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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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, 2022 The article deals with the image of the last Jagiellonian King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572) as it was commemorated during his five hundredth anniversary in August, 2020.
Oleksii Rudenko
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The Emergence of Habsburgs in Early Works of Joseph von Hormayr [PDF]
, 2022 The paper deals with the issue of emergence of the Austrian historical myth in the early 19th century. The identity crisis in Austria, Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg possessions due to the French revolution and collapse of the “Old empire” brought a ...
Ragozin, German S. +2 more
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, 2022 Cilj diplomskog rada bio je prikazati habsburške centralističke tendencije nakon dolaska Habsburgovaca na vlast u Hrvatskoj 1527. te otpor hrvatskih staleža habsburškom centralizmu i apsolutizmu. Odnos habsburških centralističkih tendencija i hrvatskih
Krželj, Anđela
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Can Nationalism Be Democratic?
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nationalism and democracy are often presented as natural allies: National self‐determination is best achieved through democratic institutions, while a shared national identity generates the trust and willingness to compromise that stable democracies need. This article, however, explores two possible points of conflict. The first concerns rival
David Miller
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Ethnic Nationalism and the Crisis of Statehood in Ethiopia
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that ethnic conflict in multinational states is shaped less by institutional design than by rival nationalist interests competing within a common state. Focusing on Ethiopia, the article draws on comparatively informed insights, original interviews and organisational and media reports to examine how competition among elites
Tadesse Melaku Asfaw
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Festival culture in the world of the Spanish Habsburgs
, 2015 In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata.
Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez (17157763)
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Triumphant Images of Charles V in the spanish Golden Age Theatre
Memoria y Civilización, 2017 Our article focuses on the analysis of the triumphant images of Charles V in the Spanish Golden Age theatre, having at its very core two key words, authority and power.
Oana Andreia Sambrian
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