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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Edinost in Dialog, 2021 This study analyses the image of pagans and paganism in Pomerania during the first half of the twelfth century. It also analyses the relationship with idolatry known since early Christianity.
Mihai Dragnea
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Paul Within Judaism Within Paganism
ReligionsJudaism was not Paul’s background, but his context, and much of his gospel’s content. Modern Pauline Studies, however, often see Paul’s mission as an expression of what he found wrong with Judaism, a Judaism that supposedly discouraged relations with ...
Paula Fredriksen
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RETRACTED: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A PRINCE IN ANCIENT RUSSIA: PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 RETRACTED ARTICLEThe article examines the responsibility of the ruler for the dysfunctional state of affairs in the country. A careful study of the biblical evidence shows that it is the legacy of the pagan past.
Igor Lisyuchenko
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UNEXPECTED CALLINGS: Reimagining Ancestors and Queerness in Zimbabwe
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 5-29, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how young queer people in Zimbabwe rework understandings of the relationship between ancestors, spirit mediumship, and queer expressions of gender and sexuality. In Zimbabwe, many traditional practitioners argue that gender transgression and same‐sex desires are caused by the presence of ancestral spirits known as ...
RAFFAELLA TAYLOR‐SEYMOUR
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe
Les Cahiers de l'École du LouvreThe jawbones of enemies killed by the Bamum were hung from these calabashes. These symbols of victory were the used for rituals and considered the dynasty’s regalia.
Ninon Arbez-Gindre
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