Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Saving explorers and healing Amazonians: a history of the Tabloid medicine chest used in Hamilton Rice's 1919-1920 Amazon expedition. [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude ManguinhosLimeira-daSilva VR.
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and the dawn of microscopic observation: a narrative review from Delft's lens to the modern microscope. [PDF]
Appl MicroscLee H, Rhyu IJ.
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“We Can No Longer Live by the Domostroi”: The Riddles of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes the rebuses (picture riddles) of Anna Nikanorovna Paskhalova‐Mordovtseva. It argues that despite their seemingly modest nature as artefacts of everyday leisure, Mordovtseva used these puzzles to make radical claims and assert herself as a public intellectual.
Ksenia Butuzova, Julia Mannherz
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Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciHolman LE +7 more
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Performative Anchoring Practices and the Making of Belonging in Diaspora
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Greekness is constructed and negotiated by a member of the Greek second generation in Italy, a population largely absent from contemporary diaspora scholarship. Through a biographical and socio‐anthropological approach grounded in long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the study shows how belonging emerges not as inherited
Andrea Pelliccia
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Editorial: Microbes and cultural heritage: from biodiversity to applications. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolAlbarracín VH +4 more
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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
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