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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

Methods of Nature: Landscapes from the Gettysburg College Collection

open access: yes, 2016
Methods of Nature: Landscapes from the Gettysburg College Collection is the third annual exhibition curated by students enrolled in the Art History Methods course.
Chason, Molly A.   +5 more
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Paragone entre pintura y escultura en el siglo XIX español [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The "Paragone" between painting and sculpture, in Nineteenth-Century Spain, leed us to know how sculpture was considered in disadvantage as artistic expression, specially concerning two main functions of art in this century: to persuade and to narrate ...
Reyero Hermosilla, Carlos
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

L’ornement aujourd’hui

open access: yesImages Re-Vues
This introduction to Inactualité de l'ornement forms an attempt to understand, along a wide temporal range and in an European context, how ornament has been understood according to a moral scale and how, since approximately the second half of the ...
Thomas Golsenne
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Paris, Japan, and modernity: a vexed ratio [PDF]

open access: yes
This essay uses mobility as a way to tackle the nominal question, “Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?” By examining the illustrated travel narratives of two Frenchmen in Japan, Émile Guimet, founder of the eponymous museum of Asian art
Chang, Ting
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Lincoln’s Place in 19th-Century Intellectual History

open access: yes, 2008
The nineteenth century in Europe and America was an era of second thoughts. Those second thoughts were largely about the Enlightenment, which had been born in the mid-1600s as a scientific revolution and blossomed into the Age of Reason in the 1700s ...
Guelzo, Allen C.
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