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Social Symbolism of Toreutics in Kimek Society: Status of Male Warrior Revisited
Oriental Studies, 2021 The article aims to show the role of toreutic items in the demonstration of the status of a male warrior. Materials. In the Middle Ages toreutics was mainly used in decorating costume details and items of military and horse equipment.
Bakyt М. Khasenova +3 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Of Wife and the Domestic Servant in the Arab World [PDF]
, 2012 The author asserts to avoid common misunderstandings on the relevance of Sharia to modern women in the Arab World that a) Shari’s relevance to the lives of modern women in the Arab World has been largely confined to the area of family law, b) in the ...
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]
, 2006 This paper argues that Jewish merchants have historically dominated the diamond industry because of their ability to reliably implement diamond credit sales.
Richman, Barak D.
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 274-285, April 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents the results of an interdisciplinary investigation of 98 tin–lead sewn tokens from 13th‐century Gdańsk, the largest assemblage of its kind in Central Europe. Combining archaeological context, typology, SEM‐EDS and lead isotope analysis, the research explores provenance, production and function.
Sławomir Wadyl +4 more
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Поволжская археология, 2014 The article introduces material evidence and retraces the processes of the Cumans penetration and settling in the territory of Danube Bulgaria in the period between their first appearance in the late 11th century and their gradual cultural integration ...
Vladimirov Georgi V.
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Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]
, 2002 The diamond industry is home to many unusual features: the predominance of an ethnically homogeneous community of merchants, the norm of intergenerational family businesses, and a rejection of public courts in favor of private contract enforcement.
Richman, Barak D.
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 293-308, April 2026.Abstract This article will demonstrate the intersectional nature of manuscript and print, as well as the importance of the printing press to Recusant readers. The article will consider TCD 352 as a manuscript or notebook for whom the material and immaterial nature of the book changes as both the Counter‐Reformation movement intensifies and the ...
Niamh Pattwell
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