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Taking Horror as You Find It: From Found Manuscripts to Found Footage Aesthetics

Text Matters, 2020
An authenticator of the story and a well-tested enhancer of immersion, the trope of the found manuscript has been a persistent presence in Gothic writing since the birth of the genre.
Tomasz Sawczuk
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Ritorno alle origini: il vescovo Giovanni Battista Scalabrini e i restauri della cattedrale di Piacenza fra Otto e Novecento [PDF]

Papireto
The contribution intends to highlight little-known aspects of the huge restoration campaign of the Piacenza cathedral promoted by Giovanni Battista Scalabrini between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Susanna Pighi
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX)

Medievalista, 2014
This essay reflects, from a multidisciplinary and holistic perspective, how the medievalism interacts with the aesthetics of Freemasonry from its origins to 20th century, as a group with a supranational identity, principally in Great Britain – England ...
David Martín López
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Art or Articles of Trade: Appreciating Variety in Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Stained Glass

19, 2020
The poor reputation of nineteenth-century stained glass during much of the twentieth century has hindered our appreciation of its extraordinary variety and various strands of development.
Martin Crampin
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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‘Wherever a few should gather’

Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 2020
Due to a process of secularization many parish communities need to redefine their church use, reducing the liturgical space and bringing in other functions. In this contribution, we elaborate on the process of adapting existing churches to this reality.
Nikolaas Vande Keere, Bie Plevoets, Samuel Goyvaerts   +2 more
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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Renovation of the SANSHUDEN (Rest House) in NAIKU, ISE JINGU: Reinterpreting RC‐Structured Modern Shrine Facility

JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the renovation of the Naiku Sanshuden (1969) in Ise Jingu, addressing how public architecture within sacred precincts can be renewed while preserving sanctity. The project redefined publicness by transforming a massive postwar reinforced‐concrete (RC) structure into an open, timber‐integrated space that harmonizes with ...
Shinnosuke Tsuchiya
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.
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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