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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Travelling and drinking. The cistercian wines of Alcobaça (Portugal) in travel literature [PDF]
, 2012 [Resumo] O Mosteiro cisterciense de Alcobaça foi alvo do interesse dos viajantes ilustrados que nos séculos XVIII e XIX visitaram Portugal e permaneceram o tempo suficiente para alargar o périplo além da cintura geográfica da capital.
Maduro, António Valério
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Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*
Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 126-145, February 2025.Abstract This article explores the career of Levinus Keuchenius to elaborate on how democratic governance lay at the heart of negotiating imperial power, as well as who belonged in the Dutch political community. Throughout his career, Keuchenius balanced being a colonial expert with his faith as orthodox Calvinist.
Lauren Lauret
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France
History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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L´EXOTISME LITTÉRARIE: RELECTURE DU CONTE DE VATHEK DE WILLIAM BECKFORD
Anales de Filología Francesa, 2007 Cuando se recorre la mayor parte de los trabajos críticos publicados acerca de Vathek de William Beckford, escritor de nacionalidad inglesa –que, no obstante, decidió publicar este cuento en lengua francesa- , quedamos sorprendidos, en tanto que lectores
Françoise Morcillo
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Casas y jardines nobles de Madrid [PDF]
, 1981 Cuando en 1787 el viajero inglés William Beckford visita en Madrid a la duquesa de Berwick, elogia su palacio el «más espléndido de Madrid :.., del más puro estilo parisino moderno» (1).
Navascués Palacio, Pedro
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Peter L. Berger and the sociology of religion [PDF]
, 2018 Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last century. In the sociology of religion, his classic status is uncontested. This article examines Berger’s original application of a constructionist sociology of knowledge
Hjelm, T
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On the Origins and Legacies of Really Existing Capitalism: In Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt
, 2019 Development and Change, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 542-572, March 2019.
Andrew M. Fischer
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New Deal Art: California [PDF]
, 1976 Traditionally, the years of the New Deal projects have been treated as a part of the Depression experience with an emphasis on their economic and social dimensions.
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Irmandade de Santa Cecília - Implementação local na segunda metade do século XVIII: Évora e Porto. [PDF]
, 2016 : Professional brotherhoods were a fundamental structure of social organization during the Ancien Regime in Portugal. The traditional guild of musicians - Brotherhood of St.
Sá, Vanda
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