Focus on Open Access Autumn 2026

Discover selected highlights from our latest contributions published in Open Access, available on our BrepolsOnline platform.

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On the Use of Drawing in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Expeditions for the Development of Hispanic America
By Juan Ricardo Rey Márquez
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Published in:
Images and Institutions
The Visual Culture of Scientific Societies in the Age of Baroque
Book edited by Matthijs Jonker & Katherine Reinhart

 

With the Five Senses
Spectacular Devices for Engaging the Audience in the Middle Ages
By Francesc Massip & Alba Knijff
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Published in:
The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies, Rituals, and Devotional Practices
Book edited by Zuleika Murat, Valentina Baradel & Sara Carreño

 

Reconsidering ḥāras
The Structure, Neighbourhoods, and Streets of Early Nineteenth-Century Cairo
By Naoko Fukami
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Published in:
Cities through Time
Glimpses into Urbanity and Community in Mediaeval to Modern West Asia and Egypt
Book edited by Tomoko Morikawa

 

Rising from the Ashes
The Main Chapel of Valencia Cathedral Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
By Eduardo Carrero Santamaría
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Published in:
Sound and Space in Early Modern Valencia c.1400–c.1700
Sonido y espacio en la ciudad de Valencia
Book edited by Eduardo Carrero Santamaría, Tess Knighton & Francesc Orts-Ruiz

 

Des souris et des cannibales
La transsubstantiation dans l’histoire de la philosophie moderne
Par Catherine König-Pralong
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Published in:
L’humain, le réel et le divin
Implications philosophiques et théologiques de l’eucharistie, 11e-18e siècle
Livre édité par Aurélien Chukurian & Ueli Zahnd

 

Talking Magpies, a Sycophant Parrot and the Ornitho-cliens in Martialʼs First Century Rome
By Alberto Marina Castillo
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Published in:
Euphrosyne 53 (2025)
Journal for Classical Philology
Journal edited by Paulo Farmhouse Alberto

Chemistry at the Opera
Spectacle and the Science of Anti-Flammability at the Paris Opéra (1820s–1880s)
By Sofie Lachapelle & Kimberly Francis
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Published in:
Performing Science, Mediating Knowledge
Science, Showmanship, and the Performance of Authority in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book edited by Nele Wynants & Eva Andersen

 

Eusebius of Alexandria and the Corpus of Homilies Ascribed to Him
State of research and new perspectives
By Rémi Gounelle, Aidan Conti & Zbigniew Izydorczyk
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Published in:
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524 and 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
Book by Rémi Gounelle, Aidan Conti & Zbigniew Izydorczyk

 

Zoomorphic Motifs/Motivos zoomorfos
By Janusz Z. Wołoszyn & Liz Gonzales Ruiz
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Published in:
Toro Muerto, vol. I
A Catalogue of Iconographic Motifs in Rock Art / Un catálogo de motivos iconográficos del arte rupestre
Book by Janusz Z. Wołoszyn & Liz Gonzales Ruiz

 

The Earliest Graffiti in Latin Characters in the Church of the Nativity
Edited by Clément Dussart
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Published in:
Writing in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
Inscription and Graffiti in a Multilingual and Multigraphic Perspective
Book edited by Estelle Ingrand-Varenne & Clément Dussart

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