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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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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
wiley   +1 more source

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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Christian ideology and the image of a holy land: the place of Jerusalem pilgrimage in the various Christianities [PDF]

, 2013
The great majority of the world's holy cities and sacred shrines attract pilgrims from culturally circumscribed catchment areas, and thus host pilgrims united by strong degrees of cultural homogeneity.
Bowman, Glenn W.
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The history of the Gornensky Convent written by hieromonk Isaiah (Babinin) in 1950

Христианство на Ближнем Востоке, 2020
This publication includes a little-known source on the history of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem and the Gornensky Convent in Ein-Karem.
Evgenii V. Palamarenko
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Lifelong learning in Palestine [PDF]

, 2012
Palestine's universities are recognised as being involved in outstanding work in the difficult conditions of a belligerent occupation. Internal travel restrictions and over 600 checkpoints and barriers have unsuccessfully tried to atomise higher ...
Hammond, K.
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Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
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“Mansurov project” of the Russian Palestine (based on materials from a trip in 1857 to Holy Places)

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We consider the activity of B.P. Mansurov in organizing Russian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We describe the preparation, course and results of B.P. Mansurov’s trip to the Orthodox East (1857) that largely predetermined the nature of the Russian presence
A. N. Allenov
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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