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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early 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
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Textual criticism of Confucian canon “Da-xue” as a historical and philosophical problem

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2012
“Da-xue” (“The Great Teaching”) — attributed to Confucius, one of the Chinese Classics, first in “The Four Books” and part of “The Five Canons” and “The 13 Canons”. It lies at the heart of traditional philosophy, science and pedagogy.
A I Kobzev
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CYCERON O POLITYKU, FILOZOFIE I POLITYCE

Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2016
Cyceron about Politician, Philosopher and Politics Summary I analize Cyceronian concept of politician and philosopher, two ideas Arpinata present in famous political treatise the „Republic”.
Mateusz Nieć
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"Meddling with Royal Hearts": Interiority and Privanza (1598-1643) [PDF]

, 2017
This paper studies how seventeenth-century writers in Spain elaborated different conceptions of interiority in connection with the intimacy they imagined between the king and his favorite or privado.
Patino-Loira, Javier
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Longinus On Sublimity [PDF]

, 1999
The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been rejected by most scholars since the early nineteenth century. The arguments against a third-century date are examined and shown to be unfounded.
Heath, M.
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early 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
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sword and pen debates; A reading of social issues in the Ilkhanid era; Based on Wasaf Shirazi's Shamsher and Pen treatise [PDF]

تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران
Extended abstract In this article, we examine socioeconomic matters within the context of Ilkhanid-era political literature, focusing on Vassaf Shirazi's treatise, "Tīḡ va Qalam." This work epitomizes the political debate genre of its time and ...
Mahboubeh Sharafi
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Using Catch Data to Estimate Changes in Global Commercial Abalone Abundance

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changes in global wild capture production of abalone are explored to infer potential changes in biological stocks. The study found that 77% (or 10 out of the 13) of the countries that reportedly caught abalone in the wild have experienced declines in catches between 1980 and 2023, and on aggregate catch declined by almost 83% between 1980 and ...
Douglas Crookes
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The Theologico-Political Treatise on Recognition: Spinoza With and Against Hobbes

Journal of Spinoza Studies
This article is the second part of a comparison between Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s theories of recognition as they appear in De Cive and the Tractatus theologico-politicus.
Francesco Toto
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