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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
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Adolph Loewi e il commercio di tappeti orientali a Venezia fra Otto e Novecento
MDCCC 1800, 2012 The massive export of works of art that characterized the entire Italian peninsula, especially in the years bridging the nineteenth and twentieth century, included also the transfer abroad of Islamic art and products, even more specifically, of ...
Cecutti, Daniela
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The Topography of the Sacred. Rovigo: Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
In_Bo, 2021 Published in 1704, the suggestive view by Pierre Mortier of the small city of Rovigo on the border between the Papal States and the Republic of Venice shows the ordinary appearance of a centuries old rural-urban plain in the Po Basin as a crystallised ...
Andreina Milan
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Quaderni Veneti, 2015 The present comparative essay suggests that Parise recalled Wedekind’s Frülings Erwachen (1891) in his novel Il ragazzo morto e le comete (1951). They both tell the story of a friendship, which ends when one of the main characters dies.
fardin, michelle
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BMC Zoology, 2021 Background Barbels are ray finned cyprinid fishes of the Old-World with partially unresolved, intricate taxonomy. Within the Barbus sensu lato paraphyletic assemblage, Barbus sensu stricto is a monophyletic tetraploid lineage of Europe, northern Africa ...
Giovanni Rossi +7 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Quaderni Veneti, 2015 This article focuses on MS Seville Colombina 7-1-52, with particular attention to a corpus of seven Veronese didactic religious texts. The texts date from the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century, while the manuscript was copied in ...
Zvonareva, Alina
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