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Obscure et enfumée: la maison paysanne au Moyen Age
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Jean-Marie Pesez
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New research on the history of the construction of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
An interdisciplinary project by the BTU (Brandenburgische Technische Universität) Cottbus (Germany) and the University of Bern (Switzerland) is analysing the construction of the Romanesque cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Bernd Nicolai, Klaus Rheidt
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Dating mortars: three medieval Spanish architectures
One of the major issues in building archaeology is finding the age of elements and structures discovered. Mortars represent a class of material basically constituted by a mixture of different phases (i.e. binder, aggregates, water) and are widely used for constructive uses and artworks.
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Fantastic architecture and the building of Europe in Valerio Evangelisti’s Eymerich fiction [PDF]
Concomitant with the horizontal expansion of EU territory through physical and political enlargement is a genealogy narrative, which emphasizes the ostensible roots of Europeanness in classical antiquity and Christianity.
Mikula, M
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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SPATIAL-TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF THE UKRAINIAN THEATER IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The purpose of the research is to find out the peculiarities of the stage design of the Ukrainian theatre and its spatial and technical support in the Middle Ages.
Kateryna Yudova-Romanova
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The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early-Victorian satires on religion [PDF]
Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion can frequently be found in the early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism, in the earlier 1840s, and Roman Catholic revivalism, around 1850, came in for ...
Janes, Dominic
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness [PDF]
A new research programme located on the Tarbat peninsula in north-east Scotland offers the first large-scale exposure of a monastery in the land of the Picts.
Carver, Martin
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