The Art Requisitions by the French under Napoléon and the Detachment of Frescoes in Rome, with an Emphasis on Raphael by Cathleen Hoeniger

“…The restoration of Italian paintings at the Louvre, after their confiscation by Napoleon’s deputies, has received considerable attention; however, the concurrent preoccupation of the French in Rome with the detachment of frescoes has been little studied, even though the desire for Raphael’s art led some to plan the extraction of his Stanze frescoes. In this essay, the parallel practices of the transfer method on Raphael’s altarpieces in Paris and the detachment of frescoes by close followers of Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome will be explored in light of the innovations of the age in science and technology. …”
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“I knew a dog once—”: Laura Richards’s Literary Animals and the Poetics of Animacy by Verena Laschinger

“…A first scholarly engagement with Richards’s modernist experimenting, the essay reads “Eletelephony” as an imagetext in tandem with Marguerite Davis’s original illustration, linking the nonsense poem to the animated cartoon.…”
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Définir ce qu’est être Tunisien. Litiges autour de la nationalité de Nessim Scemama (1873-1881) by Fatma Ben Slimane

“…This essay explores the conflicts that arose around the nationality of Nessim Scemama, a prominent Jewish servant of the Ottoman governors of Tunis, who died in Italy in 1873. …”
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The Structural Changing Phases of Ifẹ̀ Festivals and Tradition Towards Economic Boost and Cultural Tourism by Adéọlá Adijat Fálẹ́yẹ

“…However, our research informs that a number of the official festival activities with the tones of its referred sacredness in Ilé-Ifè, which ̣ is the domain of data collection and subject of our analysis, are being restructured in outlook and content to boost the economic survival of the people; and for cultural tourism. Tis essay seeks to interrogate these structural reforms, with the mind of identifying improved areas of the age-long tradition, the philosophy of the festival, and the economic value added. …”
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“Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”: Fluidity, Dynamic Relations, and the Commodification of Storytelling in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Arctic Writings by Verena Laschinger

“…The essay examines Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Moonstone Mass” (1868) through the lens of fluidity foregrounded by her Arctic poem “The Story of the Iceberg” (1897). …”
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The Needle and the Brush: A Victorian Drama by Pamela GERRISH NUNN

“…When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of reference for many responding publicly to this move was needlework – a reference deployed rather to scoff at this innovation than to praise it. This essay explores the comparison thus made between needlework and fine artwork, analysing the tropes attached to both these fields in mid-Victorian discourse and their significance in the issues that made up the “woman question” of the period. …”
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A systemic approach and multiscale data management. A ‘refrigerator’ case study by Paolo Marco Tamborrini, Eleonora Fiore

“…Many digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, could radically change the way of conceiving a design process, especially when they are used to retrieve essential information to define a problem, identify the requirements and support design decisions, all of which are typical of the pre-design phase. In this essay, we reflect on the complexity of designing, on the need for a systemic approach based on participatory methods and on the use of prototypes as tools to unlock the potential, albeit still largely untapped, use of data for design purposes. …”
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On reversibility and architectural temporarity in marginal contexts by Domenico Chizzoniti, Letizia Cattani, Monica Moscatelli

“…The essay puts forward experimental research carried out in emergency contexts and in developing countries with the study of temporary architecture of a health, cultural and social nature as a field of investigation. …”
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Antonio Gramsci e le avanguardie di inizio Novecento. Intersezioni con il pragmatismo italiano e europeo by Chiara Meta

“…This essay reconstructs a number of the historical-philosophical sources, extraneous to the tradition of Marxist thought, that came together to form the biography of the young Gramsci. …”
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Koncepcja patriotyzmu krytycznego jako punkt odniesienia polskiej polityki historycznej by Katarzyna Głowacka

“… THE CONCEPT OF „CRITICAL PATRIOTISM” AS A BENCHMARK FOR POLISH POLITICS OF MEMORY: PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE ON THE KATYN MASSACRES AND THE GENOCIDE IN VOLHYNIA The article focuses on the idea of “critical patriotism”, expressed mainly in the prominent essay Two fatherlands, two patriotisms published in the early 1980s by Jan Józef Lipski. …”
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX) by David Martín López

“…This essay reflects, from a multidisciplinary and holistic perspective, how the medievalism interacts with the aesthetics of Freemasonry from its origins to 20th century, as a group with a supranational identity, principally in Great Britain – England and Scotland. …”
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The Power of Conformity: Music, Sound, and Vision in Back to the Future by Marc Priewe

“…This essay investigates the aesthetic and political functions of the choice and placement of music in Back to the Future (1985; dir. …”
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Ecology and digital technologies. Small-scale architecture as a place of connections by Massimo Perriccioli, Roberto Ruggiero, Michael Salka

“…Starting from the relationships between digital technologies and environmental culture, the essay aims to outline the contours of the new ecological dimension of architectural design as a place of multiple and interacting connections in which we can critically resolve the dichotomy between nature and culture. …”
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Il Palio di San Michele di Bastia (Umbria): un nuovo modello festivo by Fiorella Giacalone

“…Analyzing some festive models, the essay reflects on new perspectives for the study of the festival, with an emphasis on new categories of festival in relation to the territorial identity. …”
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Collaborative energy districts – Urban workshops for proximity energy by Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete, Raffaella Fagnoni, Carmelo Leonardi

“…Within this framework, the essay analyses some experimental urban laboratories and potential incubators of innovative policies for energy transition; these are climate-neutral pioneer districts investing in inclusive processes, local energy markets, and active citizenship, promoting conscious and virtuous energy behaviour. …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. …”
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Pedagogy of narration by Leonardo Acone

“…This essay aims to emphasize the importance of investigating the pedagogical dimension of literature, reading, writing, images, and other narrative arts within the framework of a possible pedagogy of narration. …”
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“An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States by Amandine Barb

“…Starting from the assumption that atheists have always tended to be a distrusted minority in the United States, this essay seeks more precisely to explain how and why not to believe in God came to be regarded through the centuries not only as a moral and social deviance, but also as essentially “un-American” behavior. …”
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Negativität in der Psychologie Jacob Böhmes by Thomas Isermann

“…This essay is dedicated to the shady sides of psychology in Jacob Boehme (1575-1624). …”
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“What’s Next?” Jasper Fforde’s Attempts on Jane Eyre by Wolfgang Funk

“…This article attempts to analyse the interplay of Jane Eyre with one of its most daring re-appropriations, Jasper Fforde’s 2001 novel The Eyre Affair, which will be presented as a ‘parallolotopia’ in this essay. The main focus is on the inter-textual relationship between the two texts and the interplay and entanglement of the two novels will be analysed as a particular form of post-modern pastiche (in the sense of Fredric Jameson), the main characteristic of which is its self-reflective attitude. …”
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