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Patriarch Nikon’s hierotopy. The New Jerusalem Hermitage as a seventeenth century spatial icon / Иеротопия патриарха Никона. Новоиерусалимская Пустынь как пространственная икона XVII века

Визуальная теология, 2023
In the context of hierotopy, a discipline that studies the creation of sacred spaces as a specific spiritual and artistic creative activity, two new research problems have been postulated: sacred space creators as a phenomenon, and the Holy Land re ...
Alexei Lidov / Алексей Михайлович Лидов
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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An Illuminated Armenian Manuscript “Guidebook” to the Sacred Shrines in the Holy Land from the End of the Seventeenth Century

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2017
The Nkaragrutʻiwn Tnōrinakan tełeacʻ is the name given to the collection of manuscripts containing descriptions of monuments located in Palestine, primarily those considered Christian holy places.
Mikayel Arakelyan
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Imaginaires et projets millénaristes en Palestine ottomane : L’exemple de la colonie euro-américaine dans la vallée d’Artas

Chrétiens et Sociétés, 2011
This article deals with the ideas and projects of millenarist Christians in Palestine in the 19th century which in Europe and North America was characterized by a renewed interest for the Holy Land.
Falestin Naïli
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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The Holy Land in the Notes of the Inhabitants of Russian Monasteries in the Second Half of the 19th–Early 20th Centuries

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The article examines the writings of the inhabitants of Russian monasteries (nuns and novices) that describe their pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Palestine) in the second half of the 19th–early 20th centuries.
Valery V. Tsys, Olga P. Tsys
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Landscape Archaeology in the Wādī al-ʿArab Region

Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2017
As an integral part of the Gadara-Region-Project, a survey of the Wādī al-‘Arab region was conducted during the years 2009-2012, by the Biblical-Archaeological Institute Wuppertal and the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology in order to achieve a ...
Soennecken Katja, Olsvig-Whittaker Linda, Leiverkus Patrick, Shmida Avi   +3 more
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The Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land

Studia Ceranea, 2020
The article tries to describe the linguistic creation of a city in Polish 16th-century diaries from journeys to the Holy Land. During long trips, the authors visited many exotic, for the Polish traveller, cities and towns to whom they devoted a lot of ...
Rafał Zarębski
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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