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The semantics of smallpox in Early Modern English [PDF]

, 2005
Zbierska-Sawała, Anna
core  

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Complex peopling history and expansion events inferred from large-scale modern and ancient Y chromosome sequences. [PDF]

Sci Adv
He G, Wang Z, Jiang Y, Yuan H, Luo L, Feng Y, Bu F, Cheng J, Lu Y, Tang R, Liu C, Yuan H, Wang M.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Trouble: What, When, Where, Why, and How-and So What? [PDF]

Camb Archaeol J
Cveček S, Raghavan M, Bickle P.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
wiley   +1 more source

A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Pelland JC, Greenhill SJ, Walworth M, Bender A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise and Fall of the Hiram–Solomon Alliance: Zionist, Hebrew and Lebanese Nationalism, and the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Asher Kaufman
wiley   +1 more source