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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.Summary This paper investigates the economic and political transformations of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (late eleventh to mid‐fourteenth centuries AD) through the lens of material culture and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Using the distribution of seven types of glazed pottery as archaeological indicators, the study examines changing patterns
Katerina Ragkou
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The Essence of Crisis Decision‐Making: Saving Ravenna During the 2023 Floods
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores decision‐making processes in crisis situations by proposing an interpretive framework grounded in multiple criteria of rationality. Crises, characterized by uncertainty, urgency, and ethical dilemmas, require critical choices that go beyond standard procedures.
Alexandra D'Angelo, Federico Toth
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 496-506, June 2026.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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, 2021 In this chapter I comment on an account of a miracle performed by the Virgin Mary through which Abbot Ambrose Autpert (d. 784) acquired a fluency of speech. Retrospectively, his biographer hints at the fact that this fluency was put to good use.
Dell’Acqua, Francesca +1 more
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My (post‐)post‐socialism: A personal photo essay
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract The paper is a multi‐modal, autoethnographic exploration of the visual remnants of lived post‐communism in a typical block of flats neighborhood of a Romanian city. By using film and digital photography, alongside narrative reflection, the author summons memories and blends observed and lived reality with creative non‐fiction to build an ...
Oana Borlea‐Stăncioi
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Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 153-179, June 2026.ABSTRACT In recent years, Orthodox Christianity has gained increasing visibility in global discussions on social ethics, encompassing issues such as climate change, environmental protection, peace, and human rights. The following paper examines the underlying metaethical framework of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Social Ethos Document, analyzing how it
Alexander Kriebitz, Stefanos Athanasiou
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 2-10, June 2026.ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Rising quantum hazards and flaws in conventional encryption make cloud‐based healthcare data security harder. Quantum‐Secure HealthChain, a new architecture using blockchain and quantum computing, improves medical data security, patient privacy, and data fidelity. Methods To prevent quantum attacks, the proposed system uses
Rajesh Bose +6 more
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Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147
, 2008 This thesis aims to revise the established history of the passage of the Second Crusade through the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia in 1147. In particular, it seeks to readdress the ill-fated advance of the army nominally headed by King Conrad III Staufen ...
Roche, Jason T.
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The Routledge handbook of the Byzantine city: from Justinian to Mehmet ii (ca. 500 – ca. 1500)
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors.
Zavagno, Luca, Bakirtzis, Nikolas
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