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Abstract This article analyses the impacts of an international cooperation project in the field of “eco‐city” development in China, using a policy transfer perspective. It explores the relationship between policy transfers and paradigm shifts and discussing the thesis of a “Chinese art” of policy transfers, according to which Chinese policymakers ...
Giulia C. Romano
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Abstract Singing in birds is accompanied by beak, head and throat movements. The role of these visual cues has long been hypothesised to be an important facilitator in vocal communication, including social interactions and song acquisition, but has seen little experimental study.
Ralph Simon +10 more
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Staging the Imagined City: Aretino in Rome and London
Abstract This article explores the theme of ‘cityscapes’, and Aretino as a writer of the urban experience, by focussing on the city as an unknowable and anonymous space, especially to social outsiders. It will first examine how Aretino portrays Rome in his early comedy Cortigiana (1525) as a confusing and socially stratified space when experienced from
Kate De Rycker
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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From biodiversity to health: Quantifying the impact of diverse ecosystems on human well‐being
Abstract Ample evidence suggests positive effects of species diversity on ecosystem functioning and services in natural and agricultural landscapes. Less obvious and even contested are the effects of such diversity on human well‐being. This state of art partly stems from methodological difficulties to evaluate and quantify these effects and imprecise ...
Werner Ulrich +13 more
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 153-165, April 2023.
Kate De Rycker, William T. Rossiter
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Abstract The paper reconstructs the tension between the then emerging approach of emphasising authorial innovation and the traditional learned practice of adapting and reusing existing texts, which was cultivated in the early modern ars excerpendi. In 1717, a case of plagiarism occurred in the midst of a new historiographical genre (Reichshistorie) and
Daniel Fulda
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Tinteros de bronce romanos de Augusta Emerita
Estudio de tinteros de bronce recuperados en el yacimiento de Augusta Emerita. Se definen las partes de un tintero, diferentes tipologías, las medidas de volumen, se relacionan las representaciones iconográficas de instrumentos de escritura con los ...
Javier Alonso +2 more
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The Mosaic Production of Augusta Emerita (Merida)
The archaeological site of the ancient colonia Augusta Emerita (Merida, Spain), offers one of the most spectacular mosaics sets in the Roman West. However, a study in detail about the mosaic production of Merida is still necessary, which should consider ...
José María ALVAREZ MARTINEZ
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