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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
Ber WissHow is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
Araújo AM.
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From Valverde to Kulmus: Tracing the Western origins of Kaitai Shinsho's frontispiece design in early modern Japanese medicine. [PDF]
Anat Sci EducAbstract This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original design,
Yu CH, Sato T.
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The Metamorphosis of Tobacco: The Tobacco Pipe Makers' Arms
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 896-917, November 2023., 2023 A delftware dish, made in London between approximately 1670 and 1690, depicts the arms of the Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers. The three Black women who gaze out from the dish can be viewed as representations of the enslaved women whose agricultural and reproductive labour enabled the transatlantic tobacco trade.
Carla Cevasco
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Political animals in the Modern World: An Investigation of the National Animal Symbol
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 195-215, September 2023., 2023 Abstract National symbols play a significant role in contemporary politics by shaping national identities. However, national animals receive little attention in the scholarship. This paper analysed the national animal’s history, strengths, formation and implications as a political symbol.
Jintao Zhu, Gregor Ilsinger
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 753-761, July/August 2023., 2023 Abstract This work presents the first remains of a peacock (Pavo cristatus Linnaeus 1758) discovered in an archeological context in Catalonia. It is a well‐preserved animal (14 remains of an adult female) located in medieval levels—datable to the 13th century (1210–1278 cal. AD) at the site of Carrer de Sotstinent Navarro, in the city of Barcelona.
Marina Fernández +7 more
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People need freshwater biodiversity
WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 3, May/June 2023., 2023 Freshwater biodiversity (i.e., plants, animals, fungi, microbes, and other living things) provides a suite of critical ecosystem services to people. Collapses in freshwater biodiversity impact people, across all regions of the globe, rural–urban gradients, and the full socioeconomic spectrum, but perhaps most particularly indigenous and marginalized ...
Abigail J. Lynch +21 more
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On the manipulation, and meaning(s), of color in food: A historical perspective
Journal of Food Science, Volume 88, Issue S1, Page A5-A20, March 2023., 2023 Abstract While there has long been public concern over the use of artificial/synthetic food colors, it should be remembered that food and drink products (e.g., red wine) have been purposefully colored for millennia. This narrative historical review highlights a number of reasons that food and drink have been colored, including to capture the shopper's ...
Charles Spence
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 57-75, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract Geomorphology generally aims to describe and investigate the processes that lead to the formation of landscapes, while geochronology is needed to detect their timing and duration. Due to restrictions on exporting geological samples from Egypt, modern geoscientific studies in the Nile Delta lack the possibility of dating the investigated ...
Martin Seeliger +5 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 252-277, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The printing of the poems of the early Tudor poet Stephen Hawes (c.1474–before 1529) by the London printer Wynkyn de Worde (d. 1534/5) is the earliest example of the sustained publication of a contemporary English poet by a single printer. This article considers de Worde’s printing of Hawes, in a flurry around 1509 and then at intervals of ...
Laurie Atkinson
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The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr, and the Medieval Kings of England
History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 636-651, October 2020., 2020 Abstract Two notable late‐medieval images depicting St Edmund King and Martyr, or his shrine, associate his cult with prayers and intercession for the king. In Lydgate's illustrated verse life of the saint, Henry VI is shown kneeling before the shrine, while on the Wilton Diptych, Edmund is one of three saints presenting Richard II to the Virgin Mary ...
PAUL WEBSTER
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