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Alphonse II of Aragon (1164–1196)
Encyclopedia, 2021 Alphonse II King of Aragon (1164–1196). He was the first king of the Crown of Aragon and son of the Queen Petronila of Aragon (1157–1164) and the count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV (1137–1162).
Marta Serrano-Coll
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Les Jésuites et la dévotion à saint Louis au xviie siècle : la célébration du Roi très chrétien
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2012 While protected and supported by the Crown since their return to France in 1603, and yet still criticized by the most fervent Gallicans, the Jesuits paid tribute, throughout the 17th century, to the Most Christian King by worshiping Saint Louis, the new ...
Géraldine Lavieille
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Ferdinand II of Aragon (1479–1516)
Encyclopedia, 2021 Ferdinand II king of Aragon (1479–1516). He was the fourth king of the Trastámara dynasty, which had first come to power after the Compromise of Caspe, reached after Martin I died with no living descendants in 1410.
Marta Serrano-Coll
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (1208–1250)
Encyclopedia, 2021 Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily (1208–1250). Frederick II of Hohenstaufen was the second king of the Swabian dynasty to sit on the throne of Sicily.
Mirko Vagnoni
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
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City of details : interpreting the personality of London [PDF]
, 2015 This article investigates the ways in which a group of enthusiasts for London constitute their city. The 'personality' attributed to London is described, as well as the interpretive acts that reveal it.
Reed, Adam Douglas Evelyn
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Moussons, 2010 Nyaungyan styles mural paintings are located in an area stretching from Magway to Monywa and Mandalay. However, just as there are several Nyaungyan styles, and not just one, this area does not exhibit stylistic and iconographic homogeneity.
Cristophe Munier-Gaillard
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William II of Hauteville (1171–1189)
Encyclopedia, 2021 William II of Hauteville King of Sicily (1171–1189). William II of Hauteville was the third king of the Norman dynasty on the throne of Sicily. He ruled independently from 1171 (from 1166 to 1171 he was under the regency of his mother) to 1189.
Mirko Vagnoni
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