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STOICISM AND WAR WOUNDS: MUCIUS SCAEVOLA, SERGIUS SILUS AND QUINTUS SERTORIUS

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2019
Soldiers sustaining battle wounds was both an historical reality as a popular literary theme in the Late Republic and the Early Empire. Battle scars were often instrumentalised as tokens of bravery on the battlefield and equated with military honours ...
Korneel Van Lommel
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Exempla bibliques, exempla classiques

, 2010
Après avoir rappelé l’importance et la survalorisation des exempla bibliques (dans les prologues des recueils, dans les Artes praedicandi et dans la thèse de Welter), C. Delcorno note que certains historiens, plus intéressés par la recherche de traces de vie quotidienne dans les exempla, ont délaissé les exempla bibliques, qui connaissent un regain d ...
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Pliny’s “Role models of both sexes”: gender and exemplarity in the Letters [PDF]

, 2016
PublishedArticleThe Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity.
Langlands, Rebecca
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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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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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Kinkon biobib: life and work of Dom Sylvester Houedard [PDF]

, 2012
Bio-bibliographical essay on British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Based on scarce published materials and primary sources, this chronology emphasises artistic over religious and other ...
Grandal Montero, Gustavo
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Ramon Llull e la scrittura allegorica nel Llibre de les bèsties

Rhesis, 2013
Il Libre de meravelles di Ramon Llull è un vasto trattato enciclopedico scritto in catalano e suddiviso in dieci libri. Il settimo è intitolato Llibre de les bèsties: si tratta di una favola sugli animali composta antecedentemente al trattato nel quale ...
Marco Maulu
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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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Juan Manuel (1282-1348) e as profissões ‘judeus’ no El Conde Lucanor: um modelo medieval ibérico de relação de grupo [PDF]

, 2015
This article aims to analyze the personal relationship between Christian writer Juan Manuel (1282-1348) and the Jewish community in his collection of didactic exempla, El Conde Lucanor [Count Lucanor]. Through the theory of out-group interaction, and the
Navarro, David
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The Elegiac Puella as Virgin Martyr [PDF]

, 2009
This is a postprint (author's final draft) version of an article published in the journal Transactions of the American Philological Association in 2009. The final version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.0.0023 (login may be ...
Uden, James
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