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A neglected copy of John Mirk's Mary Magdalene sermon (2005)
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Powell, S., & Pickering, O. (2005). A neglected copy of John Mirk's Mary Magdalene sermon. Medieval Sermon Studies, 49, 59-68

This article calls attention to a neglected copy of the sermon for the feast of St Mary Magdalene from John Mirk's late-fourteenth-century Middle English sermon collection, the Festial. The copy, contained in London, British Library, MS Cotton Titus... Read More about A neglected copy of John Mirk's Mary Magdalene sermon.

The Tolsdorff trials in Traunstein: public and judicial attitudes to the Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic, 1954-60 (2005)
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Searle, D. (2005). The Tolsdorff trials in Traunstein: public and judicial attitudes to the Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic, 1954-60. German History, 23(1), 50-78. https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355405gh328oa

This article uses the prosecution of former Generalleutnant Theodor Tolsdorff before the Landgericht Traunstein on three separate occasions (June 1954, September 1958 and May/June 1960) as a means of examining both press and judicial attitudes towar... Read More about The Tolsdorff trials in Traunstein: public and judicial attitudes to the Wehrmacht in the Federal Republic, 1954-60.

A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool (2004)
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Buse, P., Triana-Toribio, N., & Willis, A. (2004). A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool. New Cinemas, 2(3), 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.2.3.139/1

This article looks at how Álex de la Iglesia can be studied using reviewed auteurist strategies. Such a study has to take into account how he constructs his persona as director in a process which deviates greatly from the images and roles allocated t... Read More about A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool.

Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament (2004)
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McKay, G. (2004). Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Peace Review, 16(4), 429-438

In times of war and rumours of peace, when ‘terrorism’ and ‘torture’ are being revisited and redefined, one of the things some of us should be doing is talking and writing about cultures of peace. In what follows, I ask questions about the place of c... Read More about Subcultural and social innovations in the campaign for nuclear disarmament.

Learning to read (in) the library of Paola Capriolo's 'Il doppio regno' (2004)
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Ania, G. (2004). Learning to read (in) the library of Paola Capriolo's 'Il doppio regno'. Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana, 24, 79-100. https://doi.org/10.1400/54287

Un salone lunghissimo le cui pareti erano interamente rivestite di librerie alte fino al soffitto. Alcuni fra i massimi capolavori custoditi nella biblioteca non sono altro che giganteschi palindromi di quattro o cinquecento pagine. Se il caso o il... Read More about Learning to read (in) the library of Paola Capriolo's 'Il doppio regno'.

Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno (2004)
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Bull, M., & Baudner, J. (2004). Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno. Journal of European Public Policy, 11(6), 1058-1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350176042000298101

The change in Italy's main regional policy (for the south) in the course of the 1990s provides a prima facie case of Europeanization tout court for scholars of Europeanization. A new policy was adopted that was evidently inspired by the European regi... Read More about Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno.

Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics (2004)
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Newell, J. (2004). Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics. Modern Italy, 9(2), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/1353294042000304983

This article asks why, despite their doubtful utility, the categories used in accounts of contemporary Italian politics are almost universally negative in character. It is suggested that at least part of the explanation has to do with the ontological... Read More about Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics.

Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges (2004)
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Towell, R. (2004). Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges. Journal of French Language Studies, 14(3), 357-375. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926950400184X

This final article re-examines the approaches outlined in the other articles in this Special Issue in order to evaluate the contribution which each one has brought to the study of the second language acquisition of French. The final section identifie... Read More about Research into the second language acquisition of French: Achievements and challenges.

Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966 (2004)
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Searle, D. (2004). Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966. War in History, 11(3), 327-357. https://doi.org/10.1191/0968344504wh303oa

The historiography to date on Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has created the impression that his career as a military theorist gradually petered out in the latter half of the 1930s, and that after the Second World War the former enfant terrible devoted... Read More about Was there a 'Boney' Fuller after the Second World War? Major-General J.F.C.Fuller as military theorist and commentator, 1945-1966.

Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745) (2004)
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Jung, S. (2004). Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745). https://doi.org/10.2307/3738502

James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda juxtaposes notions of heroic drama with the mid-eighteenth-century sentimentalism of individuality and self-determination. The tragedy centres on the conflict between Siffredi, the late King's adviser, and Tancr... Read More about Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745).

Preparing for office: Lord Curzon as acting Foreign Secretary, 1919 (2004)
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Johnson, G. (2004). Preparing for office: Lord Curzon as acting Foreign Secretary, 1919. Contemporary British History, 18(3), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/1361946042000259305

Curzon succeeded Balfour as Foreign Secretary in October 1919. However, during Balfour's absence from London during the Paris Peace Conference, Curzon was responsible for a substantial amount of the decision-making on British foreign policy. Curzon's... Read More about Preparing for office: Lord Curzon as acting Foreign Secretary, 1919.

Holocaust hotline anger in Poland (2004)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M. (2004). Holocaust hotline anger in Poland

With more survivors of the Holocaust dying out, the Simon Wiesenthal centre has opened a hotline in several countries, including Poland, to get in touch with potential witnesses to WW2 war crimes. Seen by many as the last dash to chase war criminals... Read More about Holocaust hotline anger in Poland.

'Stranger and Stranger' : Alice and Dodgson in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me. (2004)
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Armitt, L. (2004). 'Stranger and Stranger' : Alice and Dodgson in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me. Women: A Cultural Review, 15(2), 167-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/0957404042000234024

HISTORICAL fiction offers women writers and their female protagonists a way into history through the back door, into that masculinized history traditionally characterized, in the words of Angela Carter, by a conspicuous ‘paucity of historical referen... Read More about 'Stranger and Stranger' : Alice and Dodgson in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me..

The London Ambassadorship of David K.E. Bruce during the Wilson-Johnson years, 1964-68 (2004)
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Colman, J. (2004). The London Ambassadorship of David K.E. Bruce during the Wilson-Johnson years, 1964-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592290490448852

Using recently released sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the London ambassadorship of David K. E. Bruce in the years of Harold Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, 1964–68. Bruce's running of the US Embassy is examined, as are his views of t... Read More about The London Ambassadorship of David K.E. Bruce during the Wilson-Johnson years, 1964-68.