Tag: Early Modern History
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“[T]he mute body speaks by its gesture and movement”: A Classical Corporeality in Catherine de Medici’s Tears
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Harry Fry contextualises Catherine de Medici’s tears upon the death of her husband within early modern thinking about, and historiographical frameworks on emotion.
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Artichokes, Humours, and Swords: A Look at a Revealing Episode in Caravaggio’s Life
Helene Chaligne examines one particularly strange moment in Caravaggio’s life, in which a debate about the preparation of artichokes led to a Roman brawl.
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Steve Biko: The Black Consciousness Movement and its Ideological Struggle Against Apartheid
Edie Christian explores Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness Movement and its role in resisting apartheid.
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Dance until you Drop; The Dancing Plague of 1518
Abbie Teal narrates how, in 1518 Strasbourg, a bizarre contagion known as the Dancing Plague caused frenzied dancing and death.
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A Trip Down Gin Lane: An Enquiry into British Boozing
Alcohol consumption is central to British national self-conception and military culture. Olivia Hiskett traces the contentious moral history of alcohol from the eighteenth century to the present.
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The Role of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in Challenging the Atlantic Slave Trade
When studying the key abolitionists of the Atlantic slave trade, we often think of European figures like William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp. However this negates the efforts of African individuals, such as Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, who made extraordinary efforts to combat the Atlantic slave trade. Louisa Steijger analyses Mendonça’s legacy in an…
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The Freedom of the North: The Rebirth of Nordism in Post-War Sweden
The idea of a pan-Scandinavian identity has existed from the medieval period to the modern day, but has never solidified under one institution. George Purdy explores the long history of Pan-Scandinavianism from Sweden and how it relates to mutual defense and security.
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Trapping a Witch in Your Boot: Three Curious Counter-Witchcraft Methods in Early Modern England
Elida Lyons outlines some of the superstitious practices early modern society engaged in to prevent witchcraft, from dried cats to concealed shoes.
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