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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 489-506, June 2026.Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 864-874, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Daughter, mother, widow: The making of the identities of Isabella d'Aragona
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 353-368, July 2024.Abstract This article examines performances of identity (as daughter, mother and widow) by Isabella d'Aragona (1470–1524) in three of her letters. Isabella's construction of self, drew on her status as a dynast of the House of Aragon and aimed at securing her future and promote the interests of her children.
Darius von Güttner‐Sporzyński
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Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 135-152, June 2024.Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self‐evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non‐white ...
Brendan Röder
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Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la ComunicaciónEste ensaio discute a tendência do híbrido e da interface entre a imagem, a escrita, a oralidade e o movimento. Trata-se de um cenário de produções multimidiáticas que prezam pela diluição das fronteiras entre as linguagens. A escrita, hoje, ainda mais presente no nosso cotidiano a partir dos meios de comunicação digitais, vê-se imbricada nas ...
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["Instruction on the selection, preparation and shipment of seeds and bulbs of plants, which are ordered to be brought from Africa and Brazil"]. [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos, 2023 Pereira MRM.
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