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The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
wiley   +1 more source

Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
wiley   +1 more source

Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological Struggle as Ethos of Decolonisation: Emergence of a Decolonial Ecology in Bakur (Northern) and Rojava (Western) Kurdistan

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
wiley   +1 more source

Preliminary study documents variable accuracy and inclusion among biology instructor gender/sex definitions

open access: yesNatural Sciences Education, Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Society generally presents sex inaccurately as a binary variable based on one or few trait(s), causing myriad issues, including the pursuit of reductionist biology experiments, the creation of laws that limit the rights of women, people with queer genders, and intersex folks, and greater student endorsement of gender stereotypes in ...
Emily P. Driessen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specific descriptions in the Gospel of Matthew: How they refine, enlarge, and direct the biblical text

open access: yesIn die Skriflig
This article examines the Gospel of Matthew in a broad sense through its specific descriptions of people, places, and ideas. Such descriptions take various forms, including nicknames, endearments, monikers, appositives, slang terms, epithets, and insults,
Robin Gallaher Branch
doaj   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

MXenes for Boosting Potassium Ion Storage: Structure‐Property Relationships, Interface Science, Microscopic Mechanisms, and Application Perspectives

open access: yesCarbon Neutralization, Volume 5, Issue 6, November 2026.
MXene‐based potassium‐ion battery anodes are mapped by linking synthesis, surface chemistry, heterostructure design, and practical evaluation. Pristine MXenes and composites with carbon, oxides, sulfides, selenides, tellurides, and alloying phases are compared, while intercalation, pseudocapacitive, conversion/alloying, built‐in‐field, and trapping ...
Haohao Ding   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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