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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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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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How do gestural interactions support visuospatial cognition in STEM learning?
British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1140-1162, July 2026.Abstract Existing literature shows that touchscreen devices can support learning of visuospatially rich STEM content. However, the mechanisms by which touchscreen devices support cognition in learning remains unclear. This study examined how gestural interactions afforded by touchscreen devices support visuospatial cognition in STEM learning by ...
Zhen Xu +4 more
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Acoustical Masks and sound aspects of Ancient Greek Theatre
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2012 It is impossible to imagine the ancient Greek theatre without the mask, whether it is tragedy, comedy or satyr plays. All theatrical forms that developed in Athens during the 6th and 5th centuries BC were forms of masked drama.
Thanos Vovolis
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 442-459, June 2026.Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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Transmission maternelle en Grèce ancienne : du physique au comportement
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2015 My paper will examine a variety of sources (medical and biological texts, tragedy and comedy, forensic rhetoric, poetry), in order to consider and reassess the role of the mother in the construction of child-identity in the ancient Greek world ...
Florence Gherchanoc
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Classica Cracoviensia, 2017 Self-Rapists, Adulterers and Unrelenting Inquisitors – How Bogusław Butrymowicz and Edmund Cięglewicz Introduced Aristophanic Comedy into Polish Reading Culture In this article, I would like to reflect on the question of the introduction of Old Attic
Olga Śmiechowicz
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Race Concept Unmediated Racism
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Michael O. Hardimon
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Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
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