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Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms

open access: yes, 2021
In medieval romances, and particularly, Breton lays, supernatural creatures such as fairies, and the occasional demon featured often. This thesis seeks to study the interactions these creatures had with men and women within these stories, aiming to ...
Thaheera Salam Mohamed Althaf   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Que signifient les corps et gestes des personnages qui peuplent les lais bretons moyen-anglais ?

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015
The Middle English Breton Lays edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (1995) were written between the late 13th and the 15th century. They form a miscellaneous body of poems grafted onto a pre-existing literary form, the lai, best illustrated by Marie ...
Agnès Blandeau
doaj   +1 more source

À propos du Stabat Mater breton de Tanguy Guéguen (1622) : le « moyen-breton » existe-t-il ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Like Middle High German and Middle French, Middle Breton is supposed to cover an intermediate period between the oldest state of the language, Old Breton, and its most recent state, Modern Breton.
Yves Le Berre, Le Berre, Yves
core   +2 more sources

Family Control and Ownership, Corporate Culture, and ESG Performance in Thailand

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Motivated by the growing importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in emerging markets, we examine how family control and ownership, together with corporate culture, influence the ESG performance of publicly listed firms in Thailand.
Sirimon Treepongkaruna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CSR and Sustainability Drivers and Barriers: Does Business Context Matter?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to provide a comprehensive picture on CSR and sustainability drivers and barriers, proposing a comparison between CSR and sustainability literature, and family business (FB) studies. It employed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of 502 peer‐reviewed publications and adopted two analytic approaches: bibliometrics and manual ...
Tooleni Loteni Vista Gosbert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Connection Feels Empty: Rethinking Consumer Loneliness Through Dual Presence in Digital Marketing

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital marketplaces sell connection, yet loneliness persists among their users. Marketing scholarship has largely examined loneliness as a consumer‐level deficit, studying how individuals compensate through consumption. How digital environments themselves structure the conditions under which loneliness is experienced has received less ...
Tianhao Yang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership
Autumn‐Lynn Harrison   +71 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealing otherness : a comparative examination of French and English medieval hagiographical romance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This dissertation is an analysis of three hagiographical romances written in France around the thirteenth century and later adapted into English. The texts are Ami et Amile, Robert le Diable and Florence de Rome and their English counterparts Amis and ...
Cadilhac-Rouchon, Muriel
core   +2 more sources

A systematic review of deforestation outcomes in potential other effective area‐based conservation measures across Latin America

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recognizing conservation contributions from areas outside protected areas (PAs), including other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs), is increasingly central to meeting global biodiversity targets. However, little is known about which areas could qualify as OECMs and whether they support forest conservation.
Nicolás Esteban Lara‐Rodríguez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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