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Philology and Sacred: Church Slavonic Language in the Views of Mychailo Maksymovych

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Ìсторія України. Українознавство: історичні та філософські науки
Purpose. The article attempts to discover how and under the influence of what factors Mykhailo Maksymovych perceived and described the Church Slavonic language and how the scholar’s vision of this issue influenced other assessments and characteristics in
Pavlo Yeremieiev
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Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1269-1284, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli   +11 more
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Differential Mortality Trends at the Intersection of Climate Change and Urban Growth From 13th to 18th Century Berlin

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The purpose of this study is to evaluate differences in adult mortality risk at the intersection of climate change and urbanization between late medieval (c. 1200–1500) and early modern (c. 1500–1800) Berlin. After the founding of the city in c.
Emily J. Brennan
wiley   +1 more source

On Medieval Storytelling. The Story of Melchizedek in Certain Slavonic Texts (Palaea Historica and the Apocryphal Cycle of Abraham) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Translated by Katarzyna GucioThe article analyses the story of the prophet-king Melchizedek (mentioned in Gen 14,17–20, Ps 110,4 and three passages in Heb: 5,6–10, 6,20, 7,1–17), recorded in Slavonic historical texts: the first and second translation of ...
Skowronek, Małgorzata
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Sexuality and nationality: homophobic discourse and the 'national threat' in contemporary Latvia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper considers why attitudes towards gays and lesbians in Latvia appear to be more intolerant than in all other EU member states. The paper argues that while the legacy of communist discourses on homosexuality and the impact of post-communist ...
Mole, R.C.M.
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Cultural Influences, Experiences and Interventions Targeting Self‐Management Behaviours for Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes in First‐Generation Immigrants: A Scoping Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 2929-2945, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim To map the existing evidence and identify research gaps regarding the self‐management of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes among first‐generation immigrants ≥ 18 years. Design A scoping review followed the JBI guidelines and was in accordance with the PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews.
Min Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Языковая архаика революционной эпохи

open access: yesRevue des études slaves, 2019
The article is devoted to the changes that took place in the Russian literary language of the revolution era. The changes that occurred in the Russian language of that time include the emergence of a significant number of slavicisms, formerly absent from
Aleksandra Pletneva
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
wiley   +1 more source

The competition for souls: Sava of Serbia and consumer choice in religion in the thirteenth century Balkans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
SUMMARY The word αίρεσις , heresy means choice and in a world where religious belief was taken for granted the history of Catharism in Europe can be explained through believers exercising many of the criteria they were later to adapt to choosing secular
Roach, A.P.
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Living in the Paraindustrial

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 131-139, March 2025.
Abstract This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the ‘Rust Belt’ of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is ...
Christine J. Walley
wiley   +1 more source

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