NEW WORLD OUTLOOK IN THE LIGHT OF THE WESTERNIZATION OF PETER I by T. V. Chernikova

“…It removed all barriers to direct communication between Russians and foreigners, discredited the old ecclesiastical postulate that all Western Christians were “heretics”, paved the way for the beginning of internal modernization as well as for the tragic fate of the socio-cultural split in Russia between the upper educated social strata and the bulk of the Russian population that remained in the Middle Ages.…”
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Modernity and interreligious dialogue. Difficulties posed by the ideological translation of religious categories by María A. Corpas-Aguirre

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Des liaisons dangereuses ? Réseaux hérités, supposés et déguisés d’une nonne vénitienne au XVIIe siècle by Francesca Medioli

“…Despite her rather modest social origins and the constraint of ecclesiastical confinement in her everyday environment, which did little to encourage intellectual activities, she managed to participate in the literary world of the seventeenth century and to develop a highly radical social and political discourse. …”
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Images et société au début du xie siècle : le décor sculpté de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire et Saint-Germain-des-Prés by Barbara Franzé

“…The analysis of the carved decorations of these two buildings, among the first known works of the Romanesque age, confirms the close links between the two protagonists, the ecclesiastical sponsors and the sovereign : they give to see and put forward a certain ideology, relative to the society and its organization. …”
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Parish revival in Southern Russia in the context of revolutionary upheavals and the Civil War by Yu. A. Biryukova

“…One can trace the process of the parish revival and the acceptance of the sobor solution to the parish problem by the ecclesiastical community of Southern Russia. Church revival was connected to a revival of the parish on the basis of sobor-canonical principles, with the first Christian community serving as its ideal. …”
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Sovereignty and Charted Companies: Objective facts, Subjective Foundations by arezoo rangchian, Seyed erfan Lajevardi

“…The exercise of corporate sovereignty has always been based on some legal principles: the Christian tradition and the criteria of discoverythe non-ecclesiastical natural law and the criteria of effective custody for recognition of ownership, and then, European public law and criteria of effective custody. …”
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Legal status of religious communities in socialist Yugoslavia by Đukić Dalibor B.

“…The second factor is territory. In the field of ecclesiastical law, it is widely recognized that identifying the model of state-religion relations within a single state can be a complex task, particularly in federations where the regulation of religious freedom is often devolved to federal units. …”
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"Þat Ʒet þe wynd & þe weder & þe worlde stynkes": The Sins of Richard II and the Corruption of the Crown by Shawn Mcavoy

“…Moreover, he had tried to create a Crown in which all law flowed from the king alone, and all ecclesiastical matters ultimately flowed from the king through the Crown. …”
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Patrons and clients. The specificity of female clientelism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of the seventeenth century. Research postulates. by Bożena Popiołek

“…Some of them perceive clientelism as a religiously conditioned phenomenon (for example, ecclesiastical foundations), at the same time highlighted by cultural patronage and attempts to build the power of families based on a prestige policy. …”
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Music Drama as a Christian Parable: Mozart’s <i>Idomeneo</i> by Nils Holger Petersen

“…In modern times, ecclesiastical boundaries and religious doctrines often seem to matter little in the music and theater culture of the Western world; classical opera is often staged more in order to respond to contemporary political or social issues than to communicate the original intentions of its creators (the so-called <i>Regieoper</i>). …”
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Relations Between the Holy See and Lithuania: A 100-Year History by Haroldas Šinkūnas, Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė

“…These bilateral agreements reflect typical provisions of concordats arising from their unique nature of combining both political (legal) and ecclesiastical matters and securing autonomy of both parties: they regulate the legal status of the Catholic Church and numerous issues, encompassing institutional matters, religious freedom, religious education, family life, cultural heritage, pastoral care, and many others. …”
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Issues of International and Interchurch Relations in the Work of Holy Council 1917–1918 of the Orthodox Russian Church by A. I. Mramornov

“…For the first time in the history of Russian Church the official ecclesiastical forum was attended by official elected delegates who served abroad and who could bring the opinion of the foreign part of the Russian Church to its «maternal» part and to provide the mutually beneficial exchange of practices and opinions. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Therefore, first of all we need to go into the iconography of medieval coins, which can be divided up into two groups – the ecclesiastical and the secular, which in many cases obviously overlap and supplement one another (F. …”
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Monjas, esposas y madres católicas: una panorámica de la feminización de la religión en España a mediados del siglo XIX by Raúl Mínguez Blasco

“…The hypothesis we will agree is that the feminization of the catholic discourse in the middle of nineteenth century made possible the development of a form of religious life previously refused by the ecclesiastic hierarchy, the feminine congregations of active life. …”
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Isaac Jaquelot on the preeminence of physico-theology by Adam Drozdek

“… Isaac Jaquelot was a seventeenth-century ecclesiastic concerned about the rising tide of deism and atheism. …”
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Exemplum virtuose vivendi. Zamyšlení nad vzorem svatosti Kateřiny ze Sieny a nad jeho proměnami v běhu dějin by Kateřina Čadková

“…First of all the problem of interaction between the saint (male or female) and its social background (confessors, regular order, friends and relatives, social and ecclesiastic hierarchy) has to be faced, as well as the historical context, which the sources were originating from. …”
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Power and Statebuilding in the Anglo-Norman World: An Overview by Judith Ann Green

“…The need for a wider approach to the history of power away from the history of kings, including lords and ecclesiastics, is stressed, and developments within a British context, in Wales and Scotland, are briefly considered. …”
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THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER,... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“… The Renaissance French Psalter published by the Romanian Academy, addresses the ecclesiastic community as well as the academic one, by restoring a Christian heritage of great cultural and spiritual value. …”
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Un objet d’histoire (presque) introuvable : les fourches patibulaires dans les sources tourangelles (xiiie-xviiie siècles) by Fabrice Mauclair

“…Thus, in Touraine, the few testimonies on the old gallows are in ecclesiastic texts and cartularies. In a secondary way, information about execution places and exhibition can be found among the archives from the judicial practice and illustrated documents. …”
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„Horlivost jejich v kázání slova Božího…“ Církevní řády a rekatolizace by Ivana Čornejová

“… The process of counter-reformation in the Czech lands after the Bílá hora battle (1620) was made more difficult not only for the resistance of non-catholics, but also for the lack of priests in the ecclesiastic administration. It was caused by the religious situation in the times of the Hussite revolution and then during the process of reformation in 16th century. …”
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