Model and proxy evidence for coordinated changes in the hydroclimate of distant regions over the Last Millennium by P. J. Roldán-Gómez, J. F. González-Rouco, J. E. Smerdon, F. García-Pereira

“…<p>The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; ca. 950–1250 CE) and the Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1450–1850 CE) were periods generally characterized by respectively higher and lower temperatures in many regions. …”
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Music to My Ears: Neural modularity and flexibility differ in response to real-world music stimuli by Melia E. Bonomo, Anthony K. Brandt, J. Todd Frazier, Christof Karmonik

“…Bach), culturally unfamiliar music (Gagaku court music of medieval Japan), and several excerpts of speech. There was a marked contrast among the whole-brain networks during the different types of auditory pieces, in particular for the unfamiliar music. …”
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Development of a novel, entirely herbal-based mouthwash effective against common oral bacteria and SARS-CoV-2 by Bálint Bencze, Viktória Temesfői, Sourav Das, Henrietta Papp, Péter Kaltenecker, Anett Kuczmog, Ferenc Jakab, Béla Kocsis, Tamás Kőszegi

“…Many customers prefer products that contain fewer toxic agents, therefore providing an environmentally friendly solution with the benefit of smaller risk to the user. Medieval and early modern medicinal knowledge might be useful when looking for natural, herbal-based components to develop modern products. …”
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MULTITEMPORAL 3D MODELLING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE EMERGENCY DURING SEISMIC EVENTS: DAMAGE ASSESMENT OF S. AGOSTINO CHURCH IN AMATRICE (RI) by F. Chiabrando, A. Di Lolli, G. Patrucco, A. Spanò, G. Sammartano, L. Teppati Losè

“…Starting from the first earthquake the late medieval religious complex of S. Agostino has been carefully monitored and detected, using a multi-perspective oblique imagery strategy with the aim to achieve 3D aerial and terrestrial models, in a multi-temporal perspective concerning three different time situation.…”
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Climate variability in the subarctic area for the last 2 millennia by M. Nicolle, M. Debret, N. Massei, C. Colin, A. deVernal, D. Divine, D. Divine, J. P. Werner, A. Hormes, A. Korhola, H. W. Linderholm

“…The cooling of the Little Ice Age (LIA) was identified from the individual series, but it is characterized by wide-range spatial and temporal expression of climate variability, in contrary to the Medieval Climate Anomaly. The LIA started at the earliest by around AD 1200 and ended at the latest in the middle of the 20th century. …”
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Serious games for disseminating the knowledge of ancient manuscripts: a case study by Cristian Lorenzini, Marcello Carrozzino, Chiara Evangelista, Franco Tecchia, Massimo Bergamasco, Alexandra Angeletaki

“…<p>En </p><p>In this paper we present a Digital Serious Game set in a medieval alchemical laboratory, aimed at disseminating the ancient knowledge of medicine distillation contained in the famous Adam Lonicer's Kreuterbuch (1569) treatise. …”
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Back to the Middle Ages: Entomological and Botanical Elements Reveal New Aspects of the Burial of Saint Davino of Armenia by Augusto Loni, Stefano Vanin, Antonio Fornaciari, Paolo Emilio Tomei, Valentina Giuffra, Giovanni Benelli

“…Botanical remains offer confirmation of a late medieval urban environment rich in horticultural areas and trees, giving us a landscape that is very different from the current Tuscan city.…”
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Sustainable and Regenerative Development of Water Mills as an Example of Agricultural Technologies for Small Farms by Andreas N. Angelakis, Mohammad Valipour, Jörg Dietrich, Konstantinos Voudouris, Rohitashw Kumar, Miquel Salgot, Seyed Ali Mahmoudian, Anatoli Rontogianni, Theocharis Tsoutsos

“…The history of water-powered mills in prehistoric and historic times, including ancient Persia/Iran, ancient China, ancient India, the Islamic world, Venetian Crete, medieval Europe, America, and finally present times, is discussed. …”
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Cehegín y el Noroeste by Juna Carrasco Espín

