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The Infancy of the Middle Ages

3 April 2006 | Journals, Medieval

In a richly illustrated article entitled “‘Muoz ich tanzen und kan nit gân?’: death and the infant in the medieval danse macabre,” in the latest issue of Word & Image, Sophie Oosterwijk writes: “relatively little is known about medieval infancy; as a phase of life it has largely been ignored by historians … it is [...]

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Women Neglected

23 March 2006 | Journals, Modern

In “The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815,” which appears in the latest issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Heather Belnap Jensen asserts that contrary to received opinion “women increasingly engaged in the art world as both producers and consumers during the Napoleonic period … Women’s journals, which often [...]

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Tables of Contents

7 March 2006 | Journals

Visual Resources (Special 19th Century Issue) Art History (Feb 06) Orientations (March 06) Oxford Art Journal (Mar 06) (via H-Arthist)

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Critical Inquiry’s Top Scholars

15 February 2006 | Journals, Modern

The Winter 2006 Critical Inquiry ranks the authorities most commonly cited by the journal’s authors at each stage in its 32-year history. Most popular in 1974-9: Ernst Gombrich, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Fish, Roland Barthes and Wayne Booth. 1999-2004: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. Current editor W.J.T. Mitchell comes in [...]

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