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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 439-454, December 2025.
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

The Pace di Siena and its Gems

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1254-1278, November 2025.
For the first time, the gems of the Pace di Siena, a rare en ronde bosse enamel preserved in Arezzo (Italy), have been analyzed using a transdisciplinary approach. The combination of gemmology and Raman spectroscopy has led to the identification of blue sapphires and pink spinels, contradicting previous historical classifications.
Stefania Martiniello   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hoard of Artifacts of the Beginning of 13th Century from Zolotorevka Fortified Settlement and Mongol Invasion

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2019
The paper features an analysis of items from a hoard discovered inside the remains of a building in a medieval fortified settlement near Zolotarevka village on the Upper Sura.
Belorybkin Gennadiy N.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 817-827, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
wiley   +1 more source

On the Social Status of Some Gold Finds Dated to the 4th-7th Centuries from Todays Bulgarian Lands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The article discusses the social status of finds from the Late Antiquity or Early Byzantine or also called Migration Period in todays Bulgarian lands. The finds are interpreted in respect of their function and technique alongside with their parallels in ...
Minaeva, Oksana
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What has Nicaea to do with Canterbury? Creeds, Councils, Tradition and the Fathers in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 525-549, October 2025.
Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
wiley   +1 more source

In the Thick of Things [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Short introduction to the V2 publication of "The War of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance" (2016). An anthology with Matteo Pasquinelli, Luciana Parisi, Graham Harman, Tomas Saraceno, René ten Bos, Tim Morton, and many ...
Brouwer, Joke   +2 more
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Characterization of Roman glass tesserae from the Coriglia excavation site (Italy) via energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The combined use of handheld energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Raman spectroscopy, and micro-energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry permitted the characterization of Roman glass tesserae excavation from the Coriglia (Italy ...
Donais, Mary Kate   +7 more
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About the Burial rite of the Amoksar burial ground of the X–XII centuries (based on the excavations in 2021–2023)

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей
The article deals with the materials from excavations of a medieval burial ground in the water area of the Cheboksary Reservoir in 2021–2023. The burial ground is located on an island. 28 burials were studied on an area of 456 sq. m. Research at the site
Tatyana B. Nikitina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A model of bimetallism [PDF]

open access: yes
Bimetallism has been the subject of considerable debate: Was it a viable monetary system? Was it a desirable system? In our model, the (exogenous and stochastic) amount of each metal can be split between monetary uses to satisfy a cash-in-advance ...
François R. Velde, Warren E. Weber
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