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Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months agoThe comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]
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Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group
Early Modern Theater on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months agoThe comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAccording to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited DIEDERICH WESSEL LINDEN (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the unabridged, pre-publication version of an accepted and revised article for publication in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This version is also available as an online blog post:…[Read more]
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Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton’s Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group
Early Modern Theater on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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Joe Bauer started the topic Alt Ac Job Alert: in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoJob alert! We’re hiring a Web Designer at University of Michigan to produce websites and digital content for our faculty and researchers. This position works closely with faculty, researchers and staff in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences to plan, design, and coordinate new websites and digital media. These Digital Scholarship…[Read more]
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David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales” (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoEste artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoHistorians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
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Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited The Picturesque and the Beastly: Wales and the Absence of Welsh in the Journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808) in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoIn spite of a burgeoning recognition of the Welsh language as part of a wider appreciation of Welsh culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see Constantine 2014: 124), Home Tour writing about Wales remained largely Anglocentric (Borm, quoted in Colbert 2012: 85). The journals written by lady’s companions, Eliza and Millicent Bant, in 1…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Introduction [‘Minoritised Languages and Travel’ special collection] in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.
The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]
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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAnna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]
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Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more] -
Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener’s son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]
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