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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Four new species of Sycorax Haliday, 1839 are described: Sycorax alumna sp. nov., Sycorax catarina sp. nov., Sycorax paranaensis sp. nov., and Sycorax striga sp. nov., with the females of Sycorax striga sp. nov. bearing characteristics that suggest haematophagous behaviour.
Lucas Rossito +2 more
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Revista de Historia Moderna, 2013 El proceso de expulsión de los jesuitas portugueses fue seguido con una gran expectación en España, tanto por los círculos anti-jesuitas como por los jesuitas españoles y sus partidarios. El presente trabajo expone algunos de los ejemplos que muestran la
García Arenas, Mar
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
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Pistis & Praxis: Teologia e Pastoral, 2019 O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar o processo de abertura e funcionamento do Colégio jesuíta São Luís de Itu, entre os anos de 1867 e 1918. Retornando ao Brasil no ano de 1856, já no contexto da denominada reforma ultramontana, a Companhia de ...
Ana Rosa Cloclet da Silva +1 more
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“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 75, Issue 3-4, Page 371-385, June 2025.Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito +3 more
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CaminhosEste estudo investiga os limites e possibilidades da relação da teologia com a filosofia e a logoterapia, e o faz, principalmente, a partir das considerações do filósofo Martin Heidegger e do fundador da logoterapia, Viktor Frankl. O trabalho é fruto de
Marcos Vinicius da Costa Meireles +1 more
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 141-156, June 2025.This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
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Os jesuítas em uma perspectiva globalizada: contribuições de um ensaio de crítica histórica
Cadernos de História da Educação, 2023 Maria Juraci Maia Cavalcante reúne neste ensaio os resultados de dez anos de pesquisa acerca da presença jesuíta no Brasil e em Portugal. Conforme a autora esclarece, seu interesse inicial estava na expulsão dos jesuítas de Portugal no início do século ...
Jane Elisa Otomar Buecke
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