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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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Textual and Linguistic Means of Constructing the Venerable Image in Men of Faith Hagiographies
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018 The paper provides some results of linguistic analysis of Men of Faith hagiography in synodal and modern periods of Russian hagiography, the Life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Optina elder Leonidas (schemamonk Leo), in particular.
Evgeniya G. Dmitrieva, Irina A. Safonova
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Between Hagiography and Insanity: Refracting Political Violence in William Trevor’s Elegiac Fiction [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2019 This article explores William Trevor’s depiction of hagiography and insanity in a body of novels and short stories portraying the violent intrusions of history in the lives of ordinary individuals. It is contended that at the core of Trevor’s fiction lie
Angelo Monaco
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Les récits des miracles d’Ignace de Loyola
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2006 Focusing on hagiographic documents concerning Ignatius Loyola published in the kingdoms of France and Spain during the second half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th, this article seeks to demonstrate several characteristic features of ...
Axelle Guillausseau
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Saint Menas in Medieval Georgia
Vox PatrumDespite the survival of St Menas’s hagiography in various Georgian iterations and his commemoration in practically all Georgian calendars and martyrologies – both pre- Constantinopolitan and Byzantine – the cult of St Menas was weak in Georgia.
Nikoloz Aleksidze
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Научный диалог, 2018 The article deals with the question of the meaning-forming role of verbal units as one of the means of expressing the moral ideal in the Russian original hagiography of the 19th-20th centuries.
N. A. Starodubtseva
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 166-189, April 2026.Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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Hagiographie et théorie mimétique
Carnets, 2018 The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne, preserved in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, book V, describes one of the cruelest persecutions to be executed against the early Church.
Julia Sei
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