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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]

, 2016
A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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“El anhelo moderno”. Los debates de corrupción acerca de la ley electoral Sáenz Peña en Argentina en 1912

Rúbrica Contemporánea, 2023
El texto analizará la discusión pública acerca de la ley Sáenz Peña en 1912, que cambió drásticamente el régimen electoral en Argentina y se concibe generalmente como el comienzo de la democracia de masas en el país.
Stephan Ruderer
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Rectors of the college of the Society of Jesus in Salamanca: historical aproximation to an universitarian residence

Studia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2020
The figure of the Rector is the most important in any institution. In the college of the Society of Jesus we observe the reflection of this tendency. We intend to present an intelectual elite in Salamanca and its different research processes and their ...
Cristo José DE LEÓN PERERA
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National and Private Ambitions in the Patronage of French Cardinals at the Papal Court (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries) [PDF]

, 2017
Few French cardinals left important traces in the form of architectural patronage in Rome during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period characterised by the alternation of times of strong tension between the French kings and the Papacy, and ...
Bardati, Flaminia
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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece [PDF]

, 2019
The Mani Peninsula is home to hundreds of Orthodox Christian churches that were built within the last millennium. As in other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean countryside, the topological relationship between churches and settlements is a critical ...
Kalaycı, Tuna, Seifried, Rebecca M
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Enlightenment and School History in 19th Century Greece: the Case of Gerostathis by Leon Melas (1862-1901)

, 2017
Students in present-day Greek schools are taught History as a biography of the Greek nation from the Mycenaean times to the present. Over the course of three millennia, the Greek nation has experienced three periods of cultural flourishing and political ...
Harris Athanasiades
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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]

, 2020
This article examines Leon Battista Alberti’s 'Porcaria coniuratio', the historical epistle on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against Nicholas V, which was discovered by the pope before the conspirators could carry out the plot, in January 1453.
Celati, Marta
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Diciottesimo Secolo
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Marina Formica
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Entre fidélité à l’Antiquité et quête de modernité : l’impossible scepticisme des Lumières

Diciottesimo Secolo
Contrairement à la présentation encore prégnante d’un siècle des Lumières marqué par le culte de la Raison, cet article montre en quoi le scepticisme a été un courant essentiel au XVIIIe siècle.
Sébastien Charles
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An Etruscan empire in the Mediterranean world. Antiquities, cultural models and national identities in 18th-century Italy

Diciottesimo Secolo
The essay revisits the figure of the Scotsman James Byres, son of a Jacobite at the exiled court of the Stuart pretender, who gained renown in Rome as a cicerone for English travelers in Italy.
Antonino de Francesco
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