Results 61 to 70 of about 39,797 (218)

The Matter of Consent in “Book of Chastity” of The Faerie Queene After #MeToo

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the pedagogical challenges and opportunities of teaching Edmund Spenser's “Book of Chastity” from The Faerie Queene (1590/1596) to South Korean undergraduate women in the post‐#MeToo era. Set against the backdrop of student protests against campus sexual misconduct, the study explores how an early modern English poem ...
Youngjin Chung
wiley   +1 more source

‘No one pretends he was faultless’: W. T. Stead and the Women’s Movement

open access: yes19, 2013
A 1912 tribute to W. T. Stead in the Contemporary Review claimed that ‘he lay outside conventional movements, and was singularly detached from normal currents of political influence.
Lucy Delap, Maria DiCenzo
doaj   +2 more sources

'This New Conquering Empire of Light and Reason:' Edmund Burke, James Gillray, and the Dangers of Enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article examines the use of images of “light” and “enlightenment” in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France and in the controversy that greeted the book, with an emphasis on caricatures of Burke and his book by James Gillray and ...
Schmidt, James
core   +2 more sources

Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 632-657, November 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to show that the popular print sold and distributed during and after festive events, such as Carnival, had an impact on the commemoration and shaping of festive culture in early modern Italy. That is, the mass medium of print that had begun to shape European cultures, especially in Italy where Venice was one of ...
Rozanne Versendaal
wiley   +1 more source

CONCEPTS OF VALOR IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE URBAN KNIGHTHOOD OF ITALY AT THE END OF XIV - EARLY XV CENTURY BY THE EXAMPLE OF BIOGRAPHY OF JACOPO SALVIATI

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article examines the ideas of valor in the urban environment of the Italian city-states during the XIV - early XV centuries. The discussion about the position of knights in the social and legal system of city-states, both in classical and modern ...
M. Semikov
doaj  

"The prince of all the rookies :" remaking working class masculinity and heroism in Traffic in Souls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textThis paper seeks to explore the role evolving masculinities played in the Progressive Era's white slavery panic through one of the period's most popular films: George Loane Tucker's Traffic in Souls and its ensuing novelization by Eustace Hale Ball ...
Cotter, Erin June
core   +1 more source

Helping a Boy or a Girl? The Effect of Recipient's Gender and Donor's Culture on Donation Decisions

open access: yesJournal of Behavioral Decision Making, Volume 38, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper shows the effect of recipients' gender on donors' preferences, depending on donors' culture. Among study participants from both Eastern and Western cultures, the choice of donating to a boy or a girl followed donors' cultural norms. In Western culture (e.g., the United States), donors chose to donate to a girl over a boy, whereas in
Danit Ein‐Gar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Tales of Knight Errantry: John Buchan and Chivalry

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 2011
Modern Tales of Knight Errantry: John Buchan and ...
Pilvi Rajamäe
doaj   +1 more source

Gör sporrarna mannen? Om sporrar, sköldar och svärd som identitetsskapare och statusmarkörer under medeltiden

open access: yesICO Iconographisk Post, 2014
Title in English: Do the Spurs make the Man? Spurs, Swords and Aspects of Identity in Mediaeval Art. – Spurs, shields and swords are commonly identified with chivalry and have remained so since the Middle Ages.
Pia Bengtsson Melin
doaj  

«Motivos folclóricos y caballerescos en los libros de caballerías castellanos»

open access: yesRevista de Poética Medieval, 2012
Resumen: Este artículo presenta una reflexión de carácter metodológico sobre los problemas que plantea la elaboración de un índice de motivos y sobre el concepto de motivo en los libros de caballerías castellanos (1508-1516).
Ana Carmen Bueno Serrano
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy