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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
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The Maltese nobility during the Hospitaller period : towards a reappraisal [PDF]

, 2011
Over the last thirty years the nobilities of early modern Europe have become a subject of major interest for historians working on the social history of the period. This increase in attention has resulted in the development of new approaches to what is
Caruana Galizia, Anton
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum

Bibliothecae.it, 2023
Starting from the case of the best-known manual of demonology published in the modern age, the Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Krmer and Joakob Sprenger published for the first time in Strasbourg between 1486 and 1487, the paper studies the presence of ...
Paola Zito
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies

, 2010
Henry Charles Lea's account of the Inquisition in Italy, Spain and South America was first published in 1908. Drawing on primary source material, the American historian gives a detailed account of the workings of the Inquisition and its individual ...
Henry Charles Lea
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The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
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The Devil at Cîteaux: The Trial for Witchcraft of Regnault Robergeot (1480-1481)

Criminocorpus
This article analyzes the witchcraft trial of Regnault Robergeot, which took place between December 1480 and January 1481 under the secular jurisdiction of Cîteaux Abbey in Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux.
Maxime Gelly-Perbellini
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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Maux de l’âme et mots du corps : témoignages de la captivité aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2013
This paper will explore three archival and documentary corpora, such as the trials of renegades (former captives who had recanted their faith to become Muslims in Islamic countries) by the Spanish Inquisition, the Redemptorist fathers’ accounts of their ...
Anita Gonzalez-Raymond
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