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Gilders and painters-gilders in the Golden Age of Évora [PDF]

, 2015
At the end of the 15th century, Évora was a cosmopolitan town whose importance was increasing in cultural and artistic terms. Throughout the 16th century, and until the rst half of 17th century, the town experienced a golden age, welcoming many ...
Araújo, Custódia, Conde, Antónia Fialho, Gil, Milene   +2 more
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Sobrevivir a la Inquisición: el proceso de Diego de Alba (1497-1498). Surviving the Inquisition: The Trial of Diego de Alba (1497-1498)

En la España Medieval, 2006
The Inquisitorial trial of bachelor Diego de Alba, chief magistrate of Cuellar, in 1498, after proceedings begun ten years earlier and based on accusations of judiazing, which were proven false in the trial.
María del Pilar Rábade Obradó
doaj  

Les « musulmans » dans quelques narrations chevaleresques italiennes des xive et xve siècles : entre persistances et changements

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2015
This article analyzes the evolution of the representation of “Muslims” in some italian chivalric fictions of the 14th and the 15th centuries. Religious rivalry, yet rather moderate in chivalric italian productions of the first half of the 14th century ...
Patrizia De Capitani
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The rise and fall of Spain (1270-1850) [PDF]

Two distinctive regimes are distinguished in Spain over half-a-millennium. A first one (1270s-1590s) corresponds to a high land-labour ratio frontier economy, pastoral, trade-oriented, and led by towns.
Carlos Álvarez Nogal, Leandro Prados de la Escosura   +1 more
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An Unusual Patchy Alopecia in a 15th Century Altarpiece From Colmar, France

JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Nicolas Kluger
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Anthroponymy of the Habitants of the Polish Town of Wawolnica in the Second Half of the 15th Century

Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie
The paper analyses the anthroponyms (surnames and names of men and women) of townspeople of the medieval town (now village) of Wawolnica in Lesser Poland in the second half of the 15th century. The recorded -onyms reveal their undoubted Polish character,
Marek Olejnik
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Climate variation of Eastern Asia in the early Little Ice Age [PDF]

, 2015
In this study, I have created a climate disaster database using climate disaster records of Japan and China, and the climate variation of East Asia in the early Little Ice Age has been reconstructed.
田上 善夫
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source