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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"early Middle Ages"”.
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… I reassess the reception of Rome in the early medieval west from the historiographical background of women's history. Women's conception of Rome as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 CE proved crucial in a coming-of-age period for the papacy, …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
<p>Images of the Ptolemaic cosmos were produced in all three major early medieval successors to the Roman Empire (the Carolingian, the Byzantine, and the Umayyad states). Early medieval cosmological images remained formally and iconographically close to their late antique models. They thus provide …
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Citizenship and social status in the western Mediterranean from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages : the case of Spain
… distinction between the later Antiquity and early Middle Ages in the Iberian peninsula: broadly from the fifth to the early twelfth centuries. Its focus is broad, and it seeks to highlight how social and legal distinctions which characterised the later Roman society survived within the early …
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The Reception of Cyprian of Carthage in Early Medieval Europe
… of the works of Cyprian of Carthage in the early Middle Ages. The process of research combined the study of the manuscript transmission of Cyprian’s works with the study of texts that were (in an immediate way or not) influenced by these writings. The connections between the transmission of …
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Enemies of Science: The Handmaiden's Handmaiden in the Early Medieval West
… (particularly magic and religion) in the early western Middle Ages tends to be misunderstood. The purpose of this study is to address the reason(s) why the early medieval West has been labeled an irrational, unscientific "Dark Age" in order to point out that this conception's existence has …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… of Denmark with continental Europe in the Middle Ages. By approaching the question with a view to the longue durée, it argues that Danish aristocratic culture had been heavily influenced by trends on the Continent since at least the Roman Iron Age, so that when Denmark adopted European …
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Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
… judicial institutions, the situation in the early Middle Ages was radically different. Early medieval Italian clerics made recourse to a wide variety of judicial forums, including both "secular" ones such as the public courts and properly "ecclesiastical" ones such as church synods. The …
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Byzantium and beyond: the Medieval Roman Empire and its world through the letters of patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos, 901-925 CE
… Empire (i.e., Byzantium) and its world in the early tenth century. From social relationships and the ways gifts sustained them, to efforts to reign in borderland lords in the tenuously held provinces of Southern Italy, to large-scale diplomatic and religious entanglements with Rome and Baghdad, …
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To what extent do the writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York demonstrate a survival of heathen practices?
… important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages and lived through the political uncertainty of King Æthelred and the Norse invasions resulting in the ascendancy of King Cnut. Although Christianity dominated the country, Wulfstan felt the need to preach and legislate against …
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Christus Regnat: Inauguration and images of kingship in England, France and the Empire c.1050-c.1250
… the ‘biblical’ or ‘liturgical’ kingship of the early Middle Ages towards ‘administrative’ or ‘law-centred’ interpretations of rulership. By taking an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, and by bringing together types of source material that have traditionally been studied in isolation, …
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Heavenly choirs in early medieval England: A study of topoi in their contexts
… choirs of angels and righteous souls from their early manifestations in the Bible and late antique texts through to their ramifications in Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman England (up to 1116). It does so by tracing changes in topoi, commonplaces that form part of the fabric of visions, …
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Manifestations of identity in burial: evidence from Viking-Age graves in the North Atlantic diaspora
In the early Middle Ages, when settlers began to leave Scandinavia to find new homes for themselves and their families, they began a process that impacted their lives dramatically. Research on modern population movements has demonstrated that migration-induced stresses change the lives of …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
… hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order to develop a full understanding of the abbey’s role and importance in the first phases of …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… of southern-Italian monastic change in the early Middle Ages, emphasising the gradual movement from informal asceticism to organised monastic hierarchies. Chapter 4 will set forth the essential irrelevance of viewing this structural change in terms of ‘Latin’ and ‘Greek’ identities, …
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Music, number, and logic in Eriugena’s reading of Augustine’s De musica
… circumstances of Augustine’s De musica in the early middle ages through the manuscripts themselves as well as ninth- and tenth-century library catalogues. Moreover, it argues that Eriugena knew a glossed copy of the text, which may still survive in Tours. It further posits that Eriugena …
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Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales
… the construction of identities in the early Middle Ages, focusing on three key texts conventionally dated to the ninth and tenth centuries: Historia Brittonum, Asser’s Life of King Alfred, and Armes Prydein Vawr. I examine the way these writers constructed ideas of Welsh identity in the …
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Huvudgårdar och herravälden : En studie av småländsk medeltid
… existed as local centres of power throughout the Middle Ages. By studying the distribution of different elements in the medieval churches in the area, such as towers, vaults, stone treatment and decoration, and the distribution of runestones and weapon graves from the Late Iron Age, it is shown …
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Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
… brings together all that is currently known of early medieval grave reopening in northern and western Europe. It investigates in detail an intensive outbreak of grave-robbery in 6th-7th century Kent. This is closely related to the same phenomenon in Merovingia: an example of the import of not …
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