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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Inverting the Hierarchy. Greek and Latin in a Sixteenth-Century Poetical Encomium of Antwerp

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
In 1565, the Bavarian Georg Schregel published a city encomium of Antwerp, titled Elegia ἐγκωμιαστικὴ in clarissimam et praestantissimam Belgarum urbem Handoverpiam Georgii Schroegelii Boii, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Antwerp city hall ...
Adriaan Demuynck
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Editorial Note

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
This editorial note accompanies the second part of the triptych on Latin–Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity, of which the first part appeared as JOLCEL 9.
Raf Van Rooy, William Michael Barton
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From the Epistolae et Evangelia (c. 1540) to the Espejo divino (1607): Indian Latinists and Nahuatl Religious Literature at the College of Tlatelolco

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2019
In 1536, fifteen years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Imperial College of Santa Cruz was founded in Santiago Tlatelolco, an Indian enclave to the north of Mexico City. The students at the college, who were drawn from native elites, received an
Andrew Laird
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Reworking the classics in Herbert’s 'Roman de Dolopathos'

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
Herbert’s thirteenth-century Dolopathos ostensibly constitutes matière de Rome with its setting in Augustan Sicily; placement alongside the romans antiques of Paris, BnF fr. 1450 and frame tales featuring Homeric, Ovidian and Petronian motifs.
Ramani Chandramohan
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Editorial Note

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2021
Dinah Wouters, Maxim Rigaux
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