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1989: THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF REVOLUTION
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 45-65, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT A failed effort at “reform from above” or a dramatic reassertion of “people power”? Almost thirty‐five years on, studies of the Revolutions of 1989 continue to be framed by these two polarities. However, this historiographical focus has meant that scholars have often overlooked the actual content and character of protest itself.
MARCUS COLLA, ADÉLA GJURIČOVÁ
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 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 ...
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023 Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 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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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 672-696, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article surveys the charitable and humanitarian activities of the Quaker philanthropist William Allen (1770–843), who was at the forefront of several campaigns for the relief and schooling of the poor and labouring classes in Britain and the emancipation and ‘civilisation’ of the enslaved and colonised peoples in the broader empire ...
Matilde Cazzola
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‘Corps a corps’: Martyrs, Models, and Myths in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci
Art History, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 824-853, September 2021., 2021 This essay demonstrates that Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci (1855–56) not only illustrated a popular literary narrative, but also responded to specific Roman historic, cultural and artistic touchstones as a performance of romanità through visual literacy.
Melissa L. Gustin
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021 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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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 384-408, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article analyses Francesco Ottieri's historical work, his authority as historian, and his book's eighteenth‐century readers. During the seventeenth century, books concerning recent events and early newspapers informed an expanding European readership.
Guido G. Beduschi
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Reti Medievali Rivista, 2009 Segnalazione di tesi di dottorato. Gianmarco Cossandi Gli statuti di Novara nel XIV secolo. Studio ed edizione della legislazione di Giovanni e di Galeazzo II Visconti, tesi di dottorato in Storia medievale (XVII ciclo), Università Cattolica del Sacro
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