The potential of investigating archaeology on small islands has long been underestimated. Non-local archaeologists often regard such islands as offering (too) few opportunities for prehistoric use and habitation due to limited resources and isolation, whereas prehistoric communities saw them as resource-rich and well-connected. Accessibility and logistical challenges further affect research on small or remote islands, reflecting modern biases shaped by reliance on cars and (digital) infrastructure.

This volume brings together research projects on prehistoric coastal archaeology in islands now perceived as ‘small’ or ‘remote’. Divided into five sections, it includes 14 chapters by 23 contributors, covering case studies from the Cyclades (Greece), Adriatic (Croatia), Mediterranean, Galician Atlantic (Spain), Kalmarsund (Sweden), Scotland, Fiji, Japan, and the Caribbean.

The contributions address themes such as insularity, interaction, and connectivity, as well as biases linked to ideas of remoteness and isolation. By examining what islands offered to prehistoric communities and tracing the continuous use of coastal locations, the volume shows that these were not marginal areas but activity hotspots. It also considers coastal erosion, threatened heritage, island ecology, and prehistoric resource use and adaptation.

It is hoped that this volume will inspire local and non-local archaeologists and archaeology enthusiasts to collaborate in documenting, investigating, and protecting coastal heritage in small islands.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464264630 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464264647 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 182x257mm | 282 pp. | Language: English | 5 illus. (bw) | 71 illus. (fc) | Keywords: small islands; coastal archaeology; prehistory; coastal processes; remoteness; site survival | download cover | DOI: 10.59641/s3v9p0q1r2 | CC-license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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SECTION ONE. INTRODUCTION

Foreword
Helen Dawson

1. Introduction: Coastal Archaeology in Small Islands
Maaike S. de Waal

2. Island Archaeology: An Integrative Review from a Maritime Perspective
Veronica Walker Vadillo, & Kristin Ilves

SECTION TWO. MOBILITY, CONNECTEDNESS, AND INSULARITY

3. Connecting the Coastline. Visibility and Coastal Navigation in the Southern Coastline of Menorca during the Late Bronze Age
Alejandra Galmés-Alba, & Manuel Calvo Trias

4. Transporting Parian and Naxian Marble in the Cyclades
Judith Muñoz-Sogas

5. The Relevance of ‘Far-Flung’ Island Landscapes in Prehistoric Scotland: Loch Roag and the Complex of Calanais
Gail Higginbottom, Vincent Mom, & Mike Efstathiou

6. Challenging Concepts of Remoteness in the Outer Hebrides
Emily Gal, & Rebecca Rennell

7. Beachware as a Cultural Resource in Prehistoric Small Island Societies: Examples from the Western Isles, Scotland, and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Matt Law

SECTION THREE. METHODS

8. Project SENTINELA. Monitoring and Documenting the Erosive Processes on the Cultural Heritage of the Galician Atlantic Islands
Patricia Valle Abad, Alba Antía Rodríguez Novoa, Marta Lago Cerviño, & Adolfo Fernández Fernández

9. Three Eroding Shetland Sites: Community Monitoring and Targeted Investigation
Ellie Graham

10. Pre-colonial Indigenous Settlement in Eroding Coastal Landscapes. The Sites of Little Bay, Boscobelle Bay, and Skeetes Bay Plateau, Barbados
Maaike S. de Waal

SECTION FOUR. LANDSCAPE NARRATIVES

11. From Defense to Display: Bronze Age Hillforts on the Small Adriatic Island of Ist
Pio Domines Peter

12. What a Clam Can Reveal: Understanding Settlement Realignment c. 2500 cal yr BP in Southwestern Viti Levu, Fiji
Roselyn Kumar, Frank R. Thomas, and Amy Prendergast

13. Within the Stories of a Landscape – Archaeology and Folklore on The Blue Maiden, a Pristine Island in the Kalmar Strait
Kenneth Alexandersson & Anna-Karin Karlsson

SECTION FIVE. CONCLUSIONS

14. Epilogue: Looking Back and Looking Forwards
Maaike S. de Waal

Acknowledgements
Author Biographies

 

Despite their apparent ubiquity today, archaeologists have seldom focused explicitly on crises. The authors in this book take up the challenge of doing so, drawing on archaeological cases from a wide temporal and spatial range. In addition to identifying crises, the contributions search for the factors that underlie them. These range from climate to disease, environmental destruction, sudden natural events such as volcanic eruptions, and intra- or intersocietal conflicts.

