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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Democratisation of Magic in Post-Reformation England

open access: yesReligions, 2019
The dissolution of the monasteries in England (1536–1540) forced hundreds of former inmates of religious houses to seek livelihoods outside the cloister to supplement meagre pensions from the crown.
Francis Young
doaj   +1 more source

Peranan Pertapaan Trappist Santa Maria Rawaseneng terhadap Peningkatan Kesejahteraan Sosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Desa Ngempalak dan Sekitarnya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper is based on the author's study on trappist Monks Santa Maria participation in increasing social and economic condition the community of Ngemplak village and its surrounding carried out in August-until October 1995.
Margarethe, S. (Sr)
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From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Engineering Fuels the Epidemic of Preventable Disease

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are engineered to heighten reward and accelerate delivery of reinforcing ingredients, driving compulsive consumption and disrupting appetite regulation. This is a growing challenge for health policy. UPFs share key engineering strategies adopted from the tobacco industry, such as dose optimization and hedonic ...
ASHLEY N. GEARHARDT   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Was Einhard a widower?

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

Animals in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Buddhist Monks

open access: yesReligions, 2019
In this paper, I examine the presentation of animals in medieval Chinese Buddhist biographies. These biographies tell stories about strange animals, whose behavior signals that they are far from ordinary—some local deities, underlings of such ...
Koichi Shinohara
doaj   +1 more source

Title IX Compliance and Preference for Men in College Admissions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Title IX has undoubtedly increased athletic opportunities for young high school and college women. What is less well understood is whether Title IX has had the unintended consequence of decreasing educational opportunities for young women relative to men.
Monks, James
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of residential property investors ...
Jennie Gustafsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin [Transcript] [PDF]

open access: yes
A corrupt Baron exploits the monks of St. Catherine\u27s monastery by publicizing the acts of one Sr. St. Anna, a nun from the monastery that broke her vow of chastity.
Curties, Thomas Isaac Horsley
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