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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient <i>Borrelia</i> genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever. [PDF]

open access: yesScience
Swali P   +31 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source

Selective mortality during famine and plague events in medieval London. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Godde K   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Jurash archaeological site is located on Wādī Bīshah near the city of Khamīs Mushayt in southwestern Saudi Arabia. It has a fort and other remains from the pre‐Islamic period (third century bc to early seventh century ad) and a settlement with two mosques from the Early Islamic period (early seventh to early 11th centuries ad).
James A. Harrell
wiley   +1 more source

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