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Fear – Elements of Slavic ‘Psychological Warfare’ in the context of selected Late Roman Sources

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:54:30 +0000

The study covered 6th century historical sources depicting the fighting methods of the Slavs. A more in-depth analysis focused on the issue of fear in relation to group conformism, described in detail in Strategikon

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Slavs in Fredegar and Paul the Deacon: medieval gens or ‘scourge of God’?

Medievalists.net — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:31:25 +0000

This article presents a new interpretation of the accounts of Slavs given by two early medieval Latin narrative sources.

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Nourishment for the Soul – Nourishment for the Body: Animal Remains in Early Medieval Pomeranian Cemeteries

Medievalists.net — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:39:02 +0000

Late medieval sources clearly refer to souls, which in traditional folk beliefs were periodically returning to feed and warm themselves by the fires made by the living. This kind of conception can be merged with Slavic eschatology. There is multiple evidence to confirm that belief some form of spirit or soul was spreading amongst the people, who in the early medieval period, bordered directly with Pomerania.

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Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000

In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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Hungary’s Conversion to Christianity: The Establishment of Hungarian Statehood and its Consequences to the Thirteenth Century

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:21:06 +0000

The Carpathian Basin occupies a peculiar place in history. It was the ground where Roman-Germanic world met that of the Slavs and mounted nomad peoples, where no group had achieved sustained unity before the state of Hungary was founded.

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Castle Building and Its Social Significance in Medieval Hungary

Medievalists.net — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:26:39 +0000

The history of Hungarian fortification and castle-building has been a subject of Hungarian historiography ever since the 1870s, when Bela Czobor wrote his pioneering study, "Hungary's Medieval Castles."

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Slavic and Greek-Roman Mythology, Comparative Mythology

Medievalists.net — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:21:59 +0000

In this paper I will present a number of similarities between Greek and Roman deities and the Slavic ones, basing my research as much as possible on the information provided by an etymological analysis, a description of the deity as well as rituals, offerings, sacrifices and celebrations dedicated to the deities.

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Some Considerations Regarding the Slavic God Triglav

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:21:23 +0000

This article presents a description Triglav, a god or complex of gods in Slavic mythology.

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The Riurikid Relationship with the Orthodox Christian Church in Kievan Rus

Medievalists.net — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:03:54 +0000

Prior to the late tenth century, the princes of the Riurikid dynasty were rulers over the loose collection of pagan Slavic tribes and minor city states that were Kievan Rus. However, in a relatively short period, the dynasty had linked itself and its legitimacy to rule to the Orthodox Christian Church centered in Constantinople.

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Why There May Have Been Contacts between Slovenes and Jews before 1000 A.D.

Medievalists.net — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:19:43 +0000

The first documented evidence of a Jewish presence in Slovenia dates from the 13th century, when Yiddish- and Italian-speaking Jews migrated south from Austria to Maribor and Celje, and east from Italy into Ljubljana. This is a good three centuries after the first mention of Jews in the Austrian lands.

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