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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Aim The isolated nature of islands makes them particularly vulnerable to climate change. The freshwater fishes of the Greater Antilles remain understudied and are further threatened by habitat fragmentation and the introduction of exotic invasive species.
Sheila Rodríguez‐Machado +4 more
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Pliny’s Natural History: a medium for preservation and a cause of loss of knowledge
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2006 A História Natural de Plínio: meio de conservação e causa de perda de conhecimento. A História Natural de Plínio pretende ser um inventário do mundo conhecido para os romanos. Este artigo discute, na sua primeira parte, as razões desse projeto.
Jacob Isager
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Natural Products from Mexican Medicinal Plants as Promising Trypanocidal Drugs
ChemistrySelect, Volume 10, Issue 37, October 6, 2025.Chagas disease (American Trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Worldwide it is one of the seventeen neglected tropical diseases. There is a need of new drugs. This review assesses the literature (2012‐2024) of secondary metabolites isolated from Mexican plants active against this parasite.
Karla Daniela Rodríguez‐Hernández +2 more
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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Entre cabanos e plebeus: a presença da história clássica romana na obra Motins Políticos
Revista Eletrônica História em Reflexão, 2010 O presente trabalho tem como finalidade explorar aspectos da obra Motins Políticos ou história dos principais acontecimentos políticos na Província do Pará desde o ano de 1821 até 1835, do historiador Domingos Antônio Raiol, por se constituir numa ...
Luciano Demetrius Barbosa Lima
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A TUMBA DE SÃO PEDRO E A SUCESSÃO APOSTÓLICA
Práxis Teológica, 2014 Este artigo se concentra na história da reação da comunidade científica às escavações da assim-chamada Tumba de São Pedro na necrópole romana sob a Basílica de São Pedro, no Vaticano, e analisa as implicações dos resultados de tais escavações para o ...
Milton Luiz Torres
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.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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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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