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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
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Античная древность и средние века, 2019 The author has discussed the question of Byzantium’s particular interest to the strategically important Crimean region against the background of the seals of Byzantine emperors discovered in Byzantine Taurica.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseienko
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 141-156, June 2025.This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
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Le Mahdi dans le Maghreb médiéval
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2000 North Africa was the great center of Mahdism in mediaeval Islam, where it inspired two out of the three great revolutions that progressively unified the Maghrib between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th centuries : the Fatimid in the tenth and the Almohad in the
Michael Brett
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History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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A Short Survey of Yemeni Sufism from Its Inception up to the Thirteenth Century
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2009 This paper analyzes the historical conditions of Yemen’s Sufi movement from the beginning of Islam up to the rise of the Rasulid dynasty in the thirteenth century.
Muhammad Aziz
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The Political Economy of Pre-industrial Trade in Northeast Asia [PDF]
This paper examines why the countries of Northeast Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) in the early nineteenth century traded much less (as measured by the proportion of trade to GDP) than most countries in other parts of the world. It is argued that the most
Hun-Chang Lee
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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ReligionsThis article delves into the exploration of a significant sign, the “viśvavajra”, found in the caisson ceilings of Buddhist esoteric art in Dunhuang’s Mogao Caves.
Li Shen
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
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