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The role of women in symbolist and decadent movements: Emancipation through art and expressionThis article explores the role of women in the Symbolist and Decadent movements through a critical analysis of selected poems from Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire. Traditionally perceived as muses or objects of desire, women in Baudelaire’s poetry also emerge as complex, powerful, and at times unsettling figures who transcend their passive literary roles. By engaging with Symbolist aesthetics and the Decaden…
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Medieval GreekMedieval Greek is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
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Book · DOAB
Vikings in the EastIt has been a tradition to write about ‘Vikings’ and ‘Varangians’ within the framework of national histories of Scandinavia. However, it is known that most of them were outsiders in the local societies of the respective countries. Vikings shaped their identity profiles beyond the social and political borders of their homelands, which means that ‘Viking Studies’ actually represent a transnational history. In order to…
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In 1299, only a decade after his death, the life of the charismatic mendicant Ippen (1239-1299) was celebrated in a massive and lavishly produced set of twelve horizontal silk scrolls. A testimony to Ippen's popularity, this was to be the most extensive and brilliantly executed visual biography of any Japanese religious leader.