Sodomy and the Sick Body of Women [PDF]
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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Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680-1810*. [PDF]
Hünniger D.
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Pop Star to Opera Star: labour, skill and value in musical performance [PDF]
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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"Hang the Flesh off the Bones": Cultivating an "Ideal Body" in Taijiquan and Neigong. [PDF]
Ma X, Jennings G.
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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]
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]
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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Toxicology and snakes in ptolemaic Egyptian dynasty: The suicide of Cleopatra. [PDF]
Ana María R.
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The body re-imagined: the Bizzarie di Varie Figure and performative cycles of prints in seventeenth-century Florence [PDF]
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
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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Before Azaria: A Historical Perspective on Dingo Attacks. [PDF]
Brumm A.
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