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Christian Secondary Epigraphy in the Temple of Hatshepsut. Some New Remarks
Reusage was a common phenomenon in the ancient world. Throughout the history of Egypt, from the very early beginnings until modern times, tombs, temples, quarries or loose architectural elements were adapted for new purposes. The Temple of Hatshepsut in
Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda
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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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The activities of the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Wiśnicz (1630–1782)
Commencing with the words spoken by Stanisław Lubomirski, the founder of the monastery, in 1641, in the presence of King Władysław IV, that „the religious fraternity of Wiśnicz should strictly follow their religious discipline”, this study outlines the ...
Szczepan T. Praśkiewicz
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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FROM UNIVERSALS OF HETMANS AND COLONELS OF 17 CENTURY
The article analyses a copy book (“а book-archive”) of the period of the 17th – beginning of the 18th centuries, written and owned by Mgarsky Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, which is near the town of Lubny.
Yurii Mytsyk
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Þingeyrar after the Dissolution
After the Reformation, many monasteries in Scandinavia were provided new purposes or maintained parts of their former functions, serving as everything from hospitals to city halls. In Iceland, however, this did not happen; the monasteries were abandoned,
Jakob Orri Jónsson
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Decision usefulness of SME financial statements in Sri Lanka
Abstract This paper examines the users of Sri Lankan small and medium‐sized entities' (SMEs) financial statements, and their information needs. Semi‐structured interviews found the main recipients of SME financial information are banks, the Inland Revenue Department and other government institutions.
Nisansala Wijekoon +2 more
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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