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(2023)The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms ...
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(2024)In this volume, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical ...
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(2023)Ever since Adam Smith’s musings on ‘the invisible hand’ became more famous than his work on moral sentiments, social theorists have paid less attention to everyday ethics and aesthetics. Smith’s metaphor of the invisible ...
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(2023)In an age where history is a global battleground and fake news proliferates, culture wars are being waged across India over its future – majoritarian or inclusive, neoliberal or socialist, religious or secular? Fake ...
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(2023)In this chapter I employ the formal economic theoretical framework known as New Institutional Economics (NIE) to analyse the Viking camps. This framework implies that I assume individual agents to act rationally in its ...
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(2023)While knowledge of Viking Age military structures such as ditches, camps and enclosures outside of Scandinavia is growing, possible counterparts in the Scandinavian regions are generally less known. But despite the lack ...
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(2023)The Viking as pirate is one of the oldest interpretational tropes connected with the predatory maritime activities of the Scandinavian peoples between c.750-1050 CE. Over the past decade, however, this has gained new ...
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(2023)This paper presents a broad-reaching overview of the study of Viking camps, and how this has developed since the 1970s. The paper considers how the camps have been interpreted in the past, summarises the evidence of the ...
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(2023)Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a crossborder space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. However, their power ...
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(2023)Along with cognitive factors, emotions and existential concerns such as the search for reassurance and autonomy shape adolescents' attitudes toward creation and evolution.
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(2023)Exemplary deep drilling of political events in Dalmatia (1900–1918) forms the basis of this profound study investigating the actions of the Austrian state administration. The elections of the Imperial Council and the ...
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(2023)The book presents a coherent theory of the law of donatio sub modo in its diachronic sequence and brings new results for the understanding of unjustified-enrichment-thinking, especially in the form of the condictio ob rem ...
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(2024)Hobbes, Leviathan, Virtue, Rhetoric, Sovereignty
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(2023)The essay illustrates some aspects of the control exercised by Italian rural lords in the 14th and 15th centuries over ecclesiastical institutions located on lordly territory (parish churches, chapels, monasteries). It ...
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(2023)Mercenarism and Lordship are deeply linked in the Italy of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is difficult to distinguish between these two realities. Equally, it is difficult to understand the social impact of the mercenary ...
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(2023)The essay looks into the troubled relationship between sovereign power and feudal power in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily after the Vespro. Moving from the analysis of the European and Mediterranean political space in ...
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(2023)The essay analyses the political relations between rural lordships and supralocal powers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries central Italy, on the base of researches carried out during the 2015 project PRIN. The areas ...
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(2023)The essay focuses on the relationship between states and rural lordships in northern Italy in the late Middle Ages. Two main questions lie at the core of the investigation: on the one hand, the influence exerted by central ...
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(2023)The article examines two explicitly different meanings of the expression 'pervasiveness of lordship'. The first moves from the more commune meaning of pervasiveness, understood as a synonym of capillary diffusion, to ...
