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Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe
Borderlords : the impact of Anglo-Scottish border magnates on government, 1341-1424
As the guardians of the frontier with Scotland, the English Borderlords had a standing army at the government’s expense due to their appointments as Wardens of the March.
A worthless prince? Andreas Palaeologus in Rome, 1465-1502
Andreas Palaeologus, the claimant to the Byzantine throne who died in Rome in 1502, has not been treated kindly by posterity.
The Sheen On The Silk: A Novel
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The Campaigns of 1494-1495 in the Italian South: Ottoman Threat, Spanish Preparations, and Jewish Gold
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Brethren
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Sand Daughter
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Serpent in the Thorns: A Medieval Noir
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The Council of the Cursed: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
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Perceiving the Scottish self: the emergence of national identity in mediaeval Scotland
This thesis is an examination of three main areas which underscored the presence of a national identity in Scotland between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries: namely, political thought and geographical awareness; images of kingship and the institution of the Scottish monarchy; and land tenure and Scots nationality.
The fluidity of barbarian identity – the ethnogenesis of Alemanni and Suebi, AD 200-500
The fluidity of barbarian identity – the ethnogenesis of Alemanni and Suebi, AD 200-500 By H.J. Hammer Early Medieval Europe, Vol.7:1 (1998) Abstract:…
Olivier de la Marche and the Court of Burgundy, c.1425-1502
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Book Review – Under Heaven
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Relations between Portugal and Castile in the Late Middle Ages – 13th-16th centuries
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The Portuguese Medieval Parliament: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
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Reconstructing the Image of an Empress in Middle Byzantine Constantinople: Gender in Byzantium, Psellos’ Empress Zoe and the Chapel of Christ Antiphonites
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Qādīs and the political use of the mazālim jurisdiction under the Abbāsids
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How to End a Crusade: Techniques for Making Peace in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia
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Relations between the Fatimid and Byzantine empires during the reign of the caliph al-Mustans ir bi’llah, 1036-1094/427-487
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The church and the origins of Scottish independence in the twelfth century
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No Law In The Land
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Marino Sanudo Torsello, Byzantium and the Turks: The Background to the Anti-Turkish League of 1332-1334
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