Factors are often intertwined in complex ways that lead to emergent properties and that can neither be attributable solely to anthropogenic nor to natural causes. Coping with crises include rearrangements of ways of life, such as increasing or decreasing mobility, the use of alternative (‘second-choice’) food sources, recourse to intensified or newly developed rituals, demise of old institutions and/or the building of new ones, and small-scale acts of subversion.

This book is the fifth volume of a series published by the German-Iranian research cooperation “The Iranian Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies”. The goal of the research project is to shine a new light on communities and societies that populated the Iranian highlands and their more or less successful strategies to cope with the many vagaries, the constant changes and risks of their natural and humanly shaped environments.

 Paperback ISBN: 9789464271713 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464271720 | Imprint: Sidestone Press Academics | Format: 210x280mm | 228 pp. | The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration 5 | Language: English | 19 illus. (bw) | 63 illus. (fc) | Keywords: crisis in archaeology; crisis factors; coping with crisis; highland societies; resilience; climate change; migration | download cover | DOI: 10.59641/y3b9v0w1x2 | CC-license: CC BY 4.0

 

Crises – An Introduction
Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and Martin Kehl

Characterising crises

Crises of Our Own Making: Finding a Way Out of the Resilience Myth for Archaeology
Matthew C. Reilly

Are Archaeologists Crisis-philic? Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Migration
Sepideh Maziar

Politics, religion, and crises

How did the Elamites Cope with Crises? Looking at the Gap between the Middle and the Neo-Elamite Period
Rafiei-Alavi

Is This Burning an Eternal Flame? Political Crises and Dynastic Cults in Southwest Asia during Antiquity
Michael Brown

Death at the beginning of life. Medieval and early modern infant burial as response to multiple crises and what we can learn from it today
Barbara Hausmair

Environment and Crises

Climate and Crises: Towards an Eventful and Punctuated Prehistory
Felix Riede

Dehqaed’s Natural Crises and the Challenge of Flooding
Zohreh Zehbari

Fending off Crises with Porosity: Sand, Water and Wind in the Helmand Basin
Moslem Mishmastnehi and Reinhard Bernbeck

Resources, technology, and crisis

Probing Criticality: Sliding Scales of Crisis in Two Highland Societies
Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and Jana Eger

On the Edge of Crisis – A View from Archaeometry
Kristina A Franke

Metal and Crisis: Crisis Phenomena in the Production, Distribution and Utilisation of Copper and Other Metals Between the 4th and the Late 2nd Millennium BCE in West Asia
Thomas Stöllner

No Risk, No Neolithisation
Judith Thomalsky and Akbar Abedi

Innerhalb der Forschungsgruppe ist eine Stelle dem Modul „Re-Imagining Democracy from a Global Perspective“ zugeordnet, in dem das Imaginieren von Demokratie und kollektiver Selbstregierung aus nicht-westlicher bzw. globaler Perspektive untersucht werden soll. Die andere Stelle gehört dem Modul „Doing Democracy“ an, das konkreten Praktiken des Imaginierens von Demokratie gewidmet ist. Die Bewerbungsfrist für beide Stellen ist der 15. November 2026, alle weiteren Informationen zur Ausschreibung finden sich hier.

Join Allison Tirres, Craig Green and David Schorr for a discussion about publishing research in law and history. This session offers an opportunity to hear editors’ perspectives on developing an article, choosing a journal and navigating submission, peer review and revisions. Whether you are preparing your first submission or developing your next publication, come along to ask questions and gain practical insights into the publishing process. Postgraduate researchers, early career scholars and colleagues at all career stages are welcome.

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In colonial India and Mandatory Palestine, early-twentieth-century legal scholars made important contributions to the study of the nature of law, particularly by analyzing Hindu and Jewish law - their ancient religious systems. This book reconstructs the lives and ideas of these scholars, revealing a forgotten global wave of jurisprudential innovation that appeared across many territories in the non-Western world. The book challenges the view that non-Western legal scholars working in the colonies were passive recipients of Western ideas. It argues that Indian and Jewish thinkers used Western historical and sociological approaches to law to reimagine Hindu and Jewish law, and to assert their relevance to modern legal and constitutional debates. Though historical in scope, the story this book tells is also relevant to contemporary tensions between Western liberal law and non-Western religious legal traditions. 

