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Modern Languages Across the Curriculum

Author:Grenfell Michael
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to loo…

Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014

Author:Udías Agustí
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural …

Contextualizing Practical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Author:Leemans Annemi
Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Abstract: The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes…

Chapter 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England

Author:Newton Hanna
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Abstract: "Very little is known about early modern approaches to convalescence and the author investigates th…

A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

Author:E. Dutton Georg
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Bỉnh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled…

Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

Author:Fisher Elain
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unifica…

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Author:Skuse Alann
Publisher:Springer Nature
Abstract: The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theor…

Transnational Modern Languages

Author:Burns Jennifer , Duncan Derek
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Abstract: In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of glob…

Chapter 幻の春の声. 近現代日本文学における「亀鳴く」/ The illusory voice of the spring: the motif of ‘crying turtle’ in modern and contemporary Japanese literarure

Author:Cucinelli Diego
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: The turtle (kame) is of great importance in East Asian culture and it is seen as a supernatural cre…

Chapter Keeping up appearances in early modern Castile

Author:García Fernández Máximo
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: Social emulation stimulated the demand for clothing with the rapid generalisation of certain types …
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