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Eviction, Home and the Spatiality of Shame
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Rooted in the scene of residential evictions, the present article examines the intersection of shame and eviction through intimate group interviews with family members in gentrifying Mexico City. It makes three contributions: highlighting the role of shame in facilitating evictions, presenting a spatial theory of shame and offering strategies ...
Jess Linz
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Kebab in theory: a treatise on political vision
Image & Narrative, 2007 This article presents a case study of the thinking image, by way of performing a close reading of David Goss's modern still life painting titled Lebanese Kebab. The oil on wood painting calls, on the one hand, for an iconographical interpretation, but at the same time it resists any simple reading of its subject matter or form.
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 11, Page 996-1004, November 2026.ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
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Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 8, November 2026.ABSTRACT Clinical knowledge production is fundamentally centred on patient problems, improving the lives of patients. If patients die, physicians also need to administer death. What is their responsibility to generate knowledge about causes of death? Based on semi‐structured interviews with 35 physicians, we show what sources physicians draw on, what ...
Mikaela Sundberg, Hedvig Gröndal
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 576-600, November 2026.This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 601-622, November 2026.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 838-852, November 2026.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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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 865-883, November 2026.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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Treatise on physiological optics
, 1924 TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS Treatise on physiological optics (-
Helmholtz, Hermann von
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