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Incredible: Vatican Library closes for three years
, 2007 You might be interested to know that it has been announced that when the Vatican Library closes for the summer on 14 July, it will remain CLOSED FOR THREE YEARS, to reopen in September 2010.
Klaus Graf
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-519, December 2025.This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Catalog of Syriac and Garshuni Manuscripts in the Vatican Library. Volume 1
The Vatican Library has one of the most famous collections of Syriac manuscripts in Europe. These two volumes, written by members of the Assemani family intimately familiar with the collection, cover the Vatican Syriac manuscripts and Arabic manuscripts ...
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Античная древность и средние века, 2019 The third volume of academician N.P. Kondakov’s «Iconography of the Mother of God» remained inpublished in Russian. Kondakov took the manuscript to Prague and in December 1924 the publication rights were sold to the Vatican.
Irina Vladimirovna Tunkina
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholic Networks, Bibles and School Disputes in the Nineteenth Century
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 520-536, December 2025.In the later nineteenth century, British, Canadian and American Evangelicals set up transatlantic religious networks to fight the Catholic Church and to affirm their Protestant Anglophone identities. Accordingly, Evangelical militants perceived their struggle as being transnational despite the diametrically different State–Church relationship contexts ...
Geraldine Vaughan
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Local Selection Shaped the Diversity of European Maize Landraces
Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 24, December 2025.ABSTRACT The introduction of populations to novel environments can lead to a loss of genetic diversity and the accumulation of deleterious mutations due to selection and demographic changes. We investigate how the recent introduction of maize to Europe shaped the genetic diversity and differentiation of European traditional maize populations and ...
Margarita Takou +2 more
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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 632-657, November 2025.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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Armenian Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana [PDF]
, 2018 An article on the Armenian manuscripts at the Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
Jesse Arlen
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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