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Hunting Arabia Felix: Politics of the Byzantines, Sasanids, Ethiopians and Arabs in South Arabia in the 6th century A.D
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Harran as a Co-existence Centre of various cultural bodies in the 7th-10th c. A.D.
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Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II
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Circular World Maps of the Joseon Dynasty: Their Characteristics and Worldview
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The Roots of our Liberties: On the Rise of Civil Society in the Medieval West
This article deals with the genesis of civil society in medieval society in the hope that this might elucidate the general conditions in which a civil society can flourish.
Medieval Origins of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium
By Sarah Läseke Today, as in the Middle Ages, the Cathedral of Antwerp is situated in the centre of the city among narrow…
A Study of Cross-Hatched Gold Foils in Anglo-Saxon Jewellery
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Simultaneous auroral observations described in the historical records of China, Japan and Korea from ancient times to AD 1700
Simultaneous auroral observations described in the historical records of China, Japan and Korea from ancient times to AD 1700 Willis, D. M., Stephenson,…
Teenagers at War During the Middle Ages
What were these two teenagers doing, fighting in a war which seemed to know no chronological bounds, especially if, as was shown above, it might have been unusual for teenagers to have fought in medieval wars?
Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the Last Judgment
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Principles of Leadership in the Middle Ages: The case of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
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The Cult of St. Ólafr in the Eleventh Century and Kievan Rus’
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New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death
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Division of the dowry on the death of the daughter: An instance in the negotiation of laws and Jewish customs in early modern Tuscany
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The Lexical Contribution of Wycliffe’s Bible English to the History of the English Language
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The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography
Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.
THE ELEVATION OF THE HOST: A REACTION TO TWELFTH CENTURY HERESY
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Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade – the War against Alexius III
Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade – the War against Alexius III By Peter S. Noble Reading Medieval Studies, Vol.25 (1999) Introduction: There are…
Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations
Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations Brower, Jeffrey E. (Purdue University) Archiv für Geschichte der…
De Saracenico in Latinum transferri: causes and effects of translation in the fiscal administration of Norman Sicily
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Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives
Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives By Peter Edbury The Second Crusade and the Cistercians, edited by Michael…
The 1272 Statute of the Town of Dubrovnik
The 1272 Statute of the Town of Dubrovnik Lučić, Josip Dubrovnik Annals 1 (1997) Abstract The Dubrovnik Statute is by all means one…
The Studies of Exact and Natural Sciences in the History of the Dubrovnik Dominicans
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