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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
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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Fields of wry, serious laughter, humour, and nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American fiction [PDF]
Jennifer Andrews
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ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Women's health in colonial assam: print, medicine, and indigenous practices. [PDF]
Bhuyan R.
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ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Troublesome Survivors: Widows in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Laura Fairchild Brodie
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Convulsions as a cause of infant death: New insights into its meaning based on evidence from four European cities (1800-1955). [PDF]
Wienholts K +3 more
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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