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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) AND THE TEACHING OF FINANCIAL ENGLISH

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) AND THE TEACHING OF FINANCIAL ENGLISH
In Japan, teachers of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) have up to the present been mostly university English professors. The subjects they have taught include English for business communication and English for science and technology. However, people who are not university English professors but specialists in such areas as foreign trade, finance ...
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An analysis of the English needs of Omani students on vocational and technical courses with implications for the design of foundation year English language programmes [PDF]

, 2004
The study provides a methodological framework to inform the design of Foundation Language Programmes (FYP) for students at Colleges of Technology in the Sultanate of Oman.
Al-Husseini, Suleiman Salem Nasser
core  

Learning motivation and strategies of ESP university students

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2016
This paper deals with two of the key factors in the L2 learning process, namely, learning motivation and strategies. A group of engineering students from Bilbao (Spain) having a good command of English for General Purposes (EGP) and taking a course in ...
Joseba M. González Ardeo
doaj  

Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
wiley   +1 more source

A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

Scripta Manent, 2016
Violeta Jurkovič
doaj   +2 more sources

Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
wiley   +1 more source