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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Sortir de la bibliothèque ? (Essai de cartographie d’un des territoires de Michel Foucault)
Astérion, 2010 Dans maintes exégèses récentes des textes de Michel Foucault, sont sans doute négligés la place et les effets théoriques d’une étape particulière de sa pensée, celle qui croise ce que l’on peut appeler « les années 68 ».
Jean-Louis Fournel +1 more
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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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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 623-661, November 2026.The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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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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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 777-798, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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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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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 9, Page 2663-2682, September 2026.Abstract Ecoacoustics mainly aims at monitoring soundscapes by means of non‐invasive protocols. Despite the widespread adoption of machine and deep learning techniques, existing ecoacoustic models predominantly rely on supervised learning and, consequently, face two primary limitations: (1) the necessity of annotated data; and (2) the restriction to ...
Yann Teytaut +7 more
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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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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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