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The voices of Nîmes : women, sex, and marriage in Reformation Languedoc
\"Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought. Criminal courts and magistrates kept few records of their testimonies, and no ecclesiastical court records are known to survive for the French Roman Catholic Church between 1540 and 1667. For the most part, we cannot hear the voices of ordinary French women-- but this study allows us to do so. Based on the evidence of 1,200 cases brought before the consistories, or moral courts, of the Huguenot church of Languedoc between 1561 and 1615, The Voices of Nîmes allows us to access ordinary women's everyday lives: their speech, behavior, and attitudes relating to love, faith, and marriage, as well as friendship and sex. Women appeared frequently before the consistory because one of the chief functions of moral discipline was the regulation of sexuality, and women were thought to be primarily responsible for sexual sin. This means that the registers include over a thousand testimonies by and about women, most of whom left no other record to posterity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Did Renaissance England Have a Problem with Indirect Translation?
In the last decade, a substantial number of studies have tried to answer those questions, mainly, though not exclusively, with reference to the contemporary Western world. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most general of those studies seem to have reached two sets of related conclusions: on the one hand, indirect translation is as a rule not viewed favorably, and its existence tends to be kept silent or actively denied; on the other, as Hanna Pieta put it as recently as 2019, ITr is still very much \"alive and kicking in today's society.\" While it is relatively easy to gauge the feelings and reactions of one's contemporaries or near-contemporaries, one must be wary of applying one's values to cultural phases which ran their course several centuries ago. Translation norms influence translators' behavior, but they also have their bearing in the judgments of translation historians. In terms of cultural distance from the present, it seems particularly difficult to take the measure of the English Renaissance, for a set of complex related reasons. In practical terms, and particularly if one focuses on the sixteenth century, early modern English translators appear to behave in contradictory ways.
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Palladian Architecture in Thailand : Its meanings and Evolution
This research aims to study Palladian architecture in Thailand focusing on its meaning and evolution Palladian architecture is originated from an Italian architect, Andrea Palladio, in the Renaissance period. The distinctive identity is that it has beautiful proportions that are harmoniously consistent, with the style which unraveled from ancient Greco-Roman architecture. Around the 17th century, Palladian architectural style was popular in Europe. Therefore, It can be clearly reflects as a symbol of Western architecture. In 19th century, Western powers began to gain more influence in Southeast Asia as well as in Thailand. The arrival of Westerners led to the development of western architecture in many cities. The Palladian architectural style was used as a model for the design of many buildings. This study finds that Western architects worked in Thailand had applied their knowledge of classical architecture to design the buildings according to Thai's cultures. Palladian architecture in Thailand are mostly applied for large buildings. Its layout is outstanding. The main circulation uses the central hall as a link to different functions. Palladian architecture reflected luxury, simply majestic, easy to be applied to suit the terrain and modernity equivalent to the developed western nations.
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The impact of the lung environment on macrophage development, activation and function: diversity in the face of adversity
The last decade has been somewhat of a renaissance period for the field of macrophage biology. This renewed interest, combined with the advent of new technologies and development of novel model systems to assess different facets of macrophage biology, has led to major advances in our understanding of the diverse roles macrophages play in health, inflammation, infection and repair, and the dominance of tissue environments in influencing all of these areas. Here, we discuss recent developments in our understanding of lung macrophage heterogeneity, ontogeny, metabolism and function in the context of health and disease, and highlight core conceptual advances and key unanswered questions that we believe should be focus of work in the coming years.
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Ten Years After the Financial Crisis
This paper takes stock of what we have learned from the \"Renaissance\" in fiscal research in the ten years since the financial crisis. I first discuss the new innovations in methodology and various strengths and weaknesses of the main approaches to estimating fiscal multipliers. Reviewing the estimates, I come to the surprising conclusion that the bulk of the estimates for average spending and tax change multipliers lie in a fairly narrow range, 0.6 to 1 for spending multipliers and -2 to -3 for tax change multipliers. However, I identify economic circumstances in which multipliers lie outside those ranges. Finally, I review the debate on whether multipliers were higher for the 2009 Obama stimulus spending in the United States or for fiscal consolidations in Europe.
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Māori kai sovereignty to achieve food security
The FAO states that the term food sovereignty focuses on food for the people by placing people’s need for food at the centre of policies and insists that food is more than just a commodity. Food Sovereignty also promotes knowledge and skills by building on traditional knowledge; using research to support and pass on this knowledge to future generations; and rejecting technologies that undermine local food systems. It is essentially a movement that “recognizes that control over the food system needs to remain in the hands of producers, and is clearly focused primarily on small-scale agriculture of a non-industrial nature, preferably organic”(1). In Māori terms, Kai Sovereignty is drawn first from the relationship of foods to our needs; it is expressed through whakapapa, and has an overarching contribution to food security. Traditional foods abound in Aotearoa. The relationships are longstanding, expressive and contribute to our wellbeing in various ways(2). But the true cultural value of traditional foods is diminishing as new foods, lifestyles and experiences succeed them. Kai sovereignty therefore is at risk of being relegated to historical discourse. The FAO acknowledgement of the intergenerational role of traditional knowledge to support food sovereignty aligns well to the Māori experience. This knowledge covers a myriad of food relationships including foraging, producing, harvesting, processing, cooking and manaakitanga. We are in a renaissance period that seeks to rediscover our relationship with the pātaka, the food store. So much knowledge has been lost, but much also remains. How we draw that together in a way that acknowledges the whakapapa or historical relationship alongside the present and future. The right to achieving kai sovereignty is yet to be properly understood within our communities. The first steps lie in the knowledge space; sharing and acknowledgement of our food traditions before they are lost or misinterpreted.
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