2026 September - 20 articles
This article examines women’s therapeutic knowledge through the traditional healing practices of the szeptunki (also szeptuchy, “whisperers”) of Podlachia, a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional borderland in north-eastern Poland. Th...
In November 1962, Cardinal Augustin Bea distributed to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council a pamphlet on the historicity of the Gospels, intervening—after two years of apparent silence—in the dispute between the Pontifical Biblical...
The history of ideas is essential for understanding how scientific knowledge is produced and sustained. This is particularly true for Western climate science, whose intellectual history spans a long period and has undergone several major transformati...
This article examines the changing social meanings of mining in Roșia Montană (Romania) from late state socialism to the period following the withdrawal of the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC), which had proposed a large open...
This essay constitutes the first part of an investigation into the origin and consequences of the concept of “national sovereignty,” focusing specifically on the concept of “nation” as derived from the Latin natio and the lang...
The historical evolution of Catholic sacred space has traditionally been examined through architectural, liturgical, or theological perspectives considered largely in isolation. Comparatively little attention, however, has been paid to ecclesiastical...
This study examines the socio-economic structure of Rumnos, a village in the district of Devrek in the Ottoman province of Bolu (now in Devrek district, Zonguldak Province, Türkiye), on the basis of Temettuat Register no. 3378, dated 1844–...
This article re-examines the French military physician and physiologist Jules Héricourt’s (1850–1938) treatment of what he termed intoxications d’origine externe, intoxications of external origin, in his popularising 1904 boo...
This article reconstructs the brief history of the Academia para la Historia de la Iglesia Latina (APHILA), a short-lived but revealing experiment in Latinx Protestant historiography in the early 1990s. Drawing on archival sources from the Justo L. G...
This paper reframes the ancient Egyptian tomb as a borderscape, focusing on evidence from the 3rd millennium BCE—known as the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period. While the identification of the tomb as a border between the worlds of...
Imperialism as a system of exploitation profoundly shaped the natural and human landscapes of colonized regions. This paper examines how the Second World War accelerated imperial transformations in East Africa, focusing on the Tanganyika Groundnut Sc...
This article examines the voyage of the Leviathan, a brigantine that sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, in 1773, in search of new sperm whale grounds in the South Atlantic but ended its journey off the coast of Brazil. There, its crew was arrested an...
In 19th-century Hungary, the German-language press provided an important intellectual platform for Jewish journalists, many of whom became significant actors in political communication and cultural transfer. This study examines the Pester Lloyd (foun...
This study examines Slovak compatriot associations in the United States at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as institutional structures of mutual aid, community organization and immigrant adaptation. The analysis focuses on the Nati...
To date, many studies on the Nazi Special Courts have focused on the individuals involved in passing judgement or in the prosecution process in general, as well as on their political significance. For our study, we undertake a re-evaluation and compu...
This article reconstructs a largely forgotten episode in the history of Buddhist studies: the period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the Buddha was widely considered to have been Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) in origin. Contrary t...
The figure of Cesare Borgia occupies a complex and revealing place in the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli. This article argues that the historical Cesare complicates Machiavelli’s more schematic presentation of military autonomy...
This study proposes a new conceptual framework that moves beyond the widely used civic/ethnic dichotomy in nationalism theory by bringing Michael Billig’s concept of banal nationalism into dialogue with the literature on everyday boundary-makin...
This article examines the terminological contributions of Gaspard Bauhin in his seminal work, “Theatrum Anatomicum” (1605). It is part of a series of articles exploring the development of anatomical terminology following Vesalius. Through...
The rapid digitization of large source collections in the humanities over the last three decades has comprehensively transformed the discipline. The accessibility of primary sources has improved drastically, the pre-processing of research data has be...
