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Allison Levy deposited “Good Grief: Widow Portraiture and Masculine Anxiety in Early Modern England” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter 8 in The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation
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Allison Levy deposited “Augustine’s Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCh 5 of Grief and Gender, 700-1700
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Allison Levy deposited “Cosimo’s Black Widow” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter 10 in Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations
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Allison Levy deposited “Effaced: Failing Widows” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter in Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency and Identity
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Allison Levy deposited “Last Rites: Mourning Identities (?)” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAfterword of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Allison Levy deposited “Framing Widows: Mourning, Gender, and Portraiture in Early Modern Florence” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCh. 13 of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Allison Levy deposited “Widow’s Peek: Looking at Ritual and Representation” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoIntroduction to Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Allison Levy deposited “Strange Bedfellows,” Introduction to Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoEmphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Sesso nel Rinascimento in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoQuesto 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]
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic CFP for SAMLA in Atlanta in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSPECIAL SESSION: https://samla.memberclicks.net/special-sessions
The Avant-Garde and Modern Visual Culture: At the Crossroads of High and Low Art
This panel examines the imbrication of the avant-garde with mass-produced art in order to discern the relationships between the proliferation of images and capitalism in the advent of modern visual…[Read more]
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Matthew Lincoln deposited The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 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]
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Max Marmor created the group
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Know Thy Body, Know Thyself: Decoding Knowledge of the Ātman in Sanskrit Medical Literature” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoA study of mental disease in Cakrapāṇidatta’s commentary on the Carakasaṃhitā.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Āyurveda” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 12 months agoEncyclopedia entry on Āyurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Āyurveda” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoEncyclopedia entry on Āyurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Calculating Fecundity in the Kāśyapa Saṃhitā” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThis chapter explores the roles of narrative in the development of knowledge about, and rationalization for, conditioning the human body in the classical Indian medical system of Ayurveda.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “On the allegorization of action for health” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoA study of pravṛtti and nivṛtti in the Sanskrit allegory, Jīvānandanam (“The Joy of Life”).
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “The Joy of Life: Medicine, Politics, and Religion” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoAn examination of the discursive interplay about politics, religion, and medicine in a 17th-18th cent. Sanskrit allegory, Jivanandanam (“The Joy of Life”).
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Mad Scientists, Narrative, and Social Power: A Collaborative Learning Activity” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoNathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories “The Birthmark” (1843) and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844) encourage critical thinking about science and scientific research as forms of social power. In this collaborative activity, students work in small groups to discuss the ways in which these stories address questions of human experimentation, gender, man…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Warring Doctors and Meddling Ministers” in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 9 years agoNathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “The Rejected Blessing” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” dramatize ideological com-petition among doctors and clergymen from Renaissance Italy to colonial Boston over care of the body. In the context of Hawthorne’s life, these stories show his foresighted theorizing of medical hegemony and its dangers to public and in…[Read more]
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