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Wukro Medhane Alem: A Medieval Rock-hewn Church in Historic Gondar, Ethiopia
Tourism and Heritage Journal, 2023 This study explores the historical and architectural heritage of Wukro Medhane Alem, a least-known monolithic rock-hewn church in South Gondar. Primary and secondary sources of the study were collected through fieldwork, interviews, and literature review. The study shows that it is one of the medieval churches traditionally attributed to King Lalibela (
Ebabey, Tsegaye
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Photogrammetric reconstruction and 3D visualisation of Bet Giorgis, a rock-hewn church in Ethiopia
, 2001 Proceedings of the CIPA 2001 International Symposium on Surveying and Documentation of Historic Buildings, Monuments and ...
Bührer, Thomas +4 more
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Disegnare con, 2020 The article is devoted to the results of a study of some little-known monuments of rock-hewn church architecture of the Tǝgray region (Ethiopia). The considered monuments are concentrated in the insufficiently explored by the scientists areas of Tǝgray ...
Sergey Klyuev
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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020 The article is devoted to the results of studies of little-known monuments of the church architecture of the Tәgray region (Ethiopia) — semi-rock-hewn and cave churches of historical provinces of Säḥart, Tämben and ᵓƎndärta.
Sergey A. Klyuev, Valeria N. Semenova
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Parliamentary History, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 309-347, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Underground movements are understandably reluctant to record the names and numbers of their adherents because any such compilation is manifestly a hostage to fortune. Hence very few lists of politically active Jacobites actually compiled by the Jacobites themselves have survived to the present day. In the French foreign ministry archives at La
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley
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Infrastructure and American religion: Sites, methods, and theories for a changing field
Religion Compass, Volume 17, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 Abstract This article reviews the literature on infrastructure in the study of American religions, examining its recent emergence as a topic of study and demonstrating its deeper role in the canons of the field. It argues that infrastructure has quickly become a multivalent conceptual term in the field, as well as a site for research. This latter point
Isaiah Ellis
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Stones in Motion: monuments and chiefly title histories in central Vanuatu
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 20-32, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This paper addresses the ways in which stones have anchored stories and people in central Vanuatu. Three different sets of stones, and stories about those stones, cast light from different angles on the history of the distinctive chiefly title system of this region.
Chris Ballard
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 85-121, January 2023., 2023 The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
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Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum‐Atlantic City
Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1251-1276, July 2022., 2022 Abstract In the wake of the riotous procession that toppled the statue of Edward Colston, this essay sketches an ethnographic itinerary through the spectral geographies of Bristol, a circum‐Atlantic city haunted by the ghosts of slavery. The paper offers a Caribbean cosmological reading of the toppling and aqueous burial as a kind of duppy conquering ...
Adom Philogene Heron
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022 The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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