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Advanced Materials Interfaces, Volume 10, Issue 9, March 24, 2023., 2023 A hydrophilic polyurethane (PU) is synthesized to improve the compatibility with hydrophilic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) in melt spun nanocomposite fibers, whose mechanical properties are often limited by poor CNC dispersion. In this way, a stronger CNC reinforcement is achieved than in polymer nanocomposite fibers using hydrophobic PU. Abstract Many
Alexandre Redondo +8 more
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith medieval Portugal
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 176, Issue 2, Page 208-222, October 2021., 2021 Difference in marine protein in the diet of early and late medieval population. Abstract Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is ...
Alice Toso +14 more
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House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 6-33, February 2021., 2021 Abstract This study uses a new dataset of 2,246 notarial deeds of house sales from one of the major cities of the Ottoman Empire, Edirne, covering the period from 1720 to 1814. It estimates real hedonic house prices and urban wealth inequality for the housing market.
Gürer Karagedikli, Ali Coşkun Tunçer
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Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2015 El objeto de este trabajo es dar a conocer y estudiar la edición de una bula de indulgencias de la Santa Cruzada, de vivos, escrita en catalán e impresa en Toledo en 1495, de la cual se ha hallado un ejemplar en el Archivo de la Catedral de Valencia.
José Vicente Boscá Codina +1 more
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Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 43-60, March 2020., 2020 Abstract This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests ...
Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo
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The Acoustics of the Choir in Spanish Cathedrals [PDF]
, 2018 One of the most significant enclosures in worship spaces is that of the choir. Generally, from a historical point of view, the choir is a semi-enclosed and privileged area reserved for the clergy, whose position and configuration gives it a private ...
Alonso Carrillo, Alicia +2 more
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The mudéjar bookbindings with interlaces of the Cathedral of Toledo
Al-Qanṭara, 2012 In the history of Spanish bookbinding the Mudéjar style of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries stands out, particularly in works produced in cities like Toledo. The Capitular Library of the Cathedral of Toledo contains one of the most important collections in Spain in both size and quality, although many volumes are not in the best state of ...
Carpallo-Bautista, Antonio +1 more
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