15 May 2020

The class politics of Eastern Catholicism, part 1: Crusades, Black Death and the Big Four

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Map of 13 th -century Venice I promised that I would write a post on Western Christian gæopolitics in early modernity, from an Orthodox pe...
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13 May 2020

On ‘weird’ Christianity and its critics

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This blog has existed for a long time – through both its Anglo-Catholic and its Orthodox phases – on the edges of the ‘weird’ Christian ph...
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11 May 2020

Oni srazhalis’ za rodinu: guts, but little glory

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Oni srazhalis’ za rodinu I honoured this past Victory Day by watching Oni srazhalis’ za rodinu , the 1975 war movie by (and starring) Ser...
10 May 2020

Holy Martyr Hesychios of Antioch

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Saint Hesychios of Antioch القدّيس الشهيد إيسيخيوس الأنطاكي The tenth of March is the feast day in the Orthodox Church of Saint Hesychios,...
08 May 2020

Tag der Befreiung

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A scene from Berlin, May 1945 Today, the eighth of May, is not celebrated in all of Germany . However, as a one-time public holiday ( Fei...
06 May 2020

Skif: a Eurasian tribute to eighties Hollywood

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Kunitsa (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) and Lyutobor (Aleksei Faddeev) in Skif Rustam Mosafir – the director of 2015’s Begletsy – returned in 2018 ...
04 May 2020

Qyz-Jibek: a slow stunner of a tragic period drama

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Tólegen (Quman Tastambekov) and Jibek (Merýert Ótekesheva) in Qyz-Jibek The Kazakh film I’m reviewing today is the 1970 Kazakhfilm produc...