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“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 192-209, June 2025.
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
wiley   +1 more source

Iconoclasia, performance y la opacidad de la presencia

open access: yesAlteridades, 2017
Iconoclasm, Performanceand The opacITyof presence.In Literature, it has been stated that the notion of per-formance is articulated together with creation of pres-ence.
RODRIGO DÍAZ CRUZ
doaj  

The Many Meanings of Iconoclasm: Warrior and Christian Temple-Shrine Destruction in Late Sixteenth Century Japan

open access: yesJournal of Early Modern History, 2020
The conversion of certain warlords in Kyushu, Japan, (1560–1580 CE) represents one of the most important breakthroughs for Christianity in the early modern world, and it was accompanied by striking acts of destruction of the local sacred sites and ...
A. Strathern
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Revisiting the Radical Revolution? A Review of the Exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 391, Page 428-434, June 2025.
Abstract The recent exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris marked the first exhibition on the subject of the French Revolution since the museum reopened in 2021 after a five‐year period of renovation.
Laura O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

European questions have intruded into the French election campaign, signalling that the next European Parliamentary elections may be the first truly European ones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign. Meanwhile Sarkozy wants to exclude Greece from the Schengen Agreement and has called for protectionist measures within the European Union.
Priestley, Julian
core  

Rocking the Boat to Change the Debate: Identifying and Testing Conventional Wisdom

open access: yesAgricultural Economics, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 543-553, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a method for and experiences with pioneering new research directions that challenge “conventional wisdom” and change policy and research debates. The method consists of four steps: (1) identify the conventional wisdom (CW); (2) ignore the CW and go to the field without pre‐conceived notions, and look long and hard at ...
Thomas Reardon
wiley   +1 more source

Analyse topique d’une caractérisation artistique. Étude des lieux communs dans l’art contemporain islamique

open access: yesImages Re-Vues, 2005
Si hier comme aujourd’hui, l’art islamique classique comme « l’art contemporain islamique » connaissent une fluctuation nominative importante, si hier comme aujourd’hui, « islamique » est employé dans le sens de “civilisation islamique” ; hier comme ...
Monia Abdallah
doaj   +1 more source

Mozart: traces of transcendence [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Reviewed Book: Küng, Hans. Mozart: traces of transcendence.
Muller, Richard A.
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Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and ...
Stoyanov, Yuri
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

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