OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, ...
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(2025)This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and ...
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(2024)This article examines the main places where elites accumulated, consumed and displayed resources in order to demonstrate their ability to control and organise their dominated spaces. Indeed, in these segmented societies, ...
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(2024)Traditional historiography tends to underestimate the role of women in the local settlement of the power of elite networks during the 9th and 10th centuries. The process of transmission of public offices and inheritance, ...
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(2024)The article analyses the effects of royal powers on the articulation of anthropic, natural and agrarian landscapes from the 9th century onwards. The sample territory analysed corresponds to an area in central-southern ...
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(2024)The essay examines a dossier of placita from Carolingian Italy and analyses them from the perspective of the relationship between local societies and places of justice. In this perspective, it emphasises how the action of ...
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(2024)This chapter aims to present watermills as a component of local political landscapes and as a proxy to power relations and political interactions within early medieval local communities. Research on various European regions ...
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(2024)Castles usually appear in the Kingdom of León’s written sources during the medieval period. The 10th and 11th centuries show an increase in those mentions, including some that helped scribes describe the landscape and ...
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(2024)Through the combination of two vast databases on archaeological and textual evidence on early medieval funerary and ecclesiastical sites in Galicia, this paper aims to explore the socio-political landscape dynamics around ...
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(2024)Early medieval charters show the presence in León of a large number of local churches that worked as focus of hierarchy and organisation of the social landscape. This paper examines the role played by these churches in the ...
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(2024)The Church played an undoubted role, parallel to that of the secular rulers, in the territorial government of the Hispanic Visigothic kingdom. The present research aims to delve into the mechanisms used by bishops to ensure ...
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(2024)The research that has been carried out in the Lafões/Caramulo area (central-northern Portugal) has made it possible to acquire new data on the formation of medieval territories in a mountainous area. The present paper uses ...
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(2024)This paper presents the preliminary results of a research project aimed at the analysis of the early medieval settlement pattern in the Sierra de Ávila, a territory located in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula ...
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(2024)The aim of this article is to analyse patterns of territoriality constructed “from below”, based on evidence drawn from a wide range of territories, which were held together by the presence of local initiatives instead of ...
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(2024)The goal of this paper is to discuss the social and political role of early medieval high-status settlements in the framework of landscapes of power. The identification of elite residence is one of the major challenges of ...
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(2024)The contraposition Domus vel curtis, taken up by a law of Chindasvinto, brings us into contact with an essential problem of land ownership and exploitation in Late Antique Hispania. The contraposition seems to imply a fluid ...
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(2024)This introduction defines the concept of “political landscapes” as the spatialisation of political action through the creation of territories. In the early Middle Ages, elites and states played a lesser role than in the ...
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(2024)The essay addresses the traditional yet very relevant topic of protecting workers' professional skills, with particular attention to the intricate relationship between the two main sources: law and collective bargaining. ...
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(2024)The author, starting from the recent sentence of the Italian Constitutional Court No. 52/2023, retraces considerations of the doctrine on the subject of “proximity collective agreements” regulated by Article 8 of Law No. ...
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(2024)The paper draws on Riccardo Del Punta's paper on parental leave, published entry into force of the reform, to examine its subsequent evolution, questioning the relationship between the distribution of care responsibilities ...
