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(2024)The peasantry formed the most numerous group in the vast course of history in its dialectical diversity and specificity. However, the peasants’ importance was not matched by an equal research effort from historians. Something ...
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(2024)The aim of this work is the study of certain buildings of Granada, constructed during the last medieval centuries: the so-called “Torres de Alquería”. Their functions will be analysed, especially those linked to the defence ...
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(2024)Recent studies on the peasantry in the ancient world and early Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula have experienced a revitalization due to new archaeological records and the application of landscape archaeology. Alternative ...
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(2024)The main aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities and limits of the application of the concept of agency to tackle early medieval peasant-based societies. While this concept has achieved great success in archaeology ...
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(2024)Despite an exceptionally long tradition of research on medieval rural milieu, peasant agency represents a new theoretical approach that has not yet been coherently reflected in East Central Europe. Issues within social ...
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(2024)This paper engages critically with the idea that the individual household is the basic unit of social production and reproduction in peasant societies. Building upon a relational approach to agency and a critical approach ...
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(2024)The historical and archaeological approach to peopling processes, landscape articulation and social organization during the Early Middle Ages is a complex issue that requires an integrated management of written and material ...
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(2024)This book was written in the framework of two research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation focusing on the agency of peasantry and local societies in medieval southern Europe. This introductory ...
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(2024)Las transformaciones agrarias ocurridas durante la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI-XIX) en el Cantábrico oriental ofrecen un marco óptimo para analizar la agencia campesina a través de sus huellas materiales. Estos cambios, ...
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(2024)This paper analyses archaeological data on early medieval rural communities through the lens of peasant agency. Over the last 15 years systematic research has been carried out in different territories of the Portuguese ...
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(2025)This article addresses the issue of institutional ableism as a central challenge for public policies and social services, starting from a critical analysis of the experience of the Tuscany Region in adopting a participatory ...
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(2025)This essay explores the historical and sociological evolution of racism, tracing its transformation from early biological and cultural forms to contemporary economic expressions. While classical racism was rooted in ...
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(2025)Intersectionality—how gender intersects with race, class, and disability—has become central in understanding how girls experience discrimination. Although progress has been made in areas like primary education and vaccinations, ...
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(2025)The present reflection about sexual orientation in the human rights system stresses the legal process of elaboration of human rights under the specific profile of the relevance of affective and sexual relationships between ...
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(2025)With this contribution, we tried to analyze the amplifying effects of stigma, in particular when ableism is combined with gender, highlighting how this perspective can also be reductionist. In particular, the processes of ...
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(2025)The introduction outlines the contents of the various essays that make up the volume.
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(2025)At a time when the international political situation seems to undermine the very discussion on DE&I language policies, it is urgent to dwell on five arguments often brought up in the debate in opposition to the inclusion ...
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(2025)The starting point is the idea of discrimination, the common thread running through the essays collected, as the end result of interconnected processes: prejudices (emotional component), stereotypes (cognitive) and ...
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Chapter ‘Childismo’. Una parola che non esiste, per capire meglio la discriminazione che non vediamo(2025)The contribution addresses the issue of prejudice against children related to age differences. The first two paragraphs refer to contributions from historical research that have highlighted long- lasting processes of ...
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(2024)The Coming of the Bookman or Approaches to the Manuscript Heritage of Prokhor Kolomnyatin Presenting a review of the historiography from 1854 to the present, this article examines the scholarly study of the Russian bookman ...
