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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
wiley   +1 more source

Continuity and Discontinuity in Artefact Distributions from Multi-Period Archaeological Sites. [PDF]

J Archaeol Method Theory
Oksanen E, Bevan A, Carter A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Seven hundred years after Mondino de Luzzi (1275-1326): method and observation in medieval neuroanatomy. [PDF]

Arq Neuropsiquiatr
Merlo Solopa V, Rota Conti S, Riva MA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Climatic conditions, landscape, and habitat quality drive patch occupancy and larval density of a threatened mire butterfly

Insect Science, EarlyView.
The Moorland Clouded Yellow (Colias palaeno) benefited from cattle grazing in three different ways by (i) fostering the nectar supply; (ii) enhancing rejuvenation of the host plant (Vaccinium uliginosum); and (iii) improving microclimatic conditions for successful development of the immature stages.
Florian Fumy, Stefan Hafner, Georg Paulus, Thomas Fartmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population genomics, demography, and circum-Baltic connectivity of Early Medieval southwestern Finland. [PDF]

Genome Biol
O'Sullivan RJ, Nordfors U, Saari NJ, Majander K, Taavitsainen JP, Salo K, Rohrlach AB, Salmela E, Lamnidis TC, Traverso L, Krause J, Peltola S, Onkamo P.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
wiley   +1 more source

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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‘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
core  

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source