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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 109-124, March 2025.Abstract This article focuses on four individuals from France and Italy who were viewed as hermaphrodites and their attempts to become members of the Catholic clergy between c.1650 and 1720. Drawing on largely unexplored material from the archive of the Roman Congregation of the Council, this article argues that whether, and how, bodies were ...
Brendan Röder
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, 2020 Il volume recensito costituisce l'aggiornamento di "Città del Vaticano", edito nel 2009 per i tipi de il Mulino, alla luce delle rilevanti innovazioni che hanno interessato l'assetto giuridico ed istituzionale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano a ...
Ganarin, Manuel
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Basin Research, Volume 37, Issue 2, March–April 2025.A 3D lithofacies model of the Upper Pleistocene–Holocene Tiber Depositional Sequence (TDS) was developed using an integrated sequence stratigraphy and geostatistical approach. Indicator kriging proved most effective in capturing stratigraphic architecture, providing a robust tool for geological mapping, resource management, and geohazard assessment in ...
Daniel Tentori +6 more
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Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1498-1513, October 2024.Abstract Three key characteristics of effective electoral mobilizers have been identified in the literature: reputation, embeddedness in the local community, and the ability to reward and sanction voters. Religious leaders may possess all these characteristics. Can they favor their preferred candidates?
Massimo Pulejo
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El Athletic Club embajador oficioso ante la Santa Sede durante el pontificado de Pío XII
Materiales para la Historia del DeporteEn este trabajo profundizamos la conexión entre deporte, política y religión, y para ello partimos de un momento y un caso concreto como es el del Athletic Club, y su vinculación al franquismo y a la Santa Sede, a mediados de la década de 1950.
Pere Fullana Puigserver +1 more
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Daughter, mother, widow: The making of the identities of Isabella d'Aragona
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 353-368, July 2024.Abstract This article examines performances of identity (as daughter, mother and widow) by Isabella d'Aragona (1470–1524) in three of her letters. Isabella's construction of self, drew on her status as a dynast of the House of Aragon and aimed at securing her future and promote the interests of her children.
Darius von Güttner‐Sporzyński
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Il dialogo interreligioso alla prova dell’intelligenza artificiale
Cuestiones TeológicasLe religioni hanno contribuito alla costruzione della riflessione etica sull’intelligenza artificiale anche attraverso un significativo impegno congiunto.
Andrea Ciucci
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Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 135-152, June 2024.Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self‐evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non‐white ...
Brendan Röder
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Matteo Ricci's Depictions of Alexander the Great in Late Ming China☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 227-244, April 2024.Abstract This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of European Alexander texts in imperial China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After providing an overview of the Chinese Alexander traditions, it first examines the sources of inspiration for Ricci's choice of Alexander as the prominent ...
Yaliang Fu
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