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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"medieval Europe"”.
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The Reception of Cyprian of Carthage in Early Medieval Europe
… of the bishop. He was therefore influential in medieval ecclesiological thought and in the shaping of episcopal identities throughout the early Middle Ages. The thesis examined how Cyprian’s works functioned as tools of legitimisation for the causes of ninth-century bishops, such as Hincmar of …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… it generally accepted that the romance genre of medieval Europe was influenced by the French troubadour poets, the poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of …
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Fire Assay, Cupellation and the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in Post-Medieval Europe
… on the study of assaying practices in the post-medieval Europe (c. 14th-17th centuries), especially on silver assaying. Modern analytical chemistry is an offspring of fire assay and cupellation, a method used to quantify the amount of precious metals such as silver and gold in ores, ingots or …
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Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
… changed across northern and western Europe, transitioning from burial with varying provision of grave goods, to a standardised, simple burial, with no accompanying objects. This was a process that happened around the same time across many areas of Europe, but previous studies into the …
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The Ludus de Antichristo and the making of a monastic theatre: imperial politics and performance at the abbey of Tegernsee 1000-1200
… and poorly understood examples of medieval drama. A product of the imperial Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee, the Ludus is a twelfth-century play (c. 1159 CE) that was written to perform the monastery’s perspectives on sacred and secular authority in the renewed tensions of the …
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"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain
… shift from the cartographic traditions of medieval Europe. Historians have long considered the version attached to the monk's Abbreviatio Chronicorum – the Claudius map – as the last and most thorough of Paris's images of Britain. However, scholars have focused on the document's limitations …
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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience
… conversation with the spectator. Originating in Medieval Europe, a palimpsest is traditionally defined as a book or similar physical text “created by a process of layering whereby the existing text was erased, using various chemical methods, and the new text was written over the old one” again …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
Abbesses in Medieval Europe demanded not just the obedience of their own nuns, but of any dependent communities, male or female. The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
… between religion, history, and culture in early medieval Europe.
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Diet at medieval Alytus, Lithuania: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone and dentin collagen
… center of power and economic prosperity in medieval Europe; Lithuania in particular. Until now, little stable isotopic analysis has been utilized to assess diet in this region during this time period. The aim of this study was to undertake a preliminary assessment of the composition of diet …
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Lifestyle and Intestinal Parasite Infection in Northern Europe: A Study Comparing Clergy and the General Population of Cambridge and Belgium in 12th-18th Centuries
While parasites were widespread in medieval Europe, very little work has been undertaken to compare how the risk of contracting different species may vary with a person’s lifestyle. A range of intestinal parasites have been identified from medieval and early modern excavations in northern Europe …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… Ethiopia in “feudal” terms analogous to medieval Europe. According to them, Ethiopia’s past property arrangement had been in every respect archaic implying less than complete property rights, for, unlike in modern liberal societies, it vested no ownership or “absolute” rights in a single …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… Ancient China, the early Islamic empire, early medieval Europe, and modern international society all endorsed similar normative ideas for protecting the victims of war, I claim that humanitarian protection norms are fairly common in the history of advanced civilizations, more common than most …
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The reception of John Chrysostom and the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe, c.1440-1600
… study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe. After a short Introduction to Chrysostom’s reception in medieval Europe and existing historiography on early modern patristics, the first section of this study focusses on the reception of Chrysostom in the fifteenth century. Chapter 1 …
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Legendary metal smiths and early English literature
… to the metal-worker in late antiquity and early medieval Europe. Significant and contentious characterizations of the smith in the Cain legend, the lives of the saints, and legends of Christ are discussed in turn. A chapter on heroic verse and another on wonder-working discuss, among other …
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Julius Caesar in Medieval France: The Textual Sources and Iconography of the <i>Faits des Romains</i>
… have retarded or prevented their transmission in medieval Europe. What was a handful of manuscripts in the ninth century grew both in numbers and in varieties of expression until by the thirteenth century the legend of Caesar experienced something of a metamorphosis, a fundamental change which …
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Worlds elsewhere: studies in some late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century romance
Romance as a literary genre, although dominant in medieval Europe, has often been marginalized in later ages. Even when it saw a marked revival in Britain in the later nineteenth century, it still found itself embattled; its practitioners and advocates had to justify their position in an era which …
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The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia
… saint’s life which was widely circulated in medieval Europe, but has received relatively little scholarly attention beyond its roots in folklore and the sources used in vernacular translations. This is especially the case for its reflexes that can be linked to tenth-century England and …
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Academic Mobility and Identity Construction at the Late Medieval Universities of Paris and Orléans
… destinations for academic mobility in late medieval Europe; Orléans had acted as the *de facto* Faculty of Law of Paris since the 1219 ban on the teaching of Civil Law in the French capital. Therefore, their communities were very diverse. The scholars held different political loyalties, …
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