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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Elementos do fantástico no romance histórico O Capitão do Fim, de Luiz Guilherme Santos Neves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Analisa o romance histórico capixaba O Capitão do Fim, de Luiz Guilherme Santos Neves, e sua vinculação com a literatura fantástica, orientando-se pela seguinte questão: o barqueiro é o guia que liga o mundo real e o mundo fantástico?
Cei, Vitor, Bernardo, Bárbara Marques
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O romance histórico: a vitalidade de um gênero [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Presentation of the issue on Literature: The historic novel: yesterday and todayApresentação do Dossiê de Literatura: O Romance histórico: a vitalidade de um ...
Baumgarten, Carlos Alexandre
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

open access: yesRenaissance 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

ROMANCE HISTÓRICO: CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE O LIVRO A MÃE DA MÃE DA SUA MÃE E SUAS FILHAS, DE MARIA JOSÉ SILVEIRA

open access: yesRevista Decifrar
O objetivo deste trabalho é tecer breves considerações sobre o romance histórico “A mãe da mãe da sua mãe e suas filhas”, de Maria José Silveira. Publicado pela primeira vez em 2002, pela editora Globo, o livro é narrado sob o prisma de vinte gerações ...
Alex Viana Pereira
doaj   +1 more source

Medical Archaeology and the Research Roads of Global Health in the Age of Eugenics

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 826-847, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article centers on an underexplored dimension of archaeology—the role of medicine and medical doctors in the ways archaeological excavations connected at times with early global health research and infrastructures. Its case studies focus on archaeology's role in the institutional networks, research routes, and racialized pathologies that ...
Franco D. Rossi
wiley   +1 more source

Relações intertextuais entre literatura e história no romance O Filósofo, a Enfermeira e o Trapaceiro, de Max Velati

open access: yesAnuário de Literatura
O romance histórico contemporâneo é um gênero literário que combina eventos reais do passado com a liberdade inventiva do autor, levando os leitores a vivenciar intrigas, crimes, batalhas e mistérios.
Vitor Fernando Perilo Vitoy
doaj   +1 more source

Quando contar esta aqui? – relações entre conto e história em “Quem manda aqui?”, de Paulina Chiziane

open access: yesForma Breve, 2019
Pretende-se discutir as intermitências do elemento histórico no conto, em especial na obra “Quem manda aqui?” da moçambicana Paulina Chiziane, com o elemento poético.
Marcos Vinicius Caetano da Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability in Mozambique During the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, Volume 46, Issue 14, 30 November 2026.
This paper presents the first annually and seasonally resolved reconstructions of nineteenth‐century rainfall variability for Mozambique derived from the analysis of extensive documentary evidence. It reveals spatially heterogeneous rainfall patterns with recurrent multi‐year droughts, episodic extreme wet events, and a strong coherence between ...
David J. Nash   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The conquest of the "space-in-between": the trajectory of the historical novel in America

open access: yesGragoatá, 2007
This paper has as maim purpose to show that the genre of the historical novel has had in America a trajectory which has passed through all the ways this literary genre has known in Europe since its beginning with Walter Scott (1819), until its ...
Gilnei Francisco Fleck
doaj  

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