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The essay "Bell Beakers in the Masurian Lakeland in Northeast Poland - Relics and Identification Problems" confirms that the influence of the Bell Beaker culture extended to the Vistula Basin. New discoveries in the North Podlachian Lowland, especially in the Masurian Lakeland, show that this region was heavily influenced by the Iwno culture, which spread the Bell Beaker influence in this part of Europe. The analysis of ceramic and flint artifacts from the Ząbie X and Szestno II sites revealed that these objects can clearly be associated with Bell Beakers and have no connection to the local Iwno culture. This suggests that in the late Neolithic period, individuals with the cultural heritage of the Bell Beaker culture reached the area of the Masurian Lakeland and the North Podlachian Lowland. [Extracted from the article]

Liesbeth Corens's new book provides a detailed examination of the movements and motivations of expatriate English Catholics in continental Europe between 1660 and I c i .1720. The second section ("Mobility") examines different forms of agency exhibited by English Catholic expatriates in the Low Countries associated with the figures of the educational traveller and pilgrim. For each, Corens shows how travel abroad formed a valuable, much-desired occasion for intellectual and spiritual development, and draws attention to Catholic participation in earlier versions of the continental Grand Tour. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the collection of relics at the monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration near Clyde, Missouri from 1920 to 1931. Topics include the monastery's aid to European Catholics after World War I; the sending of shrines and relics from Austrian, German, and Italian religious orders to the monastery; and spiritual aspects of the feeding of the hungry through the monastery's aid efforts.

Terra Nova, 24, 351-356, 2012 Abstract Current palaeotectonic models see the Alps chiefly as a collisional orogen, with the Southalpine retrobelt developed only as a post-collisional feature. New structural and geochronological data show, instead, that the continental margin of Africa-Adria was being structured as a doubly vergent orogen during subduction of Alpine Tethys in the Cretaceous, tens of million years before collision with Europe. Subduction is envisaged here to have nucleated in the latest Albian/Cenomanian within the attenuated Adriatic margin. Most continental slivers exhumed as eclogites in the axial part of the Cretaceous orogen contain gabbros and relics of HT/LP metamorphic rocks, indicating inheritance from Permian to Jurassic rifting. Cretaceous shortening in the Southalpine retrobelt is indicated by several lines of evidence, including orogen-derived turbidites and syn-sedimentary compressional activity since the Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous pseudotachylytes dating major S/SE-verging thick-skinned thrusts, and widespread fold-and-thrust deformation cut by Eocene plutons and dikes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an examination into the history of relics within the Protestant culture of Europe in the years following the English Reformation. Extensive details are given describing the widespread veneration of relics throughout Europe and England in the period leading up to the Reformation, the aggressive physical and literary iconoclastic polemic movement against their veneration during the Reformation by Protestant leaders, and the underground continuation of the practice by the Catholic community of England.

Reviews the art exhibition "La mort n'en saura rien. Reliques d'Europe et d'Océanie/Death Will Not Notice. Human Relics of Europe and Oceania," which was held at a ethnographic museum in Paris, France on October 19, 1999 to January 24, 2000.

Features the Venus figurines, finger-length statues of women carved from soapstone and other substances across Europe during the Ice Age. Discovery at the Grimaldi site in the French riviera in the 1880s; Estimated age of the relics; Role of the figurines in ancient society.