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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 231-253, April 2026.Abstract This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin by analysing the title page, dedicatory epistle, catchwords, and headers of MS Codex 627, which imitates an edition of Hugh Plat's Delights for ...
Aylin Malcolm, Margaret C. Maurer
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A New Look at Medieval Hispanic Sumptuary Arts
Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015 As an introductory essay, this article reviews current issues in the study of medieval sumptuary arts in order to frame the articles collected in this volume around contemporary art-historical debates.
Francisco de Asís García García
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Kufic ornamental motifs in the wall paintings of six churches in Southern Italy [PDF]
, 2016 The churches we are concerned with here are in South eastern Italy where, more than in other parts of Southern Italy (with the exception of Calabria),the Byzantine presence and Byzantine influence were obviously strong.
Fontana, MARIA VITTORIA
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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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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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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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Skin and bones: correlating the osteological and artefactual evidence [PDF]
, 2003 The aim of this text is to review the osteological evidence from Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval York for the retrieval and working of skins and hides, and to cross-correlate that evidence with the data obtained from studies of leather artefacts ...
O'Connor, T.P.
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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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Anales de Historia del Arte, 2012 This article aims to highlight if and to what extent the medieval iconography of the Dormition of the Virgin reflects the central or peripheral details of three apocryphal texts, written by the Pseudo John the Theologian, the archbishop John of ...
José María Salvador González
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Iacopo Sannazaro and the Creation of a Poetic Canon in Early Modern England [PDF]
, 2016 This article investigates the circulation and fame of Sannazaro\u2019s Arcadia in early modern England, focusing first on Philip Sidney\u2019s reception of the poem as part of an ongoing pastoral tradition.
Petrina, Alessandra
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