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1. Fairy sales: the Budapest international fairs as virtual shopping tours

Author

Gecser, Otto and Kitzinger, David

Subjects
Eastern Europe -- Social aspects, Consumer behavior -- Eastern Europe, Communism -- Social aspects, Shopping -- Social aspects, East Europeans -- Social aspects, Civilization, Western -- Influence, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Sociology and social work
Abstract

This article examines shopping tourism in Eastern Europe which arose from the socialist shortage economy. The author argues Eastern Europeans developed a virtual shopping culture in which they sought information in an effort to keep up with Western trends, maintaining the Budapest International Fairs offered the most popular form of virtual shopping in which the goods were shown but not accessible.

Published
2002

6. ITINERANT PREACHING IN LATE MEDIEVAL CENTRAL EUROPE: ST JOHN CAPISTRAN IN WROCLAW.

Author

Gecser, Otto

Subjects
*CATHOLIC sermons, *LITERARY criticism, *MEDIEVAL sermons, *CHRISTIAN saints
Abstract

Focuses on the itinerant preaching of Saint John Capistran in the late medieval Central Europe. Aim of his preaching and the content of his sermons; Colophons in the manuscript of Capistran's Wroclaw Quaragesimale; Attempts to reconstruct Capistran's preaching practice and its reception.

Published
2003

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