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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 57, Issue 10, Page 1727-1756, October 2026.An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello +2 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 777-798, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 741-751, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 7, October 2026.ABSTRACT DNA library construction methods can affect the recovery of ancient DNA, thus influencing downstream analyses. While single‐stranded library preparation (ssLib) has been shown to outperform double‐stranded (dsLib) for highly degraded vertebrate host DNA, especially for samples older than 40,000 years, few studies have examined how library ...
Keri Burge +5 more
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 478-494, October 2026.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Women in sacred spaces : an analysis of traditional Islam and Judaism in the communities of Cape Town [PDF]
, 2002 Bibliography: leaves 139-155.The New Constitution protects Muslims and Jews as part of the minority religions in a pluralistic South Africa just like the rights of women are procured in the public and private arenas.
Mataar, Yusuf
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Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT European shrinking rural areas have played an increasingly significant role over the last decade in hosting both voluntary and forced migration. Despite the structural nature of this phenomenon, media and political narratives frequently frame migration primarily through an emergency perspective.
Chiara Davino, Pierluigi Musarò
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Characteristics of students receiving mental health services at the university of Cape Town [PDF]
, 2000 Bibliography: leaves 689-729.The objective of the study is to describe students presenting at the UCT-SHS-MHS; (li) to compare students presenting at the UCT-SHS-MHS with students presenting at the UCT-SHS who do NOT present at the UCT-SHS-MHS (controls);
De Beer, Jeremy Peter
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The spiral stair or vice: Its origins, role and meaning in medieval stone castles [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis addresses a neglected area of castles studies - the spiral stair. It studies the origins, evolution, placing, structure, role, significance and meaning of spiral stairs in medieval stone castles between 1066 and 1500, so covering the rise ...
Ryder, Charles
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Archaeozoological Analysis of Bovine Proximal Phalanges from Medieval and Early Modern Wrocław. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Chrószcz A +8 more
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