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The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2017
The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped This paper analyzes the construction, features, and significance of the Marienwerder castle, and its capture by Lithuanian forces in 1384.
Vytenis Almonaitis
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Migration of Local Landholders in the State of the Teutonic Order between the 1280s and 1370s

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021
This article considers the incorporation of Prussians, Sudovians, and Scalovians who migrated to territories which were not theirs originally, into the social system of the State of the Teutonic Order between the 1280s and 1370s.
Sergey Aleksandrovich Denisov
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The Tatar Topic in the Correspondence of Officials of the Teutonic Order, 1431–1432

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2020
Research objectives: This article offers annotated editions of nine letters from the archive of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order written between the spring of 1431 and the summer of 1432 concerning the Tatars.
Polekhov S.V., Naumov N.N.
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Do Legal Origins Shape the Nexus Between Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance and Financial Performance in Europe

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and financial performance varies across legal systems in Europe. Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that legal origins shape how sustainability practices translate into financial outcomes.
Nuria Alcalde‐Fradejas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Body Size, Dental Pathology, and Maternal Genetic Diversity of Ancient Horses in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region and Western Russia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The early evolutionary history of modern domestic horses (Equus caballus/Equus ferus caballus), known as the DOM2 lineage, is well documented due to numerous archaeological and ancient DNA (aDNA) studies. Although many uncertainties remain in the domestication timeline, current evidence suggests that the domestication of modern horses began in
Johanna Honka   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ministerial Advisers in Personal Patronage Settings: Evidence From Israel

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The characteristics of ministerial advisers are predicted to correspond to the type of politicization setting in which they operate. The only systematic framework mapping these correspondences was developed predominantly in party‐driven patronage contexts.
Zehavit Levitats
wiley   +1 more source

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

Morality Tale or Attempt at Reportage? Yet Another Look at Peter von Dusburg’s Description of the Prussian Pagan Religion

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2023
The story by the Teutonic Order chronicler Peter von Dusburg about the Prussian pagan priest Criwe and his sanctuary Romowe has for centuries provoked historiographical arguments about the nature of the Baltic pagan religion and the interpretation of ...
Rasa Mažeika
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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

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
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