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Pravomoc římských císařů v náboženských záležitostech římské říše

open access: yesTeologická Reflexe
The authority of the Roman emperors in the religious affairs of the Roman Empire stemmed from the adoption of the old republican office of pontifex maximus by the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
Stanislav Doležal
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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Christian Emperors and Legacy of Imperial Art

open access: yesActa ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 2001
In the context of Imperial Art as Christian Art, a question of special interest is how Christian emperors handled the imperial legacy of their pagan predecessors. That the tradition of the saecula aurea was important at least for the first Christian emperor is shown by the Arch of Constantine.
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Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
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Pfefferkorn vs. Reuchlin – spór o Talmud i inne księgi hebrajskie w latach 1509-1520 [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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