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When property becomes rent

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 45-56, February 2026.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
wiley   +1 more source

L'ENCEINTE SACRÉE DES TRADUCTIONS VULGAIRES DE LA BIBLE AU MOYEN ÂGE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
International audienceThe present article shows the originality of the old french translation of the Bible by exposing many linguistic facts of the adptation of the "Lingua sacra" concept to the old french language.Le présent article expose la ...
Salvador, Xavier-Laurent
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
wiley   +1 more source

Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 312-341, February 2026.
Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
wiley   +1 more source

The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

IDEAL ET REALITES DU CHANT MONASTIQUE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceL'apprentissage du chant en milieu monastique.La voix chantée et l'intégration dans une communauté.La dialectique soliste/chœur.La mémorisation et le contrôle d'une interprétation ...
Saulnier, Daniel
core  

GATHERING THE HARVEST: THE COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN ROMAN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 68-92, February 2026.
Summary When Rome colonized Britain, it created a transport network spanning the province. This transformed the Iron Age economy, creating large new markets which in turn supported specialized manufacturing. This article explores the impact of transportation on Roman agriculture – the core of the Romano‐British economy.
Rob Wiseman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
wiley   +1 more source

Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200. By Björn Weiler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-316-51842-7. xvi + 475pp. £29.99.

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal
Review of Bjorn Weiler, Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200, (Cambridge: Cambrodghe University Press, 2021).
Stephen Donnachie
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