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Experience Versus Authority: Chaucer's Physician and Fourteenth-Century Science
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
Abstract The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360 The topic of this dissertation is the gentry of Lancashire in the years from 1298 to 1361. It is a prosopographical study involving a limited number of prominent families, selected on the basis of status, tenure and …
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The fourteenth-century sheriff : English local administration in the late Middle Ages
… thesis is to examine the sheriffs appointed in fourteenth-century England, the period identified by both Stubbs and Maitland as having witnessed the shrievalty's final emasculation. This thesis is not a continuation of Morris' work on the sheriff, and neither is it directly concerned with the …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
<p>The 14th-century Middle English poems <em>Cleanness</em> and <em>Patience</em>, homiletic retellings of biblical stories which appear in the same manuscript as <em>Pearl</em> and <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, offer moral lessons to a general Christian audience, but the introduction …
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The early iconography of the 'Speculum Humanae Salvationis!' : the Italian connection in the fourteenth century.
… in the context of the discovery of a group of fourteenth century Italian copies . The SHS was a bestseller during the later middle ages, especially north of the Alps ; it has been thought to have been written by a Dominican in Alsace in 1324, and barely to have reached Italy . The arguments for …
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Ruling the Dead: Rulership, Spirit Pacification, and the Water-Land Retreat in Fourteenth-Century East Asia
… When three new regimes were established in the fourteenth century in East Asia, the Ashikaga shogunate in 1336, the Ming dynasty in 1368, and the Joseon dynasty in 1392, the respective founders engaged in traditional measures of mass spirit pacification. They constructed temples, commissioned …
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
… lyrics participated in the late-thirteenth-century shift from courtly to popular genres in French song through the manipulation of refrains and juxtapositions of register, genre, and gender by their poets. I show how the texts of Douce 308 also contribute feminine fantasies of pleasure and …
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Shaking dance in the stormy valley: tendai discourse on kami-buddha relations in fourteenth century mount hiei
… as represented in Keiran shūyōshū, a fourteenth century encyclopedic Japanese Tendai text, which presents the highest knowledge of medieval Taimitsu scholasticism on Mt. Hiei. Focusing on the inner logic of the “origin-trace” structure central to the Kami-Buddha combinatory discourse, …
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Stressed Vowel Phonology of the Urkunden of St. Gallen in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
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Religious intellectual encounters between Byzantium and the Ottomans in the fourteenth century: The Case of Gregory Palamas
During the fourteenth century, the Ottoman military expansion in the Byzantine territories of Asia Minor marked a new era of broad interaction and cooperation between the two populations. Genuine efforts were made both by Ottomans and Byzantines in order to get to know each other politically, …
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Analysis Of Prehistoric Ceramics From A Fourteenth-Century Native American House, Carter Robinson Site (44Le10), Lee County, Virginia
Chiefdoms located on the frontier of the Mississippian world have not been examined in great detail, yet they have the potential to provide evidence for the emergence of hierarchy and the interaction of hierarchical and egalitarian societies. Frontiers can help identify the emergence and …
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A Study and Modern Engish Rendering of PATIENCE, A Fourteenth Century Alliterative Poem or the West Midland Dialect
… Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century, edited by Richard Morris. A second and revised edition was issued in 1369, and has been several times reprinted by the Society.</p> <p>The value of the volume was immediately recognized by both literary and linguistic scholars. …
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… the removal of surrounding populations within fourteenth century travel literature in the cities of Baghdad and Jerusalem, I analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim …
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