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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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La cartographie héraldique de Frotier de la Messelière
Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2023 In 1960 Henri Frotier de la Messelière bequeathed 286 volumes of his notes and drawings on the monumental and heraldic heritage and the history of the department’s nobility to the Côtes-d’Armor archives.
Laurent Hablot
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International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 The lions of North Africa were unique in ecological terms as well as from a human cultural perspective and were the definitive lions of Roman and Medieval Europe. Labelled “Barbary” lions, they were once numerous in North Africa but were exterminated by the mid‐20th century.
Simon A. Black, F. González-Candelas
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Afterberners: An Assemblage of Nouns [PDF]
, 1991 The English language owes a debt of gratitude of Dame Juliana Berners. She was born circa 1388 and is believed to have been the prioress of a nunnery near St. Albans, Hertforshire, England.
Newby, Peter
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Renaissance Culture, Emblems, and Interdisciplinary Research: The Reception of Alciato in Coimbra☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 394-418, June 2025.Abstract Bearing in mind that emblem books were a manifestation of humanistic culture and its natural interdisciplinary, this paper discusses how the early reception of Alciato's Emblemata in Coimbra (Portugal) had an impact on artists, literary authors, jurists, and Jesuit teachers.
Filipa Araújo
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Heraldry and entailment identity in pre-modern Portugal
Eikón ImagoLike the nobilities and aristocracies of pre-modern Europe, many Portuguese noble families used heraldry to build, consolidate, transmit, and perpetuate identity traits that, internally and externally, defined a sense of belonging to a group.
Rita Nóvoa
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Coat of arms and the flag of municipality Kosovska Mitrovica [PDF]
Baština, 2020 Heraldic is the auxiliary science of history that deals with the research of coat of arms and vexillology is the science that emerged from heraldic and deals with the study of flags.
Obradović Filip M.
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The Military and “Mob Rule”: The CEF Riots in Calgary, February 1916 [PDF]
, 2012 During the First World War, unruly and ill-disciplined Canadian soldiers, on “assorted ’patriotic’ pretexts,” damaged local property and battled with local police forces in Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Campbellton, New Brunswick, and other ...
Lackenbauer, P. Whitney
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From cash to conservation: Which wildlife species appear on banknotes?
People and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 5, Page 1849-1864, October 2024.Abstract The use of wildlife imagery in society is highly varied and could contribute to reinforcing national identity. Standard depictions of wildlife include photographs, video, artwork and symbols or icons, including on currency. We investigated the representation of native fauna on 4541 banknotes from 207 countries between 1980 and 2017, to ...
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article can be considered as an initiative study connected with the complex analysis of scientific and public heritage of the outstanding Don historian Ana-toly Ivanovich Agafonov.
Nikolay Trapsh, Vladimir Trut
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