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Yet the quanto flagrabrant pectora voto is all that flattery would allow to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Earnest appeals were made by the family and midwife to Nuesta Señora de Tulantongo, to whom the ex-voto is dedicated. 106 Nor can we overlook the early modern preoccupation with mood and state of mind.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In essence, then, the ex-voto is a promise materialized into an object, the likes of which represents a reciprocal and successfully executed transaction between an individual and a divine image.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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A third, as shown in this ex-voto from the eighteenth century, takes a bad fall while he is collecting corn from a storage area on a rooftop. 109 In these personal testimonies from the eighteenth century, the victims miraculously survived their ordeals.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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This particular ex-voto is especially revealing of the comfortable relationship between divine and rational medicine, two seemingly opposed systems of thought, which, in the disease-laden milieu of eighteenth-century Mexico, tended to complement each other.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The first part of the explanation is what Hondurans refer to as a voto de castigo (punishment vote) against the Liberal Party.
Daniel Altschuler: Preliminary Honduran Election Analysis, Part Two 2009
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We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about.
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We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about.
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We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about.
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We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about.
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