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Commentary piece: Sociocultural characteristics of Montenegrins – the negative message in positive jokes

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
Ethnic jokes are a form of comical narration extremely widespread throughout the social life of various nations. They generally centre on neighbouring nations and reveal a positive assessment of one's own ethnic group, usually negatively evaluating other
Edyta Koncewicz-Dziduch
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Polscy jezuici na ziemiach greckich od XVI do XX wieku

Annales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2021
The main purpose of this article is to provide some information about missionary work of Polish Jesuits in Greece and in Constantinople from XVI to XX century. It was the period of Turkokratia and later of Independent Greece.
Krzysztof Homa
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The Early Jesuits’ Transformative Vision of Education in the Context of Colonization from Their Sixteenth-Century Beginnings to Their Suppression in 1773: A Longue Durée Synthesis and Online Interactive Map Locating the Colleges

Cadernos de História da Educação, 2023
This paper comprises two parts, a longue durée interpretative historical synthesis that examines the Jesuits’ transformative vision of education, and a digital interactive map that visualizes the globality of their educational enterprise (https ...
Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Ana Jofre
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Jews in the Society of Jesus: Claudio Acquaviva and his critics

In die Skriflig, 2023
The Spanish origins of the Society of Jesus entailed a sensitivity about the Jewish ancestry of many of its members. This article examines the decision taken by the Fifth General Congregation of the Society (1593–1594) to exclude persons of Jewish ...
Marianne R. Dircksen, Victor Houliston
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The Jesuits and Slavery

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2020
Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people. Even Jesuit historiography sometimes neglects that complicated history.
A. Rothman
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An Unknown Archival Source about the Libraries of the Colleges of the Society of Jesus in the Val di Noto

TECA, 2022
The essay presents the first results of the study of some of the archival sources preserved in the Historical Archive of the University of Catania. These sources provide information on the transfer of the libraries from the Colleges of Val Noto to the ...
Cristiana Iommi
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Chinese astronomy in the time of the Jesuits: Studies following Science and Civilisation in China

, 2020
Viewing traditional Chinese science as one of the tributaries to be merged into the grand ocean of modern/universal science, Joseph Needham placed great importance on the period of the Jesuits in the ‘Sciences of the Heavens’ section in volume 3 of ...
Yunli Shi
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Jezuitski kemiki v Habsburški monarhiji

Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2016
Opisani so dosežki jezuitov iz Avstrijske in Češke province, ki so objavljali knjige o kemiji. Posebej so izpostavljene njihove povezave z območjem današnje Slovenije.
Stanislav Jože Južnič
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Kemijski laboratorij celjske kraljice

Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2017
Barbara Celjska je bila gotovo najbogatejša alkimistka vseh časov. Prispevek skuša pojasniti kakšni poskusi so potekali v njenem laboratoriju in nakazati, katere tehniške kemijske naprave je utegnila pri tem uporabljati.
Stanislav Jože Južnič
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Sacred Cartographies: Rome, 1575–1616

In_Bo, 2021
During the second half of the 16th century Roman cartographic production intensified - and became more specialised across a wide range of products - in relation to the specific situation of the city in the dramatic European context of political-doctrinal
Mario Bevilacqua
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