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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

Rhaeto-Romanic language and culture

open access: yesBabylonia, 1998
[Summary generated by Poe] The third issue of "Babylonia" delves into the theme of Rhaeto-Romance language and culture, offering insights from various contributors on the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Rhaeto-Romance community in Switzerland, particularly in the canton of Graubünden.
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Languages and Literacies in Roman Britain

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Abstract This chapter describes the languages, literacies, and identities across the variegated landscapes and communities of Britannia, using evidence and perspectives from multiple disciplines—primarily archaeological, historical, (socio)linguistic, and epigraphic.
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Ethnopedology in the study of toponyms connected to the indigenous knowledge on soil resource. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2015
Capra GF   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Roman Ingarden and the Language of Art and Science

open access: yesThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1976
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What is health? [PDF]

open access: yesMicrob Biotechnol, 2013
Brüssow H.
europepmc   +1 more source

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