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Germanismos del catalán a partir del latín medieval
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017 En el presente artículo se pretende estudiar una serie de palabras catalanas de origen germánico, documentadas en el latín medieval de Cataluña antes de que éstas aparezcan en fuentes escritas ya directamente en romance.
Joan M.ª Jaime Moya
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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SELIMBook review of Krueger, Roberta L., ed. 2023. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xviii + 308. ISBN 9781108749589.
Charlotte Palmer
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Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
Glossa, 2020 This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information ...
Sam Wolfe
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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SELIMBook review of Houlik-Ritchey, Emily. 2023. Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. xi + 237. ISBN 9780472133352.
Hannah Piercy
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Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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