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Metus Pyrrhicus. Rzeczywistość i historiografia [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2019
(Metus Pyrrhicus. Reality and historiography): The main issue of this article is the question of the social impact of the war against Pyrrhus in Rome. The author analyzes the problem of fear of Pyrrhus (metus Pyrrhicus).
Miron Wolny
doaj   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Ch. 5. Writing Culture: Historiography, Hybridity, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

open access: yesHistos, 2020
This chapter explores the relationship between early historiographical enquiry and identity, using theoretical frameworks developed by Homi K. Bhabha and Stuart Hall. In doing so it argues that historiographical enquiry formed part of an ongoing process
Joseph Skinner
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

La memoria sociale dei Beoti: una prospettiva senza Atene

open access: yesHistos, 2019
The paper investigates a selection of fragments of Boeotian local historiography. The main goal is to re-evaluate the weight of this genre in the reconstruction of the history of the region.
Salvatore Tufano
doaj   +1 more source

Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

On the Methodology of Greek-Australian Historiography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper addresses some of the methodological issues that are raised by efforts to write the history of the Greek-Australian communities. In general Australian historiography tends to undervalue the national significance of Greek-Australian history. We
Vassilacopoulos, George   +1 more
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Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography /

open access: yes, 2021
"Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do ...
Poulsen, Aske Damtoft,editor.   +4 more
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Western Greek Historiography

open access: yes, 2007
General survey about Western Greek Historiography (Hippys, Antiochus, Philistus, Timaeus), and its relevance in Ancient Greek culture. A survey on Western Greek Historiography from the beginnings to Diodorus of Siciliy (V-I Cent.B.C.).
VATTUONE, RICCARDO
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