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How can the patriarch of Moscow become a “catholic”, or Once again on one “miracle” of Josaphat Kuntsevych [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви
The article examines the history of the legend about the conversion of the Patriarch of Moscow Nikon to Catholicism thanks to the “miracle” of the Uniate martyr Josaphat Kuntsevych.
Kirill Medvedev
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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De la laïcité en Islam selon Mohammad Abid Al-Jâbirî

إنسانيات, 2000
The term ‘laic’ attribute of modernity in the Occident, is struck by anathema in the Arab and Islamic world. It is even curiously taken for a synonym of atheism. Mohammed Abid Al-Jâbirî ; a Moroccan philosopher, devoted a whole article about it and seems
Abderrezak Dourari
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Historical reflections on progress and tradition [PDF]

, 2014
Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past.
van Caenegem, Raoul
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
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St. Filaret of Moscow and Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod N. A. Protasov [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви
The article reveals the nature of the relationship between Saint Philaret (Drozdov) and Chief Prosecutor Count N. A. Protasov. The author discloses the reasons for the emergence of vivid, but unreliable statements attributed to the Moscow Metropolitan ...
Georgy Bezhanidze
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AXA General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate : analysis [PDF]

, 2012
Discusses the Supreme Court decision in AXA General Insurance Ltd, Petitioners on whether Scottish legislation which reversed a House of Lords ruling concerning the actionability of certain asbestos-related conditions breached insurers ...
Hogg M, Lyall F, Orr N
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