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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

The Teutonic Order and the Baltic Crusades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
When people think of Crusades, they often think of the wars in the Holy Lands rather than regions inside of Europe, which many believe to have already been Christian. The Baltic Crusades began during the Second Crusade (1147-1149) but continued well into
Eidler, Alex
core  

The Massif Central as a Centre of Roman Brass Production? New Geochemical Data of the So‐Called Hemmoor Buckets

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New analytical data of the so‐called Hemmoor buckets, a group of brass vessels from the Roman period of the 2nd to 3rd century ad that are widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, show considerable similarities with the polymetallic Cévennes ore deposits in south‐eastern France in terms of their geochemical characteristics and lead ...
Tobias B. Skowronek   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caution Prudence Under Uncertainty: An Experimental Assessment Within IAS 37

open access: yesAustralian Accounting Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how professional accountants apply cautious prudence under conditions of uncertainty, with specific reference to IAS 37, a standard that introduces an asymmetrical approach to the recognition of contingent liabilities and contingent assets.
Alessandra Allini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Misterium Caritatis: Christian Values in the Polish School of the Law of Nations (Ius Gentium) [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana
The Polish medieval theory of the law of nations (ius gentium) was born in the nation’s conflict with the Order of Teutonic Knights, which pursued a bloody military expansion into Eastern Europe under the pretext of converting pagans, invoking the ...
Wanda Bajor
doaj   +1 more source

ReTrace: Interactive Visualizations for Reasoning Traces of Large Reasoning Models

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to Large Reasoning Models, which produce step‐by‐step reasoning traces. Such traces may offer insight into how models think, improving explainability and clarifying the underlying process. These traces, however, are often verbose and complex, making them cognitively demanding to comprehend ...
L. Felder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Våld och Visioner. Möten med högre makter i Peter de Dusburgs Cronica Terre Prussie

open access: yesCollegium Medievale, 2019
The Cronica Terre Prussie by Peter de Dusburg (c. 1330) chronicles the expansion of the Teutonic Order into Prussia and the Baltic region. Predominantly occupied with armed conflict, the work also contains a considerable number of accounts of miracles ...
Magnus Borg
doaj  

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