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"Relinquo ad ipsa tabula de argento"... La orfebrería en los testamentos catalanes de los siglos XI-XIII

Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015
La abundante documentación conservada de época plenomedieval permite aproximarse con notable rigor a la orfebrería románica catalana, pese a tratarse de una producción prácticamente desaparecida del todo.
Joan Duran-Porta
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El complemento artístico a las misas de difuntos en el Perú colonial

Allpanchis, 2011
Este artículo trata de las obras de arte que se usaban en los templos andinos para fomentar el culto cristiano a los muertos durante la época colonial. Sostenemos que estas obras jugaron un papel importante en establecer el culto como reemplazo al culto ...
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
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Two Altar Frontals and the Consecration Document from Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles

Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2018
L’objectiu d’aquest article és l’estudi dels dos frontals romànics que van decorar consecutivament el presbiteri de l’església monàstica de Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles. Totes dues taules es relacionen, encara que de maneres diferents, amb l’acta de consagració del temple, un document falsificat però molt interessant que evoca l’especial context històric
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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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El retablo bordado de Enrique IV. Devociones itinerantes y resonancias del arte de Rogier Van der Weyden en Castilla

Archivo Español de Arte
En el presente estudio se da a conocer por primera vez un retablo bordado procedente de las colecciones de Enrique IV que fue transformado con posterioridad en un frontal de altar tras su donación al monasterio de Guadalupe. A través de la recomposición
Ángel Fuentes Ortiz
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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