Cheap, suitable, promising : monitorial schooling and the challenge of mass education in early liberal Spain (1808-1823)

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Las juntas de 1808 y las Cortes de C??diz : la revoluci??n de la naci??n liberal

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L???evoluci?? del pensament escolar al Principat (1808-1845)

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Los cabildos antioqueños ante la crisis monárquica, 1808-1812 (Estudios)

A partir del escrutinio de fuentes primarias, la investigación analiza la forma como reaccionaron los cuatro cabildos de la provincia de Antioquia, ubicados al noroccidente de Colombia, frente a la crisis de la monarquía española de 1808. En Antioquia, un grupo de capitulares cuestionó la autoridad del gobernador Francisco de Ayala e intentó reasumir la soberanía, mediante el nombramiento autónomo de alcaldes pedáneos y de partido. Este fue el comienzo de un proceso de cambio de actitud por parte de los antioqueños, acentuado por el impacto que produjeron los movimientos autonomistas de Quito y Cartagena, y por el llamado ""Grito de Independencia"" de Santa Fe. Los cabildos antioqueños reasumieron la soberanía, formaron su propia junta de gobierno, dictaron su propia Constitución y, en 1813, conformaron un nuevo Estado que se declaró independiente de España.

Soberanía, representación e independencia en Caracas, 1808-1811 (Estudios)

El artículo analiza el impacto que la crisis política de la monarquía española suscitó en Caracas, en donde tuvo lugar un intenso debate. En noviembre de 1808 se intentó erigir una junta, sin éxito. El 19 de abril de 1810 se constituyó la Junta Conservadora de los Derechos del Rey Fernando VII y, finalmente, el 5 de julio de 1811 se declaró la Independencia. El artículo analiza el contenido del debate acerca del ejercicio de la soberanía, así como la manera en que organizaron la representación política quienes tuvieron a su cargo la conducción de este proceso histórico, desde el inicio del movimiento juntista hasta la declaración de la indepedencia.

Megnin re-analysed: the case of the newborn baby girl, Paris, 1878

This paper analyses acarological evidence from a 130-year-old forensic investigation. It was the first case in forensic acarology, i.e., the first case where mites provided substantial information to estimate the post-mortem interval (PMI). In 1878, the mites found in the mummified body of a newborn baby girl in Paris, France, were studied by acarologist and forensic entomologist Jean Pierre M,gnin. M,gnin estimated around 2.4 million mites in the skull and identified them as Tyroglyphus longior (Gervais), a junior synonym of Tyrophagus longior. He suggested that the arrival of these mites at the corpse would have occurred by phoresy on carrier insects, roughly 5 months before the autopsy. There is no doubt about the identification of the mites, M,gnin was a highly respected acarologist. However, two main factors affecting the biology of Tyrophagus mites were not included in the original analysis. First, M,gnin stated that the mites were phoretic. However, he probably did not have access to information about the natural history of the species, because as a rule Tyrophagus mites are non-phoretic. Considering the omnipresence of Tyrophagus mites in soil, most likely the mites will have arrived almost immediately after death. Second, temperature was not taken into account during the estimations of the mite population growth rate. The new analysis is based on current knowledge of Tyrophagus biology and includes temperature, estimated following a handful of weather reports of the years 1877 and 1878. The new projections indicate that non-phoretic mites may have colonised the body just after death and the colony would have built up over 8 months, contrary to the 5 months proposed by M,gnin. This new lapse of time agrees with the PMI proposed by Brouardel: on 15 January 1878 he postulated the death of the newborn to have occurred some 8 months before the autopsy.

Antoine de La Sale's 'La Sale': the cannonball and the prince's head

The elderly tutor La Sale's didactic treatise for his charges (dated 1451) includes an eye-witness account of the siege of Anjou-held Naples by the Aragonese in 1438. It narrates the accidental death (or miracle, depending on the perspective of the chroniclers) of the infante Pedro of Castille, brother of King Alfonso the Magnanimous of Aragon. This article explores how "La Sale", an adapted version of the Middle French translation of Valerius Maximus's 'Facta et dicta memorabilia', frames and skews the anecdote towards an exploration of the reliability and authority of the tutor-narrator.