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The ‘Justinianic Plague’: ; An “Inconsequential Pandemic”? A Reply by Meier, Mischa

“…In einem in PNAS 116 (2019) publizierten Beitrag wurde der Versuch unternommen, zu zeigen, dass die ‚Justinianische Pest‘ keine größeren Auswirkungen gezeitigt…”
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The Third Path or An Imperial Roundabout?: Skoropadsky’s Ukraine, Technocrats, and the “Great Russian Lobby” by AKULOV, MIKHAIL

“…This article reevaluates the Ukrainian state of Pavlo Skoropadsky without suscribing either to a nation-building or a class-centered narrative. It argues that…”
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Distraction from Hurtful Thoughts: Recreational activities as agents of healing in nineteenth-century British asylums by Oswald, Ute

“…British madhouses and asylums in the nineteenth century were often portrayed as places of wrongful confinement, lacking compassion and effective therapeutics…”
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Leibniz as a Moralist: In Memory of Marcelo Dascal by YAKIRA, ELHANAN

“…This article is written in the memory of Marcelo Dascal, and is conceived as an imaginary answer to a question put by him to the author: what is the point –…”
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Leibniz on Relations, Again: A Reply to Florian Vermeiren by MUGNAI, MASSIMO

“…In his article, Florian Vermeiren attributes to Leibniz – like other interpreters before him – the distinction of two different kinds of relations: 1)…”
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The Improved Calendar of 1700 and the Interplay with Astronomical Data by SCHMIDT, ROBERT W.

“…We discuss the astronomical underpinning of the improved calendar of 1700. Starting from the astronomical motivation of the Gregorian calendar of 1582 and the…”
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False Ideas: Leibniz and Aquinas by CAMPOSAMPIERO, MATTEO FAVARETTI

“…Though accepting the traditional view that truth and falsity are properties of propositions and judgments, Leibniz does not refrain from predicating truth and…”
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Questioning the Conceptualist Reading of Leibniz's Theory of Relations by VERMEIREN, FLORIAN

“…This paper challenges Mugnai's conceptualist reading of Leibniz's theory of relations. I specifically question his idea that relational accidents are mental…”
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Nature-conditioned Non-nature.: Helmuth Plessner’s Contribution to an Integrated Conception of Music by Tsetsos, Markos

“…Music, in our time, is understood in terms of antinomic disjunction, as either a purely cultural/historical or a natural, biologically determined and…”
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Morphological Dynamics of German Adjective Gradation in Rural Regions of Austria by Korecky, Katharina

“…This study investigates the influence of different socio-demographic, regional and linguistic variables on autochthonous rural Austrian speakers’ productions…”
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Politics, Community, and Entertainment: The Reception of Soviet Guitar Poetry in Poland by Wojtych, Tadeusz

“…Soviet guitar poetry (avtorskaia pesnia) enjoyed popularity in communist-era Poland, with Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotskii as the most famous…”
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The German King Philip of Swabia, Hungarian Queen Gertrude of Andechs-Meranien, and St Elizabeth of Thuringia in Rus’ Chronicles by Maiorov, Alexander V

“…This study is an attempt to present the history of Rus’ foreign policy ties with Germany and Hungary in the early 13th century. It focuses on a Rus’…”
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Modeling Adolescents’ Online Writing Practices: the Sociolectometry of Non-Standard Writing on Social Media by Hilte, Lisa, Vandekerckhove, Reinhild, Daelemans, Walter

“…The paper discusses four generalized linear mixed models fitted to capture distinct patterns of non-standard writing practices in Flemish adolescents’ social…”
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Hiding in Plain View: Burial and Commemoration of Children’s Specimens from Wittenau in the “Gräberfeld/Cemetery X” Tübingen, 4 and 8 July 1990 by Weindling, Paul

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Medical Geography in Imperial Russia: A Transnational Concept at the Service of the Empire, 1770–1870 by Afanasyeva, Anna, Renner, Andreas, Vishlenkova, Elena

“…Why was medicine crucial - or considered to be crucial - in the building, sustaining and understanding of the Russian Empire? Did it bring health to the…”
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What Historians Are Doing – A Final Reply to Mordechai et al by Meier, Mischa

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Doing History: Plague Past and Future – A second response to Mischa Meier by Mordechai, Lee, Eisenberg, Merle, Newfield, Timothy, Izdebski, Adam, Kay, Janet

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Situating Twitter Discourse in Relation to Spoken and Written Texts: A Lectometric Analysis by Bohmann, Axel

“…Language use on Twitter is a recent and currently understudied phenomenon. The present study makes an empirical contribution towards understanding the…”
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Quantitative Analysis and Plagued Assumptions: A Response to Mischa Meier by Mordechai, Lee, Eisenberg, Merle, Newfield, Timothy, Izdebski, Adam, Kay, Janet

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The Jewish Connection: Wagner and Heine by Vaget, Hans Rudolf

“…In these reflections on Der fliegende Holländer, I define the difference between Heine’s and Wagner’s versions of the legend in terms of disenchantment and…”
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