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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

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Nanotechnological Strategies for Preserving and Authenticating Bioactive Compounds in Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Nano-Enabled Stabilization, Sensing, and Circular Valorization. [PDF]

Foods
Vega Baudrit JR, Corrales-Ureña Y, Jaimes Merazzo K, Chinchilla Orrego JS, Lopretti M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal forcing and waning immunity drive the sub-annual periodicity of the COVID-19 epidemic. [PDF]

PLoS Pathog
Rubin IN, Bushman M, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Virgin Mary

, 2019
openaire   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Reactant Addition Sequence on Maleic Anhydride Grafting onto Polylactic Acid During Peroxide-Initiated Melt Processing. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Mulkerins S, Yan G, Gately N, Devine DM, Zhou K, Jameson C, Buckley C, Abbasi A, Farshbaf Taghinezhad S, Colbert DM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
wiley   +1 more source