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“Sotto manto de santità”. L’Inquisizione romana, i Calabrovaldesi e l’accusa di simulazione religiosa

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2010
Among the Waldensens living in Northern Italy and Southern France, the dissimulation of their faith is one of the most peculiar characteristics of the daily religious practice during the late Middle Ages.
Pierroberto Scaramella
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Regina Maria Roche’s \u3cem\u3eThe Children of the Abbey\u3c/em\u3e: Contesting the Catholic Presence in Female Gothic Fiction [PDF]

, 2012
This article examines Regina Maria Roche’s immensely popular gothic novel, The Children of the Abbey (1796), in light of the ideological and political campaigns that occurred in Britain leading up to the passage of the Catholic emancipation bill in 1829.
Hoeveler, Diane
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A Theory of Moral Persistence: Crypto-Morality and Political Legitimacy [PDF]

Why, how, and under what conditions do moral beliefs persist despite institutional pressure for change? Why do the powerful often fail to promote the morality of their authority?
Avner Greif, Steven Tadelis
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'The Paintings Within' [PDF]

, 2010
This is one of several contributory essays in the volume: 'Nicholas Lanier, 1588–1666. A Portrait Revealed'. It examines the two paintings that are internal to the portrait and suggests reasons for their inclusion and also proposes that they require ...
Wilks, Tim
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On the human capital of Inca Indios before and after the Spanish conquest: Was there a "pre-colonial legacy"? [PDF]

Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later development patterns. In this study we assess a potential pre-colonial legacy hypothesis for the case of the Andean region.
Baten, Joerg, Juif, Dácil-Tania
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Church and magic as rival systems in Early Modern Europe

Studia Humanitatis, 2019
The article analyses the system of relationship between the Catholic Church and occultists in Early Modern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the worldview of historical actors. The author pays attention on the folk practice of
Chernomorsky Arseny Vladimiovich
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Dediche tortuose. La Geometria morale di Vincenzo Viviani e gli imbarazzi dell’eredità galileiana

Noctua, 2019
This study of the history and contents of a hitherto unedited work on geometry by Vincenzo Viviani seeks to present a picture of the scientific environment in Italy in the second half of the 17th century, with particular emphasis on Tuscany and the ...
Sara Bonechi
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Growing up in Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798) : sources and methodologies for the history of childhood and adoloscence [PDF]

, 2008
The study of young people in the past is fraught with methodological problems and unearthing source material on children and adolescents can be problematic.
Buttigieg, Emanuel
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Goa la périlleuse. L’Inde portugaise selon les voyageurs français du xviie siècle

Viatica
This article examines the way French travelers of the 17th century witnessed the difficulties they regularly encountered in the Portuguese Indies, particularly in Goa.
Frédéric Tinguely
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Un tribunal méconnu et honni. Les savoirs géographiques sur l’Inquisition dans la France d’Ancien Régime

Viatica
This article examines the construction of a geographical knowledge about the Inquisition in specialized dictionaries in French in the 18th century. In order to gather first-hand information, compilers looked at the accounts of travellers who had visited ...
François Lavie
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