--Dan Ernst 

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 This study examines the theme of suicide in Seneca, analyzing all relevant passages from his prose works. Adopting a rhetorical and pragmatic approach, it treats the texts as communicative acts within a multifaceted debate—both philosophical and historical-political—set against the backdrop of the Julio-Claudian era, when the choice between life and mors voluntaria was a pressing and controversial issue.

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Materialhefte zur bayerischen Archäologie: Fundinventare und Ausgrabungsbefunde    

1974 hatte die Entdeckung von mächtigen Mauerresten der spätantiken Befestigung Boitro in Passau-Innstadt eine berechtigte Aufregung hervorgerufen, zeigt sie doch eine Verbindung zur Tätigkeit des hl. Severin. Jetzt weiß man, daß die Anlage noch im 5. Jahrhundert in Benutzung war und nicht nur die Datierung, sondern auch der prominente Befund eines Speicherbaus sowie die abschließende Zerstörung bestätigen die Beschreibung der im frühen 6. Jahrhundert abgefaßten Vita Severini.

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Thursday, October 22: 4:20-6:20pm Big-Picture on the Rise of Presidentialism
Ashraf Ahmed (Columbia), “Justifying the Presidency?”
Joshua Macey (Yale) and Brian Richardson (Cornell), “Separation-of-powers Formalisms”
Bijal Shah (Boston College), “The Deeper State”
Diego Zambrano (Stanford) & Mila Versteeg (Virginia),“Great Expectations: How to Restore the Rule of Law”
Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), commentator
Steve Koh (BU), chair

Saturday, Oct. 24: 11:20-12:40  Democracy and Rule of Law
Aziz Huq (Chicago) (paper w/ Tom Ginsburg), “Exhuming the Impetuous Vortex”
Robert Tsai (BU) “The Judge’s Dilemma in a Populist Age”
Matthew Segal & Nellie Conover-Crockett (ACLU),“Is the Westfall Act unconstitutional? Rethinking state sovereignty and converse-1983 statutes.”
Jim Fleming (BU), chair and commentator

1:00-2:20 pm 20th Century Rise of Presidentialism
Jane Manners (Fordham),“The Anti-Unitary Roots of Nondelegation: Schechter/Humphrey’s”
Rafi Stern (BU), “Was the APA a Grand Compromise?”
Andrea Scoseria Katz (Washington U.),”How to Build a President: Executive Branch Lawyering, Social Movements, and the Constitutional Construction of the Unitary Executive, from Nixon to Roberts.”
Andrew Kent (Fordham), “The Expansive Executive Power Clause”
Noah Rosenblum (NYU), commentator
Nicholas Parrillo (Yale), commentator

--Dan Ernst 

The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal rights. Yet this story fundamentally misses how citizenship rights worked for Jews and countless others who arrived on American shores. In Who Is American? Lila Corwin Berman draws on case law, statutes, and debates to argue that both the laws of American citizenship and Jews’ position in them changed repeatedly across the twentieth century. Courts, policymakers, and the public persistently asked what it meant to be Jewish under the law. Were Jews a race, a nationality, a religion—or some combination of each? The answer carried profound legal consequences. Not only did it determine Jews’ citizenship status, but it also affected the rights they could exercise. Just as significantly, the meaning of the categories under law changed over time, affecting Jews’ self-understanding, their political ideals, and their relationships to other groups of Americans.

Who Is American? tells a history that resonates powerfully with today’s high-stakes battles over citizenship and rights. As Berman concludes, citizenship law has always been better at posing questions about the terms of belonging than at providing any ultimate resolution. The tangled story of Jewish citizenship demonstrates the limits of law and explains why the United States continues to fall into new and, often, unsettling debates about who is American. 

A sample of praise from reviewers: 

“This provocative book definitively explodes the longstanding and misleading myth of ‘American Jewish exceptionalism,’ namely, that American Jews gained citizenship automatically, uncontroversially, and irrevocably—unlike their brethren in Europe and elsewhere. Berman demonstrates that the granting of citizenship was always contingent and disputed. This book will be required reading for everyone concerned with the past, present, and future of Jews in America.”—David Sorkin

“A timely, accessible, and fascinating contribution to American Jewish history and to the history of citizenship in the United States more broadly.”—Jessica M. Marglin

More information is available here. An interview with Professor Berman is available here,  via New Books in Law.

