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, 2009 Racine's tragedy Esther is often presented as a religious poem extolling piety and innocence. This article argues that this reading is complicated by the political dimension of the work.
Campbell, J.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Mariana de Neoburgo en Toledo [PDF]
, 2011 The death of the childless Charles II of Spain caused the election to the Spanish throne of Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV of France. His arrival to Spain was preceded by the exile to Toledo of the queen dowager Maria Anna of Neuburg.
Santos Vaquero, Ángel
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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Clio@Themis, 2021 In 1701, Louis XIV reminded to the Flemish magistrates that they could not refuse to apply his law. The analyses carried out in the departmental archives reveal the various means used by Flemish magistrates to formulate their claims : dissertation ...
Clotilde Fontaine
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, 2003 Obres ressenyades: Luis Antonio RIBOT GARCÍA, La Monarquía de España y la guerra de Mesina (1674-1678). Madrid: Actas, 2002; Guy ROWLANDS, The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701.
Lucas Val, Núria de
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Dans l’ombre de Girardon : sculpteurs champenois sur le chantier versaillais
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006 Key player in the Versailles initiative, François Girardon, from Troyes, was one of the closest artists to Louis XIV. The sculptor’s participation in the glorification of the monarch—idealized in Apollo in the Grotto of Tethys at the Château de ...
Alicia Adamczak
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Le cheval sculpté à Versailles : une image du pouvoir ?
In Situ, 2015 Sculpted horses at Versailles, an image of power? Sculptures of horses as parts of equestrian groups, or as decorative elements for stable buildings have been well studied for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but another iconographical field has
Alexandre Maral
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