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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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A History of Medieval Spain [PDF]

Hispanic American Historical Review, 1976
Thomas N. Bisson, Joseph F. O'Callaghan
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False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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Relics as Instruments of Divine Leadership in the First Crusade

Religions
The use of relics for exhortation was not a novelty of the First Crusade, but it is remarkable how, in the most crucial moments, various relics were found and used effectively to inspire pilgrims. Beyond their motivational function, they also contributed
Sándor Ónadi
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Medievalism: A Critical History

Práticas da História, 2016
Review of David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2015, pp. 229.
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The Sea-salt Industry in Medieval Scotland

, 2012
Until the nineteenth century in Scotland, salt was the only bulk food-preservative available. A producer of salt on a non-domestic scale by at least the beginning of the twelfth century, Scotland was exporting it by the later fourteenth century and ...
Oram, Richard
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Muslim History : Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation

, 1998
This article seeks to review the common assumption of a clear, largely endogenous, continuous and singular medieval period in Muslim history. The assumption implicates a romantic vision of history as one of continuity, and the possibility of writing the ...
Al-Azmeh, Aziz,
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Of Numbers and Frogs: Wending One's Way through the Mind Fields of Symbolic Interaction Identity

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Gary T. Marx
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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