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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance 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
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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Redistribution and labor market inclusion
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper incorporates labor market inactivity and long‐term unemployment into the framework of optimal redistributive taxation. We examine how a combination of education policy, public employment programs, unemployment benefits, and optimal income taxation can effectively address both redistributive goals and the persistent challenges of ...
Thomas Aronsson +2 more
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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Framing the Square: Cinematic Procedures and Visual Regimes in Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica (1983) constructs a regime of visibility through the spatial organisation of the public square that structures the novel. While criticism has often emphasised the text's linguistic fragmentation and performative dimensions, less attention has been paid to the visual procedures through which ...
Denisse Lazo
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Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article develops a relational approach to human mobility by integrating internal and international migration into a single analytical framework. Addressing the persistent fragmentation in migration studies, it explores how territorial belonging is constructed through narrative, visual and material practices in different contexts of ...
Lucía Martín Ramis +3 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 265-286, September 2026.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues +2 more
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