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The London trade in monumental sculpture and the development of imagery of the family in funerary monuments of the period 1720-1760 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
PhDThe thesis is concerned with the use of family imagery in monumental sculpture commissioned from the major London workshops in the mid-eighteenth century.
Craske, Matthew Julian
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Challenging Business Schools Through Subversive Performativity: The Potential of Art‐based Pedagogies

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.
Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

LINGUISTIC RESEARCH OF ANCIENT TURKS ANTHROPONYMY (ON THE BASE OF WRITTEN MONUMENTS)

open access: yesНеофилология, 2017
The proper names of the ancient Turkic anthroponymic system, which includes cultural information, reflecting the ethnic and aesthetic ideals of society, are studied.
Urzada Abilkasimovna Musabekova
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Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

The Arabia Province: Changes in the Nabataean Society?

open access: yesGerión, 2018
Since there is not much information on Roman Petra, especially from written texts, the aim of this article is whether the monuments and constructed or modified at this stage buildings, together with the results of recent archaeological excavations in ...
Carmen Blánquez
doaj   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

An exploratory study of the implications of free admission to museums and monuments : perceptions and effects on visiting behaviors. [PDF]

open access: yes
What perceptions of free admission to museums and monuments do French visiting and non-visiting audiences have ? What are the consequences of such perceptions on individuals' perceptions, visit-planning and behavior patterns in museums and monuments ...
Caroline Urbain   +4 more
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Crimean earthquakes of antiquity and Middle Ages: to the historical background

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2008
Archaeological studying of monuments of the medieval Crimea hardly possibly without fixing of earthquakes. Fortunately, data on them remained in written sources. However their treatments aren't unambiguous. These nuances also reveal in my article.
V.V. Khapaev
doaj  

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