Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
History, EarlyView.Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Първа международна конференция „Български нумизматични четения”, 10-12 ноември 2020, София, България
Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2020 Nikola Dyulgerov +2 more
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‘Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Roodscreen: Catfield and Beyond’
, 2017 A study (10,000 words) of the royal imagery of English medieval church screens, with special reference to the screen of Catfield church ...
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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History, EarlyView.Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
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Seven hundred years after Mondino de Luzzi (1275-1326): method and observation in medieval neuroanatomy. [PDF]
Arq NeuropsiquiatrMerlo Solopa V, Rota Conti S, Riva MA.
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Editorial for the Special Issue "Emerging Topics in Population Genetics and Molecular Anthropology: Integrating Genomes, Populations, and the Human Past". [PDF]
Genes (Basel)Šarac J, Auguštin DH.
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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