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Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]
, 2005 Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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UNEXPECTED CALLINGS: Reimagining Ancestors and Queerness in Zimbabwe
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 5-29, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how young queer people in Zimbabwe rework understandings of the relationship between ancestors, spirit mediumship, and queer expressions of gender and sexuality. In Zimbabwe, many traditional practitioners argue that gender transgression and same‐sex desires are caused by the presence of ancestral spirits known as ...
RAFFAELLA TAYLOR‐SEYMOUR
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Uma leitura da recepção de Fernando Pessoa: Petrus na Colecção de António Júlia Miranda [PDF]
Pessoa Plural, 2019 Ao longo de quase duas décadas, Petrus (Pedro Veiga) desenvolveu um amplo trabalho antológico e crítico em torno da obra de Fernando Pessoa. Neste texto, será privilegiado o modo como Petrus, muitas vezes dialogando polemicamente com outros leitores de ...
Sousa, Rui
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Colmcille and the Battle of the Book: Technology, Law and Access to Knowledge in 6th Century Ireland [PDF]
, 2007 Many hundreds of years before the GPL was even a twinkle in Richard Stallman's eye, an Irish monk proved to be an unlikely champion of the geeky A2K notion of access to knowledge.
Corrigan, Ray
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Embodying Tradition and Ascribing Meaning: Israeli Jewish Atheists Choosing to Circumcise Their Sons
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 442-454, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings Israeli–Jewish atheists ascribe to their choice to circumcise their sons. Despite their lack of religious belief, many choose to engage in this practice, often seen as a typical representation of Jewish physical embodiment. Employing a lived religion approach, which emphasizes the multifaceted nature of human
Tammar Friedman
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Edinost in Dialog, 2021 This study analyses the image of pagans and paganism in Pomerania during the first half of the twelfth century. It also analyses the relationship with idolatry known since early Christianity.
Mihai Dragnea
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Self-knowledge in Kierkegaard [PDF]
, 2017 This document is a draft of a chapter that has been published by Oxford University Press in Ursula Renz, ed., Self-Knowledge: a history, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), ISBN 9780190226428, eISBN 9780190630553.Throughout his authorship ...
Lippitt, John
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