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The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne
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THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY
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Muslims, Jews and Christians in medieval Muslim Seville: (711-1248 CE) : perceiving artistic expressions as signs of acculturation
I look at five art forms that were either created in Seville or had strong ties with this city: the illustrations, poetry, and music of the Cantigas, a treatise on chess commissioned by Alfonso, and the architecture of Seville.
Carolingian Arms and Armor in the Ninth Century
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Castles and the Children of Alfred
My starting point was The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (Armitage, 1912), a formidable book by a formidable woman.
The Frankish Tribute Payments to the Vikings and their Consequences
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Session 5: Texts, Rituals and the Social Order – Badly Ordered: Wallahfrid Strabo’s vision of the Carolingian World…
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Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena
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Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination
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The Ethics of al-Razi (865-925?)
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Al-Razi’s Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics
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Parameters of Tolerance during the Second Iconoclasm, with Special Regard to the Letters of Theodore the Stoudite
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The Court of Charlemagne: Lay Participants in the Aula Renovata
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Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
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Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c. 700-980
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Wars and rumours of wars: England and the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries
The early mediaeval inhabitants of Britain felt remote from the centres of civilisation, and looked to Rome and also Byzantium as model Christian powers.
Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II
Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II By Stuart Airlie Past and Present, No. 161 (1998) Introduction: ‘A…
Interview with Frederick S. Paxton
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Tasking the Translator: A Dialogue of King Alfred and Walter Benjamin
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Angulus et Christus in the Five‐fold Division and Unification of the World and Nature in Eriugena and Maximus the Confessor
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The Burning Land
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Men and Women in Early Medieval Serfdom: The Ninth-Century North Frankish Evidence
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