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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Contribution of martial arts participation to interpersonal intelligence in adolescents: An ex post facto study

Journal Sport Area
Background: Adolescence is a crucial stage for identity formation and social skill development, yet many adolescents struggle with emotional regulation and building healthy interpersonal relationships.
Muhammad Nur Alif, Komarudin, Firman Septiadi, Mulyana   +3 more
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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General Qi Jiguang, visionary and defender of a nation

Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
In 1550 d.C. China’s splendor during the Ming Dynasty was threatened by hostiles forces in the northern border as well as its eastern coasts. The appearance of Qi Jiguang, one of the most famous Chinese generals would change the way China trained its ...
William Acevedo, Mei Cheung
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Martial Arts and the Problem of Definition

Philosophies
“Martial arts” is a popular phrase in popular and academic discourse but notoriously difficult to define. This article addresses the challenge of defining martial arts, demonstrating the multifarious and sometimes contradictory nature of how the term is ...
Richard Peter Bailey, Nadia Samsudin
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Folklore and foundation myths in Chinese martial arts: testing and expanding the Theory of Martial Creation [PDF]

[EN] How and why might a person create a new martial art? Folklore is a continued tradition in martial arts that helps us answer this question in a narrative format.
Jennings, George
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

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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Martial arts as a tool for enhancing attention and executive function: Implications for cognitive behavioral therapy – A literature review

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences
With a focus on its implications for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this review study seeks to investigate the possible advantages of martial arts training on attention and executive function.
Venkateswar Pujari
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Wellness and martial arts

, 2022
The creative project, “Martial Arts and Wellness” is in the form of a website that is compatible with smartphones. This creative project explores the interconnectedness of martial arts with the five areas of health: physical, intellectual, mental ...
Conaster, Cora
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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