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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Bread provision in seventeenth century Madrid

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2012
Bread market was the most important provision markets, so the complexity of intervention system. The aim of provision policy was to guarantee the continuous supply of bread at moderate and stable prices.
José Ignacio ANDRÉS UCENDO   +1 more
doaj  

William Basse’s Polyhymnia and the Poetry of Service

open access: yesJournal of Early Modern Studies, 2015
The career of the little-known seventeenth-century poet William Basse (c. 1583-1653?) combined two distinctive elements. He served, in the first instance, as a ‘retainer’ to the Wenman family of Thame Park in Oxfordshire for a period of more than forty ...
Ben Crabstick
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Violencia y mujer en Granada en la primera mitad del siglo xvii

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2012
The seventeenth-century urban chronicles are full of dramatic events that reflect the existence of a structural violence. Regarding the city of Granada the Anales written by Henríquez de Jorquera show many cases of violence.
Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Hedelmöittymisestä vanhemmuuteen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia syntymän historiaan

open access: yesJ@rgonia, 2018
Arvio teoksesta Evans, Jennifer & Ciara Meehan (eds.) Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave, MacMillan. 2017. 251 s. ISBN 978-3-31944167-2.
Pasi Saarimäki
doaj  

Working life of women in the seventeenth Century

open access: yesRevista de História, 1991
CLARK, Alice. Working life of women in the seventeenth Century.
Lina Gorenstein Ferreira da Silva
doaj   +1 more source

The Image of Guru Nanak in Dadu-Panthi Sources

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This essay examines the issue of Guru Nanak’s inclusion in the mid-to-late seventeenth-century devotional text prepared by the Dadu-panthi savant, Raghavdas, the Bhakt-māl or Garland of Devotees.
Louis E. Fenech
doaj   +1 more source

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