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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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On History and Liberty: The ‘Revisionism’ of Bronisław Baczko [PDF]

, 2017
The ‘Warsaw School of History of Ideas’ is the name given to a ‘revisionist think tank’ which was led by the historian Bronisław Baczko from 1956 to 1968 in Communist Poland.
Baiao, Helder Mendes
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‘A child who implores your clemency from his mother's womb’: emotion, inclusion and the unborn Condé child (1656)

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 104-122, February 2025.
Abstract In the Fronde's aftermath, the treason and flight of the ‘Grand’ Prince of Condé Louis II de Bourbon raised pointed questions about belonging and community in Louis XIV's France, and news of his wife's 1656 pregnancy while in exile in Flanders further complicated those issues.
Jim Coons
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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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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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The beetles of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity and distributions [PDF]

, 2009
The published beetle fauna of the island of St. Lucia is summarized. It contains 135 genera, and 175 species in 25 families. Four species are accidentally introduced by human activities. Twenty three species are endemic (restricted) to the island. Twenty
Peck, Stewart B.
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Looking for the Secular in Religious Archives — a Cross‐Channel Perspective

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 352-361, September 2024.
Written from the perspective of a social historian trained in the French tradition, this article investigates how the study of nineteenth‐century Irish migrations to Britain contributes to the study of the nature of “religious archives.” In France, the writing of social history during the twentieth century was heavily influenced by sociologists and ...
Geraldine Vaughan
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Sommaire de la revue Annales du patrimoine numéro 21-2021

Annales du Patrimoine, 2021
Revue Annales du patrimoine, faculté des lettres et des arts, université de Mostaganem, n°21 ...
Pr Mohammed Abbassa
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The beginnings of a monastic reformer : the younger years of Poppo of Stavelot (Lotharingia, 978-1020) [PDF]

, 2016
This paper investigates the underlying mechanisms and different contexts which played a decisive role in the advancement of the pre-abbatial monastic careers of adult converts living in the eleventh century. Whereas most studies on these individuals have
Vanheule, Koen
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The Lettres Portugaises: Scripting and selling female desire

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 369-385, July 2024.
Abstract This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer.
Jessica O'Leary
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