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Summary When Rome colonized Britain, it created a transport network spanning the province. This transformed the Iron Age economy, creating large new markets which in turn supported specialized manufacturing. This article explores the impact of transportation on Roman agriculture – the core of the Romano‐British economy.
Rob Wiseman +2 more
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José Julio Martín Romero, La guerra en la literatura castellanadel siglo XV, Londres, Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies... [PDF]
José Julio Martín Romero, La guerra en la literatura castellanadel siglo XV, Londres, Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Queen Mary, University of London (‘Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar’, 23), 2015, 121 ...
Moreno Jiménez, Sergio
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Review of Bjorn Weiler, Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200, (Cambridge: Cambrodghe University Press, 2021).
Stephen Donnachie
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F. A. C. Mantello y A. G. Rigg (eds.), Medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide
F. A. C. Mantello y A. G. Rigg (eds.), Medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide, Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996, xiv + 774 pp.
Alejandro Higashi
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Persistence and Innovation in the Greco-Roman Medical Tradition: The Reading and Writing Practices of a Tenth-Century Monk. [PDF]
Marchiori SM.
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Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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