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Hardstone Beads and the Gendering of Prayer: Je...
How hardstone inlay and prayer beads reflected gender and class in late medieval and early modern Christian devotion, and what the surviving evidence can and cannot show.
Hardstone Beads and the Gendering of Prayer: Je...
How hardstone inlay and prayer beads reflected gender and class in late medieval and early modern Christian devotion, and what the surviving evidence can and cannot show.
Citrine Before the Name: A Yellow Stone on the ...
Yellow quartz traveled ancient trade routes long before the name citrine existed. Explore how color-based classification and modern marketing created the gem's supposed ancient pedigree.
Citrine Before the Name: A Yellow Stone on the ...
Yellow quartz traveled ancient trade routes long before the name citrine existed. Explore how color-based classification and modern marketing created the gem's supposed ancient pedigree.
Stones That Crossed the Water: Reinventing the ...
How maritime port cities reshaped diplomatic gemstone gifts through appraisal, paperwork, and presentation, blending commercial practice with courtly diplomacy across eras.
Stones That Crossed the Water: Reinventing the ...
How maritime port cities reshaped diplomatic gemstone gifts through appraisal, paperwork, and presentation, blending commercial practice with courtly diplomacy across eras.
Cutting Through Empires: How Corundum Moved Bet...
Corundum's history through South Asian, Islamic, and European workshops reveals how design templates and cutting traditions circulated across cultures and were reinterpreted.
Cutting Through Empires: How Corundum Moved Bet...
Corundum's history through South Asian, Islamic, and European workshops reveals how design templates and cutting traditions circulated across cultures and were reinterpreted.
The Pearl That Wasn't There: Reading a Gulf Coa...
Pearls found in Gulf and coastal shell middens reveal shellfish labor and subsistence, not a documented early pearl trade. A look at what archaeology can support.
The Pearl That Wasn't There: Reading a Gulf Coa...
Pearls found in Gulf and coastal shell middens reveal shellfish labor and subsistence, not a documented early pearl trade. A look at what archaeology can support.
The Pink Sapphire Amulet and the Gendering of P...
Colored corundum in South Asian amuletic traditions reveals how flexible gem classifications and gendered social exchange shaped protective objects, and why the modern padparadscha category cannot be projected backward.
The Pink Sapphire Amulet and the Gendering of P...
Colored corundum in South Asian amuletic traditions reveals how flexible gem classifications and gendered social exchange shaped protective objects, and why the modern padparadscha category cannot be projected backward.