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History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 133-151, January 2026.Abstract This article explores various forms of archives—such as institutions, collections, records and cities—as urban commons. It highlights the importance of community and institutional collaboration in curating archives to promote learning, discovery and well‐being through grassroots initiatives, transforming archives and their urban settings into ...
Gozde Yildiz, Francesca Bianchi
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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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 Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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, 2015 Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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IMPLICIT COMPARISONS: VISUALITY AND THE INTERLINEAR MANUSCRIPT PAGE
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 145-173, December 2025.ABSTRACT A central question for European philology, informed by various agendas and ideologies, concerned comparison and the positing of hierarchies among languages. With this “traditional” question of philology in mind, but hoping to think in less traditional ways, this article asks how comparative understandings of Arabic and local languages of the ...
RONIT RICCI
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The Life of Aleksandr Men\u27: Hagiography in the Making
, 1999 Hagiography is not an extinct genre in Russian literature, even though many believe that it was important in the history of early Russian literature but became irrelevant as Russian literature entered its modem period.
Wehrle, Janet M.
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الثقات في كتاب الضعفاء لابن الغضائري
مجلة كلية الفقه, 2017 Praise be to Allah, the Lord of worlds, prayer and peace be upon the most honorable creature prophet Mohammed and his pure progenies…. Hagiography has an important role in the jurisprudential deduction; it is the deduction backbone; the ...
ثائر عبد الزهرة الموسوي
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Radical Succession: Hagiography, Reform, and Franciscan Identity in the Convent of the Abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) [PDF]
, 2021 Pablo Acosta-García
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