reviewed most valuable scientific materials of historians, ethnographers and folklorists referring to this problem.
Alina Felea
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«No las francesas armas...»: la huella clásica en un epitafio de Garcilaso

Criticón, 2011
Garcilaso’s sonnet XVI is deeply anchored in the Classical tradition. It follows the rhetorical scheme of the recusatio: the poet sings the causa mortis of this brother, lacking in elements of glory, an absence he emphatically insists upon.
Antonio Ramajo Caño
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