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De Romilly vs. Kagan: Dos Tucídides frente a frente [PDF]

Talia dixit, 2015
The aim of the present study is to provide a comparative analysis of two essential books on the work of Thucydides that have recently translated into the Spanish and are now available in the Spanish-speaking editorial market.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Δημαγωγοί e δημαγωγία nella storiografia greca d’età romana

Erga-Logoi, 2019
This paper focuses on the semantic and historical evolution of the term δημαγωγός in Greek historiography and political oratory from Polybius to Cassius Dio. Apparently, Polybius was aware only of the polemical meaning of the term (i.e.
Gianpaolo Urso
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Une migration instrumentalisée : politiques étatiques et pratiques institutionnelles lors du départ des Grecs d’Égypte (1945-1961)

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2018
The Greeks of Egypt were the largest foreign community in Egypt along the 19th and the middle of the 20th century. Historiography has long attributed their departure to the Suez crisis and the nationalization measures taken by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the ...
Angelos Dalachanis
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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The National Transformation of the Historical Memory of Minor Jewish Holidays During the Period of Hibbat Zion

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences ...
Anna Papoutsi, Antonis Vradis
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874

Historical Review, 2015
This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
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