MLA Commons | Max Grund | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/maxgrund4/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Max Grund is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6b9b290a5f87ad05f29a647500f27fae Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-8/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:18:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f677f5f43a64e6d9c920bbeb430e7e3 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Evolutionary thought in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/evolutionary-thought/#post-98478 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:18:01 -0500 Bibliography on COMPLEXITY: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2026/01/complejidad.html

]]> 0 395354d416b02d659e93ac5676d3fc73 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930737/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:28:34 -0400 Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in The Ecologist (UK). https://theecologist.org/2025/oct/10/sovereign-forests

]]> 0 66003655a945bc3f81893a035fa3bed2 Barbara Franchi replied to the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/#post-94102 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:40:14 -0400 This looks fantastic, I have saved and shared it.

]]> 0 1862c1362e2b97e0067eeec141f347d2 Serpil Oppermann started the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:34 -0400 <p class=”p1″><b>Call for Papers: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference — “The Blue Humanities”</b></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>We are pleased to announce the </span><b>4th International Environmental Humanities Conference</b><span class=”s1″>, to be held </span><b>20–23 May 2026</b><span class=”s1″>at </sp…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d9bc3988896844c50ad272a694c5766 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Economy & Organization in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/economy-organization/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:52:09 -0400 Bibliography on AGRICULTURE: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2025/09/agricultura.html

]]> 0 23a929a12fceb97d5d6d57330719bedc Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924444/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:48:25 -0400 I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang). Please ask your library to order a copy. https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/forest-sovereignty/

]]> 0 3775ad37e61875e596f47707206149a5 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1917606/ Sat, 03 May 2025 16:26:27 -0400 Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, here: https://leonardo.info/review/2025/05/darwin-and-the-art-of-botany-observations-on-the-curious-world-of-plants

]]> 0 36dfc5594fb1959173f0f39f2a6edd1a Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908094/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:28:54 -0500 Humanity’s language and nature, an opinion essay. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html

]]> 0 85b554bca8926a549eeddb01306aff4d Rainer Schreg deposited Assessing Settlement Dynamics in Medieval Central and Western Europe in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902275/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Medieval rural settlements have seen a variety of transformations from dispersed to nucleated settlements, from shifting settlements to permanent villages. There are regional developments as well as general trends. In many landscapes in Central and Western Europe these processes resulted in the formation of the late medieval village nucleated…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a6cc7bc849d1e5ed887e4226be0c81 Marco Heiles deposited The Origins of the Modern Calendar in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901186/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:51 -0400 AI generated conversation on the origins of the modern calendar created with NotebookLM (Audio Overview) on the basis of:
Marco Heiles, Die Entstehung des modernen Kalenders. Zur ungeschriebenen Medien- und Literaturgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Kalender von den Anfängen bis um 1600, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und R…[Read more]

]]> 0 90eafdabb5a6fe607ae0ea405c74f168 Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2024 in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901183/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:32 -0400 As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 563131cd96785b6981b715c407cb2f6b Edmond Malaj deposited MARRËVESHJE DHE ÇËSHTJE TË TJERA NDËRMJET RAGUZËS DHE FISNIKËVE ARBËRORË in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900701/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This article provides information about the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and some important Albanian noble families in the Middle Ages. The paper aims to introduce the most important diplomas and agreements these families have made with the state of Ragusa. The agreements are mostly economic and are mainly related to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d433dec0d3fda1163d4011033ebccbf0 Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Metoh manastira Konče kroz prizmu povelje cara Uroša i Končanskog praktika – prilog ubikaciji poseda in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897886/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Metoh manastira Konče nalazio se u dolini Krive Lakavice, u neposrednoj okolini samog manastira posvećenog Svetom Stefanu. Podatke o metohu donose svega dva dokumenta. Prvi je povelja cara Uroša, kojom potvrđuje dar velikog vojvode Nikole Stanjevića Hilandaru iz 1366. godine, a u kojoj se poimenice navodi 14 sela. Končanski praktik, to jest popis…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd2829f55def18fd3bc7e00f469c0c1d Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Метох манастира Конче кроз призму повеље цара Уроша и Кончанског практика – прилог убикацији поседа in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897884/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:11 -0400 Метох манaстира Конче налазио се у долини Криве Лакавице, у непосредној околини самог манастира посвећеног Светом Стефану. Податке о метоху доносе свега два документа. Први је повеља цара Уроша, којом потврђује дар великог војводе
Николе Стањевића Хиландару из 1366. године, а у којој се поименице наводи 14 села. Кончански практик, то јест п…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27fe28590c88f7fac0eef0195fce27a Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897876/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:59 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 020521ac12371a6906767a68858af5b6 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897478/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:41 -0400 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa6a0b84bcdc9f32881d08afdd7fc58c José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Pandemic literature in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/pandemic-literature-2/#post-88819 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:54:50 -0400 El alarmismo pandémico de la Covid-19: Una bibliografía https://www.academia.edu/62127938/

