From powerholders to stakeholders: State‐building with elite compensation in early medieval China
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 607-623, April 2025.Abstract How do rulers soften resistance by local powerholders to state‐building efforts? This paper highlights a strategy of compensation, where elites receive government offices in exchange for relinquishing their localist interests, and become uprooted and integrated into the national political system as stakeholders. We explore this strategy in the
Joy Chen, Erik H. Wang, Xiaoming Zhang
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Analysis of Late Antique and Medieval Glass from Koper (Capodistria, SI): Insights into Glass Consumption and Production at the Turn of the First Millennium CE. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Šmit Ž, Milavec T.
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Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
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Unlocking Adolescence: A Novel Approach to Approximate the Sociocultural Implications of Puberty in Medieval Spain. [PDF]
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E-conference: Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Fibulae, 12–13 May 2022, Izmir, Türkiye
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]
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Why couple infertility is historically a female‐driven problem?
Andrology, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 675-680, May 2025.Abstract Background The history of studies in the field of infertility represents a chapter of great interest in gender issues. Objectives This paper aims to delve deep into the historical roots of the aspect of gender inequality related to couple infertility, with a journey back in time, from classical antiquity to the contemporary age, reporting ...
Linda Vignozzi +2 more
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Castration has been a significant theme in mythology, religious traditions, and historical practices, often symbolizing transformation, sacrifice, and divine punishment. While the term is frequently associated with orchiectomy (removal of the testes), this study argues that penectomy (removal of the penis) must also be considered, particularly
Coskun Kaya
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High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. [PDF]
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