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1603: Multiple Monarchy and Scottish Identity
Abstract Early modern geopolitics were largely driven by dynastic imperatives – births, marriages and deaths among Europe's royal families – and this article approaches the union of 1603 from the perspective of J. H. Elliott's A Europe of Composite Monarchies.
ROGER A. MASON
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The chorographic tradition and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish antiquaries [PDF]
The early modern phenomenon of British Antiquarianism can be traced to the Renaissance rediscovery of the classical chorographic tradition. While the term ‘chorography’ eventually fell out of use, its influence can still be seen in the works of later ...
Darrell J. Rohl
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Empiries artistiques à propos du lieu
Saying that we live somewhere is a tautology, in the sense that the very act of existence hinges upon where we are. A purely scientific approach to the notion of place seems inadequate for taking into account the totalising hold that places exercise over
Joseph Rabie
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The Joyous Entry of Albert and Isabella in Lille: History, Conquest and the Making of Belgium
This article investigates the planned festivities for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Eugenia, joint sovereigns of the Low Countries since 1598, when they entered their city of Lille in 1600.
Ellen Wurtzel
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‘Confluence of Costume, Cartography and Early Modern European Chorography’ [PDF]
Chorography appeared in early modern Europe as a broad strategy for world knowledge-seeking that gestured not only to physical descriptions of place, but combined for the first time in formal discourse, maps, costume descriptions, histories, chronologies
Michelle Moseley-Christian
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La Descrittione di tutta Italia di Leandro Alberti e il Theatrum Orbis Terrarum di Abraham Ortelius
Leandro Alberti’s Descrittione di tutta Italia and Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis TerrarumIn her essay on the Italian sources informing Abraham Ortelius’ pioneering Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Silvia Gaiga first demonstrates the enduring international ...
Silvia Gaiga
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Chorography of Contemporary Migrations and Fractured Identities in Kamila Shamshie’s Novel Home Fire
Representation in literature goes beyond mere inclusion; it is about providing accurate and nuanced portrayals of different identities. In literature, identity is not limited to a single dimension but encompasses a multitude of factors such as race ...
Dr.S.N .Tiwari
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The proposed article discusses the features of the presentation of “geography” and “chorography” by Marcianus Capella. Of the nine books of Marriages, seven are devoted to elementary secondary disciplines: grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, degree, arithmetic,
Anton V. Zibaev +2 more
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ABSTRACT Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth‐century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875–1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of “reverse hallucination.” By means of an exhaustive and forensic
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
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Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas
This article proposes to analyze the ethical and rational foundations of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas’ relations with nature-world. The premise is the radical critique of Western anthropocentric reason including the neo-liberal and neo-colonial
Stefano Varese
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