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895883/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5fc2dd9073e941bc7c83764e98aec16 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895616/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b05dcd7b07b2e6c796be7cb435656f Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894817/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:17 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1ee71077847229433afaca0fd1b1f23 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891450/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:07 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 0a091293b655a6f810b947ec6c3b7fce Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891449/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 df5ac9ab48dfeebd31b826848ee948a2 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891134/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:49:05 -0400 Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing to host a conference on Environmental Humanities: East-West Perspectives? I’m asking for a friend/colleague of mine in India. I can send a fact sheet if there’s any interest. Contact me at ebibliotekos@gmail.com

]]> 0 ed452bb93790263630ea2839ac5aa90a Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889655/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:18 -0400 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion “‘Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps’: 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 de983778c2266f332ebc5bd0c2a9dc7b Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889290/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:50 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 7abf63bbc62c232e958407770769d5dc Monica H. Green deposited Why We Are Still Debating the “Origin” of the Black Death in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886926/ Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:29 -0400 In 1998, molecular geneticists first announced that they had retrieved fragments of the genetic material of Yersinia pestis from sites that had historically been associated with outbreaks of pestilencia. That announcement was in fact followed by a decade of debate about what constituted good methods in the emerging field of palaeogenetics.…[Read more]

]]> 0 769bd935571cc4852cda76e1149c821e Rainer Schreg deposited Noch nie dagewesen? Hochwasser und Starkregen im Juli 2021 und im Juli 1342 in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882217/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:31 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein’s flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 9fd05727e7e7046ec916f5dd15f873b6 Rainer Schreg deposited Struktureller Wandel des Verkehrs als For-schungsproblem der Archäologie. – die These vielfältiger Veränderungen im Verkehrs¬wesen während der staufischen Zeit in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882213/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:57 -0400 Structural Changes in Traffic as a Research Problem of Medieval Archaeology – the hypothesis of changes in traffics during the Staufian period
Based on written sources historian Thomas Szabó postulated major changes within traffic and transportation during the Staufian Period (12th/13th c.). He recognised changes in the ways of orientation, co…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1c8e56783f0172aa9867787b1ed806a Rainer Schreg deposited Archäologische Funde aus der Fils. Ein Beispiel für die Problematik von Gewässerfunden in Vorgeschichte und Mittelalter in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882203/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:11 -0400 Archaeological finds from riverbeds are a common phenomenon and there has been a broad discussion on their interpretation. The main problem with this category of finds is the question whether they were deposited or accidentally lost. This article tried to scetch the situation at the small river Fils, a tributary of the Neckar at the Northern rim…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3f43d64c6e4bd11f02988da55961200 Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881049/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 976b935053c1cae6844cd69ad8d838d3 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Estos infelices comuneros: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y las Comunidades de Castilla in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880850/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:00:33 -0400 La obra de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo representa una de las fuentes más interesantes del período comprendido entre finales del siglo XV y las primeras décadas del XVI. El investigador puede encontrar en ella información diversa gracias al conocimiento directo que su autor tenía de los personajes y de los ambientes cortesanos de la última fase d…[Read more]

]]> 0 26e613db7d67f00387656b0f04398f00 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880567/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:01:00 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 876957483811364c1a6017b6f4420f1c Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880566/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:00:57 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cf118336571cd90cfdd40f74069e88b Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited The Gift of Gender: Ivan Illich, Feminism, Infrapolitics in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877411/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:35 -0500 With the aim of exploring the relevance of Ivan Illich’s thinking for infrapolitical reflection, this article focuses on his book Gender (1982) and what it suggests about feminism today, at a time of perishing (Williams). Beyond problematizing, as academic feminism did swiftly at the time of the book’s publication, Illich’s seemingly nosta…[Read more]

]]> 0 94f4d88ce4d97f6fbf72a4b0a4731bd6 Ana Dumitran deposited Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877125/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:01:24 -0500 The 7th issue of the Museikon journal contains articles signed by Ileana Sasu, Alina Kondratiuk, Elisabeta Negrău, Alessia Chapel, Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Daniel Dumitran, Sidonia Olea, Claudiu Stoian, Ana Dumitran, Laura Jiga-Iliescu, Luiza Zamora, Levente Nagy, Csaba Szabo and Dragoș Ursu.

