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Before newspapers and the telegraph: information distribution in Livland more than two hundred years ago
2020
This paper concerns information dissemination in the Livland province of the Russian Empire at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, when its rulers sent their orders to the provincial capital, Riga, by horse post. In Riga they were translated into German, and the ancient network of information dissemination used by the Lutheran Church was engaged. The orders of both the Empire and provincial rulers were delivered to Lutheran pastors, who announced this information to their parishes from the pulpit, speaking in Latvian or Estonian so as to be understood by local peasants (serfs), and allowed the texts to circulate around the manors of the parish. The infrastructure of th…
Yme Kuiper / Nikolaj Bijleveld / Jaap Dronkers (Eds.), Nobilities in Europe in the Twentieth Century. Reconversion Strategies, Memory Culture, and El…
2018
The Death of Charles IX Valois: An Assassin's or a Martyr's Blood?: The Image of Kingship during the French Wars of Religion
2014
Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di analizzare le opere legate alla morte di Carlo IX Valois. In particolare, ci concentreremo sull'immagine del sangue del re morto. L'analisi dell'autopsia di Carlo, così come il resoconto dell'intrigo di corte che ha caratterizzato gli ultimi mesi della sua vita, fornisce il contesto in cui si è svolto questo flusso di propaganda. Fonti cattoliche, in particolare i sermoni funebri del predicatore di corte Arnaud Sorbin, gettano luce sull'immagine del sangue di Carlo IX come sangue di un re "santo" e "martire". Mostreremo anche come i sermoni di Sorbin si riferissero alla successione al trono di Enrico III data la situazione tesa a corte. Infine, l'anal…
The Body Politic from Medieval Lombardy to the Dutch Republic: An Introduction
2020
Aldrich, Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Manchester University Pre…
2018
Review of Robert Aldrich, Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018).
Tangled up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World
2011
Mirosław J. Leszka / Kirił Marinow (eds.). The Bulgarian State in 927–969. The Epoch of Tsar Peter I.
2021
Food in the accounts of a travelling lady: Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, in 1403
2018
A household account book of Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, dated 1403, serves as a guide to her everyday life and especially her diet. Its contents give us details that normally go unnoticed, abou...
Staging Death: Christofascist Necropolitics during the National Legionary State in Romania, 1940–1941
2020
AbstractThe cult of death and the celebration of martyrdom lay at the core of interwar fascist movements across the European continent. However, it was in the Romanian Legionary Movement (also known as the Iron Guard) that these were articulated into a full-fledged ideology of thanatic ultranationalism. In this article, I examine the spectacular fascist necropolitics staged as state-sponsored funeral performances during the short-lived National Legionary State (September 14, 1940–February 14, 1941). A detailed description of the massive campaign of exhumations and reburials of the so-called “legionary martyrs” carried out during this short time span, culminating with the grandiose ceremony …
The Hauran Conflicts of the 1860s: A Chapter in the Rural History of Modern Syria
1981
This paper examines the relatively neglected rural history of Syria. It concentrates on the Hauran, a dry-farming region of hills and plains south of the Damascene oasis between the northern Jordan's tributaries and the eastern desert. Although the Hauran is today no longer a region of primary economic importance to Syria as it once was, it is of historical interest because it was the very first of greater Syria's outlying rural zones to be integrated into the developing modern Middle Eastern economy.The Hauran is, moreover, of comparative interest because it held a position in Syria's political economy then which bears many resemblances to the positions held by younger hinterland regions n…