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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Woven verses : Byzantine masterpieces
Neograeca Bohemica, 2020 The present study offers a general overview of Byzantine visual poetry, based on older studies including works by Paul Speck (1964; 2003), Odysseas Lampsidis (1982), Wolfram Hörandner (1990; 2009) and Ulrich Ernst (1991), focusing on a special poetical ...
Lilia Diamantopoulou
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Topos "locus amoenus" w łacińskiej poezji chrześcijańskiego antyku
Vox Patrum, 2008 This paper deals with the topos of locus amoenus in Latin poetry of Christian antiquity. Descriptions of idealized landscape can be found in whole literary tradition from Homer on.
Tadeusz Gacia
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
History, EarlyView.Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Sixty Year Comprehensive Index of Pasque Petals 1926-1986
, 1987 Index from 1926-1986 of Pasque Petals, the poetry journal published by the South Dakota State Poetry Society. It is the oldest poetry journal in continuous publication in the National Federation of Poetry Societies with its first issue was published in ...
South Dakota State Poetry Society
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
History, EarlyView.Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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Parole Rubate, 2016 Even if Virgil was not one of the key authors in his library, Machiavelli was undoubtedly very familiar with the Roman poet’s output, as the (admittedly limited) quotations examined in this article demonstrate.
Giulio Ferroni
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Augustus Scriptus: Referencing the ‘real’ in Propertius
In die Skriflig, 2019 The main aim of this article is to understand how Augustus is written into life in the story-world of Propertius. It traces the development of the character in the story-world over time with due regard to the parallel historical narratives that were told
Johan Steenkamp
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