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Sheep Struck by the Shepherd: Secular Clergy on the Battlefield in History and Literature
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The epic tradition of Charlemagne in Italy
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An Analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Understanding of Medicine and its Influence on His Work
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Mediaeval Medicine and Arcite’s Love Sickeness
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La Devinette Du Bénédicité et Les Distiques du Pseudo-Caton: Observations sur la Parodie Médiévale
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Charlemagne in Vincent’s Mirror: The Speculum Historiale as a Source of the Old Norse Karlamagnús Saga
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The Old English Physiologus and the Homiletic Tradition
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Patterns of the Fall: Adam and Eve in the Old English Genesis A
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Metaphysics and Translating. An Exodus-quotation in Medieval Vernacular Literature
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Jean d’Arras and Couldrette: Political Expediency and Censorship in Fifteenth-Century France
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Beowulf: Prince of the Geats, Nazis, and Odinists
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Young and Old in Homer and in Heike Monogatari
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A Victory Celebration after a Military Defeat? Al-Mutanabbī’s ‘Ayniyyah of 339/950
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The Marian Relics at Constantinople
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There is no hero without a dragon: a revisionist interpretation of the myth of St George and the dragon
In popular Western depictions and descriptions the dragon assumed monstrous proportions and is most often described as an enormous, winged serpent-like beast, half reptile, half mammal, with a scaly body and a powerful tail, four-legged like a crocodile, with protruding teeth and eyes, sharp claws and the capacity to exhale fire or noxious gases.