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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 1944 Novedades hemerográficas en medicina en ...
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Educational Choices and Social Inequalities: How Research Addresses Students' Decision‐Making
European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Educational choices are a key area of research within the sociology of education, yet the concept of choice remains contested. This paper examines how European research analyses students' decision‐making at key educational transitions and their relationship to social positions.
Sara Gil +3 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Water governance has emerged as a critical analytical framework for addressing the complexity of socioecological water systems in contexts of increasing climate vulnerability and anthropogenic pressure. This study presents a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of 50 scientific articles indexed on water governance published between 2018
Roger Pichis‐García +1 more
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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