Early Modern History

The prevalence of animal imagery in Celestina' has been studied by a number of critics, including Shipley and Salvador MigueL2 I would like to explore the occurrence of two animals in the work, namely the ass and the dog. The ass is chiefly used by the characters of Celestina to abuse one another or occasionally to summon up an old saw which also has a derogatory connotation. The ass symbolizes stupidity and lust and is also a symbol of lust and metamorphosis (from its appearance in Apuleius' Golden Ass). The dog is a more ambivalent image which can represent anything from loyalty and sagacity to sudden danger, and is associated in the Middle Ages with the Devil and the hounds of hell. The dog also appears in many references cited in C e l e s t i n ~ . ~

The monograph presents a comprehensive historical analysis of the legal, social, religious, and economic life of Lviv craftsmen in the early modern period. The study consists of two parts (Corporation and People), which alternately examine the organization of Lviv shoemakers from a structural and organizational point of view (guild law, religious and national relations, economic relations) and emphasize intra-guild processes (demography, career growth, social circumstances of coexistence). It also includes three appendices: Written Sources; Biographies of the Masters of the Lviv Shoemakers' Guild for 1665-1732; Training of Apprentices in the Lviv Shoemakers' Guild in 1665-1732.

“History of the Lviv Archdiocese” (1614–1700) by Lviv canon Jan Tomasz Józefowicz is a comprehensive narrative of the history of Lviv and the East-Central Europe during the early modern period. It is being published in its entirety for the first time, based on the autograph in Latin and translated into Ukrainian. This historical chronicle was created by a Lviv Catholic who identified himself with the Polish community of the city but cared deeply about the fate of Lviv as the capital of the Lviv Latin Archdiocese. The author’s primary aim was to recount the ecclesiastical history but also devoted significant attention to the description and analysis of events in Ukrainian lands and the East-Central European region.

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Introduction, Jeanne Peiffer and Volker Remmert
1. Everyday Numeracy, Maryvonne Spiesser
2. Practice and Profession, James Bennett
3. Inventing Mathematics, Sébastien Maronne
4. Mathematics and Worldviews, David Rabouin
5. Describing and Understanding the World, Antoni Malet
6. Mathematics and Technological Change, Thomas Morel
7. Representing Mathematics, Robert Goulding and Volker Remmert
Notes
Bibliography

In connection with the urban and housing policies since the Thatcher regime of the U.K., urban improvements, including the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB), and the trend of the activies of housing associations (HAs) were investigated. (1) The activities of HAs are not limited only to the traditional ones to supply and manage housing, and HAs are becoming the organizations that play important roles in various local regeneration activities. (2) HAs have expanded their roles from those as the organizations complementary to local governments to those as the main organizations supplying community housing and also as the partners taking part in local regeneration activities. (3) The characteristic feature of the SRB, into which the former programs in various fields have been integrated, lies in the adoption of the enterprises based on the principle of competition, and the application of the method of extracting local areas based on the indexes of local deprivation.

Arie Dubnov on Moshe Dayan's 1956 Eulogy in the Memory of Ro'i Rotberg. Podcast audio. Episode 3 in the AJS's Critical Sources podcast 32:08, recorded 2024. https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/criticalsources.

The Critical Sources podcast series features Jewish studies scholars discussing a source that matters to them, offering a window into how scholars seek evidence, ask questions, and interpret the past and present. Host Avinoam Patt asks five different scholars to discuss a source-a poem, a speech, an object-that's been on their mind since the October 7 massacre in southern Israel and in the months of war following it. How did they think about it before October 7, and what has it meant to them since?

Hoy en día vivimos tiempos donde la mayoría de países del mundo busca frenar el alarmante cambio climático mediante el desarrollo de proyectos de aprovechamiento sostenible de los recursos naturales de nuestro planeta, incluyendo en estos planes el manejo razonable de bosques. Este propósito no es nuevo, sino que, como demuestra la presente publicación, hunde sus raíces en el tiempo, dando lugar al desarrollo del pensamiento
histórico-ambiental. En el libro, el tema de la sostenibilidad se presenta mediante los procesos y las políticas de manejo y aprovechamiento de recursos forestales llevados a cabo por las coronas ibéricas durante la larga Edad Moderna.

