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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
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
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Contrafacta of Operatic Arias among the Dominicans of Baroque Silesia
The paper discusses contrafactum practice in the manuscripts of Pius Hancke, a Dominican monk from Silesia. His scores point to pathways for the dissemination of the operatic repertory and document the process of change in its social function associated ...
Tomasz Jeż
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Researching the History of Rites [PDF]
This chapter discusses the potential of liturgical rites as sources, some practical ways in which one can work with this material, some problems that are likely to be encountered, and some possible directions for future research.
Gittos, Helen
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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Развој литургике у руским духовним академијама у другој половини 19. и почетком 20. вијека
The formation of Liturgics as an autonomous theological discipline in Russian theological academies began in the first decades of the 19th century and was completed with the establishment of a special cathedra for Liturgics and Church Archeology during ...
Slobodan Lukić
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A Greek-Arabic Liturgical Manuscript in Princeton's Scheide Library
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Medieval Chant and Digital Technology: A Website for Liturgical Prosulas
Chants Hypertexts is a companion website for a forthcoming book that is a study and edition of a substantial body of liturgical music from medieval southern Italy, that of the prosulas of the Proper of the Mass included in the so-called Beneventan ...
Luisa Nardini
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Codex Sinaiticus as a Window into Early Christian Worship [PDF]
Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest and most complete New Testament in Greek known to exist. Its two colophons at the end of 2 Esdras and Esther indicate a possible connection with Pamphilus’ famous library at Caesarea in Palestine.
Mitchell, Timothy N
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