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Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration

Karen C. Pinto

... Guggenheim fellowship announcement for Simone Pinet's forthcoming research and book The Task of the Cleric: Three Studies on the “Libro de Alexandre”(in progress) (http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/simone-pinet/, accessed May 22, ...

El baladro del sabio Merlín: notas para la historia y ...

Simone Pinet

Archipelagoes: Insular Fictions from Chivalric Romance to ...

Simone Pinet

An insular turn in late medieval and early modern culture central to the emergence of modern fiction.

The Task of the Cleric: Cartography, Translation, and ...

Simone Pinet

Most recently, see the work by Sandra Sáenz LópezPérez. From this tradition, I will only include the square map in the genealogical part of the Beato de doña Sancha, which is a second map, very different from the apostollic maps that appear ...

The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West

Ning Ma

Also see Daniel Nemser, “Governor Sancho and the Politics of Insularity,” Hispanic Review 78, no. 1 (2010): 1–23. For the broader context on island fantasies and European fictional development, see Simone Pinet, “On the Subject of Fiction: ...

The Task of the Cleric: Cartography, Translation, and ...

Simone Pinet

Most recently, see the work by Sandra Sáenz López-Pérez. From this tradition, I will only include the square map in the genealogical part of the Beato de doña Sancha, which is a second map, very different from the apostollic maps that appear ...

Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art

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For a state-of-the-question and some NEW theories concerning both the subject matter and the dating of this ceiling, see Ana Echevarria, “Painting Politics in the Alhambra," in Simone Pinet and Cynthia Robinson, eds, Courting the Alhambra: ...

Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and ...

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As Simone Pinet points out, this preceptive component is readily correlated with self-fashioning in the context of chivalric narratives predicated “on the binome love/war,” and on the influence of women and courtly society on the articulation of ...

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

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Simone Pinet Más hemos aprendido a vivir de los animales que de los hombres, más de los rústicos que de los doctos. Las artes de reinar que inventó la especulación hicieron tiranos, y antes derribaron que levantaron imperios. — Diego de ...

Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to ...

Connie Scarborough

Part I — Nature Untamed Chapter One — The Forest of Corpes: Poema de Mio Cid Simone Pinet states that ”Los espacios del Poema de M io Cid no pueden separarse quirurgicamente entre espacios geograficos y literarios, entre itinerarios ...

Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the ...

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice Ceilings / edited by Cynthia Robinson, Simone Pinet. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-17342-2 (pbk.

The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

Claudia Card

A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.

Nina Simone

Kerry Acker

Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.

Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...

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Chapter 15 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society Mark Kremer Introduction No book embodies the postwar ideals of democratic progress more than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second ...

Sounds Australian Update

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Inlcrnaiionally acclaimed conductor Simone Young has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Opera Australia, succeeding Moffatt Oxenbould who will be leaving at theend of the year 2001. From 2001, Simone will divide her time ...

Simone Martini Complete Edition

Andrew Martindale

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) whoas well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered lessmportant than Giotto and his followers.

Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...

Anne M. François

Two other essays in the collection analyze metaphors of exile in Simone Schwarz -Bart's Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979). ... Writing from Guadeloupe (2000); Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women ( 2001); ...

Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Karen Vintges

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.

First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition

Simone Wright

And, according to Simone Wright, we often forget or don’t understand how to use the best tool available: our intuition, which is our “first intelligence” that can cut through the chatter to inherent wisdom.

Father Pierre François Pinet, S.J. and His Mission of the ...

Frank Reed Grover

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean ...

Abigail L. Palko

See Simone A. James Alexander, Mother Imagery in ... Women's Fictions of History; Florence Ramond Jurney, Voix/es libres: Maternité et identité dans la littérature antillaise; Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander (eds.), Feminist ...

Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise ...

Beth Simone Noveck

Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government.

Scott O'Dell

Simone Payment

Scott O'Dell / by Simone Payment. p. cm.—(The library of author biographies) Includes ... From SCOTTO'DELL, by David Russell, Twayne Publishers, O 1999, Twayne Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the Gale Group. Copyright © 1993 ...