The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

This essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]

In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

This dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.

Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Valerie Renak and Yung-Tse Hung (2020). Cationic surfactant analysis with good laboratory practice. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEM)”, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang and Nazih K. Shammas (editors). Volume 2020, Number 4, April 2020; 42…[Read more]

LK Wang, MHS Wang, NK Shammas, and MS Holtorff (2020). Independent physicochemical wastewater treatment system consisting of primary flotation clarification, secondary flotation clarification and tertiary treatment. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K S…[Read more]

This thesis is the result of an investigative work on the formulations and defense ofreligious tolerance in the Catholic Enlightenment of Portugal, to a greater extent, butalso touching on some transits with Brazil. It is assumed that the secularization processthrough which the Iberian kingdom passed, during the eighteenth century, was…[Read more]

This is the regular issue of the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES (E-ISSN: 2581-7140), VOL – 2: ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020. There are 21 scholarly articles in English, 21 of them in Tamil Language and one in English.

A set of about 70 fresco samples made with pigments and binders typical of the Renaissance period in Rome has been characterized by LIBS, LIF and colorimetric measurements in order to build an as much as possible complete database. Aiming at providing the restorers and art historians with a useful tool for the study of ancient frescoes, the…[Read more]

In this work, Carrara marbles, both white and grey, from cave, and fresco laboratory samples have been studied by means of LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence) and LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). Fresco samples have been prepared in agreement with Renaissance recipes using natural pigments and original materials both for binders and…[Read more]

This chapter analyzes administrative efforts to control epizootic disease in eighteenth-century Schleswig-Holstein as disaster management. It points to the importance of quarantine, slaughter, and the control of trade as the principal methods adopted by governments and draws links with the methods used to control plague in humans. The chapter…[Read more]

This chapter analyzes administrative efforts to control epizootic disease in eighteenth-century Schleswig-Holstein as disaster management. It points to the importance of quarantine, slaughter, and the control of trade as the principal methods adopted by governments and draws links with the methods used to control plague in humans. The chapter…[Read more]

This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]