Humanities

This essay approaches the vernacular style of Henry Daniel’s Liber uricrisiarum (c. 1379) through his Dominican order’s preoccupation with a properly calibrated preacher’ [...]

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This article introduces and publishes the court record of a 1491 lawsuit filed in London claiming the loss of “a printed book called a Buk off Caunturbury Talles.”

Compartmentalizing the influences of artist and anatomist on the cinquecento Florentine Academicians limits our ability to understand their practices and works as interse [...]

This essay offers a statement and defense of four core claims of my work, Why Study Religion? Those are: (1) the field of religious studies is preoccupied by procedural m [...]

This article explores the speculative short stories of Egyptian writers Alifa Rifaat (Alīfah Rifaʿat, 1930–1996) and Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Mansūrah ʿIzz al-Dīn, b. 19 [...]

Phonetic typological studies suggest that syllable duration is inversely correlated with the accompanying tone's approximate average f₀, and tones with dynamic [...]

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If the democratic ideal embraces "giving voice," the institution of domestic service—in these films—renders that ideal unstable. Thus, to "give voice&q [...]

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How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved [...]

In this thesis, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was used to investigate the morphology of Middle Egyptian Hieratic, a cursive form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphi [...]

This chapter presents an in-depth analysis of the letter by Francesco da Sangallo, published in 1550 as an appendix to Benedetto Varchi's "Lezzione sulla maggioranza [...]

This chapter proposes a new category for the classification of Renaissance architectural drawings by bringing attention - through a careful selection of examples from the [...]

Questa monogra a presenta, per la prima volta nella sua interezza, la lunga e diversi cata attività di Francesco da Sangallo (1494-1576), ultimo erede di una famiglia di [...]

Art and science create the need for one another, and help each other to evolve further: art producing the questions and science paving the way for new avenues of art. Thi [...]