When Prince Ladislas Sigismund of Poland visited Florence in January-February 1625 as part of his Grand Tour, he was presented with a long series of entertainments comprising a "sacra rappresentazione" (Andrea Salvadori' s "La regina Sant'Orsola," with music by various Florentine composers), Ferdinando Saracinelli' s "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola di Alcina" (set by Francesca Caccini), and a run of comedies, tournaments, and "balli." One of the entertainments offered to the prince, the tournament "La precedenza delle dame" (text by Andrea Salvadori; music by Jacopo Peri; scenery by Giulio Parigi), might seem to fit the pattern, although it is not quite so straightforward. Moreover, the hitherto unnoticed complexities of handling his visitthe Medici were hosting other distinguished guests as well-prompts careful thought about such entertainments not just as a conventional display of conspicuous consumption, but also as part of an intricate etiquette of diplomatic engagement.

Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, guided by rules and readability. And this is the purpose of typography: the arrangement of design elements within a given structure should allow the reader to easily focus on the message, without slowing down the speed of his reading. So wrote the great German typeface designer Hermann Zapf (1918– 2015) in Manuale Typographicum (1954). As one of the leading architects of his day, it seems entirely fitting that C F A Voysey should have also excelled in that discipline. In his time, his graphic work was highly regarded, widely disseminated and very influential. Of all his architect contemporaries, only C R Mackintosh produced lettering designs that remain so instantly recognisable and inextricably linked to their creator

The article investigates how the word "flykting" (eng. refugee) entered the Swedish language, with forced migrants fleeing from Finland and Sweden's Baltic territories during the great northern war. I argue that this word and the narratives of the refugees must be understood from a broader perspective, taking into account previous experiences of refuge in Europe and across the Atlantic.

En este volumen de la colección presentamos las salinas de Remolinos (Zaragoza), San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), El Zacatín (Murcia), Duernas (Córdoba) y Fuente Camacho (Loja, Granada). Como sucede en los anteriores volúmenes los textos transcritos básicos son los informes de las Salinas de España de 1853.

Il volume, che raccoglie gli atti del Convegno nazionale della SFI, tenutosi a Napoli nella primavera del 2023, su Le parole della filosofia. Le metamorfosi del vocabolario del pensiero nella storia, offre, a lettori esperti, studenti e semplici amanti della filosofia, una riflessione critica su alcune delle parole che da secoli vengono usate per descrivere non genericamente noi stessi e il mondo, ma specificamente la nostra relazione problematica con alcuni settori dell’esperienza e con alcune pratiche di pensiero. I contributi sono stati raccolti in tre nuclei tematici (Etica e politica, Religione e Storia delle idee, Didattica della filosofia) che fungono da utili macro-contenitori concettuali e che consentono di cogliere, al di là di ogni rigida divisione, l’unità di intenti di un volume cui hanno partecipato docenti universitari e docenti della scuola secondaria, ricercatori e dottorandi, appartenenti a vari settori scientifico-disciplinari, ma tutti accomunati dall’amore per la filosofia. Questo libro sulle metamorfosi delle parole del pensiero rivela, da una prospettiva nuova e affascinante, come la storia delle confluenze e delle rotture dei significati sia la storia della filosofia stessa.

The paper deals with a specific kind of epigraphic monuments in Gemer region. Graffiti inscriptions, unlike other inscriptions, were mostly created spontaneously. Although this has a negative effect on their formal design, it can also decipher the content of the texts which are unique. There are different kinds of graffiti. The simplest ones, in the form of initials associated with dating, have very little meaningful value. More interesting are those with a full name, origin and occupation. I consider texts that express the creator's religious or other worldview beliefs to be the pinnacle of graffiti inscriptions.

From mythical islands located in an uncertain part of the Indies, to the destination of scores of navigators, soldiers, traders, priests, and mere adventurers only decades later, the Moluccas quickly became known in Europe for their fabulous riches. So fabulous, in fact, that a radical proposal to cross half the world along a to-be-discovered route seduced the Spanish Crown. Many textual narratives of the circumnavigation have survived, but no less important is the testimony recorded in the cartography prepared before and after the mission. The journey that this work proposes will transport the reader to different historical periods and far-flung regions of the world. While written for a non-specialist audience, the book likewise offers new interpretations and reveals the results of in situ examinations of original manuscripts. Probing the interface between science and art, the Cartography of Magellan tells the story of the first voyage around the world through a privileged graphical witness: nautical cartography.

