Results 21 to 30 of about 493 (116)
Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
‘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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 129, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract The purpose of this study was to prove the direct correlation of a successions of gravel‐clay beds recovered in borehole with the melt‐water pulses associated with the sea‐level oscillations indicated in the δ18O record in the time‐span preceding the 100‐kyr glacial cycles.
F. Florindo +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Un decenio de estudios sobre el Vaticano I (1960-1969) [PDF]
, 1972 Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (España)
openalex +1 more source