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Social capital and collusion: the case of merchant guilds [PDF]
, 2003 Merchant guilds have been portrayed as ‘social networks’ that generated beneficial ‘social capital’ by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action.
Dessì, R, Ogilvie, S
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Sons, apprentices and successors in late medieval and early modern London: the transmission of skills and work opportunities [PDF]
, 2009 Book synopsis: The existence and changing of generations in family life, business and politics was a central feature of towns as well as rural societies in earlier times. Even so, it remains understudied by urban historians of the pre-modern period. This
Harding, Vanessa
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The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence [PDF]
, 2004 The catastrophic impact of fishing pressure on species such as cod and herring is well documented. However, the antiquity of their intensive exploitation has not been established. Systematic catch statistics are only available for ca.
Barrett, J H, Locker, A M, Roberts, C M
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A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020 This paper reviews the book entitled “The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna's Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D.” by Ahmad al-Rahim.
Kenan Tekin
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Religions, 2019 In the thirteenth century, following Neoplatonic and Patristic trends, art and aesthetic experience were still treated as symbolic, as “vestiges” or “echoes” of the divine that lead us to it.
Oleg Bychkov
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Olivi, the Beguins, and the Blurred Boundaries of Academic and Popular Heresy
I Quaderni del MAESThis article conducts an initial exploration of the ways in which academic and non-academic heresy blended into one another in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Justine L. Trombley
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The Muslims in Medieval Lviv: linguistic, historical contexts
Nalans, 2022 The existence of Muslim communities in the medieval cities of Europe is an actual issue. Information of some medieval narrative texts demonstrated the presence of Muslims as a separate urban stratum.
Illia Parshyn, Krystyna Mereniuk
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