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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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La Bibliothèque nationale de France et le camp Austerlitz. La narration d’un espace traumatisé chez Sebald

Cahiers de Narratologie, 2017
L’essai se propose d’analyser la dimension fantasmagorique d’une superposition qui s’est créée dans l’espace urbain parisien, la Bibliothèque nationale de France (site de Tolbiac) étant construite à l’emplacement d’un ancien camp nazi.
Judith Kasper
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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From Codes to Contexts: The Maturation of Historical Cryptology

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, the study of historical cryptology in Europe has evolved from a marginal, largely individual pursuit into a consolidated field of research with dedicated conferences, collaborative projects, and institutional research groups.
Benedek Láng
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 960-981, July 2026.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Les bibliothèques réelles et imaginaires dans l'œuvre d'Henri Troyat

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2002
Écrivain français nourri de culture russe, Henri Troyat est l’auteur d’une œuvre profondément marquée par l’influence conjuguée de la littérature tant russe que française.
Raissa Telechova
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Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 271-280, June 2026.
Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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Réflexions sur les contraintes d’application de la culture informationnelle dans l’université algérienne

Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2021
Résumé : Malgré les efforts déployés par l’Université algérienne pour améliorer la qualité de la formation, les résultats restent maigres et ne parviennent pas à suivre les progrès scientifiques et éducatifs qui se déroulent ailleurs dans le monde. L’
Boufeldja GHIAT
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 444-468, June 2026.
Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt, Olivia Robinson, Meg Twycross   +2 more
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Confronting the Jewish Rejection of Jewish Particularism: Chaim Zhitlowsky’s Anti-Assimilationist Intervention in the American Yiddish Press

Res Rhetorica, 2020
This article examines Chaim Zhitlowsky’s (1865-1943) use of the “internal” Jewish space of the Yiddish press to critique the American melting pot and present his alternative “internationalist” model.
Ri J. Turner
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