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The Italian Wars of Henry II [PDF]

The English Historical Review, 1915
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Italian political emigration between the World Wars: the role of LIDU [PDF]

, 2019
Italian political emigration between the World Wars: the role of LIDU – The essay reconstructs the history of the Italian League for Human Rights (LIDU), an anti-fascist organization in exile that played a meaningful role, between the World Wars, in the ...
Bagli, Antonio
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Some remarks on the “border period” of Florentine diplomacy in the Italian Wars and its significant episode: the mission of Niccolo Machiavelli to Caterina Sforza (July 1499)

Studia Humanitatis
The research examines the diplomacy of Florence in the initial stage of the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The author substantiates the concept of analysing the events of 1498-1499 in Florentine diplomacy as a certain “border period”, when the Tuscan ...
Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich
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A study of the work of Claude de Seyssel as a translator of classical texts and his contribution to the development of French humanism

Studia Humanitatis, 2018
The article addresses an important but less studied aspect of the activities of Claude de Seyssel (1450-1520), a humanist, his work as a translator of classical texts.
Kuleshova Elena Vladimirovna
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Songs of War. Historical and Literary Narratives of the «Horrendous Italian Wars» (1494-1559)

, 2013
Analysing the poems that were routinely performed and sold in Italian piazzas—the so-called «wars in ottava rima»—, this essay focuses on the role that cantastorie, or street singers, played in establishing a popular literary war genre and a war ...
Rospocher, Massimo
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Feminist Perspectives on Rebel Governance and Civil Wars

What would we learn about rebel governance and civil wars if we includedwomen and took their labour, participation and experience of wars seriously?Much literature in this field is implicitly as well as explicitly gendered, privilegingmale experiences ...
Hedström, Jenny, Hedström, Jenny,
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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