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Renaissance Culture, Emblems, and Interdisciplinary Research: The Reception of Alciato in Coimbra☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 394-418, June 2025.Abstract Bearing in mind that emblem books were a manifestation of humanistic culture and its natural interdisciplinary, this paper discusses how the early reception of Alciato's Emblemata in Coimbra (Portugal) had an impact on artists, literary authors, jurists, and Jesuit teachers.
Filipa Araújo
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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Fray Tomás de Torquemada, iconógrafo y promotor de las artes
Archivo Español de Arte, 2009 En este trabajo se analiza la ascendencia del inquisidor Torquemada sobre dos fundaciones, el convento de Santo Tomás de Ávila y el de Santa Cruz de Segovia.
Sonia Caballero Escamilla
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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La favola in Gregorio di Nazianzo
Erga-Logoi, 2019 Exercises based upon the Aesopian μῦθος (προγυμνάσματα) were common in imperial schools of rhetoric. Being educated in such schools, Gregory of Nazianzus dealt with the fable: clear evidence lies in his oeuvre, where fable items are indeed widespread. By
Marco Settecase
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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La PalabraEntre los diferentes temas que expuso la literatura de cordel a lo largo de los siglos, sin duda fueron de interés para sus lectores los relatos sobre monstruos.
Claudia Verónica Carranza Vera
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Disciplined Comparison in the Undergraduate Theory and Method Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 163-167, December 2024.ABSTRACT This article details the author's reimagining of the undergraduate theory and method course, in which intentional, disciplined comparison is employed to challenge and problematize traditional narratives about Religious Studies as an academic discipline.
Christopher Jensen
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