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Creative Accounting: Alternative Facts in the History of the Pirate, John Gow

Humanities, 2020
The narratives in Captain Charles Johnson’s General History of the Pyrates (1724–1728) have often been regarded as reliable accounts of pirate activity between 1690 and 1726, in part because the book’s long-held attribution to Daniel Defoe has, until ...
Noel Chevalier
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Hostis humani generis: Pirates and global maritime commerce

Research in Globalization
Maritime piracy is a pressing global economic and security challenge, posing significant threats to international shipping and global trade. Contemporary piracy is intrinsically linked to matters of governance and economic marginalization fostered by the
Francis A. Galgano
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.
In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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Le dossier Humani generis du Saint-Office

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The Holy Office’s file on the drafting of the encyclical Humani generis allows to understand how a simple instruction against French Jesuits’ theological tendencies, became a text of universal scope.
Fouilloux, Étienne
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Interpreting Humani Generis: The Evolution Controversy in the Melbourne Catholic Press, 1960–61*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 201-214, June 2024.
From mid‐1960 to early 1961, the Melbourne Catholic weekly newspaper The Advocate carried an extended controversy on evolutionary science and its compatibility with the teachings of the Church. An intra‐denominational debate among Catholic scientists, clergy and laymen, the controversy was shaped by the theological framework of Pope Pius XII's ...
Joel Barnes
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Problem hominizacije nakon enciklike »Humani generis« [PDF]

, 1964
Hoc ultimo decennio duae quaedam novitates in campo palaeontologico inaequalis momenti in lucem venerunt, i. e. partes fossiles sic dicti Eoanthropi dawsoni, methodo ingeniosa applicata, falsae inveniuntur; problema circa humanitatem Australopithecinarum
Vjekoslav Bajsić, Bajsić, Vjekoslav
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Entre ciencia y religión: evolución, paleoantropología y el ‘origen del hombre’ en España

Historia del Presente, 2012
Entre los años 1939 y 1959 tuvieron lugar amplias transformaciones de los objetivos, las prácticas y el contexto de la Paleoantropología, así como cambios fundamentales para el desarrollo de esta disciplina.
Francisco Pelayo
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Royal epistolary courtship in Latin? Arthur Tudor's “love letter” to Katherine of Aragon at the Archivo General de Simancas and Francesco Negri's Ars Epistolandi☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2024.
Abstract The Archivo General de Simancas in Valladolid has preserved a letter attributed to Arthur Tudor, categorized as ‘declarándole su ardiente pasión amorosa’ [declaring his ardent loving passion]. Its recipient has been thought to be Katherine of Aragon.
K. P. S. Janssen, Nadia T. van Pelt
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