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Beginning in the 1650s, a fur trade world emerged in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River watershed, with Montreal as the nexus point linking the Pays d'en Haut to various St. Lawrence Valley French-Canadian parishes. Goods, pelts, peoples and social mores circulated throughout this watershed as manifestations of the intense mobility that defined fur trade society. This world endured into the nineteenth century despite a series of sweeping societal changes. A study of these ‘kinscapes', using the fur trade post of La Pointe as locus, reveals a world where until the mid-nineteenth century concepts of national (or colonial) identities and state borders were essentially meaningless. Indigenous notions of kin, linked to French Catholic notions of symbolic kinship (godparents), created a whole series of inter-linked fur trade communities that shared sets of key core values and allowed a fur trade economy and society to endure and prosper for over 200 years.
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SummaryAfter the second world war, economic progress in Sâo Paulo favored not only a number of initiatives in art patronage, but the creation of a market for painting as well. Concentration of income and greater access to secondary and higher education for boys and girls from the bourgeoisie and the middle class brought changes to the, conditions for recruitment as well as to the career profiles of painters, art dealers and art critics. Using the concept of field as defined by Pierre Bourdieu, this paper examines the competitive material and symbolic interests and unveils the ambiguities present in the ideology of 'free art'.
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In this article, Guy Poirier addresses the key ideas that led to the creation of the “Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone” partnership. In particular, this article explores new approaches to the discovery of the New World, interdisciplinary studies, and the dissemination of missionary texts in Renaissance France, using examples from the author’s own research. The article then proceeds to outline the principles that have guided the delineation of three lines of research along which this SSHRC-funded partnership has advanced: encounters, archives, and the memory of missions.
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John Sigismund Szapolyai, also known as John II, who was elected King of Hungary and later become the first Prince of Transylvania (1570–71), was heavily influenced in the last years of his life by the two Unitarian thinkers Giorgio Biandrata and Ferenc Dávid. In 1571, Unitarianism even became the fourth religion to enjoy full civil rights in Transylvania, which meant it was considered equal to Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism in the eyes of the law. Although John II’s successors were all Catholic in the last three decades of the sixteenth century and Calvinist in the seventeenth, the Unitarians flourished up until the 1580s and held great influence in the country until the 1630s. This article assesses the involvement of this community in the political and diplomatic life of Renaissance Transylvania, in order to understand the representations and perceptions of the Unitarians in relation to monarchical power along the frontier between Christendom and the Ottoman Empire during the Wars of Religion.
Keywords: Unitariens, Antitrinitariens, Politique, Gouvernement, Principauté de Transylvanie