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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani

open access: yesConserveries Mémorielles, 2013
Throughout late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, pious men and women were recognized as saints during their own lifetime and accorded at least local veneration at the site of their tomb after death.
Karen McCluskey
doaj  

Discourses on Sanctity and Mithology Around The Popularity of Mount Batur Area in Climbing Tours

open access: yesSoshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora, 2018
Mountains in Bali are believed by the local people to have power of sanctity. In Mount Batur, Kintamani District, Bangli Regency, such a sanctity has a close relationship with mithology that developed not only in Batur, Kintamani, and Bangli but also ...
I Gede Mudana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
wiley   +1 more source

War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
wiley   +1 more source

The death of Serbian rulers in Serbian iconography

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2019
The work's aim is to explain the phenomenon of the model of Serbian sanctity, with particular emphasis on its influence on art. Based on the analysis of sources, the author tries to show how they influenced the way of illustrating rulers from the ...
Miłkowska Karolina
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Beauty, sanctity and development

open access: yesJournal of the College of Community Physicians, 2018
No abstract available.
Kantha Lankathileke
doaj   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

The Mirror, the Self(ie) and the New Sacred. Bodies, Objects, and Figures of the Contemporary "Cult of the Self"

open access: yesOcula
This paper investigates the "cult of the Self" pervading contemporary mediatised cultures, adopting a semiotic approach. More specifically, it draws on the analysis of the fictional case of Ionismo, ironically represented by director Alessandro Aronadio ...
Simona Stano
doaj   +1 more source

Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

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