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Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 629-649, November 2023., 2023
I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role‐played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent ...
Maroula Perisanidi
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship

Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023
Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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‘Heroes to anonymous pensioners’: Francisco Franco's ‘mutilated gentlemen’ and the erosion of veteran privilege in Spain's transition to democracy

History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 765-788, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This article explores how during Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Francoist disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War navigated the disappearance of formerly hegemonic historical narratives which had hitherto defined their relationship with the state.
Stephanie Wright
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Atmospheric architecture: Gregory of Tours’s use of the fear of God in Tours Cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 325-349, August 2022., 2022
This article explores how and why Gregory of Tours encoded the fear of God into the architecture of Tours cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin. Using Gregory’s writings, in combination with the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus and the inscriptions that adorned the interior walls of the basilica, this paper argues that Gregory followed the church ...
Catherine‐Rose Hailstone
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini

Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†

Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021
Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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Face‐Work: Making Hair Matter in Sixteenth‐Century Central Europe

Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 314-345, July 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Bringing gender history, the history of the body and art history into a conversation with material culture studies, this article argues that the sudden fashionability of beards in Renaissance Europe has been intricately linked with a culture of material and visual experimentation.
Stefan Hanß
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Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Arte de putear. Ed., introd., notas y glosario de Isabel Colón Calderón y Gaspar Garrote Bernal. Ediciones Aljibe, Archidona (Málaga), 1995; 243 pp. (Erótica Hispánica, 1).

Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 1998
Se reseñó el libro: Arte de putear.
Antonio Alatorre
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Juan Villar, Arte de gramática española. Est. introd. de Manuel Peñalver Castillo. Ed. facs. Diputación Provincial de Jaén, Jaén, 1997; 119 + 159 pp.

Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 2000
Se reseñó el libro: Arte de gramática española.
Carmen Delia Valadez
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