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La parabola fieristica capodistriana

open access: yesActa Histriae
This essay sheds light on a little-explored chapter of Capodistria’s economic history: the trade fairs, which transformed the city into a commercial crossroads of the Adriatic, between the 14th and 15th centuries, due to the strategic support of Venice ...
Aleksandro Burra
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.
Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretative Reconstruction of the Podestà’s Investiture Ritual in Venetian Koper

open access: yesActa Histriae
This article aims to verify the reliability in the historiographic narration regarding investiture of the podestà in sixteenth-century Koper-Capodistria with an analytic tool predicated on anthropology, the historical genesis of entry rituals and the ...
Aleksandro Burra
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On the natural border: A bio‐geo‐political reading

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders.
Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi
wiley   +1 more source

Serbia and Venice during the reign of Stefan Dušan [PDF]

open access: yesČasopis Ksio
This paper examines the relationship between Serbia and the Republic of Venice during the reign of King and Emperor Stefan Dušan. One of its aims is to highlight the distinct characteristics of Serbian-Venetian relations during this period, compared to ...
Miloš Bojčić
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‘Constitutional Alienation’ and the Unionist Party during the Ulster Crisis, 1911–1914

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 400-420, October 2025.
Abstract This article argues for the importance of the Unionists’ constitutional philosophy in the party's opposition to the third Irish Home Rule Bill. In the aftermath of the 1911 Parliament Act, which removed the house of lords’ veto, Unionists underwent ‘constitutional alienation’.
Ben Sayle
wiley   +1 more source

Una «finta innocenza»

open access: yesQuaderni Veneti, 2017
Angelo Beolco, known as Ruzante, was a famous Paduan actor and playwright who lived in the Venetian Republic during the early age of Renaissance.
Canova, Mauro
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Russian diplomat in Rome: the mission of Prince B. I. Kurakin (1707)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2018
The relations between Russia and the papal state in the first years of the Northern war are analyzed. Describes the background to the trip B. I. Kurakin in Rome in 1707, gives a brief overview of the contacts of the Russian state with the States of the ...
S. S. Kolegov
doaj   +1 more source

The Educational Garden: Exploring the Multifaceted Roles of University Botanic Gardens Through History

open access: yesBiological Diversity, Volume 2, Issue 2-3, Page 85-94, September 2025.
University botanic gardens, rooted in Renaissance humanism and medicinal teaching, have evolved into dynamic hubs for education, research, conservation, and well‐being. Tracing global histories and modern roles, this study urges renewed attention to their strategic potential in higher education and sustainability amid planetary challenges in the ...
M. Alejandra Jaramillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The remains of the former Venetian border hidden in the cadastral municipality boundaries on the Kraški rob plateau around Črnotiče

open access: yesGeodetski Vestnik
The remains of the former Venetian border have been preserved in some places as boundary points of the cadastral municipalities. On the Kraški rob, Slovenia, special elongated piles of stones have been preserved, which are called muše by the locals. We
Mihaela Triglav Čekada   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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