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Beds, Handkerchiefs, and Moving Objects in Othello [PDF]
, 2017 This paper argues that a viewer watching Othello in an unfamiliar language, without subtitles, can more narrowly focus upon the life of things in the play and in adaptations or appropriations of it.
Sujata Iyengar
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma DergisiAlongside narratives of the rarity, beauty, and value of rubies, owning assets (e.g. state, power) has also been expressed in the literature on medieval Anatolian Turkish literature with reference to rubies.
Meryem Gürbüz , Hüseyin Doğan
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Ahsikent – A Unique Site of Fergana Valley
Этническая культура, 2020 The article is devoted to the issues of Ahsikent’s archaeological sites museumification. The aim of the article is to consider Ahsikent, which is the only thoroughly explored historical city of Ferghana, where as a result of archeological studies pottery
Jasurbek Z. Akhmedov
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Handicraft Specialization of Homesteads in the Central Part of the Golden Horde Bolgar
Археология евразийских степей, 2021 Archaeological studies of 2011–2020 in the central part of Bolgar fortifi ed settlement have allowed to identify the boundaries of urban estates of the second half of the 13th – early 15th centuries.
Denis Yu. Badeev
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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
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The Commercial Significance of the Venetian Tana in the 1430s
Емінак, 2019 In the XIII – XV centuries medieval Europe has made progress in trade and transition to market economy, which resulted in the foundation of a number of Venetian and Genoese overseas colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea area.
Evgeny Khvalkov
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A short historical overview on the use of lead [PDF]
, 2018 This historical introduction to the use of lead in art and technology was originally written to give context to lead conservation studies by the authors.
Adriaens, Mieke +2 more
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Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth‐ to seventh‐century silver alloys
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores early results from the chemical and lead isotope analysis of 30 silver‐alloy objects from southeast England dating between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, presenting limited aspects of the three main analyses that were conducted. First, a comparison of the results gained from surface x‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) values and
Toby F. Martin, Matthew J. Ponting
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