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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

‘From minor to major: the minor arts in medieval art history’: From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History, edited by Colum Hourihane, Princeton: Index of Christian Art, 2012 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2014
From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History is a collection of sixteen essays on subjects traditionally considered ‘minor’ or ‘decorative’ in the history of art, from coins to tapestries.
Elizabeth L’Estrange
doaj  

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

The cultural history of the university: a proposal [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
A partir de un breve repaso de la evolución de la historia cultural, este ensayo plantea las temáticas y aproximaciones metodológicas de un hipotético análisis de las universidades desde la perspectiva de la «nueva historia cultural» de inspiración ...
Amelang, James
core   +3 more sources

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (Book Review) by Bohdan S. Kordan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience by Bohdan S ...
Roy, Richard
core   +1 more source

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 406-438, May 2026.
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when ...
Ozan Kamiloglu, Kanika Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth‐century Italy

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 527-554, May 2026.
Abstract This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887–8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event‐study‐style difference‐in‐differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi–Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and ...
Francesco Maria Salvatore Fiore Melacrinis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studying Mamluk Historiography – From Source-Criticism to the Cultural Turn [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Afsaruddin Asma   +90 more
core   +1 more source

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