-- Karen Tani

This compilation, edited by Arnd Koch and Martin Löhnig, deals with criminal law discourses and legislation in the early twentieth century. It refers to the interwar period (Zwischenkriegszeit), the period between the two World Wars (1918- 39). However, it is obvious that this period of legal history can only be comprehended if a broader temporal context is considered. Therefore, some of the case studies comprised in the book reflect issues concerning historical development between the mid-nineteenth century (eg in the article by Marju Luts-Sootak and Marin Sedman on the legal situation in Estonia) and the 1960s (eg in Danuta Janicka's account about Poland). Except for one article written in English (by Luts-Sootak and Sedman), the compilation is in German. 

What is not apparent from the title of the anthology is the fact that the book focuses on legislation and discourse in Central and Eastern Europe. So, apart from an introductory article by Löhnig, the anthology comprises seven studies about the legal situation in individual territories in this European region. Attila Barna's article deals with the Hungarian criminal law, focussing on reform initiatives from 1908 and 1928. The latter reformed inter alia the system of fines and brought in the concept of the so-called serious criminal (Schwerverbrecher) which reflected discourses that could also be found in Germany during this time. Janicka's article deals with Poland, especially with the discussion about legal unification around 1918 and with the international network within which the debate took place. Furthermore, she shows the links to the concepts of the classical school of criminal law and to those of the sociological, 'modern' school. Koch addresses the history of Germany between 1919 and 1933, the so-called Weimar Republic. He notes that the project to comprehensively reform the German criminal code from 1871 (Reichsstrafgesetzbuch) failed during this period, but emphasises that the successes achieved in criminal policy during the Weimar period must not be forgotten. In this regard, Koch refers to the admission of women to the legal profession, the legislative regulation of fines, juvenile criminal law, and the reform of the prison system. 

Luts-Sootak and Sedman focus on the Estonian Penal Code of 1929, which came into force in 1935. According to the authors [...]

To read the full review, please click here. Online access is free for members of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671636

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, History

“The Virgin Mary in Ritual in Late Antique Egypt: Origins, Practice, and Legacy” examines the significance of the Virgin Mary for the ritual activities of Christians in Egypt, from the early conceptual roots of Marian veneration in the second century, to its diffusion among the monks of Egypt ca. 500 CE. In addition to patristics and the New Testament, this project emphasizes esoteric treatises, apocryphal stories, and ritual devices, and considers writings predominantly in Coptic, Greek, Syriac, and Latin. The dissertation challenges longstanding views that make the cult of Mary either a reflex of pagan goddess worship or a response to Christological controversy—above all, the “heresy” of docetism (i.e., the belief that Jesus' humanity and/or suffering were merely apparent). In contrast, the dissertations argues that the earliest association of Mary with divine powers was inspired by mythologies related to “heterodox” Christians—such as Valentinians, Gnostics, and Manichaeans—who variously linked Mary to spiritual powers like the primordial church, the Holy Spirit, the Virgin of Light, and the Mother of Life. These developments in doctrine and praxis reflect distinct forms of social and ritual authority among the Christians of late antiquity, who expressed competing notions of ecclesiastical and anthropological harmony, and visionary experiences. The history of Mary's ritual authority, and Christianity more generally, must always account for the contributions of so-called “heterodox” Christians even in the most unlikely ways, not within some fleeting period of early diversity, but as part of a continuous process well into the Middle Ages.

Committee: David Brakke (Advisor); Kristina Sessa (Committee Member); J. Albert Harrill (Committee Member) Subjects: Ancient History; Religion

• A few recent posts of interest from over at JOTWELL: Eliot Tracz (New England Law) shines a spotlight on Jill Elaine Hasday's We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (2025); Sara Mayeux (Vanderbilt Law) admiringly reviews Julia Rudolph's "William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Jamaica," which recently appeared in the Law & History Review.  

• Job alert: "The Department of History, Politics, and Law at Nazareth University of Rochester invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track faculty position in Legal Studies." More. (HT: H-Net.)  

