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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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An Architectural Investigation into the Relationship between Doric Temple Architecture and Identity in the Archaic and Classical Periods. [PDF]

, 2013
The predominant approach to the study of Doric temple architecture during the twentieth century has been the evolution model, which connects a temple’s design directly with its date of construction (Dinsmoor 1950; Lawrence 1996).
Woodward, Robert
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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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
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Studies in fourth and fifth century Latin literature with particular reference to Ausonius

, 1981
The main theme of this work is a discussion of the literary worth ofthe works of a number of authors of the Later Roman Empire. The worksconsidered are those of Ausonius, Rutilius Namatianus, the anonymousQuerolus and, to a lesser extent, Sidonius ...
Fisher, G, Fisher, Geoffrey John
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"Daleki svijet muzikom dokuěen"("A distant world touched by music"): a contextual and critical study of Yugoslavian music as exemplified in the life and music of Josip Stolcer Slavenski (1896-1955) [PDF]

, 2003
The core of this study is a contextual, critical and analytical study of the life and work of Josip Stolcer Slavenski (1886-1955). It consists of a brief outline of nineteenth-century socio-political, cultural and musical trends in the former Yugoslavia ...
Spiric, Daniiela
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From Post‐Fire Interventions to Community Resilience: Learning and Adaptation in a Cross‐Border Region

Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the concept of community resilience in the context of cross‐border wildfire management in the Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland National Parks. It focuses on three interrelated dimensions: institutional preparedness, inclusive community engagement and adaptive learning in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Lukáš Novotný
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Moral geographies in Kyrgyzstan : how pastures, dams and holy sites matter in striving for a good life

, 2011
This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life.
Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne
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Law as Adjunct to Custom? Abkhaz custom and law in today's state-building and 'modernisation' - (Studied through dispute resolution) [PDF]

, 2015
The setting for research is Abkhazia a small country south of the Caucasus Mountains and bordering Europe and the Near East. The Abkhaz hold onto custom – apswara – to make of state law an adjunct to custom as the state strives to strengthen its powers ...
Costello, Michael
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