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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
wiley   +1 more source

A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Investment in Mexico: Trade Wars, Nearshoring and Place‐Based Policies

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of the first Trump administration's (2016–2022) US‐China Trade War on the sectoral composition and geographic allocation of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico. Leveraging a novel dataset of Chinese investment projects (2001–2024) and exploiting product‐level variation in US tariff exposure, we ...
Ernesto Hugo Stein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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