Religion by Smith, H

“…In The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers reinterpret the role of Europe's overseas corporations in early modern global history, uncovering their unique global sociology in the years 1550 ...…”

'Je ne me réputerai totalement mourir' : tense, death, survival in Rabelais’s Pantagruel by Kenny, N

“…It is both a discreet grammatical pulse fostering, amongst other things, certain kinds of posthumous presence and also, within Rabelais's outlandish <em>elocutio</em>, an expressive tool for making such presence disturb or console protagonist and reader.…”

Unauthorized fictions: political conflict as spectacle and the question of trust in the age of Trump by Hediger, V, Simon, FM

“…Why do supporters of former US president Donald Trump make short tribute videos which resemble mainstream action film trailers with their idol as the protagonist? And why does the Trump campaign use a similar trailer template for video of rallies and campaign spots? …”

The self-presentation of Pepyankh the Middle at Meir: scandal, religious institutions and participation, the next world by Baines, J

“…The titles on the lintel give a sense of the protagonist’s official role. The main southern inscription, to be read first, deals with more public aspects of Pepyankh’s life, during which he had been accused of improper action. …”

‘El mundo iluminado, y yo despierta’: screening Sor Juana in the films of Bemberg and Pereda by Bollig, B

“…Literary life has proved a popular subject for filmmakers over the years: poets in particular have become the fictionalized protagonists of biographical pictures or historical dramas.¹ The question that occupies this chapter is what happens to the literary work when the writer becomes the subject of the filmmaker’s attentions. …”

Attitudes to Jewish and Roman power in the Gospel and Acts of Peter by Bockmuehl, M

“…The apocryphal Gospel and Acts of Peter exemplify a tendency to seek analogies with the apostolic generation’s protagonists to make sense of present experiences such enmity. …”

Fighting with tales: 2 the Byzantine book of Syntipas the Philosopher by Toth, I

“…The text features an array of colourful characters – a great king, a young prince, a wily wife, an erudite teacher, and seven wise men – and a series of twenty-four tales told by the protagonists in the main story. An epigram and a prologue disclose the identities of the author, and of the translator of the book into Greek, as well as of his patron, and help contextualize the early transmission of the BSP. …”

Innovation and experimentation — landscape in early 16th-century Venetian prints and drawings by Whistler, C

“…The aspects that caught Michiel’s attention such as the filling of the visual field with natural elements, providing an inviting experience, and the contrasts of wild or rocky stretches with luminous skies, were already characteristic of engravings and independent drawings, notably by Giulio Campagnola (c.1482-post 1517) and by his adoptive son, Domenico Campagnola (c.1500-1564), who were each in their separate ways major protagonists in the development of the Venetian landscape in small-scale monochrome works of art.…”

2001: Argentine narrative in the new millennium by Blejmar, J, Bollig, B

“…At the same time, other writers made abject characters the protagonists of their stories and agitated for a literature that strives to be both autonomous and political at the same time.…”