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Éduquer le Dauphin : exempla, image du père, éducation exemplaire ?

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006
The Dauphin’s education is unmistakably embedded in the political culture of the Ancien Régime and in the process of royal representation of the absolute monarchy.
Pascale Mormiche
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Roman Exempla and Situation Ethics: Valerius Maximus and Cicero de Officiis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Copyright © The Author(s) 2011. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman StudiesWhen reading exempla and applying them to ethical decisions, Romans had to bear in mind the principle of situational variability: whether an action can be judged ...
Bloomer   +20 more
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Colorado 100k Lives Campaign [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Summarizes a statewide effort to help Colorado hospitals strengthen their quality improvement systems. Includes an overview of the six interventions proven to ensure safe patient care, as well as lessons learned and success ...

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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and exemplarity in the Letters

open access: yesEugesta, 2014
The Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity. This article explores Pliny’s innovative portrayal in his Letters of women as moral exempla within his new
Rebecca Langlands
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Quintilian and Juvenal's Fourteenth Satire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Working paper, first published in 2013 on the Literary Interactions website, hosted at the University of St Andrews (https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/literaryinteractions/?page_id=4).This working paper explores Juvenal's fourteenth satire (published c.
Uden, James
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Wolff's Theory of Consciousness, Re‐Examined

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 871-889, September 2025.
Abstract In this article, I develop a new account of Wolff's theory of consciousness. In contrast to the received view, I argue that Wolff's texts can be better made sense of by reading ‘perception’ and ‘apperception’ as two radically different acts, each one accounting for radically different aspects of the consciousness of an object and both ...
Lorenzo Sala
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Formas breves y sobredeterminación en el Quijote de 1615 (capítulos 1, 8 y 13): propuestas para una lectura a dos luces

open access: yesE-Spania, 2022
On examine dans cet article plusieurs microrécits (cuentecillos et exempla) insérés aux chapitres 1, 8 et 13 du Don Quichotte de 1615. On montre que ceux-ci peuvent se lire à la fois en regard du texte de Cervantès et de celui d’Avellaneda.
David Alvarez Roblin
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