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Documentación on line sobre libro antiguo

Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información, 2007
In a world in which the analogue is fast being abandoned in favour of the digital, we need to look back in order not to forget our origins and our textual culture.
Nicolás Bas Martín
doaj  

Performing paideia: literature as an instrument for social promotion in the fourth century A.D. [PDF]

, 2013
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Van Hoof, Lieve
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
wiley   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

The Wroblewski Library History: Case of the Purchase of the Plater’s Pustynia Estate Book Collection

Knygotyra, 2019
The founder of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Tadeusz Stanisław Wróblewski (1858–1925), began to enrich the library of his parents, which he inherited in 1891, through his acquisitions of books, manuscripts, periodicals ...
Daiva Narbutienė
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen, 2019
The main source that allows us to explore the origins of alchemy in the Graeco-Roman Egypt along with its late antique and Byzantine developments is a large collection of Greek alchemical writings (usually referred to as Greek alchemical corpus) that is ...
Matteo Martelli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

History, EarlyView.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

Origins of infographic thinking in the 19th-century Chile

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento, 2018
The present proposal is an investigation about the history of the infographics in Chile linked to the development of the educational field, the industry and the press in the country.
Gonzalo Morales Rojas
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