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Ian Willis deposited The Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon on the Sydney urban landscape. The bridge is an engineering marvel of modernism and the early 20th hope of a new nation.
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 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
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more] -
Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 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
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Menangle arts hall concerts that helped war efforts – is being rebuilt in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2023 there is a vacant lot in central Menangle with a security fence. The reconstructed hall is proposed to open in 2024. On the security fence is an information sign with the hall’s history, what is happening, funding and building timeline. The information signage on the site security fence states: The existing hall is unusable due to…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Fibro Majestic’, a new exhibition at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, a review in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Campbelltown Arts Centre is holding the Fibro Majestic Exhibition from 8 July to 13 August 2023 with free entry. The exhibition celebrates the heritage of the fibro house in Australia.
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Ian Willis deposited Camden Historical Society, 60 years of local history, 1957-2017 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2017 the Camden Historical Society celebrated its 60th anniversary. Society president Dr Ian Willis gave an anniversary address at the Camden Library Museum complex on 24 July. Founded in 1957, the aim of the society has been to tell the Camden story and the local identities and events that are part of it.
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Rita Singer deposited “Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some of the p…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Linear B administrative texts of Late Bronze Age Greece were written on clay tablets, whose production therefore formed the first stage in the process of document creation, though it generally remains unclear whether the tablets’ writers were also their makers. This study combines experimental archaeology with autopsy of the tablets from P…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Public art at Camden Council Administration Offices in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe art installation The Tree of Life by sculptors Gillies & Marc celebrates the endangered Camden White Gum. The sculpture is located adjacent to the entry of the Camden Council administration building at Oran Park. The work was commissioned by the council in 2016 for the opening of the new office building.
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Ross Cunliffe deposited Metamodernism: Agents of Disruption in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis dissertation explores metamodernism in contemporary culture, focusing on its manifestation in literature and its intersections with vaporwave and the music of Radiohead. It considers the novel Taipei by Tao Lin as a representation of metamodern sensibility, analysing its portrayal of a human subjectivity navigating a world shaped by…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Madrid en la obra genealógica de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLa personalidad y la obra de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557), reputado cronista y genealogista, de vocación novelista, pionero científico naturista y aprendiz de poeta, han sufrido diversos vaivenes historiográficos que, al menos en opinión de quien suscribe, le han privado en la actualidad del reconocimiento que se merece. Ferná…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Propaganda ideológica pro-Trastámara en el «Cancionero de Baena» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe entre las muchas y generosas lecciones que el maestro don Julio Valdeón ha brindado al medievalismo hispánico destacaremos aquella que fundamentará las páginas siguientes: la importancia de la propaganda ideológica favorable a la dinastía Trastámara durante la guerra civil castellana entre los años 1366 y 1371. Este conflicto fratric…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Propaganda ideológica pro-Trastámara en el «Cancionero de Baena» in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe entre las muchas y generosas lecciones que el maestro don Julio Valdeón ha brindado al medievalismo hispánico destacaremos aquella que fundamentará las páginas siguientes: la importancia de la propaganda ideológica favorable a la dinastía Trastámara durante la guerra civil castellana entre los años 1366 y 1371. Este conflicto fratric…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Álvarez Gato en la villa y corte literaria del Madrid tardomedieval in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAún en la actualidad, cinco siglos más tarde de que fuese escrito, todavía impresiona la honrada confesión con la que Juan Álvarez Gato cerraba su cancionero particular, rematando los folios en los que había recopilado todo su acervo lírico con una singular confidencia poética. A través de ella, el hombre maduro y el poeta veterano renegaba…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Álvarez Gato en la villa y corte literaria del Madrid tardomedieval in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAún en la actualidad, cinco siglos más tarde de que fuese escrito, todavía impresiona la honrada confesión con la que Juan Álvarez Gato cerraba su cancionero particular, rematando los folios en los que había recopilado todo su acervo lírico con una singular confidencia poética. A través de ella, el hombre maduro y el poeta veterano renegaba…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Hernández Coronel, poeta converso del «Cancionero general» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoQuizá Don Eloy sea bastante ajeno a la admiración que despertaba entre los jóvenes estudiantes, allá por los años finales de la pasada centuria, uno de sus trabajos menores, entendiendo ‘menor’ no por lo que se refiere a su valía (que en absoluto es nimia), sino sólo para separarlo, en cuanto a extensión y objetivos, de su scripta maiora. Nos…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Hernández Coronel, poeta converso del «Cancionero general» in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoQuizá Don Eloy sea bastante ajeno a la admiración que despertaba entre los jóvenes estudiantes, allá por los años finales de la pasada centuria, uno de sus trabajos menores, entendiendo ‘menor’ no por lo que se refiere a su valía (que en absoluto es nimia), sino sólo para separarlo, en cuanto a extensión y objetivos, de su scripta maiora. Nos…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Una posible corte literaria del siglo XV: la de Beltrán de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEn uno de sus breves pero densos artículos, donde su siempre certera pluma se afilaba hasta el punto de transformarse con harta frecuencia en daga hiriente, Miguel de Unamuno realizaba una ácida declaración en contra de lo que él denominaba como «la plaga del literatismo», centrando sus críticas en las reuniones de literatos, bien fuese median…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Una posible corte literaria del siglo XV: la de Beltrán de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEn uno de sus breves pero densos artículos, donde su siempre certera pluma se afilaba hasta el punto de transformarse con harta frecuencia en daga hiriente, Miguel de Unamuno realizaba una ácida declaración en contra de lo que él denominaba como «la plaga del literatismo», centrando sus críticas en las reuniones de literatos, bien fuese median…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Valencian Parliamentary Documents on the Internet in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this paper is to submit a project proposal regarding the publication of the Valencian Parliamentary papers in which we want to achieve three main goals: to digitize and transcribe the parliamentary sessions for later publication on the web, which will facilitate access to these texts for both the public and the scientific community;…[Read more]
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