In Concrete Leviathan, historian Teal Arcadi denaturalizes the interstate highway system, interrogating the ideologies, fiscal mechanisms, and legal tools that led to the construction of a vast and permanent physical infrastructure—and then made it all but impossible to change course. Arcadi argues that the US interstate highway system was built by an unaccountable regime of law and political economy that systematically created and insulated structures of governance. The power of these administrative and physical structures has been such that even when people have mobilized to oppose or try to change them, their protests have tended only to reveal the extent and power of the infrastructural state. 

At the same time, Concrete Leviathan shows how resistance to this infrastructure’s inequities generated new democratic ideas and practices, pointing toward more participatory structures of government and more equitable models of state building.  

Praise from reviewers:

"Scholars of infrastructure and urban planning have shown how the physical structure of our roads encodes patterns of movement and development in ways that make racial and economic disparities durable. In this revealing and timely new book, Arcadi deepens these arguments by showing further how the way we have built our infrastructure has shaped the nature of political power and governing institutions themselves in ways that challenge long-term values of democracy, participation, and effective governance. At a time where the question of reimagining governing institutions and capacity is front and center, and essential for the prospects for American democracy, Arcadi's accounts of history, institutional development--and the commitment to a more effective yet democratic mode of future governance-- are essential reading for policymakers, scholars, and advocates alike." — K. Sabeel Rahman

“Concrete Leviathan makes a significant contribution to the field, combining deep historical research with a critical analysis of infrastructure, race, and state power. It challenges conventional narratives about public works projects and brings new insights into how state building, more generally, can reflect and reinforce societal inequalities. The book stands as an essential addition to the historiography of American political economy and the history of infrastructure.” — Jason Scott Smith

More information is available here. See also the book-related posts on Arcadi's substack, Gridworks. 

-- Karen Tani

INTENSIVE DOCTORAL WEEK - 16TH EDITION

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The Habsburg Monarchy was a Europe in miniature. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it served as one of the world's most innovative laboratories for federal concepts, navigating an immense multiplicity of peoples, languages, and cultures. Based on extensive archival material and new sources, A Federal History of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 provides a groundbreaking and new political history, exploring federalism not just as an abstract idea, but as a living practice of multi-level governance.

From the executive federalism of Metternich to the fin-de-siècle 'cooperative empire', the study examines how power was distributed across the Habsburg empire, its imperial halves Austria and Hungary, and its historic crown lands such as Bohemia, Austria, Tyrol, and Galicia. It illuminates a system where elites collaborated on new tasks-from education and public health to social security and infrastructure-bridging the gap between pre-modern traditions of governance and the challenges of modern times.

By analyzing unique federal models like 'non-territorial personal autonomy', which was implemented in diverse regions ranging from Moravia to the Bucovina and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jana Osterkamp provides new answers to what held this complex polity together and why it ultimately fell apart. Habsburg federalism was always in tension, balancing imperial integration with claims for national self-determination. Serving as a prequel to modern Europe, this work reveals how federalism sought to secure a balance where diversity is not absorbed into unity.

--Dan Ernst 

This volume investigates exceptional deposits of complete and broken objects in wells, shafts and a tomb at Hala Sultan Tekke, shedding new light on depositional practices as an important indicator of ritual activities in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. More than 60 ‘pits’ were uncovered during Swedish excavations conducted between 2014 and 2022 in an unbuilt area just outside the densely occupied city centre, including 21 wells, numerous tombs and 16 other pits and shafts whose function remains uncertain. Their fills contain peculiar assemblages of large quantities of pottery, ceramic figurines, seals, textile production tools, bronze and stone objects, animal bones and charred plant remains, which differ markedly from ordinary household or workshop refuse, indicating that they resulted from deliberate acts of deposition rather than incidental accumulation.

Drawing on a wealth of illustrations, the volume analyses how these deposits were formed, the functions and biographies of the objects they contain, their chronology and the regional and long-distance connections reflected in the material. Particular attention is paid to the presence and significance of imports from the Aegean, Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia and Sardinia. The volume also re-evaluates comparable deposits elsewhere on Cyprus in light of the findings from Hala Sultan Tekke and offers an important new perspective on the role of deliberate deposition in 2nd millennium Cyprus, situating these practices within the broader social and ritual landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia.

