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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 430-458, August 2023., 2023
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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Visions of Statesmanship Across The Atlantic: Presidential Masculinity and the American Response to Benito Mussolini

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 667-690, July 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores how hegemonic masculinity forged discourses of modern statesmanship in the United States and Italy in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It unpacks the ‘presidential masculinity’ of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and compares these gendered performances of political leadership in the United States to
Jaap Verheul
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HUMAN UNIQUENESS: DEBATES IN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 384-404, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In both science and theology, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the nature of human uniqueness. As a background to this Symposium on the subject, a summary is here given of the history of Homo sapiens that is being revealed by fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence.
Eric Priest
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Indigenous‐Based Adult Education Learning Material Development: Integration, Practical Challenges, and Contextual Considerations in Focus

Education Research International, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Indigenous perspectives hold promising opportunities for education and practice. It is possible to entertain indigenous knowledge into adult education through modelling, guided practice, and application approaches. However, there are several limiting factors to do so.
Yalalem Assefa, Shireen Jamal Mohammed, Ehsan Namaziandost   +2 more
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Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum: How Beta-Israel Uses Liturgical Music to Maintain its Roots Within a Foreign Culture

, 2023
Known as Falasha, Ethiopian Jews lived in isolation for centuries practicing an ancient, pre-talmudic form of Judaism, which traces its origins back to Solomon and Sheba.” It was not until 1984 that this Falasha community, known as Beta-Israel, was ...
Dicker, Yehuda
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Getatchew Haile, Ethiopian Studies in Honour of Amha Asfaw

Aethiopica, 2019
Review
Massimo Villa
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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