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Mucius Scaevola and the Essence of Manly Patientia [PDF]
, 2015 Patientia, the virtue of enduring physiological pain, poses a problem for Roman elite masculinities. The male body is supposed to be unpenetrated, but when pain is inflicted the body is often cut and pierced.
Wildberger, Jula
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 70-85, March 2026.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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AOQUNel proemio del canto diciottesimo dell’Hercole, Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio si rivolge alle «donne gentili». Le ottave che seguono raccontano un «lascivo amore, e fiamme scelerate»; ma l’intento, avverte l’autore, non è quello di macchiare la loro ...
Marco Verde
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Poetyka exemplum w reportażu Pawła Kapusty „Pandemia”
Res Rhetorica, 2023 W artykule przeprowadzona została analiza części tomu reportażowego Pawła Kapusty „Pandemia” potraktowanej jako exemplum, czyli argument z przykładu. Tom został opublikowany jesienią 2020 roku, a znalazły się w nim między innymi świadectwa doświadczeń i
Magdalena Piechota
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L’Exemplum virgilien et l’Académie napolitaine à la Renaissance. Itinera Parthenopea, I [PDF]
, 2018 Dans l’académie napolitaine de la Renaissance, les poètes latins firent de l’imitation un principe d’écriture. Ils n’éludèrent donc pas celle de Virgile, exemplum de tout style, parfois plus virgiliens que le modèle qui les faisait naître à une ...
Germano, Giuseppe
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Museum 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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Discours, 2018 Digression is a type of textual movement that interrupts the flow by disrupting the chronology of the text. The effect of the insertion may be compared to that of parentheses within the textual flow.
Sabine Lehmann
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Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2023 Análisis de una tipología de milagro en la que la Virgen intercede por el alma de un pecador haciéndole retornar a la vida para que cumpla con la confesión y la penitencia, a través de los ejemplos ofrecidos por una compilación del siglo XIV ...
Patricia Cañizares Ferriz
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A villain and a monster : the literary portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare [PDF]
, 2013 The process of vilification of Richard III started at the end of the fifteenth century, when a well-planned policy of Tudor propaganda was set in motion by Henry VII himself, who commissioned a series of historiographical writings, mainly aiming at the ...
Relvas, Maria de Jesus
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Renaissance 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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