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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.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
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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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Nowa publikacja o nazewnictwie pograniczy językowo-kulturowych
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2018 A New Publication in Onomastics of Linguacultural Borderlands. A review of: Kojder, Marcin & Marek Olejnik, eds. Onomastics on the Linguistic and Cultural Borderlands. Lublin: UMCS University Press, 2017, 150 pp. ISBN 978-83-227-9061-8.
Złotkowski, Piotr
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Black Italianità: Citizenship and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean [PDF]
, 2019 This article discusses the fraught relationship between legal citizenship and Black belonging as depicted in the works of two Black Italian women writers. The protagonists in the short story “Salsicce” (“Sausages”) by Igiaba Scego and the novella Kkeywa:
Smythe, SA
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Ubiquitous Place Names Standardization and Study in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of International communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical ...
Lauder, A. F. (Allan) +1 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.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
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Roman citizenship of Italian *Augustales : evidence, problems, competitive advantages [PDF]
, 2017 The title * augustalis was used during the first three centuries A. D., to refer to an honorary position in local society. It was mostly bestowed on wealthy freedmen who, because of their servile birth, could not partake in the official cursus honorum ...
Vandevoorde, Lindsey
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Global Networks, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.ABSTRACT It is well established that families maintain ties across national borders. Research shows that caregiving obligations between adult children and their parents can induce care burden and negatively impact well‐being, particularly when children are unable to adequately care for parents abroad.
David Schiefer +2 more
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Late medieval Maltese surnames of Arabic and Greek origin [PDF]
, 2015 As a contribution to the historical study of Maltese and Greater Sicilian onomastics, this article is an analysis of fifteenth-century Maltese surnames of low frequency (5 or less occurrences in the militia lists of 1419 and 1480) which are of certain
Hull, Geoffrey
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