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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
wiley   +1 more source

Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
wiley   +1 more source

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never ends: Towards the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography?

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract It is widely accepted that Henri Lefebvre's Marxism had anarchistic traits, but few have tried to specify what these traits are, or what they mean. This paper argues that Lefebvre's work should be seen as first and foremost an anti‐authoritarian theory that uses space, rather than a spatial theory.
Hamish Kallin
wiley   +1 more source

“Towards the revival of religious art”.[1] The revival efforts for church art in Polish Lands between 1900–1939 (with particular emphasis on wall-paintings)

open access: yesSacrum et Decorum, 2013
For over 200 years now, that is, at least since the French Revolution, religious, or church art has been plagued with the notion of its inadequacy to the expectations of the faithful and the resulting need for the “eternal resurrections of sacred art ...
Joanna Wolańska
doaj  

Indigenous Perspectives of Mining in Fiji: The Relevance of Putting Indigenous Knowledge at the Core of Development Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy &Development, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining is crucial to the development of developing countries. This article studies the perspective of Indigenous peoples of Fiji (iTaukei) on the impact of mining on their development. Considering Indigenous knowledge at the core of this research, a unique qualitative methodology that integrates Vakumuni Vuku ni Vanua (gathering wisdom of the ...
Eduardo Ordonez‐Ponce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mahi ā Wānanga—A Mana Wāhine‐Led Collaboration to Co‐Construct Meaningful Research and Meaning from Research

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
Indigenous ways of sharing and developing knowledge survive in ceremony, songs, proverbs, storytelling and purposeful dialogues. Wānanga (space for knowledge sharing) is the epitome of traditional knowledge transmission—grounded in Indigenous practice and worldview, allowing for the co‐creation of new knowledge and passing down of inherited knowledge ...
Deborah Heke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial Bias in AI Training Data: Prompting Sora to Generate Images of Aotearoa New Zealand's Historical Past

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
This paper examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) reproduces colonial visual tropes when tasked with representing Aotearoa New Zealand's historical past. Using OpenAI's Sora as a case study, the analysis investigates AI‐generated images prompted to depict (1) precolonial landscapes, (2) first contact between Māori and Europeans, (3 ...
Olli Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 224-236, March 2026.
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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