Journal of Moral Theology, 2017 This paper begins with a brief introduction to the meaning and historical situation of Roman Catholic casuistry in the seventeenth century, before turning to Antonino Diana’s life and his literary project, the Resolutiones morales, and the place of “On ...
Julia A. Fleming
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Surprising epileptic semiology in seventeenth-century beatification testimonies: A neuropsychiatric analysis of St. Joseph of Copertino. [PDF]
Epilepsy Behav RepCosta D, Chiozza S.
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Hospital Care and the Conception of Death in the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain. [PDF]
Nurs InqMuñoz Devesa A, Rico Becerra JI.
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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The theater and economy of nature: religion and the investigation of nature in seventeenth-century Dutch colonial Brazil. [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude ManguinhosSantos CFMD, Fiori MM.
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Fungal and bacterial species richness in biodeteriorated seventeenth century Venetian manuscripts. [PDF]
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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