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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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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 2484-2500, August 2026.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 458-479, August 2026.Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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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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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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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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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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Unveiling Saint Theobald: A Multidisciplinary Bioanthropological Investigation
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 945-953, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Saint Theobald of Provins (1033–1066), a French nobleman who embraced voluntary poverty, hermitism, and pilgrimage, represents an early figure in the medieval ascetic movement. He holds historical significance for the diffusion of 11th‐century ascetic ideals, as a hermit saint associated with the Camaldolese order and venerated across northern
Nicola Carrara +6 more
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 680-692, July 2026.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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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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