Liber Luciani De laude Cestrie ; Written about the year 1195 and now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford/

At head of title: Extracts from the ms.

Method of analysis and quality-assurance practices for determination of pesticides in water by solid-phase extraction and capillary-column gas chromatography/mass spectrometry at the U.S. Geological Survey California District Organic Chemistry Laboratory, 1996-99 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae Aesopiae /

Includes index.

The complete cost-keeper; some original systems of shop cost-keeping or factory accounting, together with an exposition of the advantages of account keeping by means of cards instead of books.

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AS RELAÇÕES INVERTIDAS NO HADES: HUMOR IRÔNICO E CRÍTICA SOCIAL NA NARRATIVA DO HOMEM RICO E DO POBRE LÁZARO

O trabalho aborda a micronarrativa do Homem rico e do pobre Lázaro de Lc. 16. 19-31. As relações entre os dois personagens da narrativa se mostram invertidas, sugerindo um tom irônico por parte do narrador lucano. A inversão os coloca no mesmo lugar, o Hades, mas em posições diferentes, gerando um conflito na narrativa. Buscou-se observar o motivo da inversão, seu papel na cena e seu impacto na trama da narrativa e em seus leitores. Examinou-se na sequência narrativa da parábola a relação entre seu enredo unificante e seu enredo episódico buscando o motivo dela dentro dessa sequência, o que demonstrou ser uma narrativa direcionada aos fariseus, onde sugerimos ter um tom irônico em uma crítica social. Buscou-se retratar o imaginário desse lugar de inversão, trazendo algumas imagens do imaginário judaico e greco-romano a partir de algumas fontes literárias, principalmente a obra Diálogo dos Mortos, de Luciano de Samósata do II séc. Demonstrou-se haver uma intertextualidade, onde ecos do relato lucano são vistos na obra de Luciano. Para tal elaboração, os passos da narratologia evidenciaram o que se pretendeu analisar.

The political control of orthodoxy in the construction of the Romanian State, 1859-1918

This article analyses the relationship between Orthodoxy and state from the unification of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 to the creation of Greater Romania in 1918. Examining the attitudes of political leaders towards the dominant religion, this article argues that during the reigns of Prince Cuza and King Carol I the Church became a state institution closely connected to the development of political regimes. It is suggested that by claiming doctrinal religious connections with Constantinople and independence from foreign intervention in the Church’s affairs, religious and political leaders from 1859 to 1918 amplified the construction of Romanian national mythology which contributed towards the political unity of the state.

Constructing communism in the Romanian People's Republic. Orthodoxy and state, 1948 - 49

This article analyses the ambiguous and contradictory relationship between the Orthodox Church and the communist regime during the first two years of the Romanian People's Republic. The installation of communism and the process of Stalinisation led to an unprecedented control of the church. The church was actively employed in propaganda and the regime imposed its own people in the hierarchy. On the one hand, Romanian communists followed the Soviet model regarding the place of the church in the communist state while, on the other hand, the church hierarchy adapted to the new political system by creating a theory of 'social apostolate'. Lacking popular support, the communists used the church as an instrument through which they could acquire the political support of the masses. The church thus enjoyed a favoured position in society mainly because the communists employed it in their ideological expansionism and confrontation with the West.

Between Moscow and London. Romanian Orthodoxy and National Communism, 1960-1965

This article analyses the convoluted path of the Romanian communist regime's rapprochement with the West in the early 1960s. While, officially, the church supported the regime, the hierarchs strengthened their contacts with the West. This article argues that, paradoxically, church participation in international religious dialogue represented direct support for the nationalist stance of Romanian Communism. The increased number of ecumenical relations between Romania and the West reached its climax with the visit of Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to Romania in 1965, a few months before the country became the Socialist Republic of Romania.

Orthodoxy and the Cold War:religion and political power in Romania, 1947-65

This book examines the unique dynamics between Orthodoxy and politics in Romania. It provides an accessible narrative on church-state relations in the early Cold War period within a wider timeframe, from the establishment of the state in 1859 to the rise of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1965. In the 1950s Romania began to distance itself from Moscow's influence, developing its own form of communism. Based on new archival resources, the book argues that Romanian national communism, outside Moscow's influence, had an ally in a strong Church. It addresses the following questions: How did the Church, which openly opposed communism in the interwar period, survive the atheist regime? How did the regime use religion to its political advantage? What was the Church's influence on Romanian politics? The book analyses the political interests of the Romanian Orthodox Church and its religious diplomacy with actors in the West, in particular with the Church of England.