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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 166-189, April 2026.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
wiley   +1 more source

The man of law’s tale by Geoffrey Chaucer: the process of holiness in the low middle ages

open access: yesArReDia, 2015
Geoffrey Chaucer is considered by many scholars of literary space, as the father of English literature and language in which it is written. In his book The Canterbury Tales, the author makes an overview of the downtown English society Middle Ages and ...
Rafael Francisco Neves de Souza   +1 more
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The divided cloak as redemptio militiae: biblical stylization and hagiographical intertextuality in sulpicius severus' Vita Martini [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Martin of Tours (ca. 317-397) became one of the most popular saints of all times but in his own lifetime he was a controversial figure, amongst other reasons because he had remained a soldier after his baptism, which was forbidden at the time for clerics.
Praet, Danny
core   +1 more source

An archival case study : revisiting the life and political economy of Lauchlin Currie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper forms part of a wider project to show the significance of archival material on distinguished economists, in this case Lauchlin Currie (1902-93), who studied and taught at Harvard before entering government service at the US Treasury and ...
AH Hansen   +36 more
core   +3 more sources

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

Hagiography

open access: yes, 2015
Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eA Hundred Measures of Time: Tiruviruttam\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Book review of A Hundred Measures of Time: Tiruviruttam. By Nammalvar. Translated and introduced by Archana Venkatesan.
Clooney, Francis X., SJ
core   +2 more sources

The Social Genesis of the Hungarian Literary Field: Symbolic Revolution and the Fall of Aristocratic Authority

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 83-96, March 2026.
ABSTRACT At the center of this study is a key event in the formation of the modern Hungarian literary field: the series of debates known as the Lexicon Trial (1830–1831), which played a decisive role in the institutionalization and autonomization of literature during Hungary's Reform Era (1825–1848).
Ádám Havas
wiley   +1 more source

Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

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