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Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid-19. [PDF]
Risk Hazards Crisis Public Policy, 2021 Abstract In this paper, we address the question on how societies coped with pandemic crises, how they tried to control or adapt to the disease, or even managed to overcome the death trap in history. On the basis of historical research, we describe how societies in the western world accommodated to or exited hardship and restrictive measures over the ...
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023 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
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 463-485, December 2022., 2022 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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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 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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Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 22-41, March 2022., 2022 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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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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«Los agentes de la censura en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII», de Mathilde Abisson
Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2022 Reseña del libro Los agentes de la censura en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII» (Berlín, Peter Lang, 2022), de Mathilde Abisson.
Jorge Ferreira Barrocal
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Brocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 2016 MARÍA SOLEDAD GÓMEZ NAVARRO, Reforma y renovación católicas (Siglos XVI-XVII), Síntesis, Madrid ...
Carlos Martínez Shaw
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Entre las sociedades ibéricas y la diáspora judía: Los Pinto y los Ribeiro en los siglos XVI y XVII
Sefarad : Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes, 1998 En este artículo se reconstruye la historia de dos familias conversas de los siglos XVI y XVII. Estos cristianos nuevos portugueses se establecieron en su mayoría en los dominios españoles de la Monarquía hispánica, donde desempeñaron un papel económico ...
Markus Schreiber
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Estudios de Asia y África, 2020 A. Romano (2018). Impresiones de China. Europa y el englobamiento del mundo (siglos XVI-XVII). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia. 421 pp.
Inés Suárez Ibias
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