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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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Viking Pop Culture on Display: The Case of the Horned Helmets [PDF]
, 2001 The travelling exhibition, Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, featured a case containing primarily plastic horned helmets seamlessly included within a serious cultural exhibition.
Ward, Elisabeth I.
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 274-285, April 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents the results of an interdisciplinary investigation of 98 tin–lead sewn tokens from 13th‐century Gdańsk, the largest assemblage of its kind in Central Europe. Combining archaeological context, typology, SEM‐EDS and lead isotope analysis, the research explores provenance, production and function.
Sławomir Wadyl +4 more
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RESISTANCE, RACE, AND MYTH: A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY [PDF]
, 2019 The topic of popular music in the United States has garnered much analysis from scholars, particularly how popular music has created or reflected American myths, collective memory, and racial politics.
Church, Scott Haden
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VISUALITY OF RACE IN POPULAR CULTURE: TEACHING RACIAL HISTORIES AND ICONOGRAPHY IN MEDIA [PDF]
, 2020 The repetition of racist imagery from historical to contemporary popular culture is indicative of a lack of visual culture education among artists, designers, and other creative cultural producers working today.
Acuff, Joni Boyd, Kraehe, Amelia M.
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 37-57, March 2026.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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A Viking expedition in popular culture [PDF]
, 2022 This paper explores the use of Viking history in popular culture and cultural historical institutions, in relation to how discourses inform the construction of understandings of history. Through the reading of Kenenth Gergen's approach to constructionism
Strøm-Hansen, Michael +3 more
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 39-56, July 2026.
Jess Cotton
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REFLECTIONS ON BUILDING A POPULAR WRITING COURSE [PDF]
, 2016 Composition pedagogy has typically employed traditional academic texts in the instruction of first-year writing courses. In this article, three first-year writing instructors reflect on their experiences employing popular culture artifacts in lieu of ...
Shelton, Cecilia +2 more
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Children of Ash and Elm: : a History of the Vikings
, 2020 "The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe.
Price, Neil,
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