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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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Medievalista, 2022 This paper analyses neo-gothicism and its impact on the ideological propaganda in the Hispanic Middle Ages (9th-15th c.), since the initial steps taken in the Visigoth era until its apogee in early medieval chronicles, as well as both its disappearance ...
Óscar Perea Rodríguez
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 458-473, October 2022., 2022 The purpose of this study is to clarify the planning achievements of the three districts of Algiers by Fernand Pouillon by critically examining their characteristics as the officially advocated “Moorish architecture”. As a result of this research, we found that his planning theory was conceived based on his thought, and it was reflected to a certain ...
Kosuke Matsubara
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Foamete și canibalism în Roma în timpul asediului vizigoților din anul 408 și în Hispania în timpul invaziei alanilor, vandalilor și suebilor din 409. Considerații pe marginea izvoarelor istorice [PDF]
Revista BistriţeiAt the end of the first decade of the 5th century, the Western Roman Empire’s provinces of Italy, Gallia, and Hispania faced powerful invasions by the Visigoths, Alans, Vandals, and Suebians.
Dr. Vasile MĂRCULEȚ
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News from a mundus senescens: Romans, Visigoths and Saxons in a Letter by Sidonius Apollinaris (8.6) [PDF]
, 2023 This paper focus on a letter by Sidonius Apollinaris dating back to 477/478 and addressed to Namatius, a Gallo-Roman aristocrat, appointed as a naval officer by the Visigothic King Euric to guard the Atlantic coast against the Saxon pirates.
Giannotti, Filomena
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 879-912, July/August/September 2022., 2022 Abstract Studies have shown that inferential questions encourage a more in‐depth understanding of texts and that students need to learn appropriate strategies for answering them, particularly when they deal with multiple texts. In this experimental study, the authors aimed to improve eighth‐grade students’ (13‐ to 14‐years old) ability to answer intra‐
Núria Castells +5 more
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 42-58, March 2022., 2022 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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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 3-14, January/March 2022., 2022 Abstract This article discusses the application and implications of magnetic prospection within two complex early mediaeval sites of the 5th–10th centuries BCE in northern Spain, at Aistra and Peña Amaya in the Upper Ebro Valley. In this period most sites displaying domestic and other forms of occupation present multifaceted and challenging problems ...
Juan Antonio Quirós +2 more
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