Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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First evidence of bronze production in the Iron Age I southern Levant: A direct link to the Arabah copper polity. [PDF]
Eshel T +3 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting. [PDF]
Yeshurun R +6 more
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
Jackson I +96 more
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2000-year fish bone record reveals transition to commercial fisheries during climatic change
Buss DL +34 more
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Dietary variability in Middle Holocene South American shellmounds: Insights from isotopic analysis and an adapted Bayesian MixSIAR model. [PDF]
Di Giusto M +8 more
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The genomic history of East Asian Middle Neolithic millet- and rice-agricultural populations. [PDF]
Xiong J +40 more
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