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New Media Ecologies, Old Occupational Subjectivities and Practices: Tensions and Contradictions in Online Crowdfunding for the Arts in the Netherlands

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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La escultura cristífera medieval en Huelva y su provincia. [PDF]

, 2010
La representación escultórica durante el periodo medieval tiene en Huelva y su provincia algunos ejemplos paradigmáticos del nuevo lenguaje artístico que empieza a reinar en el arte europeo.
González Gómez, Juan Miguel, Rojas-Marcos González, Jesús   +1 more
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Granadan reflections [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores a practice of historical reflection grounded in the city of Granada’s aesthetic and architectural heritage. From the publication of Washington Irving’s Tales of Alhambra, in 1823, up through today, Granada has been a highly celebrated
Hirschkind, C
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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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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Clothing the Female Life: Self‐Fashioning and Memory Making at the Malatesta Network of Women Between the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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Exiles and innovators: a survey of heretics in sixteenth‐century Europe

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 26-40, February 2025.
Abstract The links between exile and innovation have often been studied in the case of the twentieth century, but much less in the case of early modern Europe – an age of some political exiles and many religious ones. This essay focuses on what has been called ‘the Reformation of the Refugees’ in the early sixteenth century.
Peter Burke
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The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Cloth Industries, 1100 - 1730: a study in conjoncture, transaction costs, and comparative advantage [PDF]

This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca.
John H. Munro
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