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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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La obra que presentamos es, probablemente el libro más leído en América Latina, después de Cien años de Soledad. Su autor, Germán Arciniegas-Colombiano, como García Márquez- es un escritor "moderno": sumamente erudito, lúcido y coherente, de carácter ...
Arciniegas, Germán
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Beyond the Book project: quantitative data and collateral documents for One Book, One Chicago [PDF]
Quantitative data and collateral documents Chicago portion of the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada’, (2005-2008, grant number: 112166), a three-year interdisciplinary
Engel, Lindsay +3 more
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ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes +1 more
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La sangre judía de Santa Teresa [PDF]
Este articulo constituye el capítulo segundo de la biografía de Santa Teresa que por encargo de la Junta Nacional del Centenario he elaborado y aparecerá, D. m., en fecha próxima.
Javierre, José María
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Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder
Abstract In 2018, my brother Adam Colquhoun, nicknamed “Stretch,” was killed in a bar in Calgary, Alberta by a man he barely knew. Stretch was the kind of person society finds convenient to discard. His history of theft, illicit drug dealing, mental illness, addiction, and homelessness made his humanity “undesirable.” Nevertheless, lessons Stretch ...
Noelle Sullivan
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Biografía, historia biográfica, biografía-problema
Lecturas Prismas 20 (2016)
Paula Bruno
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Vides i biografies. La poètica de la biografia literària al segle XVIII
L’objectiu d’aquest article és examinar la naturalesa i l’abast de la modernització de la biografia en el camp de les vides d’escriptors. Per explicar la formació de la biografia literària moderna he comparat les idees sobre el gènere i les vides de ...
Cesc Esteve
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Abstract Before policy reform initiatives reach the agenda of national decision makers, such initiatives often start at a small‐scale, local level. The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) emphasizes the importance of biographical connections to understand how a group of policy actors forms, and how it develops programs that may lead to decade‐long ...
Nils C. Bandelow +3 more
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