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History of Intellectual Culture 2/2023
The second issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) dedicates a thematic section to modes of publication. This volume addresses recent advances in publication studies and stresses the cultural formation of knowledge. By exploring and analyzing layers of presenting, sharing, and circulating knowledge, we invite readers to critically engage with questions of media uses and publishing practices and structures, both historically and in our contemporary digital age. The articles in this volume attest to the great variety of publication modes and perspectives, from the potential and limits of digitizing newspapers such as the New York Times to questions of positionality in building and using Wikipedia, from translation policies and female participation to the genre of university histories.
The Spaces of Renaissance Anatomy Theater
The space of Renaissance anatomy is not solely in the physical theatre. As this collection demonstrates, the space of the theatre encompasses every aspect of Renaissance culture, from its education systems, art, and writing to its concepts of identity, citizenship, and the natural world. This book argues that Renaissance anatomy theatres were spaces of intersection that influenced every aspect of their culture, and that scholars should broaden their concept of anatomy theatres to include more than the physical space of the theatre itself. Instead, we should approach the anatomy theatres as spaces where cultural expression is influenced by the hands-on study of human cadavers. This book enters the ongoing conversation surrounding Renaissance anatomy by dialogically engaging with such scholars as Jonathan Sawaday, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Kathryn Schwarz, and primary texts such as ‘De humani corporis fabric’, Montaigne’s ‘Essais’, and Shakespearean plays. The book also features Renaissance artwork alongside works by Laurence Winram.
Nature, Enlightenment, and University Reforms in the Iberian Peninsula: A Comparative Analysis of the Universities of Salamanca and Coimbra (1766-1820)
The university reforms that took place in Europe throughout the 18th century were an important moment of change in the history of these institutions. In the Iberian Peninsula, this wave of reforms left its mark in Coimbra and Salamanca (later reaching the other Spanish universities). Portugal and Spain were no strangers to the motivations and even to the general lines of this wave of reforms. Inseparable from the ideas of the Enlightenment, and with a clear will to combat the backwardness and decadence of these institutions, rather ambitious projects emerged, albeit in different degrees. Coimbra faced a rather disruptive initial situation while in Salamanca later plans (1807, for example) pr...
Tourism Satellite Account (TSA)
These papers are part of the series that has been designed to serve as a platform for familiarizing statisticians and economic analysts interested in tourism with UNWTO's Tourism Satellite Account Project. In more than 300 pages UNWTO provides on an annual basis useful and actual information. In particular guidelines drawn up by the World Tourism Organization for the development of national Systems of Tourism Statistics (STSs) and of the Tourism satellite Account (TSA); activities carried out by the various Working Groups of UNWTO?s Committee on Statistics during the year. It includes, in addition, some especially noteworthy articles published mostly outside mainstream journals.
Redes Científicas da Universidade de Coimbra no Iluminismo
O Século das Luzes é um período fulgurante para a Universidade de Coimbra e o seu edificado e as suas coleções científicas são disso testemunha. Reúne-se neste livro um conjunto de textos sobre o papel do Iluminismo em Coimbra e no mundo, da autoria de estudiosos de diversas áreas das ciências e das humanidades. Os textos debruçam-se sobre um período que vai desde a criação dos novos estatutos para a Universidade de Coimbra à independência do Brasil, apresentando a história do iluminismo em Coimbra e o seu impacto no edificado, nas suas coleções científicas, na transformação técnica e económica do país. A interdisciplinaridade desta obra é patente pela variedade das áreas de especialização dos seus autores, tão diversas como história, história de arte, história da ciência, museologia, arquitetura, matemática, física, química, ciências da saúde, da vida e da terra. A publicação deste livro coincide com as celebrações dos 250 anos da Reforma Pombalina e da fundação dos equipamentos pombalinos, entre os quais o Museu da Ciência e a Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
Networks of Modernity
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the 'communications revolution' that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830-1880, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period-the electric telegr...