“…Respecto a los artículos históricos sobre Cehegín, Antonino González Blanco, Francisco Peñalver Aroca y Francisco Fernández Matallana aportan nuevos datos acerca de la antigua Begastri; Juan de Dios Hernández Miñano y Jerónimo García Servet comentan el simbolismo de los escudos heráldicos; Alcázar de Iranzo habla del Marqués de Pidal y otros personajes foráneos, pero relacionados con Cehegín; Gorrtín ofrece un curioso documento sobre la petición de Calasparra para que Cehegín sea cabeza de partido; Miguel Écija Rioja hace un estudio artístico sobre la imagen de la “Virgen de las Angustias”, y realiza además un viaje por la historia del Convento Franciscano; mencionemos también la síntesis del período medieval que firma Diego de Maya Ruiz. De tema histórico, pero referidos a la comarca del noroeste , aparece un artículo sobre el carlismo, de Ricardo Montes Bernárdez, y otro sobre arte rupestre de Migue l Ángel Mateo Saura. …”
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Risks Following from Husbandry on Agricultural Soils in Loaded Areas of the Czech Republic by Radim Vácha, Markéta Vysloužilová, Viera Horváthová, Jarmila Čechmánková

“…The contamination of the soil by As in the Kutná Hora district represents a typical past mining load caused by the spread of mining wastes on the soils in the vicinity of the medieval mining town Kutná Hora. The last type of the increased soil load presented is connected with fluvial zones of some rivers. …”
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Challenges to Democracy in the Middle East by Kamran Asghar Bokhari

“…She attributes this to Saddam's romance with the past, on the one hand, which is the reason for the incorporation of themes from both the ancient Mesopotamian civiliza­tion and the medieval Abbasid caliphal era, and, on the other hand, to Islam and tribalism, that inform the pragmatic concerns of the Ba'thist ideological configuration ...…”
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Language Contact and Phonological Innovation in the Voiced Prepalatal Obstruents of Judeo-Spanish by Travis G. Bradley, Claire Julia Lozano

“…This article traces the development of voiced prepalatal obstruents /<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">d</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">ʒ</mi></mrow><mo>⌢</mo></mover></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>/ and /ʒ/ in Judeo-Spanish, the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews since before their expulsion from late-15th century Spain. Using Medieval Spanish as a comparative starting point, we examine diachronic innovations in the phonological status and distribution of affricate /<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mover><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">d</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">ʒ</mi></mrow><mo>⌢</mo></mover></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>/ and fricative /ʒ/ in Judeo-Spanish during the diaspora, focusing in particular on the effects of lexical borrowing from Turkish and French in territories of the former Ottoman Empire. …”
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Hrvatski nacionalni identitet i Europska unija by Andreja Sršen, Davor Piskač

“…They represent older types of collective relationships, such as tribes, the Greek poleis, medieval kingdoms and the like. All of them exhibit the fundamental features of the “structure” of identity. …”
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century by N. A. Mogilevskii

“…This situation, typical of medieval feudal Europe, ran counter to the Russian patrimonial socio-political model, which irritated the Russian elite. …”
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Mutations to the Polder Model: Critical Reflections on ‘Exceptionalism’ and Continuity in the Low Countries by Bert De Munck

“…<p>In this review of the book <em>Nederland en het poldermodel</em> [The Netherlands and the Polder Model], the idea that the ‘polder model’ dates from the medieval principalities in the Low Countries is qualified. …”
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Averroè, una traduzione ininterrotta by Augusto Augusto

“…My collaboration with Massimo Campanini developed around our common interests in the classics of Islamic thought, but with very different approaches, since I am more oriented towards studying the effects and developments they produced on medieval and modern Western thought through a practice of translation that was often creative in terms of inaccuracy – so the opposite of what had been done with respect to Plato and Aristotle. …”
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THE DANCE IN MARTIAL ARTS by Petre-Ion BARBOŞ, Rareș-Dumitru CIOCOI-POP, Hanna Imola VARI

“…If the world of the gods in heaven, they carried the fighting powerful, means that the same events are also on earth. The ancient and medieval word has experienced so many forms as of leisure, as of training of war, by using dance and arts of the war. …”
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Surveying Georgia’s Past by Licini, Patrizia

“…No original copies from Ptolemy’s own time have survived. A medieval Greek copy without maps only reappeared in fourteenth-century Florence, with maps first drawn by Florentine cosmographers in further copies in 1415. …”
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Historicity of the Qur'an and Hadith: Historical Dynamics and Effects by Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman

“…It looks into the cultural impact of its moral-spiritual teaching and its historical significance in developing and fulfilling its fundamental role and social obligation in delivering and justifying the principal ideal of morality and fairness, contributing to medieval civilization and the formation of higher ethical-legal framework, and its state-of-the-art manifestation as set forth in the tafsir of Risalah al-Nur by Said Nursi. …”
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Culture Hero Sartakpai: The Image in Altaian Folklore Revisited by Tamara M. Sadalova, Tatuna N. Pashtakova

“…Altaian mythology is a distinct religious and mythological system, since historical and cultural ties of the Altai people go deep into the ancient and medieval history of Central Asian Turks and Mongols. …”
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