Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ... -
SDG 14 Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water
(Oxford University Press, 2022)The problem with the ocean is that we do not see what is below the surface. When we clear land for urban development, when we change agricultural practices, when we cut the trees or kill off the wolves, we see the changes. ... -
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context
(2021)At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article discusses ... -
Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition
(2021)Sets of astronomical tables available in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages can be classified based on whether they imitated Ptolemy in using a tropical zodiac for displaying planetary mean motions or followed an Indian ... -
Sin, Sheep and Scotsmen: John George Adair and the Derryveagh evictions 1861
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 1983)The sixteen townlands of the district of Derryveagh lie to the north and west of the small village of Church Hill on the road west from Letterkenny. On the morning of Monday, 8 April 1861, the sub-sheriff of the County ... -
De sk?nsk-hallandske bondeopr?r 1180-82
(2011-08-16)[(In Danish) Study of the Danish peasant riots in Scania and Halland 1180/1182] Igennem dansk middelalder var der en r?kke opstande mod skatteudskrivningen og stormandsplageri ? i 1086 (n?rrejyske og fynske b?nder mod ... -
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China
(2018)According to Chinese government estimates, 10,000 children are trafficked in China every year. Johanna Ransmeier’s meticulous and highly engaging study of the trade in people in the late Qing and Republican periods provides ... -
The Soviet Village Revisited: Household Farming and the Changing Image of Socialism in the Late Soviet Period
(2016)The recognition of family farms and agricultural cooperatives as catalysts for agricultural recovery during the perestroika years went along with the rediscovery of the world-famous theoretician of the peasant farm Aleksandr ... -
The State in the Swamps: Territorialization and Ecosystem Engineering in the Western Provinces of the Late Russian Empire
(2019)This article argues for the integration of environmental perspectives into historical studies of territorialization. Using the case of the Western Expedition for the Drainage of Marshlands in Polesia (1873-1902), it shows ... -
The structure of politics in theory and practice, 1210?1541
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A Thirteenth-Century Latin List of Ptolemaic Coordinates
(2022)This article makes the argument that a Latin table of geographic coordinates, copied in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century (MS Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 211, fol. 260r), is derived ... -
Tree Ring Chronology of Meteorological Extremes for Ireland, AD425-1650
(2011)For over thirty years the study of Ireland‘s climate history has benefited from the availability of world class dendrochronological (tree ring) records, developed by Michael Baillie, David Brown and colleagues in Queen‘s ... -
Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ... -
Understanding Volcanic Impacts through Time: 4th VICS Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 13-16 April 2019
(2019)The Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS; pastglobalchanges.org/vics) working group initiated Phase 2 this year. The aim of Phase 2 is to extend the scope of VICS to major eruptions throughout the Holocene and ... -
The Vertigo of Late Modernity
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Viewing and singing the Word of God in Lutheran Germany
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A Visigothic Computus of AD 722 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11, 26r?27r)
(Brepols, 2023)Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11 contains a short text (26r–27r) overlooked by scholars of early medieval computus. This short note demonstrates its Visigothic origin and AD 722 as the year of composition. The text ... -
Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
(2015)Situated at the intersection of the arts and sciences, Humanities GIS (HumGIS) are contributing to new knowledge systems emerging in the digital, spatial, and geo-humanities. This article discusses the conceptualization ...