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

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Moral foundations underpinning attitudes toward supervised consumption services across Canada's prairie provinces. [PDF]

open access: yesHarm Reduct J
Pijl EM   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Fetal rights from Islamic and contemporary legal perspectives: a scoping review. [PDF]

open access: yesReprod Health
Kakrodi SP   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
wiley   +1 more source

The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
wiley   +1 more source

Why Saints? [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Trichology
Trüeb RM.
europepmc   +1 more source

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