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Challenges in Detecting Volcanic Forcing in Climate and Societal Proxies: Insights from the 1170/1171 CE Eruption
(2025)While our current understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere and climate has significantly advanced, uncertainties persist regarding the climate and societal response to major volcanic events ... -
Jet Stream Driven European Climate Extremes and Agricultural Productivity over the Past 700 Years
(2024)The jet stream is an important dynamic driver of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes1–3 . Modern variability in the position of summer jet stream latitude in the North Atlantic–European sector ... -
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE
(2024)The North Sea region boasted one of the world’s most important fisheries for many centuries. Climate directly and indirectly influences the development and survival of many important pelagic fish in the North Sea ecosystem. ... -
CHINACHILD Voices of enslaved Chinese girls 1912-1949
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Recreating a unique early modern beer
(2022)Beer was an important source of nutrition in the past. To study its importance in diet, the nutritional input of beer in early modern Ireland (c1550 – c1650) was examined. Archival records in Dublin Castle facilitated ... -
Vetula, Vecchia, Prophetess, Saint: the Old Woman in the Florentine Trecento
(Brepols, 2025)This chapter examines the representation of the old woman in Florentine art. It will look at figures coded as elderly such as St Elizabeth, St Anne, and Anna the Prophetess and place them within their devotional context. ... -
Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures
(Manchester University Press, 2025)Jacques Le Goff notes that in the Middle Ages the body did not exist in itself but was always co-penetrated with the soul. The experiences of illness and therapeutic regimes, involving prayer, imagery, magico-religious ... -
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature
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Redipuglia and the dead
(2017)Over a hundred thousand bodies are buried in the ossuary of Redipuglia. Created in north- eastern Italy under the fascist state in 1935–8, it is the largest burial site of the Great War worldwide.It encloses the remains ... -
Modern cemeteries in Europe and North America
(2022)Between the 1740s and the 1850s, changes in burial customs within Europe and North America had far-reaching consequences for funerary architecture. Those changes first emerged in France, Sweden, Italy, Scotland, and in the ... -
Feeling Political in Military Cemeteries: Commemoration Politics in Fascist Italy
(Palgrave, 2022)Rome, 28 October 2020: Italian neo-fascist groups meet, as they have done on this date for the last four years, at a chapel built by Benito Mussolini within Rome’s main cemetery in order to commemorate those who gave ... -
Questioning the idea of difficult heritage as applied to the architecture of Fascist Italy
(2023)Mussolini’s regime sought to change the mindset of Italians by shaping their environment through architecture and urban planning. As such, Fascism had a visible impact on Italian cities in the form of large urban projects, ... -
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini's Italy
(2022)This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged in Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense of morality, largely because of the degree of ... -
Il fascismo, la Grande Guerra e i monumenti ai caduti
(2017)L’ossario di Redipuglia in Friuli raccoglie le salme di oltre centomila soldati italiani che caddero combattendo al fronte (Dogliani 1996; Fabi 2002; Fiore 2003; Nicoloso 2012, 94–7). È il più grande luogo di sepoltura ... -
Marcello Piacentini: A case of controversial heritage
(2018)As the most prominent architect and urban designer of Italy’s fascist regime, Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) left an indelible mark on numerous cities across Italy. Nonetheless, his reception has been marred by controversy. ... -
Redefining peace: Fascist Italy and fallen soldiers of the First World War
(2022)Italy’s Fascist regime exploited the difficulties that arose from the transition to peace after the First World War. As a highly contested event, the war destabilised Italy’s liberal state and paved the way for Benito ... -
Teaching the Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism
(2023)In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. ... -
Architecture, Politics and the Sacred in Military Monuments of Fascist Italy
(Bloomsbury, 2020)Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime in Italy served its political ends through architecture that was at once sacred and modern. This chapter explores that conjunction of religion and modernity through a group of ossuaries ... -
Taking Play Seriously: Children's Education and Nation-building in Modern China, 1897-1937
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, School of Histories and Humanities, 2025)China’s experience of foreign encroachment in the second half of the nineteenth century was what John Fitzgerald calls a wave of awakening among the intelligentsia. It was in this context that educational reform became ... -
Art and Material Culture as Instruments of Gendered Self-Fashioning in the Life of Isabel Farnesio (1692-1766)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis takes as its central focus Isabel Farnesio, exploring the ways in which her engagement with art reflected and buttressed her construction of identity. Born Elisabetta Farnese, the Princess of Parma in 1692, and ...
