The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

This article discusses the concept of kissing as it appears in the Bible and in Rabbinic writings. Special attention is given to different motives for kissing and to different conjugations of the Hebrew verbs for kissing.

This article discusses rabbinic qualifications to the Biblical prohibition of verbally saying the names of foreign gods (typically represented by idols).

‘Travelling’ Recipes in Austrian eighteenth-century manuscript recipe books.

This articles notes the apparent discrepancies between Ezekiel 45-46 and Numbers 28-29 concerning the required sacrifices to be offered on special days of the Jewish Calendar. The article also offers classical rabbinic solutions to those contradictions.

An examination of spatial themes in the emerging genre of environmental fiction. Originally presented as a talk at the Futures of American Literature event at Uppsala University (Sweden).

Agricultural boundaries as fence lines, hedgerows, tractor paths, stone walls, forest edges, or field breaks are historically and ecologically significant. In South-Central Pennsylvania where the author lives and works, pollinator conservation depends upon agricultural history.

This article investigates how Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche’s ideas and Wagner’s music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author’s own particular sexual politics. The novel is an experimental text striving to be a Gesemtkunstswerk, an integrated work that incorporates music, pa…[Read more]

This study investigates how digital mapping of lyrical spaces and publication statistics illuminate modernista participation of the global literary field. Using gathered spatial data points from poetic editions from Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo reveal a rich intertextual and geospatial web. The cosmopolitanism and globalized erudition of m…[Read more]

Under the Volcano, de Malcolm Lowry, es una novela inglesa situada en México en 1938. Inspirado tras dos años de vivir en el país, Lowry escribe la historia de Geoffrey Firmin, un cónsul alcohólico que vive en un pueblo mexicano justo después de la Expropiación Petrolera que rompió las relaciones diplomáticas entre ambas naciones…[Read more]

En este trabajo se presenta una lectura de la novela The Plumed Serpent (1926), de D. H. Lawrence, a partir de la construcción de signi ca- do del espacio mexicano en la narración. En esta obra, las descripciones del espacio topográ co no se limitan a mostrar un escenario de trasfondo. Por el contrario, Lawrence inviste de una carga signi ca…[Read more]

Being part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.

Case study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.

Being part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.

Case study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]