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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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[Rezension zu:] Ruthner, Clemens (2018): Habsburgs 'Dark Continent'

, 2020
Rezension zu Ruthner, Clemens (2018): Habsburgs 'Dark Continent': Postkoloniale Lektüren zur österreichischen Literatur und Kultur im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 401 S., ISBN 978-3-7720-8603-
Wozonig, Karin S.
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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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Diplomatic relations between France and Principality of Transylvania in the mid-16th century and the alliance project of 1558

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
The article analyses the diplomatic relations between the Principality of Transylvania and France during the period 1541–1559, under the leadership of Queen Isabella Szapolya (Jagiellon).
Victor V. Vizauer
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Can Nationalism Be Democratic?

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nationalism and democracy are often presented as natural allies: National self‐determination is best achieved through democratic institutions, while a shared national identity generates the trust and willingness to compromise that stable democracies need. This article, however, explores two possible points of conflict. The first concerns rival
David Miller
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The Anatomy of a Political Assassination: The Assassination of Cardinal György Fráter (Martinuzzi) and its Consequences

Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2019
On 17 December 1551 on the grounds of alleged treason, soldiers of Chief Sergeant Sforza Pallavicini and Giovanni Battista Castaldo, the head of Fer­dinand I’s army, killed the Pauline monk, Archbishop of Esztergom, and Vo­ivode and Governor of ...
Viktor Kanász
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Ethnic Nationalism and the Crisis of Statehood in Ethiopia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that ethnic conflict in multinational states is shaped less by institutional design than by rival nationalist interests competing within a common state. Focusing on Ethiopia, the article draws on comparatively informed insights, original interviews and organisational and media reports to examine how competition among elites
Tadesse Melaku Asfaw
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Triumphant Images of Charles V in the spanish Golden Age Theatre

Memoria y Civilización, 2017
Our article focuses on the analysis of the triumphant images of Charles V in the Spanish Golden Age theatre, having at its very core two key words, authority and power.
Oana Andreia Sambrian
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Los hidalgos de La Mancha según las Relaciones topográficas de Felipe II y los censos de población del siglo xvi

Criticón, 2019
If more than half of the nobles of La Mancha were blood nobles, 46% were nobles of ejecutoria or persons exempted from royal and municipal tributes for reasons that had nothing to do with nobility.
Vincent Parello
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