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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

Living Landmarks: A Review of Monumental Trees and Their Role in Ecosystems. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Budău R, Timofte CSC, Mirisan LV, Bei M, Dinca L, Murariu G, Racz KA.   +6 more
europepmc   +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

Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe‐Stephen, and Temporal Experience

Noûs, EarlyView.
Emily Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

The National Transformation of the Historical Memory of Minor Jewish Holidays During the Period of Hibbat Zion

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
wiley   +1 more source

Arab Medical Tourists in Iran: A Phenomenological Study of Lived Experience. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Shaygani F, Marzaleh MA, Movahed PD, Bahrami MA, Mohamadpour M, Delavari S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Hittite inscription : a new inscription from the neighbourhood of Hamath [PDF]

, 2010
Sayce, Archibald Henry
core  

“The future of death in the present of love”: Eros as an ethical pas encore in Levinas's Totality and Infinity

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Earliest millet cultivation reflects steppe connections, dietary flexibility, and resilience in Bronze Age northern Greece. [PDF]

PLoS One
Karanikola K, Valamoti SM, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
wiley   +1 more source