Review of Medieval Dublin XVII (Dublin: Four Courts, 2019) in Óenach Reviews, 11 (2021-22), pp 27-32
https://oenach.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/2021-hewer-pp.-27-32.pdf

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

The newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]

This paper proposes a journey between Bucharest viewed as Little Paris and the original Paris, to determine the way in which the two capitals communicated with each other, whether it was based on dynamic interactions, beyond a simplistic Parisian dialogue. I will interpret Little Paris as an identity construction, clearly mirrored in the universe…[Read more]

In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]

This article analyses the agency of merchant capital and taxation in processes of urbanisation. The case study is Ani, now abandoned and straddling the Turkish-Armenian border, in the long thirteenth century c.1200-1350. This global-historical conjuncture is defined by the height of the medieval Commercial Revolution and its central Eurasian…[Read more]

Melus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in eas…[Read more]

In the period 1929-1936, Romania evolved from a traditional agricultural society to a modern, cosmopolitan and consumerist society. Bucharest, its capital,synthesized these transformations. The ideal of beauty – as reflected in fashion – was subject to the same processes of modernization and commodification. Beauty contests showed how the cha…[Read more]

This paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]

Interwar Romania was a space of social-cultural contrasts which it wholeheartedly embraced. Bucharest, as the capital, was the perfect mirror of Romanian society, a liminal space, geographically and culturally. Women’s fashion and beauty in interwar middle-class Bucharest, offers a wide array of unexplored research questions which are addressed i…[Read more]

Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.

Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.

Russian military aggression and diplomatic pressure against Ukraine stems from the neo-imperial thinking of Russian elites and ordinary citizens. This thinking requires reproduction of expansionist patterns that once led Russia to its “historical greatness”: construction of a territorially large state, rich in resources and demographically div…[Read more]

En Cuba han existido numerosas asociaciones para profesionales de bibliotecas, pero por su alcance y relevancia han destacado dos: la ACB (1948 – 1959) y la Ascubi (1986 – actualidad); ambas respondieron al nombre de Asociación Cubana de Bibliotecarios, pero con identificadores diferentes. A partir del análisis de los propósitos y activi…[Read more]

Few studies in medieval and Renaissance cartography focus on race, in part owing to the genealogical issues discussed above, and in part owing to the racist origins and practices of the disciple of art history that normalizes seeing whiteness as both default norm an universal ideal. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the founder who gave the discipline…[Read more]

This mini-essay was published as part of a “dossier” of authors discussing various forms of “queer inhumanisms.” In my piece, I address the relations between queer studies and post/humanist studies through the lens of Michel Foucault’s 1981 interview, “Friendship as a Way of Life.” These relations are tied together in critique but also in various…[Read more]

There were six waves of regionalism in Western Europe and Russia: in the decades of the 1830s, the 1860s, the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Russian regions were not behind Western European ones but rather went through the same stages of development at the same time or sometimes even earlier, until after the Stalin era, when they did…[Read more]

Cómo citar: Ignacio Cabello Llano (coord.), «Epidemias y pandemias en la Historia», en Fontes Medii Aevi, 05/10/2021, en línea: https://fontesmediae.hypotheses.org/tag/epidemias.

Cómo citar: Ignacio Cabello Llano (coord.), «Epidemias y pandemias en la Historia», en Fontes Medii Aevi, 05/10/2021, en línea: https://fontesmediae.hypotheses.org/tag/epidemias.