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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 600-633, May 2026.Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Linguarum UniverseThe examination of the lexico-semantic group “Designations of church vessels” is based mainly on litur-gical and paraliturgical texts (mystagogical commentaries) covering a broad temporal spectrum - from the earliest written records in Old Bulgarian such
Татяна Илиева
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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XIII International Conference “Modern Orthodox Hymnography”
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетииThe XIII International Conference “Modern Orthodox Hymnography”, organized by the Research Center for the Church Slavonic Language Studies in the Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held on 14th March 2024, was devoted to
Olga V. Trefilova
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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How Did a Translator into Old Russian Work with His Sources?
Slovene, 2015 It is a well-known fact that medieval scribes often used several manuscripts as their sources in order to produce a new copy of a text; this is because every source manuscript can contain errors or be damaged. Because scribes did not attempt and were not
Anna A. Pichkhadze
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Peoplehood and the Orthodox person: a view from central Serbia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 320-338, June 2024.Abstract Practising Orthodox Christians in central Serbia live their liturgical lives within the idiom of Serbian peoplehood. This article probes the ‘people’ (narod) – perceived locally as an historically and geographically rooted ethno‐moral collectivity – as a core concept of belonging which is key for understanding post‐Yugoslav Orthodox life. The ‘
Nicholas Lackenby
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Euthymius Chudovski’s editing in the translation of «Epitomies» of Epiphanius Slavinetsky
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филологияThis article aims to examine the Euthymius Chudovski’s editing in the translation of «Epitome» by Constantine Armenopoulos, carried out by Epiphanius Slavinetsky in the second half of the XVII century.
E. V. Ivanova
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