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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage
Abstract By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Un glosario de términos hebreos y sus equivalentes en romance, recopilados de un tratado sobre la lógica y la filosofía compuesto por Maimónides (al-Maqālah fi-ṣināʻat al-manṭiq), circulaba en hebreo aljamiado entre judíos y/o conversos empapados en el ...
Michelle M. Hamilton
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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La Asociación de Cervantistas, 25 años
Con motivo del vigésimo quinto aniversario de creación de la Asociación de Cervantistas un importante número de investigadores ha querido ofrecer una síntesis de la aportación de aquella al hispanismo.
José Manuel Lucía Megías +6 more
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Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
Abstract The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam ...
Álvaro Carvajal Castro +11 more
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Este estudio se centra en el análisis histórico de cuatro arabismos característicos del reino de Granada desde finales del siglo XV hasta principios del siglo XVII: (al)guadoc, azalá, leila y macaber.
Inmaculada González Sopeña
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ABSTRACT This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in ...
Mónica Bolufer
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