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Medieval Devotional Icons as an Assertion of Political and Cultural Authority

open access: yes
Throughout the Medieval period, visual art played a large role in religious culture. The production of sacred portraits to be used in devotional and liturgical practices, known as religious icons, became tradition.
Isaac, Patricia Alexandra
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Вещевая среда киевских православных святынь в конце XVIII—первых десятилетиях ХХ вв.

open access: yes, 2012
Статтю присвячено одному з аспектів сприйняття чудотворних ікон і мощей Києва в кінці XVIII — перших десятиліттях XX ст. На основі широкого кола архівних матеріалів і опублікованих джерел проаналізовано речове середовище шанованих ікон і реліквій та ...
Кізлова, А. А.   +2 more
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“Simply Amazing and Fantastic”: The Maude Abbott Medical Museum Visitor Book, 2018–2023

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Maude Abbott Medical Museum has a collection of human remains which we believe is appropriate to preserve and use for teaching and research. We wondered to what extent our visitors feel the same way. We categorized all entries in our museum visitor book for 5 years into five groups based on specific words or phrases.
Rick Fraser
wiley   +1 more source

The Political U: New Evidence on the Economic Costs of Hybrid Regimes

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research establishes a positive causal effect from democracy to income, although this evidence relies mostly on binary regime classifications. We extend the identification framework of Acemoglu et al. (2019) to a classification that distinguishes democracies, autocracies, and hybrid regimes for about 170 countries over 1960–2024.
Nauro F. Campos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Irish regional GDP since independence

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
wiley   +1 more source

Scripting the Gaze: Liturgy, Homilies, and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial Russia

open access: yes, 2007
Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions.
Shevzov, Vera
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

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