Athletes of Virtue in the Age of the Caliphates: Monasticism and Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic ‘Holy Land’ c.650-900 CE
Equally vibrant developments have characterised the concurrent academic analysis of Early Islamic polemical discourse directed against Christian communities and associated monastic writers between the eighth and tenth centuries
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New website: Late Medieval English Scribes
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Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments
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The Familiar and the Fantastic A Study of Contemporary High Fantasy in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen
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Medieval Music Literature
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