New Humanist | 2/2014
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Archiv für Mai 2014
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Geographies of Charity: Women and the Vita mista in Renaissance Italy
This article addresses the role of two late fifteenth-century Florentine writers, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici and Antonia Pulci, in articulating what was at stake for women who sought to engage in meaningful ways in their city’s charitab…
Donne’s Annihilation
This essay explores the nuances of annihilation across John Donne’s oeuvre to bring into view his sophisticated representation and analysis of unexemplary martyrdom. Donne discovered that poetic making itself may prepare for but ultimately marks…
Ane Detectioun of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Languages of Royal Imprisonment in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland
This essay investigates the rhetoric of royal imprisonment in Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes (1571), one of the most famous contemporary texts associated with the Marian controversy. This Anglo-Scots pamphlet not only invokes …
Migrations of the Holy: Explaining Religious Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This reflective essay focuses upon the theoretical problem of explaining religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating inherited paradigms of progress and modernization. First, it assesses and challenges prevailing models o…
When Old Meets New: Classicizing Columns in Northern French Flying Buttress Systems
Appearing in the mid-twelfth century in and around the Paris basin, flying buttresses fundamentally transformed churches, representing a radical break with architectural tradition. While flying buttresses were visually unprecedented forms, they quickl…
Caught Looking: Under the Gaze of Inca Atawallpa, 15 November 1532
This article examines vision and cultural authority among the leadership of the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In Inca political society, seeing was cultural being. The essay addresses the spaces in which Inca acts of perception took place, as w…
New Books across the Disciplines
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“Each word shows how you love me”: The social literacy practice of children’s letter writing (1780–1860)
Paedagogica Historica, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 247-264, June 2014.