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Sexual selection and intelligence: Does sexual reproduction drive the evolution of intelligence?
2009
Abstract The basal hypothesis discussed here is the idea that brain architecture could be plastic on a very basal, genetic level due to sexual recombination and reassortment of alleles of genes related to brain development, e.g., neuronal cell adhesion molecules (NCAMs) and others. The role of sexual reassortment leads the study of brain development, species behavior and intelligence to a new version of the so-called “Red Queen Hypothesis”: using the mechanism described here, a kind of runaway selection mechanism seems to arise. Even if NCAMs are almost constant within an individual, they seem to act very differently at the population level and so the role of reassorting polymorphic NCAM- (…
Food in the accounts of a travelling lady: Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, in 1403
2018
A household account book of Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon, dated 1403, serves as a guide to her everyday life and especially her diet. Its contents give us details that normally go unnoticed, abou...
García & Cernadas (eds.), Reginae Iberia: El Poder Regio Femenino en Los Reinos Medievales Peninsulares (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2015)
2017
The volume "Reginae Iberia" is a compilation of some of the papers presented at the International Congress on Queens and Infantas in Medieval Iberian Kingdoms, held in Santiago de Compostela from the 21 st to 23 rd May 2014. The editors of this volume, Miguel Garcia and Silvia Cernadas, selected a total of 12 articles, which despite focussing on very different topics, all served to emphasise a shared central idea. With these articles, the editors aimed to present a range of new and complementary readings on the Iberian monarchy, whilst highlighting the leading role of women at the heart of these houses and challenging the perception that they served purely for decorative or reproductive pur…
Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie. Mariah Proctor-Tiffany. University Park: Pennsylvania State Unive…
2020
The Lady Half-Devoured by a Dragon and the Iconography of Saint Margaret of Antioch : Interpreting an Anonymous Invención in the Cancionero general (…
2018
Following in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención found in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) and the British Library Cancionero (LB1-251). I maintain that the image displayed by the jouster was inspired by the iconography of the virgin-martyr Saint Margaret of Antioch, and I propose a theory about the identity of the lady addressed and, with less certainty, about the identity of the jouster and the occasion when the invención was displayed, using Pinar’s Juego trobado as a tool of research and invoking a passage on the sinfulness of the fashion among ladies and damsels for wearing hooped petticoats in a treatise by Hernando de Talavera.
El precio de ser itinerante. Viajes, acompañamiento y espacios cortesanos de la reina Leonor de Sicilia (r. 1349-1375)
2021
This article is an attempt to detail which logistical, economic and human implications had the itinerancy of the medieval monarchy. For this reason, the paper focuses on the characteristics of the itinerancy of Eleanor of Sicily, third wife of Pedro the Ceremonious and queen of the Crown of Aragon between 1349 and 1375. Through the analysis of her documentation, from chancery and treasury resources, it has been possible to establish an itinerary of the queen for three years, from 1354 to 1357. The analysis of this itinerary allows us to see the confluence of the royal couple entourages and the consequences of the beginning of the Dos Pedros war. At the same time, the paper focuses on the pe…
Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Matthiesen Verlag, 2014)
2016
Review of Lena Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 2014).
Il tesoro recuperato. L’inventario dei beni delle regine di Sicilia confiscati a Manfredi Alagona nel 1393
2007
Partendo dal ritrovamento, presso l’Archivio di Stato di Palermo, di un inventario di beni confiscati a Manfredi Alagona nel 1393, il lavoro ricostruisce il percorso del tesoro delle regine siciliane (Costanza d’Aragona, Maria di Sicilia) che era stato incamerato dagli Alagona, potente famiglia di origine aragonese trapiantata in Sicilia. Uno studio dettagliato degli oggetti inventariati permette l’analisi di vari aspetti legati al costume e alla società sul finire del XIV secolo, dall’abbigliamento alla tavola, dal gusto e la moda del tempo alla cura della persona, dalla passione per i gioielli al culto per le reliquie. Beginning from the discovery, in the “Archivio di Stato” of Palermo, o…
How to Catch the Queen
1932
"Del qual tenim loch": Leonor de Sicilia y el origen de la lugartenencia femenina en la Corona de Aragón.
2017
Durante la Baja Edad Media algunas reinas consortes de la Corona de Aragón ejercieron la Lugartenencia real, un cargo gubernamental por el cual ocupaban la posición propia de su marido, convirtiéndose en su alter ego. En el presente artículo pretendemos esclarecer los detalles de la primera Lugartenencia ejercida por una reina en la Corona de Aragón, dilucidar los motivos de su elección y la importancia que tendría para los posteriores monarcas. During the Late Middle Ages some queens consort of the Crown of Aragon were designated as lieutenants. Lieutenancy was a governmental office in which the king delegated all his power during a period of absence. In the present article we intend to cl…