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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Diciottesimo Secolo, 2021 During the 18th century, small papal towns provided few public educational opportunities in the artistic field. Young painters and architects usually joined local private workshops, attending lectures given by professionals who had instead completed ...
Iacopo Benincampi
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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History, EarlyView.Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Brocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 1996 This article analyses the nature of the bourgeois revolution in Spain. The objective is to understand the extension of liberal thinking and the raising of consciousness of the bourgeoisie from 1808 on. Later there follows and analysis of the formation of
Gracia Gómez Urdáñez
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 412-433, June 2026.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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What is the economy of Ancien Regime? [PDF]
, 2014 El objetivo de este artículo es describir las principales características de la economía de Antiguo Régimen y elaborar una “economía política” de las sociedades europeas, en particular la francesa, durante el período central de la modernidad (siglos XVII-
Grenier, Jean-Yves
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Buildings, Lands, and Rents: Understanding the Process and Impact of Monastic Suppression in Spain
ReligionsIn Ancien Régime Spain, ecclesiastical wealth consisted of not only land, but also the rental income raised from tenancies of which the Church was proprietor. Therefore, the suppression of monasteries and convents in Spain cannot be studied only in terms
Rosa Congost
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L’histoire du protestantisme dans les mémoires d’étudiants à Lyon
Chrétiens et Sociétés, 2009 This article reports Master thesis supported in Lyon on the history of the Protestantism. Lyon, from the beginning of the Reformation to our days, is naturally privileged and an almost continuous history of the Protestants of this city can be made from ...
Yves Krumenacker
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