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L'éléphant dans la sculpture romane
Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1950 Thibout Marc. L'éléphant dans la sculpture romane. In: Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1945-1947, 1950. p. 242.
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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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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
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Sculpture romane. Approche régionale, présentation monographique [PDF]
Perspective, 2006 openaire +2 more sources
Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee +4 more
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Richesses monumentales du tardorrománico
Perspective, 2008 Claude Andrault-Schmitt
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Jennifer Montagu, “Roman Baroque Sculpture: the Industry of Art”, 1989
, 2017 Il saggio contestualizza il volume di Jennifer Montagu "Roman Baroque Sculpture" (1989) alla luce del percorso di ricerca della sua autrice e del contemporaneo panorama internazionale degli ...
SIMONATO, Lucia
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