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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆
Abstract The aim of this article is to show that the popular print sold and distributed during and after festive events, such as Carnival, had an impact on the commemoration and shaping of festive culture in early modern Italy. That is, the mass medium of print that had begun to shape European cultures, especially in Italy where Venice was one of ...
Rozanne Versendaal
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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman +3 more
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Theatrical writing is remarkably concerned with rewriting strategies. In the eighteenth century, due to the deepening exchanges between Europe and the rest of the world, French literature was influenced by various external factors, such as The Orphan of ...
Guo Tang
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POMMERN UND POMMERELLEN IN DER ZEIT SWANTOPOLKS VON DANZIG (BIS 1266)
In the 13th century, Pomerania was divided between two princely houses. The western part of the region was ruled by princes from the Griffin dynasty. In the most recent source litera- ture, a claim has been made that members of this house also ruled the ...
Marek Smoliński
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The Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan, Honduras: Study Results and Conservation Proposals [PDF]
Summarizes historic research and scientific studies on the stone and mortar materials, biological colonization, condition, and environment of the stairway.
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Venerable Yinshun 印 順 (1906–2005) was the eminent scholar-monk in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. This paper is about his historiographical practice and tries to outline his position in Chinese Buddhist historiography especially in reference to the ...
Marcus Bingenheimer
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Malek Bennabi (1903-73) was an Algerian scholar who received his education in Algiers and Paris. An engineer by training, his concern about the ummah 's decadence led him to analyze the causes of this decay and to provide solutions.
Kokab Arif
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In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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The Confucian Renaissance in the Sung dynasty [PDF]
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Ferguson, John Calvin
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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