Jeroen Deploige and Jeroen De Gussem introduce Cluster 2 of Interfaces 8, on the topic of Medieval Authorship and Canonicity in the Digital Age.

The Pastoral Style, which appeared in Cyprus during the LCIIC, is analyzed in this paper. The discussion centers on the pottery material from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, where several examples of Pastoral Style kraters were found. Imported Mycenaean pictorial kraters, discovere...

The Late Bronze Age presents a peak in the cultural interactions between the different empires of the ancient Near East. Bulk goods and small quantities of luxury products were exchanged between the kings and the local elite over long distances. During the 2019 excavati...

Local image descriptors play a crucial role in many image processing tasks, such as object tracking, object recognition, panorama stitching, and image retrieval. In this paper, we focus on learning local image descriptors in an unsupervised way, using autoencoders and v...

Soil bacterial communities are involved in multiple ecosystem services, key in determining plant productivity. Crop domestication and intensive agricultural practices often disrupt species interactions with unknown consequences for rhizosphere microbiomes. This study ev...

For decades, early modern historians have stressed the religious differences between the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Netherlands. The former is usually represented as a tolerant Reformed state, while the latter is represented as a repressive Catholic regime. By cons...

The status of Old Icelandic with respect to (argument) configurationality was hotly debated in the early 1990s (e.g. Faarlund 1990; Rögnvaldsson 1995) and remains unresolved. Since this work, further research on a wide range of languages has enhanced our understanding o...

The study of legal status in 13th-century English Ireland has suffered from a lack of law-in-action methodology, so many 19th-century assumptions have endured without critique. This article sorts out defensive pleas and petitions from court judgments, and applies decolo...

The Law of 24 August 1883 created the possibility for holders of a degree of primary education to participate in local elections. This reform, sponsored by the last homogenous Liberal government, was an attempt to delay the introduction of universal male suffrage, linki...

Limestone–marl alternations are commonly used for high‐resolution cyclostratigraphic studies and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, but diagenetic studies indicate that not all limestone–marl alternations reflect genuine differences in the initial sediment composition...