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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing 600 years of long-distance Atlantic cod trade in medieval and post-medieval Oslo using stable isotopes and ancient DNA. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci
Martínez-García L, Pulido A, Ferrari G, Hufthammer AK, Vedeler M, Hirons A, Kneale C, Barrett JH, Star B.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
wiley   +1 more source

Metal(loid)s and their bioaccessibility in urban soils from residential areas of a medieval mining town. [PDF]

Environ Geochem Health
Ettler V, Waldhauserová J, Drahota P, Tuhý M, Mihaljevič M, Racek M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the emergence of domesticated grapevine in Italy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ucchesu M, Ivorra S, Bonhomme V, Pastor T, Aranguren B, Bacchetta G, Bosi G, Cardarelli A, Depalmas A, de Zuccato G, Florenzano A, Gibaja-Bao JF, Mariotti Lippi M, Mazzucco N, Mercuri AM, Mineo M, Mori Secci M, Nisbet R, Pellacani G, Perazzi P, Rottoli M, Salzani L, Sarigu M, Usai A, Bouby L.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MORAL REALISM, ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’, AND TRANS+ RIGHTS

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Current debate on the validity of an ethical basis for trans+ rights is often expressed as a clash between moral norms based on a biological understanding of sex, and a social and cultural understanding of gender. I will argue a moral realist case for legal and political equality for trans+ people based on objective, universal, and shared ...
Maria Exall
wiley   +1 more source

A Heavy Issue: Changes in Body Size in London Before, During and After the Black Death. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Mongillo J, Cerviero A, Zedda N, Rinaldo N, Bramanti B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the origins of Carnelian ornaments in Northeast Africa: morphological, technological and chemical compositional analyses of beads from medieval and post-medieval upper Nubia, Sudan. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci
Kenoyer JM, Then-Obłuska J, Law R, Dussubieux L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source