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The Peculiar Nature of Victorian Irish Medievalism

, 1989
Whereas Victorian English medievalism has been the object of much scholarly interest in recent years, Victorian Irish medievalism has attracted very little scholarly attention.
Orr, Leonard
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The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past: An Introduction

Open Library of Humanities
'The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past' Special Collection explores how the medieval past is 'curated'—that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated—across both professional and popular society, and takes a particular interest in the ways in ...
John Edgar MacLeod Sandy-Hindmarch, Lynsey McLaughlin   +1 more
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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating Islamic State| Islamic State and Game of Thrones: The Global Among Tradition, Identity, and the Politics of Spectacle

International Journal of Communication, 2020
The gruesome videos circulated on most media platforms by the organization that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) have prompted a heated debate about the “Islamicity” of the organization that centered on how serious IS actors were regarding getting ...
Bashir Saade
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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From Monastic Record to National Monument

Revista de Historiografía
This article explores the Livro da Noa (LN)—a composite codex from the monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra—as a key witness to the long reception and reinterpretation of medieval historiography in Portugal.
Rodrigo Furtado, Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova   +1 more
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Medievalism studies: как изучается «современное Средневековье»? [Medievalism Studies: How are the “Modern Middle Ages” Studied? ]

, 2019
Rusanov A. Medievalism studies: как изучается «современное Средневековье»? [Medievalism Studies: How are the “Modern Middle Ages” Studied? ]. Vox medii aevi. 2019;2(5):12–42.The article is dedicated to the investigations of medievalism, i. e.
Rusanov, Aleksandr
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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