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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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ARTESANOS HUÉRFANOS Y DESAMPARADOS: PERÚ SIGLOS XVI Y XVII [PDF]
Diálogo andino, 2016 espanolEn los ultimos anos, la historiografia ha venido dando mayor importancia al tema de las actividades artesanales durante el periodo virreinal en el Peru, y tambien ha hecho referencia al tema de los huerfanos. Sin embargo, hasta el momento no se ha dado importancia a que muchos de los artesanos y aprendices que aparecen en los documentos de los ...
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 2023 El artículo examina la relación entre algunos de los tratados de historia más significativos de los siglos XVI y XVII y las autobiografías masculinas de dicha época.
Nicolás Mateos Frühbeck
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Las matemáticas de los siglos XVI y XVII en la historiografía científica contemporánea
Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2016 Este artículo aborda el modo como se ha estudiado el papel de las matemáticas en la Revolución Científica de los siglos XVI y XVII en la historiografía científica contemporánea, resaltando, de un lado, los límites y alcances que la historiografía ...
Helbert Velilla Jiménez
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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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