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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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‘Ysworn… Withoute gilt:’ Lais of Illusion-Making Language in the Canterbury Tales
Etudes Epistémè, 2014 This essay argues that Chaucer’s interest in the Breton lay rests on the power of the genre’s association of magic and language. Examining the Wife of Bath’s Tale, a story that shares features with the Breton lay but is not marked as such, with the ...
Elizabeth Scala
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 1985 We have always said and affirmed that Breton is, in the middle of the twentieth century, a medieval language because of its two fundamental features, tangible in all everyday situations: 1.
Christian-J. Guyonvarc’h
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“La Bretagne aux Bretons?” : Cultural Revival and Redefinition of Brittany in Post-1945 France
, 2013 A sense of national identity in France is something that has been defined and redefined throughout the twentieth century. With a history that includes two world wars, the creation of the European Union, in addition the the notable action of ...
Hornbeck, Gabriella L
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Unveiling vertical state downscaling: identity and/or the economy? [PDF]
, 2010 State rescaling may take a variety of shapes although scant research has been carried out into the mechanisms and economic incentives that underpin rescaling processes.
Costa-i-Font, Joan
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Temporal Passage in a Fragmented World
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 192-198, June 2026.ABSTRACT Fragmentalism is a relatively recent and striking addition to the debate between tensed and tenseless theories of time. First introduced by Fine in “Tense and Reality,” it presents a rare instance of both a theoretically intriguing and novel theory of time.
Kyley Ewing
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Réalisation d’une enquête sur la pratique du breton
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 The situation of the Breton language has changed considerably in less than a century. Before the 1914-18 war, the majority of the population of Western Brittany, and of Finistère in particular, spoke only Breton.
Fañch Broudic
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‘Old style’ Cape Breton fiddling : narrative, interstices, dancing [PDF]
, 2010 Publisher ...
Herdman, Jessica
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 4895-4911, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether and to what extent digital technologies (DTs) foster the adoption of environmental sustainability (ES), and how this relationship is moderated by family ownership. Using data from approximately 14,000 European firms surveyed in the Flash Eurobarometer 486, we estimate a recursive simultaneous equation model via a ...
Francesco Aiello +2 more
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