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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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La metà del secolo XV fu per la Corona d’Aragona e specialmente per Barcellona un periodo complicato: Alfonso V era impegnato nelle guerre italiane, in particolare contro Firenze e Milano, Genova e Venezia; il Regno di Napoli era stato annesso all’Unione,
Elena Maccioni
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Bibliografia di storia di Roma in età medievale (1996-2003)
Bibliografia di storia di Roma in età medievale (1996-2003).
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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