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Comparative Law and Christianity-A Plank in the Eye? [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Husa J.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
wiley   +1 more source

Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
wiley   +1 more source

A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
wiley   +1 more source

The Good Surgeon: A Pilot Program for Flourishing in Surgical Residency. [PDF]

Ann Surg Open
Howell TC, Eberly JB, Stonerook E, Stanulis R, Edwards NC, Jo KK, Neff LP, Zeller KA, Antiel RM.   +8 more
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
wiley   +1 more source

Affective Aspects of Religiousness and 6-Year Course of Depressive Symptoms in Aged Dutch Citizens. [PDF]

Int J Aging Hum Dev
Braam AW, van Nieuw Amerongen-Meeuse JC, Holwerda TJ, Schaap-Jonker H, Deeg DJH, Beekman ATF, Huisman M.   +6 more
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The Healing Relationship and Suffering: A Catholic Perspective. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Perkins BI.
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