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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Viking Age garden plants from southern Scandinavia

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2012
Plant finds recovered from archaeological sites in southern Scandinavia dated to the Viking Age reflect the diversity of useful plants that were cultivated and collected.
Pernille Rohde Sloth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

VIKING-AGE COINAGE REVISITED: NEW NORWEGIAN COINS OF ST. OLAVE AND HARALD HARDRADA FROM SMOLENSK, RUSSIA

open access: yes, 2023
We argue that the Russian historical science is undergoing significant changes, and the place of Russia in European and world history is being largely rethought.
Yulia G Grigorieva (12871151)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Pruritus Is Frequent and Persistent and Impacts Quality of Life Among Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

open access: yesAlimentary Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Among 200 patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis, 38% reported moderate to severe pruritus in the past 6 months. During 6 months of follow up, pruritus severity fluctuated significantly. Pruritus severity was linked to worse colitis activity and lower quality of life.
Richard Dean   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Viking social structure and gender roles in Scandinavia based on burials and grave goods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Vikings have always been a mysterious culture particularly the women who lived in that time and the questions that surround them. This paper looks to answer some inquiries by examining specific burials and the meanings behind the grave goods ...
Larson, Caitlin Christine Maya
core  

Insect fossils from Viking age and Medieval houses in Iceland - what can thay tell us about life and environment?

open access: yes, 2006
Few constructions, such as wells, outhouses or other peripheral buildings and features, which can be used for macrofossil analysis, have been excavated at Icelandic Viking age or medieval settlement sites.
Hellqvist, Magnus
core   +2 more sources

Body Modification on Viking Age Gotland

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology
In recent years, research has provided evidence for permanent body modification in the Viking Age. Based on the current state of research, we identified around 130 male-gendered individuals from Scandinavia and beyond with dental alterations in form of ...
Matthias S. Toplak, Lukas Kerk
doaj   +1 more source

Biogeochemical, sedimentological and dinoflagellate‐based reconstruction of the Holocene palaeoenvironment of the east Limfjord, Denmark

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
To assess how the eastern part of the Limfjord system has changed over the Holocene, relative to the wider Limfjord and western Baltic region, a sedimentary succession spanning c. 9600–150 cal. a BP was collected from Nibe Bredning, near Sebbersund, from a shallow coastal inlet along the eastern connection between the Limfjord and the Kattegat (north ...
Gabriella M. Weiss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry

open access: yesTheatrum Historiae, 2009
This article, based on Scandinavian narrative sources (tha sagas), skaldic and eddic poetry as well as medieval law-codes, presents a particular view of the Scandinavian gender history during the Viking Age.
Lenka Doová
doaj  

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