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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance 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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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 565-572, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Vida material, religiosidad y sociedad colonial. Espacios, objetos y prácticas de consumo en el colegio jesuita de la ciudad de Antioquia. 1726-1767.

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2009
This article explores the history of material life in the Jesuit College of the City of Antioquia, New Kingdom of Granada, during the eighteenth century.
Edgardo Pérez Morales.
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The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia (16th–17th Centuries): an Analytical Bibliography

open access: yesAethiopica, 2012
The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia was an episode of great importance in the history of Ethiopia and the Portuguese expansion. However, despite the number of studies dedicated to it a bibliography was still missing.
Leonardo Cohen Shabot   +1 more
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Political and Institutional Development in England

open access: yesThe Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 438-449, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
wiley   +1 more source

Policy to practice: Social accountability in medical school admissions—A scoping review

open access: yesMedical Education, Volume 60, Issue 7, Page 751-761, July 2026.
Abstract Background Medical schools worldwide are integrating social accountability into admissions to address health inequities, improve workforce distribution and enhance population health outcomes. While foundational frameworks exist, implementation outcomes of specific admissions policies remain underexplored.
Sierra A. Land   +5 more
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 708-729, July 2026.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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Blurring Migrant Solidarity: Navigating the Troubled Regime of ‘Helping Others’ From the Urban Ground of Palermo

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores migrant solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 so‐called ‘migration crisis’ from the ground of the Southern Italian ‘solidarity city’ of Palermo, building on ethnographic material collected across 2022/2023. It argues that migrant solidarity both resists and reproduces racialised borders, as it is never entirely and ...
Francesca Guarino
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Transforming Indigenous Vice to Virtue on the Stages of Colonial Brazil: an analysis of Jesuit Theater and the plays of José de Anchieta

open access: yesLusitania Sacra, 2011
José de Anchieta (1534-1597), one of the most influential missionaries in the history of Catholic expansion into South America, addressed the theological and cultural issues of explaining Christian life to the Tupi.
Anne B. McGinness
doaj   +1 more source

Empowerment for People With Lived Experience of the Justice System? Peer Leadership and the ‘Spectrum of Public Participation’

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 105-114, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing from Arnstein's original ladder model, and the political philosophy of Dewey, Fraser and Pitkin, it is argued that people with lived experience of the justice system require a coherent social movement if they are to be collectively empowered by lived experience consultations.
Aaron Hart
wiley   +1 more source

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