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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights
Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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Rent–wage inequality in Mexico City, 1770–1930
Abstract This article traces trends of income inequality in Mexico City from 1770 to 1930 by measuring the gaps between urban real estate rents and unskilled wages. The article presents the first long‐term series of real estate values and rental income for Mexico.
Amílcar E. Challú +2 more
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THE FIRST MILLIMETER DETECTION OF A NON-ACCRETING ULTRACOOL DWARF [PDF]
The well-studied M9 dwarf TVLM 513–46546 is a rapid rotator ( P rot ∼ 2 ?> hr) hosting a stable, dipolar magnetic field of ∼3 kG surface strength. Here we report its detection with ALMA at 95 GHz at a mean flux density of 56 ± 12 μJy, making it the first
P. G. Williams +15 more
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On the nobility of urban notables [PDF]
The claim to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (teseyyüd) was a widespread phenomenon that afflicted the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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Identity and Difference among the Toulouse Elite at the end of the Middle Ages: Discourse, epresentations and Practices [PDF]
In Toulouse, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in a difficult and changing context, the urban elites, embodied by the well-known Capitoulat, actually make up a heterogeneous, mobile, and divided group.
Lamazou-Duplan, Véronique
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Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham
Abstract Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third.
A.T. Brown
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The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt
Abstract A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic.
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
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Complex optical/UV and X-ray variability of the Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419–577 [PDF]
We present detailed broadband UV/optical to X-ray spectral variability of the Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577 using six XMM-Newton observations performed during 2002-2003.
Main Pal +8 more
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John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad [PDF]
This article traces the rise of John Lamont, a Highland planter in nineteenth-century Trinidad. The island was subsumed into the British Empire in 1802, the third wave of colonization in the British West Indies and just thirty-two years before slavery ...
Mullen, Stephen
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The view from Fortingall: the worlds of the Book of the Dean of Lismore [PDF]
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MacGregor, M.D.
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