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Identity and Witness: Liturgy and the Mission of the Church [PDF]

, 1989
(Excerpt) The text for this lecture is a provocative aphorism which I owe to Stanley Hauerwas. In a 1987 presentation at Trinity Seminary, he said: The church has missionary power in direct proportion to its liturgical integrity.
Bouman, Walter R
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Can Ministries of Foreign A"airs Work E#ciently a Perform Well? The Danish MFA can.

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2005
This article has two main aims: 1) to introduce generally, theoretically, and on the qualified basis, the issues of measurement, management and the evaluation of efficiency and performance within public institutions, and especially within Ministries of ...
Roman Holý
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Against Amnesia: Re-Imagining Central Banking

, 2020
The purpose of the present paper is to identify and challenge contemporary adherence to the core of the prevailing monetary policy consensus. This consensus consists of what we call the holy trinity of the inflation targeting paradigm: price stability as
Braun, B., Downey, L.
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The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Kutnohorská městská rada a církev ve městě v době jagellonské [PDF]

Historie - Otázky - Problémy
As in other towns during the Jagiellonian era, the town council in Kutná Hora tried to control a wide range of institutions and properties located within the town’s walls.
Ondřej Holý
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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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