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Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues +2 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT A geoarcheological study of two large, stratified Indigenous pit features discovered at two Jesuit mission sites in Québec (Canada) was carried out to offer a detailed documentation of their contents and better understand their use over time. One of the pits is a 17th c.
Sarah Robert, Allison Bain, Najat Bhiry
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A escrita em guarani dos mayordomos e o exemplo de Valentín Ybariguá (Paraguai, XVIII)
Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2014 In the Reductions of Paraguay, the teaching of “arts and crafts” reached a surprisingly high level. The conquest of the alphabet by the Guarani was an aspect of that development, which augmented the possibilities of communication between the Indians with
Eduardo S. Neumann
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 183-200, March 2026.Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 3-13, March 2026.This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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Los espíritus-jaguares: cráneos-trofeos y chamanismo entre los mojos (siglo XVII)
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2016 Head-hunting realized by the Mojos of the eastern Savannah of Bolivia, before their concentration in the Jesuit missions at the end of the 17th century had a peculiarity unique on the South American continent.
Vincent Hirtzel
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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions in the Spanish Empire
Itinerario, 2023 AbstractThis article examines two different missionary areas where the Society of Jesus was sent to evangelise the native population: the Andean territories previously under Inca domination and the remote Mariana Islands in the Pacific Rim. The gathering of “other barbarians” living outside “civilised” societies was a tool of early modern colonisers ...
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsMany studies tend to apply categories of gender and sexuality to indigenous peoples in the same way as they are used in the West. This ignores the fact that indigenous peoples have their own notions of people, which are often at odds with Western binary ...
Jean Tiago Baptista, Tony Willian Boita
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IdeAsThis article studies the production of maps in the missionary frontiers of South America during the 17th-18th centuries. Taking as a case the Jesuit mission towns (reducciones) of Guaraní in the Río de la Plata, the article analyzes the instrumentation ...
Kazuhisa Takeda, Guillermo Wilde
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Bonplandia, 2019 Jesuit missionaries (17-18th centuries) not only played a very important role in the introduction of exotic plants from various places of the world, but also in the dissemination of knowledge, medicine and healing practices among the missions in Paraguay
Pablo C. Stampella +2 more
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