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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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A Note on the Offence, Sentence and Trial in the Medieval Tamil Epigraphy

Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research, 2020
Judicial administration was strictly rendered by the organizations at village, town and state level headed by respective authorities and temple authorities in the medieval Tamil polity. At the same time tax evations, misappropriation of public properties, temple properties, accidental and planned murders, assassinations, attempt to suicide, bribing ...
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Derbent in the history of Zoroastrianism in the Caucasus

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
Introduction. For many centuries, the Caucasus has acted as a bridge, through which there was an intensive exchange not only of economic achievements, but also of the ideology of the highly developed regions of the Mediterranean, Minor and Central Asia. 
A. А. Kudryavtsev
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The Roman presbyters and la bella scrittura Filocaliana

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 101-133, February 2026.
The long‐standing collaboration between Bishop Damasus of Rome and Furius Dionysius Filocalus has prompted extensive scholarly research over the years, thereby forging a lasting and inseparable link between them. This article does not seek to undermine that bond; rather, it demonstrates – on the basis of surviving epigraphic evidence – that Filocalus ...
Julia Borczyńska
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 12-29, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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La escritura prehumanística en la Murcia bajomedieval: un estudio epigráfico de la explanatio clypei del escudo de Chacón en la capilla de los Vélez

Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, 2018
This paper presents the epigraphic study of the inscription in the Chacon’s coat of arms, located in the outside of the chapel of velez (murcia’s Cathedral).
Rodrigo José Fernández Martínez
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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa, Jesús García Sánchez   +1 more
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The Standardisation of ‘Classical Latin’: The Case of Terence's Text

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 479-487, November 2024.
Abstract This short piece aims to provide further evidence supporting two of Adams's main claims: (1) the situation of late Republican Latin cannot be isolated from other diachronic varieties, and (for the purpose of my analysis) earlier Latin in particular, as regards both the absence of systematic standardisation and the presence of sporadic and ...
Giuseppe Pezzini
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Transmitting Literature, Preserving Language. Case Studies of Classical Latin from Literary Manuscripts from the Roman East (I bc–II ad)1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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