Results 81 to 90 of about 28,832 (248)

A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +2 more sources

Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +2 more sources

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Note

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2021
Dinah Wouters, Maxim Rigaux
doaj   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

The relics of Saint Odilia worldwide

For the first time, the authors compiled an inventory of all relics of St Odilia of Cologne in the world. The article starts with a historical contribution on the history of the relics.
Reyniers, Jeroen, Moeglein, Jim
core  

Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

The Tangled Reception of Proba and Virgil in the Laterculus Malalianus

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
How did a poem composed by an aristocratic woman in fourth-century Rome become essential reading for an obscure author in early medieval England? This article examines the reception of Virgil through the lens of Proba’s Cento, a patchwork poem on ...
Mary Hitchman
doaj   +2 more sources