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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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Svět mezi řádky : prolegomena k výzkumu Čapkovy cestopisné tvorby
Bohemica Litteraria, 2013 The study analyzes several aspects of Čapek's travelogues: presentation of the space that is constructed as a system of archetypal universals (e.g. the mountain, the house, the sea, the city) and time that complements the first category.
Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai
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The Art of Family Reading: Adapting Mary Shelley's ‘The Mortal Immortal’ (1833) Into a Graphic Novel
Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT The popularity of children's graphic novels reflects a rising interest in multimodal literature, and the academic benefits of reading graphic novels have been widely documented. However, little research exists on the possibilities afforded by creating graphic novels.
Susan Civale, Rachael Stone
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Evliyâ Çelebi’nin Freng-pesend Resim Tutkusu
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Evliyâ Çelebi evidently became acquainted with European painting at an early age. Somewhat later, as he writes, he studied calligraphy with Güğümbaşı Mehemmed Efendi and nakş — i.e., painting — with Nakkaş Hükmizâde Alî Beg. He also informs us in several
Nuran Tezcan
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TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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Did Evliyâ Çelebi “fall in love” with the Europeans?
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 What was Evliyâ’s attitude toward the Europeans, or the Franks as he calls them? Europeans are always referred to disparagingly but on the personal level Evliyâ had no problem befriending individual Europeans.
Robert Dankoff
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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 893-941, March 2026.Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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Buryat Oral Histories on Inner Asian Pilgrimage: Introducing a New Source
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Research on Buryat and Kalmyk pilgrimage to Buddhist worshiping sites in Tibet and wider in Inner Asia at the late imperial period mostly focuses on biographies and travel writings of Buddhist clergy, while experience of ordinary pilgrims
Sayana B. Namsaraeva
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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