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Climate and society in European history

WIREs Climate Change, 2020
This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and 2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in medieval and early modern Europe (here, c. 700–1815 CE). Within this review,
F. Ljungqvist, A. Seim, Heli Huhtamaa
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Mesa Redonda Complex (Villaverde del Río, Seville): a tell above the Lower Guadalquivir Valley

Trabajos de Prehistoria
The archaeological site of Mesa Redonda (Villaverde del Río, Seville) was the subject of archaeological research at the end of the 1970s, and only recently has new research been carried out.
Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Martin Bartelheim, Döbereiner Chala-Aldana, Javier Escudero Carrillo, Francisco José García Fernández, Eduardo Ferrer Albelda, Pablo Garrido González, Fernando Daza Pastrana   +7 more
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Armenian Expedition of Emperor Constantius II in 338/339 A.D. and Military Units of Thracian Expeditionary Army at the Near East: on the Late Roman Military Organization in the Mid-4th Century

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The present paper deals with the history of military corps, which Roman emperor Constantius II sent to Great Armenia in 338/339 A.D. for to fight with the Persians.
10.15688/jvolsu4.2017.5.26
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Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe

PLoS Pathogens, 2018
Studying ancient DNA allows us to retrace the evolutionary history of human pathogens, such as Mycobacterium leprae, the main causative agent of leprosy. Leprosy is one of the oldest recorded and most stigmatizing diseases in human history.
V. Schuenemann, V. Schuenemann, C. Avanzi, Ben Krause-Kyora, Alexander Seitz, A. Herbig, S. Inskip, Marion Bonazzi, Ella Reiter, C. Urban, D. Pedersen, G. M. Taylor, Pushpendra Singh, Pushpendra Singh, G. Stewart, P. Velemínský, J. Likovský, A. Marcsik, Erika Molnár, G. Pálfi, V. Mariotti, Alessandro Riga, M. G. Belcastro, J. Boldsen, A. Nebel, S. Mays, H. Donoghue, S. Zakrzewski, A. Benjak, K. Nieselt, S. Cole, S. Cole, J. Krause   +32 more
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Radical Succession: Hagiography, Reform, and Franciscan Identity in the Convent of the Abbess Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

Religions, 2021
In this article, I study in depth the first vita of the Franciscan Tertiary abbess Juana de la Cruz (Vida y fin de la bienaventurada virgen sancta Juana de la Cruz, written c. 1534), examining it as a chronicle that narrativizes the origins and reform of
Pablo Acosta-García
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PAPAL CHAPLAIN AND SUBDEACON EGIDIUS. JUDGE DELEGATE AND LEGATE IN HUNGARY AT THE SAME TIME?

Истраживања, 2017
The present paper gives a short summary about the course of life of Egidius, a papal chaplain and subdeacon, who spent ca. three years in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary in the late 1220’s as a judge delegate.
GÁBOR BARABÁS
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One god and one king: The unification of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson

Filologia Germanica
This article is a diachronic analysis of Snorri’s account of the unification of Norway, partly supplementing and partly revising the argument put forward in my book Society and Politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla (Berkeley 1991).
Sverre Bagge
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Two Seals of the Strategоs of Asia Minor’s Themes from the North Black Sea

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The seals of Fers Tsotzikos as anthypatos Patrikios and Strategos of Cappadocia and TornikVarazvatche as protospatharios and strategos of Claudia (?) were found in Cherson and Tamatarkha.
Valeriy P. Stepanenko
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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