Culture
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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Contemporary Venice, Rome
The early modern Venetian Inquisition was thus an offshoot of, and theoretically under the control of, the Roman Inquisition.
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The Black Widows Veiled in Their Web of Darkness and Murder
The fascinating phenomenon of the Black Widow, it is worth a brief overview of women’s escalating role in the world…
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The Murderous Insanity of Love: Sex, Madness and the Law
The medical community also supported religious doctrine by declaring that nonconformist sexual behaviour was a form of insanity.
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An Introduction to Framing Female Killers in Contemporary Film
Given classical cinema’s obsession with sexual hierarchy, feminist film critics could choose the somewhat obvious task of amassing more and…
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The Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent
Suppose that there is a statutory regime that did not punish cannibalism and only lightly punished assisted suicide. May the…
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Transformation of the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Despite the fact that some critics view the period of the true Gothic as ending in the year 1820, others…
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Elements of Mythological Consciousness in Modern Culture
Diffusion areas of the cultural and society social life leads to a gradual loss of the judging possibility, evaluating or…
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The Gothic Eruption as Culture, Subculture, Counterculture
This article explores the relationship between the eruptions of the abnormal which are a key part of the Gothic genre…
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Spectral Pumpkins: Cultural Icons and the Gothic Everyday
Over the centuries, the pumpkin gourd has evolved from a simple foodstuff found in many homes and gardens around the…
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Gothic Horror Films, Hauntings, Dark Spaces and Specters
A consideration of the film trajectories taken by Gothic cinema, including an overview of some of the most influential films…
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European Vampires and the Early History of the Strigoi
For the first time since prehistory, humanity was taking the fight to the vampires that they had named the Strigoi
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“Madmen Know Nothing!” The Gothic Transgression and Madness
The haunting, and the ghosts themselves, which in gothic texts are often portrayed in a manner that creates mystery and…
