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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Ancient Greek Myths in Modern Greek Poetry: Angelos Sikelianos and Daedalus as a Symbol of Freedom
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları DergisiAncient Greek myths, which have emerged as one of the main sources of inspiration in literature throughout history and have been interpreted many times with different meanings by various authors, have become a powerful tool in conveying themes such as ...
Aslı Damar Çakmak
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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