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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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The Australian Constitutional Framers and the Languages of Virtue

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 641-657, December 2024.
The historiography of the political concept of virtue has been dominated by examinations of western European and North American sources. This article aims to widen the historical scope for our understanding of the influence of the concept of political virtue by examining how Anglophone conceptions of virtue were employed by the framers of the ...
Simon P. Kennedy, Benjamin B. Saunders
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Creation of the System of Management of the Retinue of the H. I. M. for the Quartermaster Part on the Eve of the Patriotic War of 1812 [PDF]

, 2021
Работа посвящена истории создания системы центрального управления Свитой Е. И. В. по квартирмейстерской части накануне Отечественной войны 1812 г. Автор доказывает, что данная мера позволила приступить к осуществлению кардинальных преобразований в ...
Швецов, Ю. А., Shvetsov, Yu.
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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.
Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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Evolution of Representation of France’s Image in Manifests of Patriotic War of 1812 [PDF]

, 2017
The article examines the problems of changing perceptions of France in the manifesto of the Patriotic War of 1812. According to the author’s opinion, the ideological nature of the war depended heavily on the designed image of the enemy.
Ившин, В. С., Ivshin, V. S.
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Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 399-413, July 2024.
Abstract The word contagion, derived from Latin contagio, the combination of con (“together with”) and tagio (“touch”), suggests a close relationship between the human body and community. It stands to reason, then, that contagion narratives in one way or the other attempt to reflect upon one’s being in the world, with others, whether human or non‐human,
Julia Vaingurt
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The image of mother and child in Byzantine and Russian iconography

Акушерство, гинекология и репродукция
The article explores the image of the Virgin and Child as a central theme in Byzantine and Russian iconography. Timeless and universal significance of this theme in art is emphasized primarily focusing on a detailed analysis of four key miraculous icons ...
A. D. Makatsariya
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The genesis of the battlefield image in the poetic batalistics of the Patriotic War of 1812

Philology. Theory & Practice, 2023
The aim of the research is to identify the literary genesis, semantic components, and artistic potential of the image of the battlefield in the poetic batalistics of 1812. The article explores the architectonics of the battlefield space and the symbolic content of the battle image, based on works from the “Collection of Poems Relating to the ...
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“Following Our Own Path”: Pavel Katenin’s Political Theater

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 227-242, April 2024.
Abstract The present article focuses on the tension arising from Pavel Katenin’s aesthetic and literary vision for the reception of Antiquity in Russian mythological drama: his avid support of Classical purism and his denunciation of dramatists, for whom ancient myths served merely as a resource of historical parallels, is challenging to reconcile with
Katherine New
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The Patriotic War of 1812 in the Historical and Bibliographical Publication

Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], 2013
Book Review on the “Groza dvenadtsatogo goda…” (“Thunderstorm of twelfth year...”) of V. Meshkov, which is a guide to the books about the Great Patriotic War.
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