Questo volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come alternative o anomalie, e a un’ampia varietà di scenari “scandalosi”. Particolare attenzione…[Read more]

The late nineteenth century was a crucial moment in Japan, driven by new conceptions of authorship and literary narratives. An influential world of collecting and compilation gave birth to those changes, but its workings are still poorly understood. By showing how compilers assembled the 1894 Kōtei Saikaku zenshū (The Edited Complete Works of Sa…[Read more]

The rush of activity among London’s auction houses in the first few weeks of summer has long been a familiar occurrence that persists even today. However, this intense seasonal concentration of sales was not always so. This paper draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the t…[Read more]

John Lakenheath reorganized the archives of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the 1370s, a key tool in his administrative work on its estates that was still in disorder after it was sacked by the townspeople in 1327. This culminated in the ‘Lakenheath Registry’ (London, British Library, Harley MS 743), an indexed directory of the Bur…[Read more]

The MADDLAIN project aims to analyse the behaviour and the needs of different audiences with regard to digital access to the collections offered by the CegeSoma, the Royal Library of Belgium and the State Archives of Belgium. In the scope of this project, I presented some of the results of the qualitative survey conducted with professional…[Read more]

This article has been conceived as a reflexion point about the influence of philosopher Ramon Llull in the Anglo-Saxon area (namely England and Scotland) during the Late Middle Ages. The aim is to show the ‘state of the art’, in order to highlight possible research lines in the future. To achieve our goals, it will be presented all the data abo…[Read more]

Este artículo establece el carácter fundador de Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez en la constitución del canon de la literatura en Colombia. Se concluye que el ensayo “Satisfacción a un juicio poco exacto sobre la literatura y buen gusto, antiguo y actual, de los naturales de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá” (1792) constituye el primer antecedent…[Read more]

The main aim of this work is to present the most relevant news about the history of Lullism (the influence of Ramon Llull’s work and thoughts) in Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries. Among other considerations on Lullian Portuguese studies (mainly the Livro da Corte Enperial and Boosco deleitoso), the textual links between D. Duarte’s Lea…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is to present an overview on the Portuguese-influenced heritage in the African Portuguese-spoken countries (Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique). Special attention will be paid to religious (churches, chapels and convents) and military (fortresses and forts) buildings. Chronologically, th…[Read more]

Report of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront

In this new ground-breaking book leading innovators from both sides of the Atlantic explore how museums can create an effective social media strategy to engage with new and existing audiences. This pioneering volume comprises of influential museum professionals explaining how to use social media to: reach new audiences; enhance access; increase…[Read more]

A study of conceptions of the body, self, and embodiment in the Sanskrit medical classics.

Adjudicado a un momento histórico concreto, tras la conquista cristiana de Toledo (1085) y su incorporación a los reinos cristianos, el mudéjar se ha utilizado al mismo tiempo como sustento de la idea de convivencia entre musulmanes y cristianos y como definición de un «estilo nacional» dentro del arte español. Durante el redescubrimiento de al-…[Read more]

La literatura ha estado desde siempre asociada al poder, y en la Edad Media oriental esto no es una excepción. Cuando Abu’l-Qāsem Ferdowsī terminó su gran obra, el Šāh-nāmeh, en 1010, esta se transformó en un elemento legitimador de las dinastías que durante los siglos medievales pugnarían por el dominio de Persia. A través de sus versos y de…[Read more]

Abstract: El impacto del colonialismo y del recién descubierto Oriente provocó que el continente europeo proyectase en aquellas tierras lejanas, llenas de exotismo, leyendas y sensualidad, sus propias pasiones prohibidas y sus más oscuros deseos. El erotismo que las culturas indígenas despertaban en la sociedad victoriana llevó a la creación de so…[Read more]