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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Producción artística en la Baja Edad Media. Originalidad y/o copia
Anales de Historia del Arte, 2012 During the last period of the Middle Ages, there was a marked increase in the production of art objects. This quantitative increase was made possible by the two forms of artistic production materialized in the period: the commissioned work by renowned ...
Olga Pérez Monzón
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 70-85, March 2026.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
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Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015 This paper aims to examine the building scenes preserved in the cloister of the former Dominican convent of Santa Maria la Real de Nieva in Segovia, founded by Catherine of Lancaster in 1399.
Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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River Research and Applications, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 277-283, January 2026.ABSTRACT Three sturgeon species—the common European (A. sturio), beluga (H. huso), and Adriatic sturgeon (A. naccarii)—coexisted in the Po River Basin until the mid‐1970s, representing centuries of bio‐cultural heritage for northern Italy's riverine communities.
Samuele Pagani +5 more
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Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science
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Ana Duarte Rodrigues +2 more
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 796-806, December 2025.ABSTRACT Many artists in Europe now turn to online crowdfunding to fund their creative practices against the backdrop of cuts in state‐funded subsidies for the arts. Based on an ethnographic analysis of online crowdfunding in the Netherlands, I suggest that this neoliberal context requires artists to cultivate occupational subjectivities and practices ...
Eitan Wilf
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Anales de Historia del Arte, 2014 The symbolic relationship between the book and the crown was a constant throughout the Middle Ages, especially in the Gothic period. Apart from this symbolic and representative role, the book was revealed as an essential object in the dynamics of the ...
Laura Fernández Fernández
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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