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The SCOTS Corpus: a resource for language contact study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) is an ongoing project in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow. The ultimate aim of the project is to create a large electronic corpus of both written and spoken texts for the ...
Anderson, W.
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Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
wiley   +1 more source

The Anglo Saxons and their gods (still) among us [PDF]

open access: yes
When Christian missionaries arrived in Canterbury in 597AD, they brought with them a new religion that sought to appropriate certain Saxon traditions before eradicating them completely: some of these traditions were discussed by the Venerable Bede. Saxon
Mackley, J S
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An endangered oral tradition of the North Atlantic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Dr Leonard is a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, the Department of Linguistics and the Scott Polar Research Institute, all at the University of Cambridge.
Leonard, Stephen Pax
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015), ed. by Ralph C. Wood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Book review by Robin Anne Reid of Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015) ed.
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

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