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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557–1632

Aethiopica, 2018
This dissertation examines the relationship between royally-sponsored Roman Catholic and Ethiopian Orthodox art and architecture during the 1557 to 1632 Jesuit Ethiopian mission. The first part of the dissertation examines key religious and secular sites,
Kristen Windmuller-Luna
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, THE “SIX PROPOSITIONS,” AND THE HOLY OFFICE

Zygon, 2019
Between 1924 and 1937, the Jesuit Curia in Rome repeatedly placed restrictions on what Jesuit priest‐paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was allowed to write on those aspects of human origins that, in the view of the Curia, had theological as well
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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945) [PDF]

, 2019
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. In order to understand the Jesuits’ evangelization project of gathering souls in the Oceanic archipelagos, it is ...
Coello de la Rosa, Alexandre, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa   +1 more
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

Los dibujos de Ignacio Tirsch (1733-1781), tres cartas y una curiosa relación. Las historias naturales jesuitas de la Antigua California

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2019
The drawings made by Ignacio Tirsch (1733-1781) are part of the Jesuit missionary work in the northern New Spain. Today we can find some of these drawings illustrating specialized books or advertising campaigns on Baja California. However, some questions
Angélica Morales Sarabia
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Borrowed silence: A history of the practice of retreat in the Church of England [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis, which is the first attempt to write about the growth of retreats, deals with a rather sidelined but important development in the history of spirituality.
Tyers, John H.
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The Jesuit Patriarchate to the Preste: Between Religious Reform, Political Expansion and Colonial Adventure

Aethiopica, 2013
In this paper I analyse the reasons that lead Portugual to send a Jesuit Patriarch to Ethiopia. Such a mission represented a radical break from the tolerant attitude the Lusitans had been showing vis à vis this African Church; the embassies that for ...
Andreu Martínez D'Alòs-Moner
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