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German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 392-409, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article will examine the representation of religion in Anna Seghers’ radio play Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431 (1937) and Bertolt Brecht's subsequent adaptation of this text for the stage (1952). While religiosity is central to the identity of the medieval heroine, Seghers chooses to communicate this feature to modern ...
Cordula Böcking
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Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 248-262, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d.
Justin Willson, Ashley Morse
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THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL, TALIBAN TAKEOVER, AND ONTOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN
World Affairs, Volume 186, Issue 1, Page 105-134, Spring 2023., 2023 Security discussions of the Taliban's second takeover of Afghanistan center on physical security threats, neglecting the ontological aspect related to how security entails the metaphysics of life—being, feeling alive, or having a sense of self. This article examines this ontological threat to the Afghan people to complement the security discussion and ...
Thomas Ameyaw‐Brobbey
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Ethnography, Incongruity, History: Soviet Poetic Cinema
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 1, Page 68-90, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the entangling of the poetic and the ethnographic in the art cinema of the 1960s as an indicator of a broader collision of epistemological/discursive regimes in postwar Soviet cinema—and ultimately, a clash between two fundamentally opposed approaches to the discursive production of history.
Elizabeth A. Papazian
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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An Edition of Ambrosio Nieto’s Paradise Lost: A Drama in Four Acts (c. 1920–50)
, 2023 Milton Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 59-88, October 2023.
Angelica Duran
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Do dit e do lai: o conto medieval
Forma Breve, 2003 Além de uma breve menção ao dit e ao lai, pretende-se, com este trabalho, reunir textos que permitam inserir no género do conto (medieval) alguns dits e alguns lais, todos de origem francesa.
Margarida Santos Alpalhão
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Tras los visillos de la cultura medieval: literatura y realismo
Medievalia, 2016 Tras los visillos de la cultura medieval: literatura y ...
Alejandro Higashi
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Revista de Filología Románica, 2016 The tradition of the Roman de Fauvel, realization of the most conspicuous satirical late-medieval allegory, has twelve manuscripts, to which are added two fragments of unequal length.
Margherita Lecco
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