For many years it was believed that Beatriz Galindo, called the Latina, had been Queen Isabel la Católica's teacher between 1486 and 1504, but some investigations have shown that during this period of time she was only a domestic servant of the Queen's House. There are ...

Quantitative surveys play an important and imperative role in studying and learning about the integration and inclusion experiences of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMM). Unfortunately, such data have not always been easy to locate or access for ...

The copy of diplomatic documents was one of the methods that the first permanent embassies used to carry out their mission of gathering information from the diplomatic relations of other political formations. In this study we will observe how this practice was carried o...

While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time ...

International audience; We analyse the money-financed fiscal stimulus implemented in Venice during the famine and plague of 1629–31, which was equivalent to a ‘net-worth helicopter money’ strategy – a monetary expansion generating losses to the issuer. We argue that the...

In this article, we present ongoing archaeological research into Scandinavia's forested inland region, suggesting that its people and communities were socially and economically integrated into systems of trade and in close interaction with the worlds outside, as early a...

UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 The ‘São Tomé carreira’ was not just the route that connected Lisbon to the island at the Equator. It stretched along the west coast of Africa to Elmina, Congo, and Angola, and in another direction reached Central America and Brazil. In E...

This paper analyzes the specific schedule of translation conducted by the Abreu family in the early Hispanic Enlightenment. The program may seem like an insignificant element in the face of the flood of translations in that context. But what this text argues is that, on...

Painted in Rome around 1615, Jusepe de Ribera's series of half figures personifying the five senses invites a diplomatic audience associated with the Lincean Academy to a performance of prudence, a virtue meant to characterize the judgment of both art and of sensory exp...

The article focuses on arrival of vessel from Kerkyra, Greece carrying dead crew members body died of mysterious disease in Messina in May 1743 and mentions redoubled quarantine that expresses isolation need from collective isolation Topics discussed include possibility...