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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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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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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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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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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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The “Iranian Awakening” in the perception of the Western observer: Myths and reality [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
The article attempts to analyze the materials of Western travelogues concerning the events in Iran in 1905–1911, which became a powerful ideological factor in the domestic political life of the country, for the first time so powerfully and ...
Baranov, Alexey V.
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Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 718-734, December 2025.
This article draws upon individual confidential case files compiled by the UN Office for Refugees (UNHCR) between 1951 and 1975 to examine its response to refugees who requested protection and to analyse policy and practice in Australia as a country of resettlement.
Peter Gatrell
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Bodily Signs and Disembodied Narrative in Pamela II [PDF]

, 2017
To a large extent, the detractors of Pamela criticized Richardson’s focus on the body. Pamela’s actions and narrative style appeared to be motivated by her desire, namely, by her passions, traditionally located in the body. In particular, Pamela’s bodily
Capoferro, Riccardo
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
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Encountering Malta II : British writers and the Mediterranean 1760 - 1840 : literature, landscapes, politics : conference review [PDF]

, 2014
In January 2014, the Department of English at the University of Malta held the second in a series of conferences, entitled ‘Encountering Malta II – British Writers and the Mediterranean 1760-1840: Literature, Landscapes, Politics’.
Caruana, Christine, Farrugia, James
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