]]> 0 df19de0c38c93b4e2c5eb6d28a223fd9 Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute – Simon von Trient und QAnon in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876626/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:23 -0500 Verschwörungserzählungen haben seit einigen Jahren Konjunktur und finden ein immer größeres und sichtbareres Publikum. Die Vorlesung will versuchen, die aktuellen Verschwörungserzählungen um QAnon historisch zu lesen und mit ihren spätmittelalterlichen Vorläufern, hier am Beispiel der Ritualmordlegende um Simon von Trient von 1475, zu verglei…[Read more]

]]> 0 863223425274c7334635e53804235221 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Anthropocene Infrapolitics Introduction & Table of Contents in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875181/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:00:49 -0500 This is the Guest Editors’ Introduction and the Table of Contents (with hyperlinks) of Anthropocene Infrapolitics, vol 23 of Culture Machine.

]]> 0 711d34f4ab51a72fd583ea3ea974b94b Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Metabolismos de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México: Resultados preliminares in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875016/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:55 -0500 Resultados preliminares de las propuestas y problemáticas de los metabolismos de la Ciudad de México

]]> 0 10223746eeb35d4d4c9354221dfd54e2 Thijs Porck deposited J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874613/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:00:19 -0500 Thijs Porck, “J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek”, in Spiegelingen: Mediëvisten voor de eenentwintigste eeuw, ed. Wim van Anrooij, Bart Besamusca, Dieuwke van der Poel & Frank Willaert (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2023), 77-90.

]]> 0 5bc6104a6ef47ab609a51c9106b85475 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Evolutionary thought in the discussion Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/evolutionary-thought/#post-80613 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:58:05 -0500 Illuminations from ‘This Thing of Darkness’: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2014/02/illuminations-from-this-thing-of.html

]]> 0 031fe41b37a4087b0093f07ac6ecbaa3 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Libro de los pensamientos variables» como ejemplo de utopía y disidencia en el siglo XV in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871931/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:00:36 -0500 El artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]

]]> 0 4767a2a36f34b34d401078bf718c8326 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Libro de los pensamientos variables» como ejemplo de utopía y disidencia en el siglo XV in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871930/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:00:33 -0500 El artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bbd46267117f4a2d5ec58aa5ef47e7b Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Auge y caída de 'lo' judeoconverso en La Celestina: un debate en decadencia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870976/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:27 -0500 Mis conversaciones con Joseph T. Snow, nuestro querido Pepe Nieves, como él mismo nos insta a llamarlo desde el contacto inicial, generalmente tienen lugar en la cafetería de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, un insólito locus amoenus en el cual el más habitual inquilino del pupitre 99 de la Sala María Moliner ejerce con bondad y simpatía su papel…[Read more]

]]> 0 eef861a17843db6cd493e4abbaca838e Ana Dumitran deposited Icoana Sfântului Ioan Botezătorul cu scene din viață de la Budești‑Josani in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870887/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:22 -0500 In the history of old Romanian painting, the icon of Saint John the Baptist with scenes from his life from Budești‑Josani occupies a very important place due to its exceptional artistic quality, as well as the Slavonic inscription with the master’s signature and date. The inscription, in a very poor state of preservation, has already been part…[Read more]

]]> 0 661590b9f5169de6e8d8042df6ad1a34 Ana Dumitran deposited The Chronology of the Murals in the Râmeț Monastic Church (Alba County, Romania) Based on a Reevaluation of the Dating of the Narthex Inscription in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870879/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:00:58 -0500 La découverte d’une inscription slavonne dans le narthex de l’église du monastère de Râmeț (comté d’Alba) en 1966, sa relecture avec des moyens techniques spéciaux en 1978 et sa publication officielle en 1985 ont porté à l’attention des historiens le nom du peintre (Mihul du Criș-Blanc), le nom de l’évêque fondateur (archevêque Gélase),…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6b715988546397649c2131d6b35f3e4 Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Lectio praecursoria: The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868516/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:42 -0500 This text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]

]]> 0 e21fabfff120a4a3968d7a68f1733993 Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Lectio praecursoria: The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868515/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:39 -0500 This text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f755bde759c1f64951b8a28d82c9106 Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Las escalas de la lucha en defensa del territorio in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867516/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:00:11 -0500 Las luchas por el territorio ocurren en localidades específicas, con expresiones únicas. Sin embargo, nunca es sólo una mina, un relleno sanitario, un gasoducto, un tren, una refiniería; detrás de estos proyectos existen diversas escalas en las que el mercado mundial conecta la maquinaria, gran industria, comercio y las regiones de sacr…[Read more]

]]> 0 45059f5b21703c21b47449ec0be7b498 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Infrapolitical Epimetheia: A Wondrous Machine in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866568/ Sat, 02 Dec 2023 03:00:40 -0500 This essay derives from a conference paper in Spanish titled Figuras de Epimeteo, which revisited interpretations of the Greek myth of Epimetheus, the forgetful brother of Prometheus and the forgotten husband of Pandora. Ivan Illich (1922-2002) and Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) borrowed the figure of Epimetheus in the process of elaborating an…[Read more]

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