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Orphans in Mediterranean antiquity and early Christianity

Acta Theologica, 2016
This article provides an overview of the problem of orphans in the ancient Mediterranean world and identifies ways in which various societies acknowledged orphans’ plight and sought to address it.
J. T. Fitzgerald
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Pfefferkorn vs. Reuchlin – spór o Talmud i inne księgi hebrajskie w latach 1509-1520 [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012
During the fifteenth and sixteenth century the Jews in Germany were subject to imperial law and entitled to the protection of the law, but just in those days the campaign against Jewish books began to change for the campaign against Jews and Judaizers ...
Łukasz Stypuła
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The Inculturation of Christianity in Late Imperial China, 1724-1840 [PDF]

, 2000
Lars Laamann
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Competing cosmologies in early Christianity: cosmology in the book of Revelation, Roman imperial ideology, and in the province of Asia

, 2022
Paul Henry Yeates
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The Final Period of the Roman Constitutional History: the Later Roman Empire and the Dominate or Period of the Absolute Monarchy

Journal on European History of Law
One of the aspects that caracterizes the period of the so-called Dominate (Dominatus) or Absolute Monarchy is the fact that the imperial power makes use of religion to legitimize itself.
Carlos Sardinha
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Świeccy fundatorzy instytucji dobroczynnych w Kościele starożytnym

Vox Patrum, 2003
Charitable activities go back to the very beginning of Christianity, but charity institutions were founded since the fourth century. In 321 A.D. the Church was granted testament factio passiva which allowed lay people to cede their property to the ...
Monika Wójcik
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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White Donald, avec une contribution de Joyce M.  Reynolds , The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, VIII  : The Sanctuary’s Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict With Christianity, and Final Days ( University Museum Monographs , 134), Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 1 vol. 21,5 x 28, 216 p. et 110 fig. [PDF]

, 2014

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