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Amazonian Past. Genealogies and Gender in the "Orlando furioso" [PDF]
, 2013 This essay explores some of the intertextual strategies in the Orlando furioso, focusing in particular on intertexts, such as the cantari and Boccaccio's works.
Stoppino, Eleonora
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The United Nations' Goals for Sustainable Development highlight gender inequality as a pervasive problem around the world. Developmental psychologists can help us understand the development and consequences of sexism in people's lives. I highlight ambivalent sexism theory as a promising framework for this work; and I offer recommendations for ...
Campbell Leaper
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, 2014 Literature concerning aerial warfare was a new genre created by the First World War. With manned flight in its infancy, there were no significant novels or memoirs of pilots in combat before 1914. It was apparent to British publishers during the war that
Isherwood, Ian A.
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The Discourse of Fairyland in the Dream Vision of the Middle English Pearl [PDF]
, 2017 The Middle English poem Pearl is a mixture of a number of genres. Opening like an elegy, with its initial stanzas heavily indebted to courtly love poetry, it proceeds towards a dream vision that launches into a theological debate concluded by an ...
Spyra, Piotr
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, 2020 Queer temporality has been studied in relation to the Middle Ages as a means of questioning the prevailing historiography for other modes of connection to the past, such as embodied or affective. Conversely, the other branch of queer temporality has been
Wolfer, Lacey M
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Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
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Military surgery as national romance: the memory of British heroic fortitude at Waterloo. [PDF]
War Soc, 2020 Kennaway J.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Filologia GermanicaThis paper analyses the Middle Low German version of the chivalric romance Valentin und Namelos as a translated text, adopting the basic theoretical framework advocated by ‘Translation Studies’, which foster a descriptive and interdisciplinary approach ...
Davide Bertagnolli
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