1,078 research outputs found
Ruth Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority. Resistance and Obedience in Castile.
No full textBois Jean-Pierre. Ruth Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority. Resistance and Obedience in Castile.. In: Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, tome 47 N°3, Juillet-septembre 2000. pp. 636-638
The unfolding of long strikes : an investigation of three twentieth century United Kingdom garment industry strikes
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MacKay, Ruth : Life in a Time of Pestilence. The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601 (Cambridge, 2019)
No full textReseña del libro: Mackay, Ruth (2019) Life in a Time of Pestilence. The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 275 p. ISBN 978-1-108-49820-3Ressenya del llibre:Mackay, Ruth (2019)Life in a Time of Pestilence. The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 275 p.ISBN 978-1-108-49820-3Review of:Mackay, Ruth (2019)Life in a Time of Pestilence. The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 275 p.ISBN 978-1-108-49820-
Life in a time of pestilence : the great Castilian plague of 1596-1601 /
No full textFrom the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 people in Castile, around 10 percent of the population. Plague is traditionally understood to have triggered chaos and madness. By contrast, Ruth Mackay focuses on the sites of everyday life, exploring how beliefs, practices, laws, and relationships endured even under the onslaught of disease. She takes an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of plague, and explores how the epidemic was understood and managed by everyday people. Offering a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic history of Spain, this original and engaging book demonstrates how, even in the midst of chaos, life carried on.Includes bibliographical references and index.From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 people in Castile, around 10 percent of the population. Plague is traditionally understood to have triggered chaos and madness. By contrast, Ruth Mackay focuses on the sites of everyday life, exploring how beliefs, practices, laws, and relationships endured even under the onslaught of disease. She takes an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of plague, and explores how the epidemic was understood and managed by everyday people. Offering a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic history of Spain, this original and engaging book demonstrates how, even in the midst of chaos, life carried on
The future of pornography - panel debate. Speakers | Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell
No full textMany believe that porn's dark fantasies risk corrupting relationships and society. Has this arisen because pornography is largely created by men? Could feminist pornography featuring authentic sex, diverse bodies and female perspectives offer a truly liberating alternative? Or is porn fundamentally incompatible with intimacy and a problem for all of us until its abolished? Feminist thinker Finn Mackay, author of Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl Brooke Magnanti, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling imagine the future of pornography.In association with the New College of the Humanities
Duurzame energie: Een nuchter verhaal
No full textEen samenvatting van het boek 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' van David J.C. MacKay. Professor MacKay is hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Cambridge en Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change van de Britse regering. In het boek vergelijkt hij het gebruik van energie met de hoeveelheid energie die opgewekt kan worden met duurzame energie.Delft Research Initiative
Review of The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal by Ruth MacKay
No full textIn this captivating study of the interdependent realms of fact and fiction, Ruth MacKay explores an episode in early modern Iberian history that could easily be found alongside any of the intercalated tales in Cervantes’s Don Quixote: that of an itinerant pastalero, or baker, who pretended to be the long lost King Sebastian of Portugal. Sorting through the letters, chronicles, and inquisitorial documents of troubled monarchs, conspiring nobles, and restless religious, MacKay weaves together an impressive array of Spanish and Portuguese archival sources to re-create the conspiracy that surfaced in the Castilian town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres in 1594 and ultimately sought to remove Philip II from the Portuguese throne. Beginning with the premise that this ‘‘conspiracy relied on news’’ and that this news was circulated by the ‘‘startling number of people traveling along the Iberian peninsula’s network of roads,’’ MacKay shows that the stories crafted by the individuals in this case reveal their perceptions of the lived world and, more importantly, of the world they thought was possible (xxii)
The Mirror of Anarchy: The Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden
No full textThe mirror of anarchy: the egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsde
Politics of Feminist Revision in di Prima\u27s Loba
No full textIn her article Politics of Feminist Revision in di Prima\u27s Loba Polina Mackay explores Diane di Prima\u27s two-volume epic Loba (1998) and, through a comparison of di Prima to the work of Adrienne Rich, argues that Loba practices a politics of feminist revision. Further, Mackay examines the ways in which di Prima starts to move away from the recovery project of female voices in patriarchal culture, associated with late twentieth-century Feminism, towards a women\u27s literature which need not be defined entirely through its resistance to patriarchal narratives of gender in men\u27s literature. Here it focuses on di Prima\u27s revisionist critique of another epic by a modern female writer, H.D.\u27s Helen in Egypt (1961), where di Prima rewrites the mythical Helen into a single mother facing modern-day hardship. Mackay concludes that di Prima\u27s decision to appropriate H.D.\u27s Helen in Egypt is suggestive of the politics of feminist revision the author practices. It shows that, in addition to the rewrite of straightforwardly patriarchal narratives, such as the story of Mary in the Christian discourse, a fully revised script of female presence in literature and culture would also have to include a critique of women\u27s literature
Dorothy Mackay: A Forgotten Female Pioneer in Archaeology
No full textIn 2022, the author of this paper came across four letters regarding epigraphic documentation of some elite tombs in the Theban necropolis, Egypt, written by Dorothy Mackay and addressed to Alan H. Gardiner, at the archive of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. The author of the letters was the wife of Ernest Mackay (1880–1943), a British archaeologist best known for his later work on the Indus Valley Civilisation, who was excavating on the Theban west bank between 1913 and 1916. However, as further investigation revealed, Dorothy, until recently an obscure figure, was an accomplished scholar in her own right, who worked together with her husband, acted as a curator of two museums, and published extensively in times when it was far from easy for women to obtain an education, let alone conduct research. Despite that, the only recent sources discussing Dorothy and her scholarly accomplishments lack some vital details on her life. The aim of this contribution is to provide some further information and context on Dorothy Mackay and her research in the first half of the twentieth century
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