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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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“Places of Memory”: Working with Roman Catholic Archives
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 311-316, September 2024.The Roman Catholic Church has always been aware of its history and has developed a theology of the past. A document produced by the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church in 1997, The Pastoral Function of Church Archives, brought together some of its central principles.
Nicholas Schofield
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Alteridad en la Identidad: La descripción del cristianismo oriental en tiempos de las Cruzadas [PDF]
, 2014 Este artigo analisa a descrição nos textos latinos dos séculos XI e XII das comunidades cristãs orientais, ortodoxa síria e melkita sob a moldura das atitudes dos francos em relação aos grupos cristãos não latinos.This articles deals with the description
Ubierna, Pablo Alejandro
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Adam Smith's inquiry into the nature and causes of the death of nations
Constellations, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 184-197, March 2025.
Ryan Patrick Hanley
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Cows, Communities, and Religious Responses to the 1865–66 British Rinderpest Outbreak*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 153-171, June 2024.The devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so‐called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long‐term significance for the relationship between ...
Joseph Hardwick
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The Illustrious House of Hanover [PDF]
, 2015 The Hanoverian kings have attracted none of the affection the popular imagination accords to the Tudors and Stuarts, still less the romanticism. They are dismissed as a boorish bunch of Germans, with the possible exception of George III, who went mad and
Lyon, Ann
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
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Scotland has always been a mongrel nation of healthy curiosities and zombie priorities [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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Controverted Elections, Electoral Controversy and the Scottish Privy Council, 1689–1708*
Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 53-71, February 2024.Abstract Both the privy council and elections in early modern Scotland are understudied. The council itself has largely been described as a tool for crown management of elections. But it was fundamentally a court and standing committee charged with government administration, which was often supplicated to deal with cases of electoral impropriety and ...
Robert d. Tree
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
, 2018 Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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