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A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 576-600, November 2026.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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The Role of Phonetic Processes in the Formation of Turkic Ethnonyms [PDF]

, 2020
The present article deals with the investigation of role of phonetic processes in the formation of ethnonyms in Germanic and Turkic languages. As we know analysing the ethnonyms demands some background knowledge on the history, geography, culture and ...
Makhmudovich, Kuldashev Akram
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A Historical Analysis of Science, Equity, and Reading: The Summary of Investigations Relating to Reading

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
ABSTRACT This historical analysis focuses on the 72‐year legacy of the Summary Investigations of Reading Research (SIRR) originally written by William S. Gray as a monograph in 1925, and continuing under the authorship of Helen Robinson and Samuel Weintraub until 1997.
Catherine Compton‐Lilly, Rebecca Rogers   +1 more
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«Do we know the Arameans?» (SAA 17, 176). The Use of Ethnonyms in the Aramaic Documents from Egypt

, 2021
The contribution deals with the question of defining and identifying ethnicity in the multicultural environment of Achaemenid Elephantine, using the apparently most obvious indicator of ethnicity, namely ethnonyms.
Grassi, Giulia Francesca
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Etymology of the ethnonyms referring to the Saami/Lapps in the light of European historiography [PDF]

, 2017
The article comprises a linguistic and etymological analysis of the ethnonyms referring to the Saami / Lapps (represented by the Finnish exonym Lappi and endonym Saami).
Wojan, Katarzyna
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 441-466, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Ethnonyms in Ivan Kotlyarevsky’s Poem Aeneid [PDF]

Гдакович М. Етноніми в поемі Івана Котляревського Енеїда / Мар’яна Гдакович // Slavia Orientalis. - 2024. - Том 73. - № 1. - С. 1-16.У статті досліджено особливості семантики й функціонування етнонімів у поемі І. Котляревського «Енеїда». Встановлено, що
Hdakovych, M.S., ORCID ID:, Гдакович, М.С.   +2 more
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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