Focus on Open Access Winter 2025 - 2026

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Conceptual Boundaries in Evolutionary Perspective
Peripersonality, Encapsulation, and the Extension of Neanderthal Worlds

By Paul Pettitt
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Limiting Spaces
The Attribution of Spatial Meaning through the Creation of Boundaries
Edited by Mari Yamasaki, Sonja Speck and Francesca Meneghetti

 

Of Copying, Mixing, and Recycling:
The Glass Distillation Apparatus of a 16th-Century Alchemical Laboratory and Its Material History

By Umberto Veronesi
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 66 (2024), Issue 4
Special Issue: Paper, Metal, Glass: Materials and their Meaning in Pre-Modern Science
Edited by Katherine M. Reinhart

 

Alexandre Hannotiau’s Picture Postcard Series À Bruges (1900)
Between Symbolism and the Picturesque
By Stefan Huygebaert
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Touring Belgium
A Nation’s Patrimony in Print (1830–1920)
Edited by Maarten Delbeke and Maarten Liefooghe

 

Plausible Patronage: Petrifying Female Patrons Whose Memory Was Worth Perpetuating
By Verónica Carla Abenza Soria
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Stone Building as Material and Metaphor in Southern Europe (1050–1300)
Edited by Therese Martin

 

La censure théâtrale dans l’Espagne de la période moderne (XVIIe ‑XVIIIe siècles)
By María Luisa Lobato
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Les (r)évolutions dans le théâtre européen (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Edited by Ewa Kulak and Tomasz Wysłobocki

 

The Case of the Sleeping Cupid 1496
By Kathleen W. Christian
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Raffaele Riario, Jacopo Galli, and Michelangelo’s Bacchus, 1471–1572
By Kathleen W. Christian

 

Lost, Then Found in Canada
Stories Behind Some Medieval Manuscript Fragments that Have Journeyed Across the Ocean
By Debra Lacoste
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Fragmenta Musicae
Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by João Pedro d'Alvarenga, Manuel Pedro Ferreira and Alberto Medina de Seiça

 

The Bilingual Nature of the Augustinian Sermons
By Dorota Masłej
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
A Latin-Polish Sermon Collection and the Emergence of Vernacularisation
By Dorota Masłej


Together Yet Apart? Missing Multilingualism in the Middle Dutch Arthurian Tradition
By Jelmar Hugen
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
The Multilingual Dynamics of Medieval Literature in Western Europe, c. 1200–c. 1600
Edited by Bart Besamusca, Lisa Demets and Jelmar Hugen

 

Cultural Practices and Forms of Patronage
By Laris Borić
Available in Open Access on BrepolsOnline

Published in
Stones of Zadar
The Capital of Venetian Dalmatia
By Laris Borić