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Saints’ mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 459-480, August 2023., 2023
This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self‐confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces.
Christodoulos Papavarnavas
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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The Nobel Roll of Honor

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 147-166, June 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper analyzes what may be called Olympic Internationalism as a framework for comparing literatures in the early twentieth century. Specifically, it analyzes the practice of tabulating information about the Nobel Prize—in the Swedish Academy, the international press, and repositories of general knowledge such as encyclopedias—and argues ...
Jørgen Sneis, Carlos Spoerhase
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022
Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 595-612, June 2022., 2022
Abstract World‐wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self‐management.
Tine M. Gammeltoft
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Ecriture et identité féminines. Giustiniana Wynne Orsini v. Rosenberg: Economie relationnelle et formation d’identité de femme auteur dans ses correspondances

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022
Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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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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Profils d’un lectorat: Enquête sur les signatures d’énigmes du Mercure de France (1724‐1778)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 11-28, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Little is known about the distribution of ancien régime French periodicals and there are few sources on readers’ geographical origins and social positions. Most studies rely on subscriber lists, but subscription is not the only possible mode of acquisition.
Timothée Léchot
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Identity in Diversity: Programmatic Pictures of the Enlightenment

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 43-62, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Inquiries into the realm of Enlightenment identities usually depart from the texts of this period. Yet pictures created by contemporary artists are equally crucial and largely overlooked sources that have the potential to condense such identities.
Daniel Fulda
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Transnational literary exchange in the early modern Low Countries

Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 8-26, February 2022., 2022
Abstract Dutch culture in the Golden Age has long attracted the attention of scholars working in early modern European history, and the centrality of the urban culture of the Dutch Republic, especially in Holland, in European and global affairs has been frequently noted.
Jan Bloemendal, James A. Parente Jr., Nigel Smith   +2 more
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