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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Christian Europe"”.
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"Few know an earl in fishing clothes": Fish middens and the economy of the viking age and late norse earldoms of Orkney and Caithness, Northern Scotland
… and Shetland from a semi-independent and non-Christian Viking Age polity to a periphery of medieval Christian Europe. Part 1 is a geographical and protohistorical survey of Viking Age and Late Norse Orkney, Caithness and Shetland. It discusses available evidence and establishes the …
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The 'Ludus de Antichristo:' Playing power in the medieval public sphere
… a century before: the structure of power in Christian Europe and to whom temporal authority is given – the pope or the emperor. This study will examine the Ludus as document directly participating in this debate and how its connection to other polemical documents similar to it indicates the …
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
… of the Ottoman Empire and its encounters with Christian Europe. Because of their fear of being dominated by Islam, European Christians defined the Turks as the wicked 'Other' against their perfect 'Self'. Since the beginning of Crusades, the Western image of Turks is associated with cruelty, …
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Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception Of Timekeeping Technology From The Bible To The Twentieth Century
… system, whereas Karaites did not. In medieval Christian Europe, access to timekeeping technology and theoretical knowledge was limited, but settlement at northerly latitudes nonetheless forced rabbis to reckon with timekeeping in new ways. With the invention of the mechanical clock around 1300 …
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To Love of Useful Clory: Prince Henry the Navigator and the School at Sagres.
A casual observation of Europe just prior to the sixteenth century period of westward expansion and Renaissance gives the impression of a continent in an ignorant cocoon-like state of suspension between the glories of its past and the brilliance of its future.
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Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism
… from his analysis of the nihilism of post-Christian Europe and that his project of overcoming that nihilism requires a complete revaluation of human knowing. Chapter Two asks what Nietzsche's</p> <p>relationship is with skepticism and to what extent can Nietzsche be labeled a skeptic. I …