Les cheveux de sainte Thérèse, ou le sacré comme dispositif by Marie Caillat

“…The objective of this research is to understand how the devices used to exhibit relics and the narration of the biographies of saints can produce both object and subject – souvenir, relic or saints – as well as thought, for example, of death.…”
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Les frontières méditerranéennes de l’islam by Bernard Vincent

“…Based on an impressive inquisitorial documentation, this work, which combines the biographies of six characters with a quantitative study of 1550 Christian captives in Islamic territories, demonstrates the historic approach used by the authors. …”
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Les ‘Ulamā’ et la propriété foncière en Ifrīqiya (Ier-IIIe/VIIe-IXe siècles) by Tahar Mansouri

“…The biographic sources (kutub al-tarāğim), which deal with the history of Ifrīqiya give us a great number of biographies of pious men. Through those texts we can find scarce information about the rural and agronomic implication of this category of people. …”
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Maîtres et élèves dans les Vies des sophistes de Philostrate : essai d’approche relationnelle by Anthony Andurand

“…The Lives of the Sophists (ca. 230 A.D.), a collection of biographies written by the Greek sophist Philostratus, are a prime source of documentation to study, in the context of the Second Sophistic, the forms and practices of scholarly sociability during the imperial period. …”
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Modéliser les carrières et la reconnaissance artistiques : une prosopographie des peintres médaillés au Salon (1848-1880) by Claire Dupin de Beyssat

“…It allows to consult their entire biographies and to browse a catalogue of more than 30,000 works. …”
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“Frizioni famigliari”. Lavoratori, salute e conflitti in un’area industriale siciliana by Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…From this perspective, the families and the biographies of the workers themselves are spaces of friction useful for the understanding of the more complex system that connects global instances of environmental risk to local specificities and the experiences of the people who live and work in industrial areas.…”
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Referência invisibilizada Maria Odília Teiceira, Leodegária de Jesus e Adélia Sampaio by Fabiana Santos Souza, Hellen Stephanye Rosa de Oliveira, Josileide Veras  de Sousa

“…This article consists of biographies of black women from three different areas of activity, namely Maria Odília Teixeira, Leodegária de Jesus and Adélia Sampaio. …”
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«Kolchak and Pepeliaev in prison»: memories of M. A. Grishina-Almazova by D. I. Petin, M. M. Stelmak

“…The publication is addressed to the researchers of the political everyday life of the Civil War, the White movement, the Red Terror, and those interested in the biographies of A. V. Kolchak, V. N. Pepeliaev, A. V. …”
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Archives of Autogestion by Timothy Gibbs

“…By tracing the professional biographies and institutional trajectories of this generation of South African new-left activists we might analyse their attempts to implement a counter-hegemonic, grassroots, participatory developmental project.…”
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Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…He describes the Bloomsbury legacy in terms of aesthetic change, such as Virginia Woolf’s rhythmical sensuous prose or Lytton Strachey’s ironic, revolutionary biographies. But he also helps us to define this legacy in more political terms, as the ethos of art and personal relationships was confronted with the rise of fascism. …”
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Jan Kristián Swéerts-Sporck a František Girtler − na společné cestě mezi zbožností a ekonomickým zájmem by Veronika Čapská

“…An extensive group of preserved sources consisting e.g. of a hand-written travel diary, notebooks and printed spiritual biographies enables an in-depth analysis of both devotional and economic context of the rise of the Girtler officials in the service of the Swéerts-Sporck family. …”
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Jugendarbeitslosigkeit – eine große sozialethische Herausforderung in Europa by Joachim Wiemeyer

“…Ein verpasster Berufseinstieg kann für die Biographie junger Menschen gravierende Konsequenzen haben und ihr Vertrauen in die politische und wirtschaftliche Ordnung herabsetzen. …”
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« En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille by Laurent Gaissad

“…They materialize primarily in the distance that separates the world of standards, revealing original biographies often marked by radical transitions from one situation to another in daily life, and from an ethics of secrecy associated with public disorder that may result from these itineraries in terms of “gender” and sexuality.…”
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Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine by Paula Sombra

“…It presents a way of thinking about the past via the reinterpretative construction of the biographies of two groups of people: one belonging to an armed organization, the Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), and the other to the concurrent, unarmed Grassroots Peronism (PB). …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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"Zátopek" – komiksowa codzienność długodystansowca by Mariusz Guzek

“…They tell the story of post-war Czechoslovakia, their protagonists are authentic figures, and their approach has little in common with the uncritical glorification so often found in (not only graphic) biographies. Created in 2016, the first of the works is dedicated to Emil Zátopek, a long-distance runner, three-time gold medalist at the Helsinki Olympics, and a man who got caught up in the political realities of the 20th century. …”
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Błogosławieni wychowawcy świętej Teresy z Lisieux by Henryk Sławiński

“…First of all however the short biographies of Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin have been presented followed by the detailed description of their educational method and its validity for the contemporary parents.…”
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Politico-Theological Debates in Ghadames between the 1770s and the 1850s from a Global Perspective by Kerem Duymus

“…As a result, a substantial body of written materials, including chronicles, biographies, and letters, has emerged from Ghadames, reflecting the political discourse as articulated by its scholars, who adapted their perspectives in response to shifts in regional power dynamics. …”
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În căutarea unui refugiu: onirismul sau despre începuturile literare ale lui Virgil Tănase by Iulia Barna

“…Après un parcours dans la prose de l’écrivain, l’auteur s’arrête sur les deux « biographies d’âme », l’une sur Tchekhov (2008, Gallimard) et l’autre sur Camus (2010, Gallimard).…”
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The Aftermath of Minds, Hearts, and Symbols: A Multidimensional Perspective on Digital Housework by Alina Silion

“…The results are drawn from a thematic analysis of 53 cultural biographies of domestic devices and indicate a distinction between cognitive, emotion, and symbolic digital housework tasks that lead to digital housework outcomes in the form of digital capital. …”
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