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• Online Tables

  by Teresa Bürge
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.68546/bqh28s83
• Online Appendix 1: Human remains from Pit GG and faunal remains from pits, wells and Tomb SS in Area A

  by Víctor Barrera Alarcón, Bebelyn Placiente Robedizo, David S. Reese, Anderson L. Carter and Omri Lernau
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.68546/3pe4-anme
• Online Appendix 2: The archaeobotanical remains from pits, wells and Tomb SS in Area A, including charred wood

  by Dominika Kofel
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.68546/rv27-b2yv
• Online Appendix 3: Pottery fabrics and provenance studies

  by Teresa Bürge, Johannes H. Sterba, Paula Waiman-Barak and Eleni Nodarou
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.68546/1w2n-abgc
• Online Appendix 4: Organic residue analysis of Late Bronze Age pottery from Tomb SS at Hala Sultan Tekke

  by Julie Dunne, Teresa Bürge and Richard P. Evershed
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.68546/t87n-y103

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El pasado 30 de junio se cumplieron 150 años de la firma de la Constitución de la Monarquía Española que estuvo plenamente vigente hasta 1923. Fue una ley en la que, bajo la influencia de Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, predominó la idea de inclusión de la mayor parte de las fuerzas políticas a partir de los principios de transigencia y de tolerancia, así como por la de flexibilidad en su desarrollo posterior. La prolongada vigencia del texto constitucional facilitó la afirmación de un consistente sistema de predominio civil y la consecución de un elevado nivel de libertades personales. En los días finales de 1874, la situación política española parecía agotada y la situación política internacional parecía apuntar hacia la consolidación de regímenes de autoridad. En Francia se ensayaba un cierto cesarismo militar después de las convulsiones revolucionarias de 1871, mientras que acababa de establecerse el Imperio alemán, de tono conservador. Todo parecía apuntar hacia regímenes de orden.

More information on all lectures in the series here. 

I examine how Liberia used law and sovereignty to answer the forced-labour accusations of 1929–1930, and what the inquiry revealed about government in the interior. I read the commission’s report against the government’s replies, the legal provisions reproduced in the report and American diplomatic correspondence. I argue that Liberia’s defence depended on its claim to control both the investigation and the reforms that followed. The government authorised the inquiry, disputed parts of the evidence and accepted recommendations without accepting every finding. The report exposed a different relationship between government and the people required to work. Officials could demand labour through commissioners, chiefs and soldiers, while those subjected to these demands had limited access to officials who might protect them. The legal problem concerned the enforcement of freedom as much as its formal recognition. I also examine the unequal terms of international scrutiny. The commission investigated Firestone but qualified its findings by reference to corporate knowledge, and it recommended foreign officials as a remedy for Liberian misgovernment. I conclude that Liberia’s defence of independence must be considered alongside its failure to make constitutional protection accessible in the interior.

 I examine how Liberia's government incorporated customary authority into the administration of its hinterland and how the Supreme Court contested the resulting exercise of judicial power. Two judgments, Jedah and others v Horace (1916) and Karmo and another v Morris and another (1919), expose a disagreement within the state over the constitutional position of the interior. In Karmo, the government argued that constitutional restrictions did not govern executive action beyond the coastal counties. The Court answered that Liberia's claim to sovereignty carried constitutional obligations throughout its territory. Yet its reasoning also justified the incorporation of indigenous communities without their consent. Reading these decisions alongside the 1930 international inquiry and the 1956 Aborigines Law, I argue that constitutional review and administrative domination developed within the same legal order. The 1956 legislation made complaints, records and official supervision part of interior government while retaining courts closely connected to the executive. Legal plurality therefore requires an account of who controlled jurisdiction and access to review. The dates in the title define the proposed historical span; the precise statutory basis for the opening date remains to be established. 

--Dan Ernst 

This book examines the gender and family dimensions of mobilisation for the First World War in the Ottoman Empire, situating the war in a long-nineteenth-century social history of Ottoman military reform for the first time. It focuses on the military legal concept of muinsizlik (sole breadwinning) and how this concept shaped Ottoman military policy - namely, how militarisation and mobilisation were supported by the exploitation of women's care and social reproductive labour, as well as the extraction of material and physical resources from Ottoman families.

In exploring how war worked at the level of the body, the individual and the family, this book demonstrates how Ottoman society and war became imbricated through processes of militarisation that led to significant consequences during the First World War and its aftermath. Based on a gendered reading of Ottoman military and bureaucratic archives, it addresses a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East that has long awaited further study from a bottom-up perspective.

