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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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Problems of Studying Russian Hagiography
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2017 This article outlines the major problems of studying Russian hagiography. The author responds to the challenge of performing a comprehensive analysis of a hagiographic text, while preserving the unity of the content and the form.
Dorofeeva L. G.
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 318-332, September 2026.This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version of the ...
Kai Parker
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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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Envisioning Liberal Internationalism: Mapping and the League of Nations' Geographical Department
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper argues that mapping was a foundational technology through which the idea of liberal internationalism was actively produced. Focusing on the League of Nations' Geographical Department, we show how a new sphere of international challenges was constituted where none had previously existed or been widely agreed upon.
Jake Hodder, Philip Jagessar
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History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 344-367, September 2026.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Early Russian Hagiography. (Andreas Ebbinghaus) [PDF]
, 2001 Prof. Dr. Andreas Ebbinghaus. Rezension zu: Lenhoff, Gail, Early Russian Hagiography: The Lives of Prince Fedor the Black. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. XII, 496 S.
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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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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 570-588, September 2026.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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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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