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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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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 Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Administrative and Police Regulation of Muslim Women’s Position in Russian Turkestan

RUDN Journal of Russian History
The author considers in two contexts the problem of the legal regulation of Muslim women’s position in Russian Turkestan, the Central Asia territories which had become part of Russia - on the one hand, the general state of the women's issue in the ...
Vyacheslav P. Litvinov
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Bishop over “Those Outside”: Imperial Diplomacy and the Boundaries of Constantine’s Christianity

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2014
Constantine’s letter of 324 to Shapur II, rather than a threatening assertion of imperial patronage of Christians in Persia, can be seen to express his protection of Christians under his own rule, offered as an example for the shah to follow.
Alexander Angelov
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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 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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Roman imperial iconography and the social construction of early Christian identity [PDF]

, 2008
Issue topic: Festschrift in honour of Erwin ...
Maier, Harry O.
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