For an interview with the author, follow the link to the New Books in Law podcast.

-- Karen Tani 

(image source: IEG Mainz)

 The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards fellowships to postdocs conducting research in European history, the history of religion, and other historical disciplines (including Digital Humanities).

Abstract:

This paper examines legal reform as a multi-dimensional political, social and legal process across the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. It explores the supranational, state and social interactions with judicial reform, demonstrating the legal pluralism and fundamental arbitration culture at the heart of German law and state building. Focusing on Bavaria and Hessen-Kassel as primary case studies, it examines the experiences of legal reform in two contrasting examples of states which, for better or worse, survived the upheavals of the era. By focusing upon the courses and dynamics of inevitable jurisdictional tensions, this research provides a new lens through which to understand state-building and legal change. In doing so, it contributes to a richer account of multi-dimensional German governance and society, while also providing a critical historical perspective on the challenges of supranational order – demonstrating that state-building and legal reform were inherently contingent and intertwined.

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Pirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national identity. In the decades leading up to and including the U.S. Civil War, the charge of piracy was leveled against an unusually wide range of figures: foreign heads of state, imperial filibusters, transoceanic enslavers, enslaved mutineers, radical abolitionists, and others who challenged established forms of authority. Early American literature reflects this instability, portraying pirates who vary dramatically in politics, race, gender, and allegiance. As Mark B. Kelley shows, these characters are united less by ideology than by their challenge to landed social norms and fixed national belonging. The pirate, in both law and literature, emerges as an individual defined by multiplicity rather than political coherence. 

Crimes Against Feeling examines how Americans made sense of this ambiguous figure by turning to emotion. Drawing on legal materials including treaties, trial transcripts, congressional debates, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, as well as popular sentimental fiction (often written by women), Kelley argues that piracy was codified as an offense against moral feeling rather than being a singular political position. Legal thinkers and writers such as John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Maria S. Cummins relied on shared affective frameworks—sympathy, sentiment, and domestic vulnerability—to render piracy legible and punishable. American pirate law, Kelley demonstrates, was shaped by the same emotional logics that structured the era’s popular fiction. 

By tracing piracy across debates over domestic sovereignty, global enslavement and abolition, imperial expansion, postbellum reparations, and international copyright, Crimes Against Feeling reveals the pirate as a key figure for understanding gender, home, family, and nation in early America. Reading law and literature together, the book shows how emotional judgment—not political consensus—became a foundational tool for managing oceanic violence and transnational disorder in the nineteenth-century United States. 

Professor Kelley will discuss the book at Marquette University on Tuesday, October 20. 

--Dan Ernst 

Editorial project

Archaeology in Greece Online combines the Chronique published annually in the BCH by the French School at Athens, and Archaeology in Greece published as part of the annual Archaeological Reports by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens (which continues to appear in print in a new review format).

The project is managed jointly by the French School at Athens and the British School at Athens: data processing is divided by region and reflects the traditions, history and research foci of the two schools. Texts are thus either in English or in French, but the search engine draws on the entire database regardless of language.
 

Collaborators

The Chronique team of the French School at Athens consists in 2026 of Véronique Chankowski (School Director), Guillaume Biard (Director of Studies in Antiquity and Byzantine Studies), Catherine Bouras (editorial secretary), and Louis Mulot (Developments). Entries on Cyprus are written by Sabine Fourrier (CNRS). The drafting of entries is regularly entrusted to scientific members of the School. For the British School at Athens, the team consists of Rebecca Sweetman (School Director), Georgios Mouratidis (Assistant Director), and Kostis Christakis (Knossos Curator).

Past collaborators : Laurianne Sève, Amélie Perrier, Julien Fournier, Arthur Muller, Directors of Studies in Antiquity and Byzantine Studies, Alexandre Farnoux, Dominique Mulliez (Directors) , Catherine Aubert, Publications assistant, Catherine Morgan, John Bennet, Directors, Robert Pitt, Chryssanthi Papdopoulou, Michaeol Loy, assistant directors. 

General Information

The inclusion of material in Archaeology in Greece Online does not constitute its formal publication.
The EfA and the BSA cannot supply copies of illustrations here reproduced to which they do not hold copyright.
 

Website

This website has been entirely redeveloped during the year 2018 at the EfA by Louis Mulot (Software engineer) and G. Bejjaji (trainee in the IT department).

