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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

Water distribution pipelines inside the monastery of El Escorial during the sixteenth century. [PDF]

Water Hist
Gumiel-Campos P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
wiley   +1 more source

Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. [PDF]

Soc Hist Med
Coomans J, Hermenault L, van Kooten R, Weeda C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Experimental Physiology Special Issue: Exercise as Medicine. [PDF]

Exp Physiol
Experimental Physiology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 2737-2743, 1 June 2026.
Berg RMG, Deane CS, Barnes JN, Rossiter HB.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

Revitalizing medical schools in late sixteenth-century China: Lü Kun and the medical reform program in his Shizheng Lu. [PDF]

J Med Libr Assoc
Kun J.
europepmc   +1 more source

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Sixteenth-century English accident inquests complete deposit

Sixteenth-century English accident inquests complete deposit is a spreadsheet with details extracted from 8888 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths in sixteenth-century England held at the National Archives.
Gromelski, Tomasz, Gunn, Steven
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