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The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Ethical Evaluation of Tithes and Offerings in Osun Baptist Conference, Nigeria
, 2013 A Thesis in The Department of Religious Studies, Submitted to the Faculty of Arts in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) of The University of IbadanExisting studies on tithes and offerings have focused ...
Oluwoye, J. O.
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Pacific‐Led Responses to COVID‐19: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2026.The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed deep inequities in health systems globally and in Aotearoa New Zealand, with Pacific communities experiencing a disproportionate burden of illness, economic hardship, and social disruption. Despite these challenges, Pacific communities demonstrated resilience, culturally grounded leadership, and the ability to meet ...
Amio Matenga‐Ikihele +5 more
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Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?
Accounting &Finance, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 575-601, March 2026.ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah +2 more
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
Early 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
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Resourcing for Effective Mission and Ministry in Local Seventh-day Adventist Churches: A Call for the Global Church to Think and Act Locally [PDF]
, 2009 Resourcing for effective mission and ministry in local Seventh-day Adventist Churches: A call for the global church to think and act locally, studies the resources that are generated by, yet then taken away from, local Seventh-day Adventist Churches ...
Manners, Travis
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Goldilocks: American Precious Metals and the Rise of the West
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT We estimate the contribution of the American precious metal windfall to Western Europe's growth performance in the early modern period. The exogenous nature of American precious metal extraction allows for the identification of monetary effects.
Yao Chen, Nuno Palma, Felix Ward
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The Training Program for the Elder, Deacon, and Deaconess [PDF]
, 1986 Problem. Historically, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, like the New Testament Church, was lay oriented. Lay leadership cared for the nurture and evangelism within the church.
Swanson, Kenneth O.
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