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Sodomy and the Sick Body of Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of this article is to analyse the literary, religious and medical discourses that converge in one of the leading works in medieval Catalan: the Espill (Mirror) (1460), by Jaume Roig. Firstly, it should be remembered that the author was one of the
Mérida Jiménez, Rafael M.
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Pop Star to Opera Star: labour, skill and value in musical performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The British TV show Pop Star to Opera Star (2010/2011) was a contribution to a well-worn reality TV genre in which people are challenged to undertake a professional activity in which they have no prior experience.
Till, Nicholas
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Detecting Good Public Policy Rationales for the American Rule: A Response to the Ill-Conceived Calls for “Loser Pays” Rules [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Several critiques have been leveled at the American Rule—that is, the rule that each party to a lawsuit should pay for its attorneys. Some claim that there were no principled justifications offered by the nineteenth-century jurists who authored the ...
Bateman, Oliver, Karsten, Peter
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The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Fencing, the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épée, or saber, has progressed over hundreds of years from the warfare of Germanic tribes to a regulated Olympic sport.
Nason, Amelia E
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The body re-imagined: the Bizzarie di Varie Figure and performative cycles of prints in seventeenth-century Florence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Bizzarie di Varie Figure is a little known, enigmatic album of etchings that display countless performative bodies, transformed and reimagined to resist definitions and escape categorisations.
Scalabrella Spada, L
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Maty's Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented

open access: yes, 2007
November 27, 2004, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of Abraham De Moivre, best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution, whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit ...
Bellhouse, David R., Genest, Christian
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