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History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 251-271, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
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Prussian Blue: Chemistry, Commerce, and Colour in Eighteenth‐Century Paris
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 154-186, February 2023., 2023 This essay reconsiders the story of a pigment. Prussian blue, discovered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is often described as a revolutionary colour that instantly transformed painters’ palettes and practices. Grounded in a ‘thick description’ of the pigment's history in Paris, this article challenges the legendary account of Prussian blue
Charlotte Guichard +2 more
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EVASION: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 36-59, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord.
DAVID C. THOMPSON
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 13-55, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution focuses on indefinite arguments in object position. We address this topic from the point of view of the crosslinguistic variation within the Romance continuum, especially looking at Northern Italian Dialects (NIDs). The target is to describe the distribution of the different possible realizations of this kind of arguments in ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 873-891, November 2021., 2021 Abstract The bill of exchange was the most important written instrument in the international financial world of the later middle ages. Using the evidence of nearly 2,000 bills of exchange, protested bills of exchange, and letters of advice recorded in the ledgers of Filippo Borromei & Partners of Bruges and London, 1436–8, we argue that it was a far ...
Jim Bolton, Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli
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Reading versus Seeing? Winckelmann's Excerpting Practice and the Genealogy of Art History
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 239-261, June 2020., 2020 Abstract From his arrival in Italy in 1755, Winckelmann's work is infused throughout by a fundamental antinomy: reading versus seeing. This antinomy possesses for him a decidedly epistemological significance: it allows him to present himself as the father of a discipline deserving of its name, i.e., the history of art.
Elisabeth Décultot
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Práticas musicais de alunos em espaços/tempos livres em um conservatório de música
, 2023 The general objective of this article is to understand how the musical practices were constituted outside the music class in the spaces/time of the music conservatory.
Goncalves, Lilia Neves +1 more
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Promovendo a inclusão nas actividades de tempos livres
, 2011 Orientação: Isabel ...
Santos, Nádia Susana Costa
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Escolas de lazer e tempos livres: análise de conteúdos formativos
, 2023 Social and technological changes lead us to rethink whether leisure and free time training is adapted to current needs. The objectives of this research paper are (1) to know the evaluations of professional agents and young people regarding the ...
Sánchez Cabrero, Roberto +8 more
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