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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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The image of mother and child in Byzantine and Russian iconography
Акушерство, гинекология и репродукцияThe article explores the image of the Virgin and Child as a central theme in Byzantine and Russian iconography. Timeless and universal significance of this theme in art is emphasized primarily focusing on a detailed analysis of four key miraculous icons ...
A. D. Makatsariya
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Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 399-413, July 2024.Abstract The word contagion, derived from Latin contagio, the combination of con (“together with”) and tagio (“touch”), suggests a close relationship between the human body and community. It stands to reason, then, that contagion narratives in one way or the other attempt to reflect upon one’s being in the world, with others, whether human or non‐human,
Julia Vaingurt
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The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021 The War of 1812 was a very expensive conflict for the United States. In 1813, three foreign-born investors, among them David Parish from Hamburg, Germany, saved the US government from bankruptcy by providing a sixteen-million dollar loan.
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Actualizing memories of the 1812 Patriotic War in the context of the Crimean War of 1853–1856
Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin, 2021 . In the minds of contemporaries, the Crimean War of 1853–1856 and the Patriotic War of 1812 that preceded it were closely linked. The author of the article examines the image of the French and France as an enemy familiar to the Russians from the 1812 Patriotic War. The article analyzes the system of images, motives, memories associated with the events
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The genesis of the battlefield image in the poetic batalistics of the Patriotic War of 1812
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2023 The aim of the research is to identify the literary genesis, semantic components, and artistic potential of the image of the battlefield in the poetic batalistics of 1812. The article explores the architectonics of the battlefield space and the symbolic content of the battle image, based on works from the “Collection of Poems Relating to the ...
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“Following Our Own Path”: Pavel Katenin’s Political Theater
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 227-242, April 2024.Abstract The present article focuses on the tension arising from Pavel Katenin’s aesthetic and literary vision for the reception of Antiquity in Russian mythological drama: his avid support of Classical purism and his denunciation of dramatists, for whom ancient myths served merely as a resource of historical parallels, is challenging to reconcile with
Katherine New
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Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 112-128, February 2024.Abstract This article pioneers a new methodological approach to the study of electoral politics by combining an analysis of the politics of reading, library association and the reading habits of electors in an English urban constituency in the early 19th century.
Joshua j. Smith
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Oriental Studies, 2018 This article contains historical and literary commentary on the V verse of the 6th chapter of the novel «Eugene Onegin». The analysis of the text is devoted to several aspects of the theme «The Patriotic War of 1812 and the Russian literature of the fi ...
Bayrta Kichikova
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 1, Page 24-51, January 2024.The law of treason has been criticised for being based on ‘outdated’ statutes which are inflexible and unsuitable for modern needs. However, a historical examination of the evolution of treason in Britain and its empire suggests that the law was often adaptable.
Michael Lobban
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