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Simulating urban evolution by H-GIS and H-BIM: a temporal and spatial study of Pingjiang map

Heritage Science
Historical maps provide insights into the morphology, cultural, and political shifts of ancient societies. Pingjiang Map is one of the earliest comprehensive ancient Chinese maps, depicting the heritage water city of Suzhou.
Pania Yanjie Mu, Sarah E. Fraser, Maolin Peng   +2 more
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THE NAITŌ HYPOSTASIS: NAITŌ KONAN (1866–1934) AND THE JAPANESE IMPERIALIST LEGACY IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MIDDLE‐PERIOD CHINA (800–1400 CE)

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 203-236, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
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
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Flower symbolism and the cult of relics in medieval Serbia [PDF]

Zograf, 2008
The Life of archbishop Eustathios I [Jevstatije] (1279-1286), deserving head of the medieval Serbian Church and a saint, is a very interesting source for studying the cult of relics with the Serbs.
Popović Danica
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Writing History of Buddhist Thought in the Twentieth Century: Yinshun (1906-2005) in the Context of Chinese Buddhist Historiography

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
Venerable Yinshun 印 順 (1906–2005) was the eminent scholar-monk in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. This paper is about his historiographical practice and tries to outline his position in Chinese Buddhist historiography especially in reference to the ...
Marcus Bingenheimer
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Intersectional identity of 13th-century Javanese women in the novel "Tutur Dedes"

Litera
Within thirteenth-century Javanese tradition in Southeast Asia, women are frequently marginalized. Women who had significant influence were often omitted from historical records, such as Ken Dedes.
Dwi Budiyanto, Kusmarwanti Kusmarwanti, Else Liliani, Suminto A. Sayuti   +3 more
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POMMERN UND POMMERELLEN IN DER ZEIT SWANTOPOLKS VON DANZIG (BIS 1266)

Studia Maritima, 2019
In the 13th century, Pomerania was divided between two princely houses. The western part of the region was ruled by princes from the Griffin dynasty. In the most recent source litera- ture, a claim has been made that members of this house also ruled the ...
Marek Smoliński
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Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 86-101, March 2026.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Réécriture du conflit tragique et évolution du goût exotique : de L’Orphelin de la maison de Tchao (1731) de Ji Junxiang à L’Orphelin de la Chine (1755) de Voltaire

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2021
Theatrical writing is remarkably concerned with rewriting strategies. In the eighteenth century, due to the deepening exchanges between Europe and the rest of the world, French literature was influenced by various external factors, such as The Orphan of ...
Guo Tang
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