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Релігійна політика Септимія Севера та культ імператора [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
O. Petrechko. The Religious Policy of Septimius Severus and Imperial Cult Despite some significant changes in the religious policy, in whole, Septimius Severus was true to religious traditions of the Roman state.
Петречко, О.М.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &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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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021
This article aims at exploring the role played by Freemasonry in displaying, promoting and celebrating the British Empire. It argues that Masonic lodges held centre stage in the Indian colonial public sphere.
Simon Deschamps
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Constantine’s City: the Early Days of a Christian Capital

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2020
In his new city Constantinople, Constantine the Great established an imperial cult with pagan elements prevailing over Christian ones. This can be seen from a number of monuments and buildings, such as the Forum of Constantine with the emperor’s statue ...
Albrecht Berger
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Roma: culto imperiale e paesaggio urbano [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Imperial cult is the most original element of Roman religion and the most important expression of the system of honors for the 'princeps' and the other members of the 'domus Augusta'.
Palombi, Domenico
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Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous ...
Fortna, Benjamin
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Un "flaminalis" procedente de Riolobos y otras manifestaciones del culto imperial en "Capera" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Una nueva lectura de esta inscripción de Riolobos (HEp 4, 1994: 246) permite constatar el primer flamen documentado en la epigrafía de Cáceres. Se completa este trabajo con un breve estudio de las manifestaciones del culto imperial en Capera a través de ...
Esteban-Ortega, J. (Julio)
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