ABSTRACT Living with a chronic health condition (CHC) can involve sustained exposure to uncertainty, bodily threat and disruption to identity, relationships and anticipated life trajectories. Although a substantial evidence base exists for psychological interventions in long‐term illness, theoretical accounts remain fragmented across modalities and ...
Liza Morton
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Supernatural threats to kings: exploration of a motif in the Ulster Cycle and in other medieval Irish tales [PDF]
The subject of this contribution is the belief in a sacral bond between the land and the ruler. This belief is connected with the concept known as ‘sacral kingship’, which is found in many cultures.In the Tenach or Old Testament, for instance, the king ...
Borsje, J.
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Miter and Sword: Fighting Norman Bishops and Clergy [PDF]
This thesis examines Norman bishops and abbots, and their involvement in warfare, either as armed combatants, or commanders of military forces in Normandy, and later in England after William the Conquerors invasion in 1066.
Martin, Timothy Robert
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Hoping Against Hope: Gurkha Veterans' Narratives of Mental Health, Activism, and Justice
ABSTRACT Gurkha veterans hold a celebrated yet marginalised position within the British military system, where longstanding inequalities continue to shape their post‐service lives. Although Gurkha activism has become increasingly visible, little is known about how veterans themselves understand mental health within a prolonged struggle for justice ...
Krishtina Gurung +2 more
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Edible Insects: A Historical and Cultural Perspective on Entomophagy with a Focus on Western Societies. [PDF]
Olivadese M, Dindo ML.
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“Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God”: Allusions to Priestly Clothing, Priesthood, and Temple in 1 Nephi 14:14 [PDF]
Nephi saw in vision that in the latter-days “the saints of the church of the Lamb” and “covenant people of the Lord” who, though scattered across the earth, “were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory” (1 Nephi 14:14). Nephi’s
Bowen, Matthew L.
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ABSTRACT This article analyses the ‘Gestus’ of turning in films by Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold, in light of a central claim of Andrew Webber's esteemed theoretical work on film: that film has the power to uncover unconscious processes through which subjects come into being and are made operational for political regimes.
Annie Ring
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Comparing men and times : the classical sources and the political significance of Ben Jonson's "Sejanus" and "Catiline" in early Jacobean and Restoration England [PDF]
The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the interaction between drama and politics in Ben Jonson's two surviving tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, during the early years of the Jacobean and Restoration periods.
Alyo, Muhammed W.
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La dimension dévotionnelle du Skandayāga : Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa XX sur le rituel en l’honneur de Dhūrta [PDF]
International audienceThe present article provides a new assessment of the ritual dedicated to Skanda, the Skandayāga or Dhūrtakalpa, which is described in the chapter XX of the Pariśiṣṭas of the Atharvaveda. First it gives a brief survey of the previous
Wattelier-Bricout, Amandine
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