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Anatomy of a Dispute:Leonardo, Pacioli, and Scientific Entertainment in Renaissance Milan. [PDF]

, 2004
none1noHistorians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat ...
Azzolini, Monica
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Negotiating French Muslim Identities through Hip Hop [PDF]

, 2019
In The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, Gérard Noiriel contends that in France, the modern idea of the nation emerged as a means to subvert the dominant influence of the nobility, whose rule was underwritten by the ...
Nyawalo, Mich Yonah
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Genealogy of Mongirdai Nobility

Bibliotheca Lituana, 2019
The Author dealswith the forgotten history of the Mongird family of Samogitia. After conductinganalysis of Mongirdai family, genealogical table was compiled.
Jolanta Klietkutė
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Modernization of the Russian education system in the first quarter of the 18th century as a factor in the book culture development

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2023
Importance. One of the most active means of modernization in Russia in the times of Peter the Great was education. To make a cultural, social, economic breakthrough, the country needed a personnel of educated and energetic specialists who understood the ...
A. G. Topilsky
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The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]

, 2009
Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
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The Maltese nobility during the Hospitaller period : towards a reappraisal [PDF]

, 2011
Over the last thirty years the nobilities of early modern Europe have become a subject of major interest for historians working on the social history of the period. This increase in attention has resulted in the development of new approaches to what is
Caruana Galizia, Anton
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Entropic analysis of the role of words in literary texts

, 2001
Beyond the local constraints imposed by grammar, words concatenated in long sequences carrying a complex message show statistical regularities that may reflect their linguistic role in the message.
Montemurro, Marcelo A., Zanette, Damian H.   +1 more
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The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group [PDF]

, 2006
: This paper is concerned with a rather neglected issue in sociological analysis: honour as a value and regulating principle of social life. The attempt is made to study honour from a perspective which pays attention to both the carriers of honour and ...
Frade, C
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Similarities and Differences in Polish and Hungarian History [PDF]

, 2013
In my lecture I would like to give a general introduction to a comparative approach of Polish and Hungarian history. I am convinced it could be not only an interesting, but a relevant issue as well. This approach could be touching emotionally for average
Zsinka, László
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Electoral Behavior of Russian Nobility (1770-1820s)

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2012
The article deals with the processes of traditions emergence and formation of the Russian nobility electoral behavior in the last quarter of the 18th - the first third of the 19th century. Considering the materials of Moscow and Tver provinces the author
A I Kupriyanov
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