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Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson Jul 2013

Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

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Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson Jul 2013

Review Of The Young Leonardo: Art And Life In Fifteenth-Century Florence By Larry J. Feinberg, Brian Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

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Atlantic Threads: Singer In Spain And Mexico, 1860-1940, Paula A. De La Cruz-Fernández May 2013

Atlantic Threads: Singer In Spain And Mexico, 1860-1940, Paula A. De La Cruz-Fernández

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the role of Singer in the modernization of sewing practices in Spain and Mexico from 1860 to 1940. Singer marketing was founded on gendered views of women’s work and gendered perceptions of the home. These connected with sewing practices in Spain and Mexico, where home sewing remained economically and culturally important throughout the 1940s. "Atlantic Threads" is the first study of the US-owned multinational in the Hispanic World. I demonstrate that sewing practices, and especially practices related to home sewing that have been considered part of the private sphere and therefore not an important historical matter, contributed …


Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson Apr 2013

Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson

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Mack provides a comprehensive examination of the content and circulation of rhetorical manuals published during the European Renaissance.


The Spirit Of His Men: The Development Of The Lord Nelson Legend, 1805-1905, Alexa M. Price Apr 2013

The Spirit Of His Men: The Development Of The Lord Nelson Legend, 1805-1905, Alexa M. Price

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson Jan 2013

Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson

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Jacqueline Murray's Marriage in Premodern Europe collects a wide-ranging series of essays on marriage covering nearly four hundred years and almost the entire European Continent.


“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson Jan 2013

“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

This article focuses on a sliver of the individuals we now know as the Neo-Latinists, who viewed the vernacular as a vehicle for expression throughout the quattrocento.