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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Galician Universities and the Habsburg Monarchy: nationalization of education and internationalization of science? [PDF]
, 2012 The article sketches the structural and ideological changes taking place in the late XIXth century Galicia. Using the example of universities in Cracow and Lviv it asks how the language changes taking place between 1848 and 1918 can be understood from ...
SURMAN, Jan
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Origins of the Concept of “National Sovereignty”: The Role of the Word “Nation”
HistoriesThis essay constitutes the first part of an investigation into the origin and consequences of the concept of “national sovereignty,” focusing specifically on the concept of “nation” as derived from the Latin natio and the languages that adopted this ...
José Andrés-Gallego
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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University and episcopate in the sixteenth century. Universities where the bishops of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon studied (1556-1598) [PDF]
, 2002 Exponemos algunos datos estadísticos sobre los 194 obispos nombrados por los papas a presentación de Felipe II. El análisis de su formación universitaria conduce a reflexionar sobre la función de las universidades en la Monarquía Hispánica: se ...
Fernández Terricabras, Ignasi
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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William Paget and the late-Henrican polity, 1543-1547 [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis explores the late-Henrican polity through the archive and perspective of William Paget, Henry VIII's secretary at the end of his reign. Paget's papers as secretary (1543-1547), that form the basis of the thesis, are an extensive, unique and
Johnston, Andrew
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Permission to Dream: The Marxist Ban on Imagining Utopia Reconsidered
Constellations, EarlyView.
Paula Keller
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