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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance 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

Divided Mediterranean, Divided World: The Influence of Arabic on Medieval Italian Poetry

open access: yesArab Studies Quarterly, 2018
Divided Mediterranean, Divided World: The Influence of Arabic on Medieval Italian Poetry describes the significant role played by Arabic and Islamic poetry, legends, tales, and philosophy on major Italian poets in the Middle Ages in spite of the denial ...
Samar Attar
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRenaissance 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

Language Experience Shapes Creative Idea Generation

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on creative tasks, suggesting a positive link between bilingualism and creativity. However, the inconsistent definitions of both bilingualism and creativity have made it difficult to understand the precise factors driving the association.
Matias Fernandez‐Duque   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"أثر القرآن الكريم في شعر أحمد شوقي The Impact of Holy Quran in the Poetry of Ahmed Showqi "

open access: yesالإيضاح, 2016
Ahmad Showqi is an eminent poet in this era, and he is also leader in Egypt, Arabic World and Europe. He is pioneer in Modern Arabic History. He followed his mentor Mahmood Saami Al-Baroodi. He spent his life in grooming. Arabic thinking and was beginner
الدكتور أبوسعد شفيق الرحمن
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مزايا الغزل العربي في العصر الأموي؛ دراسة نموذجية

open access: yesالآفاق اسلامی و تحقیقی مجلہ, 2022
Routine life happenings change the shape of code of life of every society which reflects in their languages and dialects. When this is to be expressed in words for keeping their record safe for remaining days, thus it is called literature.
Naseem Akhtar   +2 more
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Little Letters, Heavy Lessons: A Black Mother's Critique of a “Simple” Phonics Lesson and the Myths of Neutral Instruction

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Racialized multilingual children need their cultural and linguistic sophistication to be seen and heard in their classrooms. Drawing from my daughter's first grade educational experiences, this article explores how the teaching of a popular phonics‐based sorting lesson centered around the pronunciation of the inflectional suffix “‐ed” became ...
Jenell Igeleke Penn
wiley   +1 more source

Pendidikan Syair pada Masa Pra Islam

open access: yesBuletin Al-Turas, 2010
This paper seeks to answer what is a harsh and isolated environment? How education can last poem in harsh environments and isolated in the pre­Islamic? How can the educational process take place?
Abdullah Abdullah
doaj   +1 more source

Love Poetry by Arab Women A Survey [PDF]

open access: yesArabica, 2007
AbstractPoetry by Arab women has often been neglected to a point, that many thought of it as hardly playing any role at all in the Arabic literary heritage, an exception being pre-Islamic marātī. This contribution tries to assess the importance of medieval love poetry by women in relation to Bauers far reaching conclusions about male love poetry in his
openaire   +3 more sources

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