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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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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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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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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Ritorno alle origini: il vescovo Giovanni Battista Scalabrini e i restauri della cattedrale di Piacenza fra Otto e Novecento [PDF]
PapiretoThe 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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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 428-442, July 2026.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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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Structural Concrete, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 2857-2868, June 2026.Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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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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Avian Infrastructures: Urban Experiments and the Makings of a Seabird ‘Hotel’
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract The paper focuses on the relationship between infrastructure, animal architectures and avian geographies to explore the development of ‘kittiwake hotels’—artificial nesting structures for black‐legged kittiwakes. Drawing on a collaboration between cultural geography and marine ecology that moves between the United Kingdom and Norway, the
Helen F. Wilson +2 more
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