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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering the Role of Autochthonous Deteriogenic Biofilm Community: Rožanec Mithraeum Monument (Slovenia). [PDF]

open access: yesMicrob Ecol
Ljaljević Grbić M   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogeny and fatty acid profiles of new <i>Coccomyxa</i> (Chlorophyta) species from soils of Vietnam. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Microbiol
Maltsev Y   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

The Doctrine of State Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
wiley   +1 more source

Unbalanced social-ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Izdebski A   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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