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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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Feverish fictions: William T. Vollmann and American literary history after postmodernism [PDF]

, 2018
The rise of the New Sincerity in contemporary American fiction has largely been read on terms provided by a handful of early proponents. This article contends that more complex formulations of the notion are necessary if it is to remain useful as a ...
Coffman, Christopher K.
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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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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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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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Reading Govan Old: interpretative challenges and aspirations [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores the conceptual and strategic issues raised during the transformation of Govan Old church into a heritage attraction and community cultural centre.
Driscoll, Stephen
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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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‘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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Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos: Abject Transgression in Batman Returns, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 184-190, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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