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Opportunities for financing sustainable development using complementary local currencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Financing building retrofit projects that contribute to climate change mitigation has always represented a significant barrier. With 28% of global emissions coming from existing buildings, it is of paramount importance to carry out retrofit measures that
Abergel T   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

The Testament Donation of Knyaz Fedor Sanguszko for the Monastery of St. Paul of Xeropotamou on the Holy Mount Athos (9th November 1547) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Translated by Michał Zytka and Zofia Brzozowska.
Baczyńska, Małgorzata   +1 more
core  

An Iona of the East : the early-medieval monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat Ness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
A new research programme located on the Tarbat peninsula in north-east Scotland offers the first large-scale exposure of a monastery in the land of the Picts.
Carver, Martin
core   +1 more source

Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

The legacy of monastic hospitality : 2 the lasting influence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this the second of two articles Kevin O'Gorman continues his exploration of the influence of Western monasticism on hospitality. He shows how monastic hospitality evolved to became the foundation of modern hospitality in the secular states.
MacPhee, Ewan, O'Gorman, Kevin
core  

Ripple Effects: Social Turmoil Following Infant Kidnapping Attempts in Wild Geladas

open access: yesEthology, EarlyView.
Graphical abstract illustrating the social consequences of infant kidnapping in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada). The study monitors a 28‐day period divided into a 14‐day pre‐kidnapping phase and a 14‐day post‐kidnapping phase. ABSTRACT Infant kidnapping is an extreme social disruption reported in some primate species, yet its consequences on social
Alice Galotti   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les politiques du passé face aux usages sociaux dans la restauration des temples bouddhistes

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2012
This paper analyses the impact of modern heritage conservation policies on traditional frameworks for preserving Buddhist monas­teries in Thailand and Sri Lanka by investigating the shift of practice and approaches in conservation.
Béatrice Byer Bayle
doaj   +1 more source

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Christianization and Education in Late Antique Britain (6th–8th centuries) [PDF]

open access: yesHypothekai
The emergence and development of early statehood among the peoples of the British Isles during the Migration Period were accompanied by processes of Christianization and the formation of a new, medieval culture.
Maxim M. Gorelov
doaj   +1 more source

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