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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Aragon"”.
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Katherine of Aragon: Marriage, Scholarship and Remembrance
… be shown through the case study of Katherine of Aragon, who was a highly acclaimed and virtuous woman of her time. Katherine’s unusual education led her to be active in political capacities usually expected of men. These included being chosen to represent Spain as the first Ambassadress of Europe …
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Aragon, Traité du Style. Au-delà du pamphlet
Analyse sociocritique du "Traité du style" d'Aragon, paru en 1929. L'étude vise à démontrer que l'ouvrage d'Aragon s'inscrit dans un contexte - celui du surréalisme - mû par une dynamique pamphlétaire, qui se voit intégrée à la scénographie de ce bref traité.
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Practices and performances of queenship: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533
… consort of England and Scotland, Catherine of Aragon (r. 1509-1533) and Margaret Tudor (r. 1503-1513). It examines the responsibilities, rights, duties, and actions of Catherine and Margaret within their sixteenth-century dynastic context, without a teleological focus on the controversies of …
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The King’s Sick Body: The Spiritual and Social Implications of Arnau of Vilanova’s Regimen Sanitatis
… composed the Regimen sanitatis ad inclytum Regem Aragonum (“Regimen of health for the sick King of Aragon”) for Jaume II, king of Aragon, who was suffering a bout of discrasia (imbalanced complexion). Arnau’s work would be rapidly translated into Catalan and become an enduring classic of the …
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Documenti inediti sui rapporti tra Pisa e la Sardegna nel Fondo Comune, Divisione A, dell'Archivio di Stato di Pisa
… and diplomatic crisis between the Crown of Aragon and the Duchy of Anjou after the War of the Vespers to gain control over Sicily. As the threat of the Aragonese conquest became greater, the Pisans strengthened the defensive system of the city of Cagliari by building towers and walls around …
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The Administration of Spain Under Charles V, Spain's New Charlemagne
… of his predecessors in Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. He strove to strengthen his power and unify Spain and his empire using Castilian strength, a Castilian model of government, Roman law, religion, his strong personality, and a loyal and talented bureaucracy. Charles …
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Monsters at the End of Time: Gog and Magog and Ethnic Difference in the Catalan Atlas (1375)
… Cresques, a Jewish cartographer, for Pedro IV of Aragon, I argue that the Atlas modifies traditional Christian apocalyptic narratives—and particularly those involving Gog and Magog—to critique Christian thought about the past, present, and apocalyptic future. This conclusion stresses the …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
… to surrealists like André Breton and Louis Aragon, whose early and central literary texts were based on their favorite pastime: flânerie or wandering the streets of Paris. Images of feet can play a role in Bataille's aim of flattening moral hierarchies, specifically the binary hierarchy of …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… in 1932 and 1933, her polemics with Louis Aragon during the “Aragon Affair” in 1933 and 1934, her complete disillusionment with bureaucratic Communist politics during the First International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture in 1935, and her decisive intellectual engagement …
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The Mask of Dissimulation: Eustace Chapuys and Early Modern Diplomatic Technique, 1536--1545
… Papal annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The ""Divorce Crisis"" gave birth to what would grow into the Anglican Church, leaving a distracting layer of religious arguments and interpretations before getting to the ambassador and his texts. Second, we can more easily shift …
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A theory of effective computer-based instruction for adults
… altered the education landscape (Johnson & Aragon, 2002). The rapid advances in technology, the need for lifelong learning, and the growth of non-traditional students have encouraged the use of the computer as a method of instructional delivery. Evaluating the effectiveness of CBI as a whole …
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
… The Last September and Molly Keane’s Two Days in Aragon, which are typically classified as Big House novels, works of counter-insurgency literature. Finally, Chapter 3 takes up the issue of cross-genre connections through a comparison of Pat Barker’s early working-class and subsequent historical …
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Testing the influence of gendered harassment on mental health outcomes in adolescence using longitudinal structural equation modeling
… Wolfe, Crooks, Hughes, & Jaffe, 2009; Espelage, Aragon, Birkett, & Koenig, 2008; Espelage, Low, & De La Rue, 2012; Gruber & Fineran, 2007). However, much of the extant literature is cross-sectional, and rarely are perpetrators of these behaviors included in studies of outcomes. Therefore, the …
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La réécriture des mythes et le combat des femmes pour leur libération: étude de Maïéto Pour Zékia de Bohui Dali, de La guerre des femmes de Zadi Zaourou, de La révolte d'Affiba de Régina Yaou et de Assémien Déhylé, roi du Sanwi de Bernard Dadié
… de la vie moderne); Camus (Le mythe de Sisyphe); Aragon (Le paysan de Paris). Comparisons with feminist texts by Beyala (Femme nue, femme noire); Djebar (Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement); Bâ (Une si longue lettre) underline how the rewriting of myths by Ivorian writers corresponds to a …
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Tratado juridico: Edici on critica y estudio del manuscrito
… the sixteenth-century Spanish of the Moriscos of Aragon, as well as the lexical and syntactical Arabisms preserved in the text. The transliteration of the text is then followed by a glossary which includes archaisms, etymologies and Arabisms. In addition to being a source of information for the …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
… a village in a region called la Franja in South Aragon at the border with Catalonia. Academic literature emphasises the Pact of Forgetting (1975) and Law of Amnesty (1977) as the central moments of memory construction of the Francoist past during the Transition. This research examines the …
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Aspects of Quantum Coherence
In this work our aim is to study several aspects related to quantum coherence as understood to correspond with the non-classical behaviour that can be observed for certain particular states of a physical system. In particular we are interested in the possible mechanisms that result in dynamically …
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Tudor Conciliar Theorists
… vindicate his decision to divorce Catherine of Aragon.</p> <p>Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, was in agreement with these Henrician ideas. He, in turn, planted the essence of Henrician conciliar thought into article twenty-two of the 42 Articles of Edward VI. Under the reign of …
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