This new edition can now be purchased at: https://www.althum.com/index.php?cid=__catalogo&prid=*12E455467666A80E06894A26A1CD9F6245299F12

O Seminário Internacional de Doutorandos: Desafios da História concretiza-se com 21
comunicações e duas conferências convidadas proferidas por investigadores de quatro universidades portuguesas e sete espanholas. A quarta edição deste encontro mantém o objetivo principal de congregar, em diferentes painéis, alunos e alunas de doutoramento com vista ao debate dos projetos ou dos resultados das investigações em curso. O programa é transversal quanto aos temas, às geografias e às cronologias. Destacam-se assuntos de história político-institucional, questões relacionadas com o trabalho e a mobilidade (social ou geográfica), problemas de determinados grupos como as mulheres ou as crianças e a conflitualidade social e/ou religiosa. Estes campos são discutidos com estudos de caso, análises comparativas ou problematizações de âmbito regional e nacional. Os espaços são mormente urbanos embora se colham exemplos de estudos sobre a ruralidade em Portugal e em Espanha. O arco cronológico é abrangente prolongando-se desde a Idade Média Plena até ao período contemporâneo, sendo mais expressivas as investigações sobre a Idade Moderna. As conferências principais propiciam a proveitosa convivência entre historiadores com grande mérito e jovens doutorandos no início das suas carreiras.
Quisemos reunir investigadores e investigadoras que pautam as suas condutas pelo rigor científico e pela inovação teórica e metodológica. Acreditamos que, na inferência do diálogo materializado neste seminário, o valor acrescentado dos trabalhos permitirá traçar novos desafios da história.

El 22 de febrero de 1744 una escuadra española con apoyo francés y otra británica intercambiaron fuego intensamente en la que sería conocida como la batalla de Tolón o del cabo Sicié. A consecuencia de la misma, los españoles perdieron el navío Poder y debieron retirarse a Cartagena. Los británicos tuvieron menos bajas y persiguieron a los buques hispanofranceses a partir del día 23. La Royal Navy continuó dominando el Mediterráneo occidental sin mayores complicaciones el resto de la Guerra de Sucesión austriaca (1740-1748). Podría parecer que Tolón  fue una cómoda victoria de la armada de Jorge II, un episodio más en un siglo de claro dominio naval británico. No en vano, es a la conclusión a la que algunas fuentes anglosajonas han llegado desde el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días. Sin embargo, la batalla fue celebrada en España como una gran victoria, y el almirante español, Juan José Navarro, fue nombrado marqués de la Victoria gracias a su actuación, mientras que las circunstancias del encuentro fueron consideradas en Gran Bretaña como un escándalo que exigió someter a juicio a los mandos británicos, el vicealmirante Mathews y el contraalmirante Lestock. En fecha reciente, el choque ha sido incluso destacado como el “Trafalgar inglés” en la prensa española. ¿Qué factores pueden explicar esta extraña divergencia? Este artículo reconstruye los eventos de aquella jornada atendiendo a las fuentes españolas, británicas y francesas para explicar las diferentes interpretaciones que se han hecho sobre el resultado de la batalla.

La question de savoir qui a le droit de gouverner les océans et d'en réglementer l'utilisation reste d'actualité. Cette présentation vise à montrer comment cette problématique a agité l'esprit des juristes et des diplomates depuis le début de l'époque moderne, lorsque les découvertes géographiques ont ouvert de nouveaux horizons et des problèmes juridiques complexes. En particulier, l'évolution du concept de mare clausum, selon lequel les États pouvaient acquérir des droits exclusifs sur la mer, sera abordée.

»Exploring new perspectives concerning regions traditionally considered "on the margins" of Europe, this book fills a gap in current historiography through its analysis of cities, space, and economy from the High Middle Ages to the present. Markets, trade, and economy in general have formed the backbone of urban life ever since the emergence of cities and towns, but classical theorists have largely focused on developments in Western Europe. Urban research in the last few decades has advanced in many ways to supersede and correct this still influential image and to include other parts of Europe into the analytical framework. Building on these emerging methodologies, this volume pays close attention to the fringes of Europe in the East, North, West, and South. The essays discuss the development of various spaces as nodal points for the exchange and production of commodities that took place in cities and towns. The scope of this work allows for a point of comparison to frequently studied examples in Europe, encouraging readers to identify larger patterns beyond individual examples. Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present is the perfect resource for students and researchers of economic and urban history.«