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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Le territoire des Volques Arécomiques entre Strabon et Pline
Pallas, 2010 The remarkable extension of the Arecomic territory and the political importance given to it by Strabo are unmistakably intriguing: this twofold characteristic is often explained by the existence within the tenure of Nemausus of twenty-four small towns ...
Martine Assénat
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Ancient tin production: Slags from the Iron Age Carvalhelhos hillfort (NW Iberian Peninsula) [PDF]
, 2018 Provenance and production of tin in the Ancient World has since long been a major topic of discussion among archaeologists. In Western Europe, where significant tin ore (cassiterite) deposits are known, only a few remains of ancient tin production, such ...
Figueiredo, Elin +5 more
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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El camaleón que se sustenta del aire: evolución paremiológica e incidencia en la literatura española
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 The current speaker immediately associates chameleons with color change, but seems confused with the idea that this animal feeds on air, when it emerges in a literary text.
Rafael Malpartida Tirado
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Regards sur la nature : place de l’observation dans les textes astronomiques latins
Pallas, 2013 In antiquity, astronomical knowledge came essentially from philosophy, mathematics and logic. One can then question the role given to the observation of phenomena. To answer this question, we chose to analyze some of the demonstrations presented in Latin
Émilie-Jade Poliquin
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Ovid, the Fasti and the stars [PDF]
, 2007 According to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar ...
Robinson, M.
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Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Within the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Giovanna Vasco +4 more
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From Diderot’s Encyclopedia to Wales’ Wikipedia: A brief history of collecting and sharing knowledge [PDF]
Časopis Ksio, 2018 Collecting and sharing knowledge are activities which are almost as important as creating knowledge. Yet, the ideas of collecting and sharing knowledge have changed over time, reflecting society’s needs.
Miloš Todorović
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