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WATER AND DAMS A POLITICAL AND A LYRICAL APPROACH: ARUNDHATI ROY AND ANNE MICHAELS
RiCognizioni, 2016 This essay starts by quoting Aesop’s fable of “The Wolf and the Lamb” as an allegory of conflicts related to the control and distribution of water in our contemporary world.
Carmen Concilio
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Postcolonial Literature and Land Art in the Anthropocene
CoSMO, 2019 This paper analyses the relationships between literature and land art, in a comparative and cooperative perspective. A feeble monument in Kenya, erected by Karen Blixen and dedicated to her beloved, finds echoes in a paper installation by Canadian artist
Carmen Concilio
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Reconfiguring Ocean Life by Thinking with Oceans and Whales
Il Tolomeo, 2023 Whales are stranded along the Atlantic Ocean in North America, the press spread the news in February 2023. Witi Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider (1987) frames a similar episode: “Two hundred whales, lifeless on the beach and in the water” (1987, 85 ...
Concilio, Carmen
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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FLOATING/TRAVELLING GARDENS OF (POST)COLONIAL TIME
Le Simplegadi, 2017 This essay on travelling gardens of (post)colonial time opens with two iconic images of floating gardens in contemporary postcolonial literature: Will Phantom’s bio-garbage rafter, which saves him in the midst of a cyclone in Carpentaria (2008), by the ...
Carmen Concilio
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A RECEPÇÃO DO CONCÍLIO VATICANO II: ENTRE O DESENCANTO E A ESPERANÇA
Perspectiva Teológica, 2005 Faz quarenta anos, pouco depois da conclusão do Concílio Vaticano II, Karl Rahner pronunciava uma conferência em Munique com o título “O Concílio, um novo começo”. Iniciava fazendo algumas perguntas: Que aconteceu realmente na Igreja com o Concílio?
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