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Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 312-341, February 2026.
Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
wiley   +1 more source

A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 281-311, February 2026.
Abstract We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded
Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova
wiley   +1 more source

The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new metabolic path in type 3 rickets

open access: yesThe FEBS Journal, Volume 293, Issue 3, Page 656-659, February 2026.
Rickets, a bone disorder, was historically categorised into either nutritional (vitamin D deficiency) or genetic forms involving loss‐of‐function mutations in mineral metabolism. Recently, a new mechanism, type 3 rickets, was discovered to be caused by a gain‐of‐function mutation in CYP3A4 (Ile301Thr).
Toshiya Senda, Yoshihisa Hirota
wiley   +1 more source

The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
wiley   +1 more source

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