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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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An Unusual Traveler: Ida Pfeiffer’s Visit to the Holy Land in 1842
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013 In 1842 the middle-aged Austrian Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) set out for the Holy Land. To counter protests from her family, horrified by her plan to travel alone, Pfeiffer, who became a well-respected travel writer, disguised this journey as a pilgrimage ...
Jennifer Michaels
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Hófvz Tartarar secundum quosdam: сведения о татарах в исландских анналах
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2019 : Research objective: The purpose of this study is to collect, translate and comment on the information about Tatars contained in Icelandic annals. Research materials: Icelandic annals are amply published but scarcely studied.
Jackson T.N.
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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Pilgrimages of Teachers and Students of Ecclesiastical Academies to the Holy Land and the Holy Mt. Athos [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2010 The author deals with pilgrim trips to the Holy Places — the Holy Land and the Holy Mt. Athos, — which were undertaken by teachers and students of Russian orthodox ecclesiastical academies in 1870-1910. The article covers the cases of these pilgrim trips.
Sukhova Nataliia
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Holy places that have played a role in the urban evolution of damascus [PDF]
, 2014 This study describes some of the shrines that contributed to the urban development of Damascus from the emergence of Islam to the middle ages. It also discusses the connection between the existence of holy places which attract pilgrims for religious and ...
Anabesh, Ghaleb
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Querimonia desolacionis terre sancte - The fall of acre and the Holy Land in 1291 as an emotional element in the tradition of Teutonic Order [PDF]
, 2012 A queda de Acre sob o poder das forças muçulmanas em 1291 foi um dos mais devastadores eventos na história do Reino Latino de Jerusalém. A queda da principal cidade das cruzadas, de fato a capital do Reino Latino, foi o último episódio na longa história ...
Lotan, Shlomo
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MEDIATION AS A PRACTICE OF IDENTITY Jewish-Israeli Immigrant Guides in the Christian Holy Land
, 2018 The performances of the Holy Land for Christian pilgrims by Jewish-Israeli immigrant guides are an expression of belonging to place and history. Through auto-ethnography of my Guiding performance and career path interviews with other immigrant guides, I ...
J. Feldman
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