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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

Martyrdom of Roman Catholic clergy in Lager Soldau [PDF]

, 2021
Bartosz Januszewski
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Priests-farmers: the role of agriculture in the life of the Olonets diocese parish clergy (18th and early 20th centuries)

Studia Humanitatis
The paper discusses the problems of providing clergy with land for farming. It was revealed that the sources of replenishment of land allotments used by the clergy differed markedly depending on the specifics of individual parishes.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
doaj  

Una comunidad textual ideal en la Castilla del primer Doscientos según el Dialogus libri vitae de Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (V-VI): sobre la eficacia de Aristóteles y Alejandro Magno en la configuración de un saber letrado

Cuadernos del CEMYR
El capítulo VI de la sección V del Dialogus libri vitae, escrito por el arzobispo de Toledo Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada hacia 1214 ofrece algunos elementos relativos a la función de los eclesiásticos letrados en una comunidad ideal.
Amaia Arizaleta
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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project‐Based Platforms

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill, Kate Dangar, Asangi Mira Gunawansa   +2 more
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Strategic (Inconsistent) Disclosures and Sophisticated Investors: Evidence from Hedge Funds

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent SEC regulations require that qualified hedge fund advisers provide their investors with narrative disclosures of their business and operations. We find that 40% of these disclosures omit or de‐emphasize information regarding advisers' operational and investment risks when compared to other sources of public information. Funds with such “
YICHANG LIU, JOSHUA MADSEN, FRANK S. ZHOU   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source