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Many Mammals Unlikely To Outrun Climate Change

A safe haven could be out of reach for 9 percent of the Western Hemisphere’s mammals, and as much as 40 percent in certain regions, because the animals just won’t move swiftly enough to outpace climate change.

For the past decade scientists have outlined new areas suitable for mammals likely to be displaced as climate . . . → Read More: Many Mammals Unlikely To Outrun Climate Change

Consorting with the Other

Re-constructing scholastic, rhetorical and literary attitudes to pagans and paganism in the Middle Ages

By Teo Kia Choong

[Snip] Summary: Christian-Biblical theology has traditionally upheld an adversarial relation between Christianity and pagan cultures, with the latter being the Other and, subsequently, of the devil’s kingdom. As a study of medieval attitudes towards pagans and paganism(s), . . . → Read More: Consorting with the Other

City Parks, City Witches

By Valerie Freseman

Pagans have always lived in cities. The great city-states of the ancient world, from Rome to Athens to Cairo to Babylon and beyond, were places of teeming humanity — places where men, women, and children of all ages came to live within the places and practices that defined their existence. Polytheists, then . . . → Read More: City Parks, City Witches

The Viking Cities of Dublin and York

Examining Scandinavian Cultural Change and Viking Urbanism

By Danielle Trynoski

[Snip] Abstract: After presenting an overview of archaeological research in Viking colonies, this project investigates and compares the results of extensive archaeological research in two urban environments. Dubh Linn and Jorvik, as Dublin and York were known in the Viking Age, both experienced enormous change . . . → Read More: The Viking Cities of Dublin and York