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Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge
Abstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz
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CULTURE OF THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE IN THE PERIOD OF “KNJIGA OD USPOMENE” (1673-1784)
The article deals with culture of the Croatian language in the period when “Knjiga od uspomene” emerged. That is a literary work from Šibenik written with Bosnian Cyrillic script.
Josip Lisac
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Review of: Zachary A. Matus, Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 203 pp., ISBN 9780812249217 (Pbk) – 9780812294064 (Ebk)
Athanasios Rinotas
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An age-related disease or a biocultural marker? Osteoarthritis of the foot in the Modern era Franciscan community of Azzio (17th-18th century BCE). [PDF]
Larentis O, Fusco R, Tesi C, Licata M.
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The architecture of creditions: Openness and otherness. [PDF]
Davies O.
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Archbishop Danilo II, 'Christian faith' and the franciscans [PDF]
While writing the biography of king Dragutin Nemanjić (1276-1282), Serbian archbishop Danilo II (1324-1337) names an interesting detail concerning Dragutin's religious policy, namely his struggle against heresy.
Cvitkovac Nemanja P.
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Kant’s Theory of Radical Evil and its Franciscan Forebears. [PDF]
Schumacher L.
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One of the most popular saints, St Francis, canonized in 1228, remains “ecumenical”, venerated also by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The saint of Assisi proved especially important for the spirituality and art of the Kraków-based avant-garde painter and ...
Krystyna Czerni
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