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Disagreement reduces overconfidence and prompts exploration in young children
Abstract Can the experience of disagreement lead young children to reason in more sophisticated ways? Across two preregistered studies, four‐ to six‐year‐old US children (N = 136, 50% female, mixed ethnicities, data collected 2020–2022) experienced either a disagreement or an agreement with a confederate about a causal mechanism after being presented ...
Antonia F. Langenhoff+2 more
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Traditional twentieth-century histories and art historical narratives point to a series of revivals in Byzantine art and literature in the ninth, twelfth and fourteenth centuries, thus representing Byzantine culture as a constant sequence of deaths and rebirths motivated by its internal ‘Classical’ component.
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Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered
This work is the most complete investigation to date of the enigmatic ivory rings found in graves of fifth‐ to seventh‐century lowland Britain. This new survey of the archaeological evidence has produced a corpus of 752 ivory rings from seventy‐eight cemeteries.
Rowan S. English
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An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature
This article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad. This historical investigation leads to a dual conclusions that the Arab perception of Byzantium not only forged an “imaginary Byzantium” but also marked the emergence of Arab self ...
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Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 565-595, Fall 2024.
Jake Zuehl
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Rus’, Byzantium and Western Europe in the late twelfth — early thirteenth centuries [PDF]
The paper discusses the little known facts of the history of political relations between Old Rus’, the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe in the time between 1163 and 1253. It analyzes the evidence that the Russian and foreign sources provide concerning the long stay of the Russian prince Mstislav Yurevich in the Holy Land as the governor for the ...
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Where Should Europe End? Constructing the Eastern Frontier
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 62, Issue S1, Page 17-37, September 2024.
Alina Mungiu‐Pippidi
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