The site has been tested with different browsers (for computers, phones and tablets) in their most recent versions, supporting actual HTML standards. It is strongly recommended that you update your browser to avoid problems with display, animation, content management, and security. 
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This volume presents case studies in classical and Byzantine research that exemplify practices, structures and standards in open data which transform and subvert historical scholarship. It leverages new data publication methods and embeds them as part of its argument, exploring the potential of non-linear discourse, multimedia content and data visualisation. Individual chapters illustrate how open scholarship enables a shift from authority-based interpretative frameworks to transparent, collaborative approaches, and combining datasets allows for analysis and comparisons at unprecedented scales, empowers researchers and elicits creative and original responses to old and new research questions.

Collaborative practices and data models lead historians to reflect rigorously and openly on assumptions, definitions and biases, encouraging more diverse approaches to interpretation of ancient sources. The different perspectives, methodologies, disciplines and research questions showcased in this book highlight the role of open data and code in the pursuit of historical research questions and the creation of new knowledge. It demonstrates that methods like linked open data, open licensing, documentation of standards and the publication of code influence the development of open data, tools and workflows, and are in turn nourished by a rich, sustainable classical open data ecosystem.

Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies 

 

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Copyright: © Authors 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63674/shcx2882

Number of pages: 268

Number of illustrations: 24

Publication date: 8 October 2026

Introduction
Valeria Vitale and Gabriel Bodard

1 Historical authority and the prosopography of the Byzantine world: from factoids to assertions
Tara Andrews

2 Connecting late antiquities: challenges and opportunities for prosopographical data
Charlotte Tupman & Richard Flower

3 Venetian officals in sixteenth-century Cyprus: An online database and a pilgrimage account
Tassos Papacostas

4 Connections through collections: linking archaeological and epigraphic archives through places and people
Alessandra Giovenco & Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez

5 Engraving the soil: the challenges of defining spatial footprints in Cypriot cultural heritage
Stuart Dunn

6 You can’t step into the same dataset twice: iterative improvement through reuse of open Libyan place data
Valeria Vitale

7 The makeup of Ajax: reconstructing networks of interpretation through the commentary tradition
Charles Pletcher & Matteo Romanello

8 Traces of lost libraries in the works of Alexandrian and Byzantine scholars: bibliographic open data from antiquity to Wikimedia
Monica Berti

9 Digital epigraphy at Dura-Europos: toward a FAIR-er inscriptional corpus
Anne Hunnell Chen, Carl R. Rice, Ilaria Bucci & Jennifer A. Baird

10 Reception of Sapphic language in Hadrianic verse epigraphy: building on open philological data
Marja Vierros & Gabriel Bodard

11 The next decade of Byzantine sigillography: the impact of open data as collaboration
Martina Filosa, Jonathan Shea & Alessio Sopracasa

 

Hughes on the Stump (NYPL)

--Dan Ernst

Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures

 The Talmud Yerushalmi’s Civil Law in Its Ancient Legal Context provides a historical and comparative examination of legal issues that were shared by both rabbis and jurists during the Roman-Byzantine period. The topics covered concern slaves and manumission, women and property, house building and ownership rights, the treatment of laborers, liability for wild animals, and the broader issue of surveillance and accountability of citizens in the Roman world.
The chapters are written by historians of Roman law as well as scholars of rabbinic literature and ancient Judaism. They reveal the shared interest of rabbis and jurists in specific legal issues, their attention to the same details, similarities in legal solutions, and interesting differences that point to social, cultural, and religious concerns. The interdisciplinary volume exemplifies how the inclusion of rabbinic legal traditions in the study of ancient legal systems enables a better understanding not only of Jewish law but also of Roman legal culture and social practice in late antiquity.

pages/dimensions: VIII, 178 pages language: English binding: Book (Paperback) dimensions: 17.00 × 24.00 cm weight: 307g publishing date: 14.10.2026 prices: 49,00 Eur[D] / 50,40 Eur[A] ISBN: 978-3-447-12607-6 DOI: 10.13173/9783447126076

 

RAYDÂN

Revue des antiquités et de l’épigraphie du Yémen antique

Journal of Ancient Yemeni Antiquities and Epigraphy

Current Issue

No. 22 (2026): نقوش قتبانية وسبئية

  Published:    

2026-09-10

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