Open Research Exeter (ORE)

• Book review: Nikos Miltsios / Melina Tamiolaki (eds.): Polybius and His Legacy 

  Nicholson, EL (Herder-Institut, Marburg and Institut für Zeitgeschichte München - Berlin, 2018-09-15)

• The Social, Personal and Spiritual Dynamics of Ghost Stories in Early Modern England 

  Sangha, LS (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)

• Strategies for Success?: Evaluating the Rise of Catalan Literature 

  Mansell, RM (Liverpool University Press, 2019)

• William Golding's Great Dream 

  Kendall, T (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018)

• Seasonal records of palaeoenvironmental change and resource use from archaeological assemblages 

  Pryor, AJE; Prendergast, A; Reade, H; Stevens, R (Elsevier / Association for Environmental Archaeology, 2018-08-25)

  Seasonal climate variability can affect the availability of food, water, shelter and raw materials. Therefore, robust assessments of relationships between environmental change and changes in human behaviour require an ...

• Reflections on Gravettian firewood procurement near the Pavlov Hills, Czech Republic 

  Pryor, AJE; Pullen, A; Beresford-Jones, DG; Svoboda, JA; Gamble, CS (Elsevier, 2016-05-31)

  This paper draws attention to firewood as a natural resource that was gathered, processed and consumed on a daily basis by Palaeolithic groups. Using Gravettian occupation of the Pavlovsk� Hills as a case study (dated ...

• The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon 

  Maezumi, SY; Alves, D; Robinson, M; de Souza, JG; Levis, C; Barnett, RL; Almeida de Oliveira, E; Urrego, D; Schaan, D; Iriarte, J (Springer Nature, 2018-07-23)

  The legacy of pre-Columbian land use in the Amazonian rainforest is one of the most controversial topics in the social1-10 and natural sciences11,12. Until now, the debate has been limited to discipline-specific studies, ...

• Out of Amazonia: Late Holocene Climate Change and the Tupi-Guarani Trans-Continental Expansion 

  Iriarte, J; Richard Smith, RS; Jonas Gregorio de Souza, JS; Francis Mayle, FM; Bronwen Whitney, BW; Macarena Cardenas, MC; Joy Singarayer, JS; John Carson, JC; Shovonlal Roy, SR; Paul Valdes, PV (SAGE Publications, 2016-10-26)

  The late Holocene expansion of the Tupi-Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~ 4000 km between latitudes 0°S ...

• Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas 

  Hilbert, L; Neves, EG; Pugliese, F; Whitney, BS; Shock, M; Veasey, E; Zimpel, CA; Iriarte, J (Springer Nature, 2017-10-09)

  The development of agriculture is one of humankind's most pivotal achievements. Questions about plant domestication and the origins of agriculture have engaged scholars for well over a century, with implications for ...

• Standards for Networking Ancient Person Data: Digital Approaches to Problems in Prosopographical Space 

  Bodard, G; Cayless, H; Depauw, M; Isaksen, L; Lawrence, F; Rahtz, S (Digital Classics Online, 2017-11-01)

  Prosopographies disambiguate names appearing in sources by creating lists of persons, but the progress of scholarship now makes these lists difficult to maintain. In a digital context unique stable identifiers can be ...

• Linked Data Annotation Without the Pointy Brackets: Introducing Recogito 2 

  Simon, R; Barker, ETE; Isaksen, L; de Soto Cañamares, P (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-05-11)

  Recogito 2 is an open source annotation tool currently under development by Pelagios, an international initiative aimed at facilitating better linkages between online resources documenting the past. With Recogito 2, we aim ...

• Art Spiegelman’s ‘Little Signs of Passion’ and the Emergence of Hard-Core Pornographic Feature Film 

  Williams, PG (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)

  Art Spiegelman’s underground comic ‘Little Signs of Passion’ (1974) juxtaposes romance comics against hard-core pornographic feature films. In the early 1970s pornography was defended as an expression of moral and artistic ...

• Construction and power: the ethics of educational policy research 

  Djerasimovic, S (Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy, 2012-11)

  Western scientific communities have, for the past few decades, been overly concerned with ensuring that social - including educational - research is conducted to the highest ‘ethical’ standard (Hammersley, 2010). The exact ...

• Conversations in context: cross-cultural (grassroots) biblical interpretation groups challenging Western-centric (professional) biblical interpretation 

  John, H (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)

  This article considers how biblical scholarship might break out of its Western-dominated, largely historical-critical mould. I argue that we might challenge the hegemony of ‘Western Worldview’ scholarship by capitalising ...

• Poverty and mental health: the work of the female sanitary inspectors in Bradford (c. 1901–1912) 

  Dale, P (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-06-19)

  Although there are many excellent studies of the work of pioneer women public health officers, few accounts dwell on mental health issues or discuss any relationship that such staff might have understood to exist between ...

• Men in the Making: Youth, the Repertory, and the "Children'' of the Queen's Revels, 1609-13 

  McCarthy, Harry R. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-09-01)

  Focusing on the Children of the Queen’s Revels’ final years, this dissertation offers new readings of the company, closely informed by early modern understandings of masculine ‘youth’. An engagement with the company’s ...

• Optima tu proprii nominis auctor: The Semantics of Female Authorship in Ancient Rome, from Sulpicia to Proba 

  Hauser, E (Université de Lille, 2016-12-15)

  This paper explores evidence for female authorship terminology in extant poetic texts written in Latin by women. It begins by first considering male authorship in Latin literature, before moving on to three case studies ...

• ‘There is another story’: writing after the Odyssey in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad 

  Hauser, E (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-12-14)

  In this article, I explore how Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) provides a retrospective vision of an Odyssey that has already happened — and, by so doing, opens up an extended investigation of what it means to ...

• In Her Own Words: The Semantics of Female Authorship in Ancient Greece, from Sappho to Nossis 

  Hauser, E (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-12-28)

  What we call things is important—it reveals what we think about the world. What we call ourselves, however, is even more important. It reveals ideas and assumptions about identity, gender, community. It helps us to see ...

• Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna. 

  Lauritsen, M; Allen, R; Alves, JM; Ameen, C; Fowler, T; Irving-Pease, E; Larson, G; Murphey, LJ; Outram, AK; Pilgrim, E; Shaw, PA; Sykes, N (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)

  Easter and Christmas are the most important events in the Christian calendar. Despite their global reach and cultural significance astonishingly little is known about the festivals’ genesis. Equally obscure is our ...

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