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Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with Covid-19. [PDF]

open access: yesRisk 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 ...
de Graaf B   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

De cómo el comercio se impuso a la razzia en las relaciones hispano-musulmanas en tiempos del Quijote: hacia la normalización del comercio con el norte de África y el Levante otomano a caballo de los siglos XVI y XVII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Aproximadamente entre las últimas décadas del siglo XVI y primeras del XVII, en plena coincidencia con la gestación y aparición del Quijote, comenzó a operarse un cambio importantísimo en las relaciones comerciales hispano-musulmanas. De la extracción de
Martín Corrales, Eloy
core   +2 more sources

El crédito en el comercio lanero en la región soriana durante los siglos XVI y XVII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEl autor analiza en este trabajo el papel del crédito en las operaciones de venta de lanas realizadas en la región soriana durante los siglos XVI y XVII por los grandes y pequeños propietarios de ganado.
Máximo Diago Hernando   +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print

open access: yesArt 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
wiley   +1 more source

La Cataluña de Alonso Quijano [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Miguel de Cervantes ubicó algunos pasajes de su obra más significativa en Cataluña. Pero los trazos con que describe la realidad catalana –a caballo de los siglos XVI y XVII– constituyen, necesariamente, una aproximación mediatizada por la personalidad ...
Giménez i Blasco, Joan
core   +2 more sources

The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script

open access: yesArt 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
wiley   +1 more source

El Vecindario de 1683: Una fuente inédita para el estudio de la población de la Corona de Castilla [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
La reforma fiscal de 1683 generó una documentación de gran interés demográfico todavía inédita que este artículo presenta y evalúa con el fin de conocer la evolución de la población de Castilla en una época que hasta ahora carecía de datos fidedignos. La
Ramón Lanza García   +1 more
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A Latin American Casanova? Sex, Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Life and Writings of Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816)

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

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