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Of Alpinists and Domestic and Wild Animals in the Alps (1857-1899): a Corpus Analysis

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020
British and Irish alpinists were among the first to explore the highest altitudes in the Alpine massif and to write about it, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. They reported on their travels and many travel narratives they produced
Samia Ounoughi
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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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Life and traditions of Caucasian Circassians: historical-comparative probe of travelogues of European travellers from the beginning of the 16th century to the half of the 19th century (Život a zvyky kaukazských Čerkesov: historicko-komparatívna sondáž cestopisov európskych cestovateľov od začiatku 16. do polovice 19. storočia) [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2017
The aim of this study is to clarify evolution of life and traditions of Circassian society in a historically comparative perspective. It is based on published travelogues and diaries of European travellers who visited various parts of Caucasian Circassia
Michal Šmigeľ, Alexandr Cherkasov, Miroslav Kmeť   +2 more
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Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.
Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Visual images of Palestine on the pages of pilgrimage texts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries / Визуальные образы Палестины на страницах паломнических текстов конца XIX – начала XX вв.

Визуальная теология
The article is devoted to the study of visual images presented in texts devoted to pilgrimage to Palestine of the late 19th – early 20th century. The research interest is based on the idea of illustration as a way of overcoming the rationality of ...
Alexander Valitov / Александр Александрович Валитов
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Corne Ducale et Sainte-Chaussette dans la relation de voyage d’Evliyâ Çelebi

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013
In the Seyahatnâme we find two references for a relic kept in Urfa at an uncertain date, stockings or sock of Jesus. This reference is related to the headdress characteristic of the Venitian Doge, the corno ducale, ridiculous according to Evliyâ because ...
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 54-65, January 2026.
Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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Evliyâ Çelebi's Strange and Wondrous Europe

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013
The Seyahatnâme is an extraordinary source for literary and cultural studies, not just because of its size but also because it includes a wide range of narrative styles and discourses.
Yeliz Özay
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Time Tools

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 147-168, January 2026.
Abstract Many core human activities require an understanding of time. To coordinate rituals, plan harvests and hunts, recall histories, keep appointments, and follow recipes, we need to grapple with invisible temporal structures like durations, sequences, and cycles. No other species seems to do this.
Kensy Cooperrider
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