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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Material Analysis of Early Medieval Woven Bands from Gródek upon the Bug River and Pień, Poland. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Cybulska M, Lech K, Hajdas I, Sielski J, Wołoszyn M, Poliński D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Mortality Trends at the Intersection of Climate Change and Urban Growth From 13th to 18th Century Berlin. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Brennan EJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient genomes provide evidence of demographic shift to Slavic-associated groups in Moravia. [PDF]

Genome Biol
Schulz I, Zlámalová D, Reyna-Blanco CS, Morris S, Gnecchi-Ruscone GA, Eckel R, Přichystalová R, Ingrová P, Dresler P, Traverso L, Hellenthal G, Macháček J, Wegmann D, Hofmanová Z.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Sci Rep
Godde K, DeWitte SN, Beaumont J, Walter BS, Redfern R, Bekvalac JJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rhetorics of Counternationalism: The Limitations of Digital Anti‐Hindutva in Combating Right‐Wing Extremism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Zuun Baruun Kherem, a medieval Eurasian center in Eastern Mongolia. [PDF]

Asian Archaeol
Wright J, Pursey L, Pleuger-Dreibrodt S, Misterkiewicz A, Byambatsuren B, Green EJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source