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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 600-633, May 2026.Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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, 1957 GP-3. Izvještaj o zapisanome i prikupljenom gradivu na Krku, Rabu i Pagu. Popisi prikupljenog.
Žganec, Vinko
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 2929-2945, June 2025.ABSTRACT Aim To map the existing evidence and identify research gaps regarding the self‐management of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes among first‐generation immigrants ≥ 18 years. Design A scoping review followed the JBI guidelines and was in accordance with the PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews.
Min Zhang +3 more
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How Did a Translator into Old Russian Work with His Sources?
Slovene, 2015 It is a well-known fact that medieval scribes often used several manuscripts as their sources in order to produce a new copy of a text; this is because every source manuscript can contain errors or be damaged. Because scribes did not attempt and were not
Anna A. Pichkhadze
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