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A Virgin Shall Spin and Bear a Son: Reconsidering the Significance of Mary's Work in the Protevangelium Jacobi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the so-called Protevangelium Jacobi, Mary spins thread for the temple veil while receiving news of her impending pregnancy. Some have argued that her work is apologetic, countering the unflattering claim (of Celsus) that she spun in order to make ends
Eric Vanden Eykel
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The cult of the Virgin Mary of Loreto in Poland

open access: yesFolia Historica Cracoviensia, 1994
The cult of the Virgin Mary of Loreto began to grow in Italy together with the emergence of the Holy House in the vicinity of the town Recanati. The cult reached the territory of the Republic of Poland in the early 15th century, brought home by Polish ...
Józef Marecki
doaj   +1 more source

“Almost asleep I saw a beautiful woman”: A Nun’s Letter to Pope Innocent XI to Realise the Victory Against the Turk in 1683

open access: yesScienza & Politica, 2022
The essay examines and publishes for the first time two letters written in 1683 by a Benedictine nun, Sister Maria Candida Colomba, to Pope Innocent XI, in which, following a vision of the Virgin Mary, she urges the pope to have the Carmelites say a ...
Eleonora Carinci
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Neural Fields for Highly Accelerated 2D Cine Phase Contrast MRI

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT 2D cine phase contrast (CPC) MRI provides quantitative information on blood velocity and flow within the human vasculature. However, data acquisition is time‐consuming, motivating the reconstruction of the velocity field from undersampled measurements to reduce scan times. In this work, neural fields are proposed as a continuous spatiotemporal
Pablo Arratia   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings.
Witalisz, Władysław
core   +2 more sources

But how does it smell? An investigation of olfactory bulb size among living and fossil primates and other euarchontoglirans

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Analysis of cranial endocast data of 181 extant and 41 fossil species from Euarchontoglires shows that there was a reduction in olfactory bulb size in Crown Primates, but that there were also subsequent reductions in various other primate clades (Anthropoidea, Catarrhini, Platyrrhini, crown Cercopithecoidea, Hominoidea).
Madlen Maryanna Lang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Virgin Mary’s Image Usage in Albigensian Crusade Primary Sources

open access: yesHistories
The image of the Virgin Mary appears with increasing frequency in written sources from the 12th and 13th centuries compared to earlier periods. Three major works produced by four eyewitness authors of the Albigensian Crusade (Historia Albigensis ...
Eray Özer, Meryem Gürbüz
doaj   +1 more source

‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical motives from the Book of Joshua and Book of Judges in the Hours about the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary

open access: yesRuch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2010
The aim of the article is better understanding of the Hours concerning the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary. Following motives from the books of Joshua and Judges were taken into consideration: The light from Gabaon (Joshua 10, 10–13 ...
Krystian Ziaja
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Sustainable Social Media Marketing Activities in Raising Bottom‐of‐the‐Pyramid Customers' Engagement, Satisfaction, and Subjective Well‐Being

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though prior studies have explored the effects of firms' social media marketing activities on customer engagement, the dynamics characterizing this association in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets remain tenuous, exposing a critical gap. Addressing this gap, we develop and test a model assessing (a) the effects of firms' sustainable social ...
Md. Al Amin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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