‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Politics, geopolitics, and the history of science: on James Secord's "Inventing the scientific revolution". [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude ManguinhosBarahona A +9 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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E. F. K. Koerner, Towards a history of American linguistics (Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics 5). London & New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. Pp. x+316 [PDF]
, 2004 Lepschy, G
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Introduction: Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies. [PDF]
J Hist Med Allied SciSkotnes-Brown J, Lynteris C.
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Theory of history and history of historiography: Openings for “unconventional histories”
, 2019 Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a relação entre o que chamaremos de “histórias não-convencionais”, a teoria da história e a história da historiografia. Discutiremos aberturas possíveis das disciplinas para esferas que tensionam com seus protocolos sedimentados e, também, a relação destas aberturas com a emergência de uma temporalidade que tem ...
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack <i>et al.</i> [PDF]
Med HistGreen MH, Fancy N.
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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