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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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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 152-174, July 2026.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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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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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The man of law’s tale by Geoffrey Chaucer: the process of holiness in the low middle ages
ArReDia, 2015 Geoffrey Chaucer is considered by many scholars of literary space, as the father of English literature and language in which it is written. In his book The Canterbury Tales, the author makes an overview of the downtown English society Middle Ages and ...
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 289-300, May 2026.Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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HAGIOGRAPHY OF DABRO-BOSANSKI ISTOČNIK
FilologThe authors publishing in the journals of Dabro-bosanski Istočnik, Bosansko-hercegovački Istočnik, and Istočnik view the terms of biography, life, and hagiography as synonyms.
Славица М. Васиљевић Илић
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Anti‐Astrotropik — Outer space, technology and resistance in the tropics
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 289-316, May 2026.This paper traces an intellectual and geographical arc of thinking about outer space in the tropics, connecting Peter Redfield's Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (2000), Sean T. Mitchell's Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (2017) and Asif Siddiqi's Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent
Rob Krawczyk
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Leonid Andreev’s Story Chemodanov as a Hagiography of the ‘Nizhechelovek’
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismThe story Chemodanov (1916) is considered as a parody version of a hagiography (anti-life), as well as a version of the collision ‘Man - Fate’ developed in the work of Leonid Andreev.
Alisa V. Mytareva
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