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The will of the middleperson: Triangular communication and its asymmetries in the figures of the Hebrew prophet and the Jewish Shtadlan

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Politics and Greek education in South Australia [PDF]

, 2001
The first intimation that a child of Greek descent in Australia is likely to get about its community’s involvement in politics beyond that internal to the Greek community is the presence of non-Greek non-Orthodox “political personalities” at Greek ...
Ganzis, Nicholas, Ganzis, N.
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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BS 711 Advanced Greek: Historians and Historiography [PDF]

, 2001
Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994. Holladay, Carl R. Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors. Vol. 1: Historians.
Green, Joel B.
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874

Historical Review, 2015
This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 623-661, November 2026.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 765-776, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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The “biography” in contemporary Greek historiography.

, 2007
The author informs us about the use of the historical biography on behalf of contemporary Greek historiography. The information about the Greek case is accompanied by many reflections on the international debate about the historical biography.The author ...
Zanou, Constantina
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