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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Du héros poétique au grand homme historique ?
Setting off from the 17th century French heroic novel with the aid of methodological tools taken by historiography and the theories of history and literature – and without neglecting the philosophies of the Enlightenment - the article of Nicolas ...
Nikolaos Kokkomelis
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Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
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Anthroponymy of Varsovians in the 17th century
The anthroponyms from the second half of the 17th century have been excerpted from documents containing real estate tariffs, published in Sources to Warsaw History.
Szulowska, Wanda
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Study of Language in 17th-Century England Second Edition
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language.
Salmon, Vivian.
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17th Annual West River History Conference held in Rapid City, South Dakota, September 24-26, 2009. File contains cover, introduction, and table of contents for the published volume of papers.
West River History Conference
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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This article focuses on Eremya Çelebi’s adaptation of History of Armenia by Movses Khorenatsi, which he rewrote in Armeno-Turkish at the end of the seventeenth century.
Muhammed Salih Sefiloğlu
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