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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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The prospect of providing low-income medium density housing in developing countries : problems and opportunities with special reference to Cape Town, South Africa [PDF]
, 2001 Includes bibliography.It is thus proposed in this thesis that low-income medium-density developments, located appropriately in inner city areas to kick-start settlements that are integrated, compact and promote mixed land uses, as well as aspiring ...
Awe, Temitope Abidemi
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Registers of citizenship as a source of urban migration in late medieval Bardejov
Saeculum ChristianumThis study examines urban migration based on an analysis of the registers of citizenship in the late medieval town of Bardejov. While these records provide valuable insights, they also present several limitations.
Mária Fedorčákvá
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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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City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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Antonio Gramsci's Anti‐Fascism: Not Your Average Fascist's Cultural Marxism
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper discusses the form and content of Gramsci's Marxism in light of long debates about anti‐fascism. Through twists and turns, Gramsci came to understand fascism as a new form of politics, as a movement, ideology or regime. No mere bourgeois reaction, fascism is a sui generis form of mass politics that translates the roots of modern ...
Stefan Kipfer
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Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers [PDF]
, 2009 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).The south east and cape flats regions of Cape Town is home to abundant supplies of cheap and available unskilled labour.
Naidu, Claudia
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Natural History SciencesIn this article, a hypothesis is suggested on the origin of the name Girifalco, a small town in the Calabrian Apennines (southern continental Italy), located along an important flyway of raptors migrating through the Central Mediterranean. In particular,
Nicolantonio Agostini +2 more
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A Critical Analysis of Optimization Algorithms for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management
Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2026.Methodological framework and decision‐support roadmap for optimization algorithms in cultural heritage conservation and management. ABSTRACT Heritage buildings symbolize cultural identity, architectural character, and historical epitome of communities.
Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader +6 more
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