The Dartmouth Dante Project

Article | Contribuidor(es): Robert Hollander

The de-meatification imperative: To what end?

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contribuidor(es): Tony Weis, Rebecca A Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.511

Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and...

The Death of the Fifth Earl of Derby: Cunning Folk and Medicine in Early Modern England

Article | Contribuidor(es): Judith Bonzol

Les devins ont joué un rôle indispensable dans le diagnostique et la guérison de maladies d’origine diabolique dans les communautés anglaises des débuts de la modernité. Malgré les tentatives du clergé de les faire passer pour les agents du Diable, leur popularité est restée intacte. Les...

The Debate on the Meaning of Literature in Italy Today

Article | Contribuidor(es): Lucia Re

The Decimal Index of Art

2023-04-20 19:43:59 | Article | Contribuidor(es): W. McAllister Johnson

The Decline of Astrology in the Jonathan Dove Almanac Series

Article | Contribuidor(es): Ryan J. Stark

Cet article montre comment les imprimeurs de Cambridge ont transformé les almanachs de Jonathan Dove en incluant graduellement les nouvelles tendances empiriques et en abandonnant les tendances ésotériques qu'ils contenaient, et ce pendant plusieurs décennies au-delà de la mort de l'auteur. En...

The Decline of the Aristocracy in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Sardinia

Article | Contribuidor(es): Robert J. Rowland

The Dependence of Ancient Greek Geometry and Metaphysics on Craft-Culture

2023-05-18 22:27:16 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Philip Thibodeau

A discussion of Robert Hahn’s The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem: Thales, Pythagoras, Engineering, Diagrams, and the Construction of the Cosmos out of Right Triangles. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Philip Thibodeau Article PDF Link:...

The Desert and the Rock: G.B. Vico's New Science vis-à-vis Eighteenth-Century European Culture

Article | Contribuidor(es): Gustavo Costa

The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538–1563

Article | Contribuidor(es): Reanne Eichele

During the sixteenth century many Catholics yearned for an active role in lay religiosity. One avenue to achieve this was through membership in a penitential confraternity. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the pioneering penitential confraternities concentrated on the development...

The Development of Hispanitas in Spanish Sixteenth-Century Versions of the Fall of Numancia

Article | Contribuidor(es): Rachel Schmidt

The story of the Celtiberian town of Numancia and its fall in 133 B.C., as seen in the writings of Livy, Plutarch and others, was a well established topos in sixteenth-century Spain. The accounts of the bravery of the Numantians in defending their besieged city formed the basis for hispanitas,...

The Devil, Superstition, and the Fragmentation of Magic

Article | Contribuidor(es): Sean Armstrong

Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s,...

The Dialect Poetry of Giacomo Noventa

Article | Contribuidor(es): Patrizia Bettella

The dilemma of scaling up local food initiatives: Is social infrastructure the essential ingredient?

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.146

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on and compare two responses to the challenge of scaling up local food initiatives.  Comparative case studies of the Good Food Box in the City of Edmonton and the Rimbey farmers’ market are used to examine the different strategies used to scale up...

The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597

2023-05-11 22:05:28 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Gabriella Mazzon

This is a review of The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597.

The Directions and Names of the Winds: A Translation of [Aristotle], Ventorum situs et nomina

2023-09-11 19:06:56 | Translation | Contribuidor(es): Alan C. Bowen

classics, philosophy

The Directions and Names of the Winds: [Aristotle], Ventorum situs et nomina

2023-05-18 22:27:41 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Alan C Bowen

The anonymous text Ventorum situs et nomina, once held to be by Aristotle himself, gives the local names of 10 topic winds as well as their directions. It is not an elaboration of the wind-rose that Aristotle, for example, describes in Meteor. 2.5, though many scholars have assumed this, but a...

The Double Gift: Inner Vision and Pictorial Sense in Petrarch

2023-06-22 19:46:42 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Elio Gianturco

The Down Survey of Ireland Project

Article | Contribuidor(es): Brendan Kane

This is a review of The Down Survey of Ireland Project. 

The Dynamics of Cultural Transition

Article | Contribuidor(es): Aldo Colangelo

The article is based on a 1991-92 research, published in Sole senza Sole (1998). In his book Colangelo retraced the journey and life of 110 Italian women, residing in Toronto. He followed the stages of their lives, successes and difficulties, including those arising from their retirement onwards....