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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
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 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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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, 7 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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Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 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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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Methodological Imperialism in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoByzantinists have a tendency, implicitly or explicitly, to adopt the analytical perspective of the central state and its imperial class. We ask what helped the empire survive and/or expand, and we judge the success of a given ruler, official, or policy according to this criterion. I term this tendency methodological imperialism.
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Antje Gamble posted an update in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPlease join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming Twelfth Annual IAS/Lecture, which will be held on Friday, June 30, at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
We are looking forward to the lecture by this year’s speaker, Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and author of Green Worlds of R…[Read more] -
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Evolutionary Adaptive Traits: “religions, spirituality are… meaning systems.. acquired through social relationships + Neuroscience: “selectivity…. as a design feature” in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago1. Gergen argues that situations which human beings didn’t understand or deal with appropriately would inflict painful lessons – providing a conditioning or predisposition for learning. “In the Darwinian sense, the ability to conceptualize has survival value. To be more specific, concepts are valuable tools in problem solving.” (p.23) “In ess…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited De la ‘fermosa judía’ a la bella conversa: la erótica de lo prohibido en las literaturas hispánicas del medievo y del temprano renacimiento in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa hipersexualización de personajes femeninos en la literatura de todos los tiempos responde a varios patrones culturales bastante determinados y convenientemente analizados por la teoría literaria, tanto la de rango más generalista (Dworkin 13-47) como la dedicada de forma específica a las literaturas hispánicas (García Velasco 292-307). En el…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited De la ‘fermosa judía’ a la bella conversa: la erótica de lo prohibido en las literaturas hispánicas del medievo y del temprano renacimiento in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa hipersexualización de personajes femeninos en la literatura de todos los tiempos responde a varios patrones culturales bastante determinados y convenientemente analizados por la teoría literaria, tanto la de rango más generalista (Dworkin 13-47) como la dedicada de forma específica a las literaturas hispánicas (García Velasco 292-307). En el…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEl artículo analiza el neogoticismo y su incidencia en la propaganda ideológica dispersa en la Edad Media hispánica desde los siglos IX al XV. Se estudia su apogeo en las crónicas medievales y su posterior desaparición, así como su recuperación entre los siglos XV y XVI de la mano de obras genealógicas y de cancioneros poéticos. Específi…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEl artículo analiza el neogoticismo y su incidencia en la propaganda ideológica dispersa en la Edad Media hispánica desde los siglos IX al XV. Se estudia su apogeo en las crónicas medievales y su posterior desaparición, así como su recuperación entre los siglos XV y XVI de la mano de obras genealógicas y de cancioneros poéticos. Específi…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La controversia judía y judeoconversa en los debates del Cancionero de Baena in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLos debates literarios son prácticamente consustanciales e intrínsecos a la existencia de la literatura en cualquier lengua y en cualquier cultura, en tanto que «en último término, remiten a condicionamientos pragmáticos humanos» (Chas Aguión 2002 : 59). Por lo que respecta a su inserción en la cultura de la Edad Media hispánica, hay un aspecto i…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited A Sketch of Emotions: Goal striving, Directing attention & selectivity, meaning and making sense in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThere is no doubt whatsoever that emotions are very important and highly significant in the processing of data and information, as well as in the day-to day functioning of the human being. Eric Klinger, whose expertise is in personality psychology and motivation theory, focuses on the influences of motivation and emotion on cognition. Klinger…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Hercules Vinariensis : Aneignungen eines europäischen Mythos in der frühen Neuzeit in the group
Early Modern History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoFor the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play “The Choice of Hercules”, a “dramatic cantata”, performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Von der russischen Großfürstin zur deutschen »Landesmutter«. Zur Akkulturation des europäischen Hochadels im 19. Jahrhundert in the group
Early Modern History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar’s daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar’s ‘…[Read more]
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