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Pulling the Witness by the Ear: A Riddle from the Medieval Ragusan Sources
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From Dubrovnik (Ragusa) to Florence: Observations on the Recruiting of Domestic Servants in the Fifteenth Century
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The brilliance of comitatus: aesthetics and society in early Anglo-Saxon England
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The Muslims of Sicily under Christian Rule
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Competing Models of Marriage in Quattrocento Florence
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Banditry and the Subversion of State Authority in China: The Capital Region during the Middle Ming Period (1450-1525)
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The concept of marriage in Roman, Byzantine and Serbian mediaeval law
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Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II
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Why Minorities Were Neither Tolerated nor Discriminated Against in the Middle Ages
Discrimination and tolerance are asymmetrical concepts in present day usage. Tolerance has a positive meaning and denotes the attitude of a majority that accepts deviant forms of reasoning or behaviour practiced by a minority.
Violence and Predation in Medieval Europe
Daniel Lord Smail, Professor of History at Harvard University, spoke at a lecture at the University of Toronto’s Centre of Medieval Studies on…
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Exceptis militibus et sanctis: Restrictions upon Ecclesiastical Ownership of Land in the Foral Legislation of Medieval Castile and Valencia
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Social Networks in a Castilian Jewish Aljama and the Court Jews in the Fifteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey
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Anti-Converso Riots of the Fifteenth Century, Pulgar, and the Inquisition
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A Review of Balks as Strip Boundaries in the Open Fields
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The Curving Plough-strip and its Historical Implications
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The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History before 1500
The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History before 1500 Hilton, R.H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, No. 1 (1955) Abstract The picture…
Reginald Pecock: Vernacular, and a Vision of Humanism
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Tasking the Translator: A Dialogue of King Alfred and Walter Benjamin
Tasking the Translator: A Dialogue of King Alfred and Walter Benjamin Griffith, John Lance, Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No.…
Norfolk, 1382: A Sequel to the Peasants’ Revolt
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Between Guinevere and Galehot: Homo/eroticism in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
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“Space and Feasting Hall in the Heroic Poetry”
“Space and Feasting Hall in the Heroic Poetry” Lee, Dongill Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 14 No. 2 (2006) Abstract The…
“Church Reformers’ Ideas of Warfare and Peace in Forteenth-Century England: William Langland”
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