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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Lost-wax casting: A widespread technique to produce copper alloy adornments in Atlantic Europe since the mid-second millennium BC

International audienceLost-wax casting is a metalworking technique that has long been regarded as an innovation imported from the eastern Mediterranean and only widely used in Western Europe since the Late Bronze Age.
Nordez, Marilou
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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ON THE ISSUE OF CHILD BURIAL GROUNDS ON THE TERRITORY OF WESTERN SIBERIA (based on the Bronze Age adornments research)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The paper deals with the issue of child burial grounds of the Bronze Age on theterritoryofWestern Siberia. It contains the results of quantitative and qualitative analyses of the burial mounds goods, a specific set of attributes and values associated ...
O. V. Umerenkova
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
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Adortments in burial ceremony of the timber-grave culture: social and age-group aspect

, 2004
There are numerous burials with adornments among the complexes of the Timber-Grave community. They contain the temple's pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, compound bracelets, plait adornments, combs and clothing adornments, among others.
Цимиданов, В.В.
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Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun: Nuxalk Governance, Language, and the Museum Public

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This review suggests that Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun reframes the ethnographic gallery as a site of protocol rather than as a trophy case. Co‐curated by Snxakila—Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk Nation) and Jennifer Kramer (UBC MOA), the exhibition centers law, lineage, and language to present belongings and supernatural beings ...
Cheyanne Brown Armstrong, Mark Turin
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Hydrogen Storage Properties of Vanadium‐Decorated Holey Graphyne: A Density Functional Theory Study

Energy Storage, Volume 8, Issue 5, August 2026.
A V‐decorated HGY exhibits strong yet reversible H2 adsorption, delivering a hydrogen storage capacity of 6.43 wt% with an adsorption energy of −0.46 eV and a desorption temperature of 378 K. ABSTRACT Hydrogen storage remains a key challenge for the practical deployment of hydrogen‐based energy systems due to the limited storage capacity and weak ...
Poonam Parkar, Ajay Chaudhari, Brahmananda Chakraoborty   +2 more
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