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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"medieval historiography"”.
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Heroes and Kings in the Legend of Hrolf Kraki
… A reading of Hrolfs saga kraka in the context of medieval historiography, didactic literature, heroic lays, and courtly fiction has supported the thesis that the saga of Hrolfr kraki can be read as a negative King's Mirror, presented not in the traditional dialogic form but rather as a narrative. …
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An architectural investigation of Marinid Wattasid Fes Medina (674-961/1276-1554) in terms of gender, legend and law
Early and medieval Muslim culture exhibits a preoccupation with boundaries. Called "wall thought" in the dissertation, this preoccupation takes exemplary architectural form in the high-sided, labyrinthine structure of Fes' walled city, or medina. In Islamic law, it takes the form of The Book of …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
… notions about the ‘West’ reflect on episodes of medieval historiography, the main contribution of the dissertation is to point to connections and continuations in the ways the Russian states and their leaders conducted themselves. This is why it is equally important to discuss the origins of …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
The Eusebius-Jeromian tradition of universal chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century …
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Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia
… of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this …