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‘ES IST EINE DESOLATE IDEE, GENIE WERDEN ZU WOLLEN’: ZUM BÖRSENWERT DES BEGRIFFS GENIE BEI NESTROY

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 365-377, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT In his farces, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy seizes on prevailing stereotypes of genius, treating the concept with an irony that contributed to its critical revision in his day. Drawing on the theories of Michail Bachtin, the article examines how genius – as a term and as a series of (con)figurations – features in Nestroy's works, differentiating ...
Arno Dusini
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST

History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 242-268, June 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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Teudefred and the king. On the manuscript Carcassonne G 6 and the intertwining of localities and centre in the Carolingian world

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022
Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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MÜSSIGGANG IST ALLER LASTER ANFANG? LITERARISCHE UND FILMISCHE TYPEN DER VERWEIGERUNG IM MILIEU DER DEUTSCHEN GEGENKULTUR DER 1960ER/70ER JAHRE

German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 109-129, January 2021., 2021
Abstract The article focuses on specific forms, characters and types of ‘primary rejection’ or refusal that emerged in German subculture and deviant counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, rejecting the cultural norms of mainstream society. Beginning with socially distinctive figures such as the layabout and the commune‐dweller, the article examines ...
Sara Bangert
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Analyse diachronique de quelques noms propres Akan : contributions de l’éotilé et des langues sœurs géographiquement et historiquement éloignées [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé : Un aspect frappant de la culture akan et des autres peuples de langues kwa est l’existence d’une tradition attribuant au nouveau-né un (pré)nom dérivé du nom du jour de la semaine où il est né.
Jean Claude MBOLI
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Une étymologie du mot basque bildots

Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 1994
D'après la description historique de "Cabeiço das Frágoas", Amonio Tovar a interprété les mots oilam usseam comme "brebis d'une année". Cette explication peut servir comme base pour expliquer le mot basque bildots "mouton".
Hans Schwerteck
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К изучению названий внебрачного ребенка в старославянском и чешском языках

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2021
On Designations for an Illegitimate Child in Old Church Slavonic and in Czech This article is devoted to designations for an illegitimate child in Old Church Slavonic and in Czech.
Ilona Janyšková
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Łemkowskie etymologie

, 2020
For centuries, the Lemkos have inhabited the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathians from Poprad in the west to Osława and Laborec in the east. In the north and north-west, the Lemkos neighbored with the Polish population, in the south and south-west with the Slovak.
Adam Fałowski, Wiktoria Hojsak
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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Le nom du bourreau en latin et dans les langues romanes

Flamme, 2023
Le présent article revient sur l’étymologie des noms du bourreau en latin et dans les langues romanes et s’interroge sur les moyens lexicaux mis en œuvre dans ces langues pour contourner le tabou qui condamnait au silence les mots le désignant ...
Maxime CANIN
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