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By Makarios, on May 14th, 2012 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
By Makarios, on May 14th, 2012 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
By Makarios, on May 14th, 2012 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
By Makarios, on May 14th, 2012 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
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