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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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An Architecture for Mobile Outdoors Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage
In this paper, we present the software architecture of a complete mobile tourist guide for cultural heritage sites located in the old town of Chania, Crete, Greece.
Chris Panou +3 more
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Three Men and an Abbey: The Cornaro Triple Portrait☆
Abstract This paper builds on the author’s recent identification of an early sixteenth‐century painting in the National Gallery of Ireland as containing rare portraits of Giorgio Cornaro (brother of Caterina, Queen of Cyprus) and his son Cardinal Francesco.
Rachel Healy
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The Venice Four Chanson de Roland: Transformations and the Artifice of Franco-Venetian
Of the seven medieval variants of the Chanson de Roland, the fourteenth century Venice Four Roland (V4) is the most narratively and linguistically divergent version of the Old French Carolingian epic. It contains an interpolated episode that is not found
Martin, Thomas
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Images of Moses and sixteenth-century Venice [PDF]
This thesis addresses the striking proliferation of Moses imagery in sixteenth-century Venice by considering the images as a distinctive category. Although the narratives of Moses can be found elsewhere in Italy, the Venetian treatment of these subjects
Zucca, Amy Marie
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South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A non-mercantilist approach [PDF]
A recurrent and indeed persistent problem in European economic history – a veritable deus ex machina -- from medieval to modern times, is Europe’s supposed ‘balance of payments’ problem in trade with the ‘East’.
John H. Munro
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Old Venetian house, Venice, Italy, 1927 [picture] /
Title from inscription.; Inscriptions: "Lionel Lindsay. Old Venetian House 60 Proofs"--In pencil below image.; Part of: A collection of prints and woodcuts by Lionel Lindsay, 1890-1939.; The art of Sir Lionel Lindsay / Joanna Mendelssohn, 396.; Also ...
Lindsay, Lionel, Sir, 1874-1961.
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The Venetian Lagoon is characterized by an essentially aquatic and insular type of life. It is an intense symbiotic relationship between humans, water, and other non-human inhabitants.
Vianello, Rita
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On the Syntax of Kožičić’s MISAL HRUACKI
Šimun Kožičić Benja’s Misal hruacki (1531) holds a special place amongst the Croatian Glagolitic missals. Namely, recent studies have shown it to be the first comprehensive Croatian redaction of Bible readings according to the Vulgate, and to execute ...
Ivana Eterović, Jozo Vela
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