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“Nothing in Nature Is Naturally a Statue”: William of Ockham on Artifacts [PDF]

, 2018
Among medieval Aristotelians, William of Ockham defends a minimalist account of artifacts, assigning to statues and houses and beds a unity that is merely spatial or locational rather than metaphysical.
Zupko, Jack
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Un pintor holandés en la Corona de Aragón: "Johan Utuvert, pintor de retaules de Utrecht"

Anales de Historia del Arte, 2012
El hallazgo de un documento inédito en el que Johan Utuvert, pintor de retaules de Utrecht aparece en 1399 en la ciudad de Valencia introduce un nuevo personaje que proporcionará una mejor asimilación del proceso de aparición y evolución del gótico ...
Matilde Miquel Juan
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An Ethiopian-Headed Serpent in theCantigas de Santa María: Sin, Sex, and Color in Late Medieval Castile [PDF]

, 2016
An unconventional portrayal of the serpent of the Temptation in the Florence codex of the Cantigas de Santa María (Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, MS B.R. 20) manifests significant developments in the visual and epistemic norms of late medieval
Pamela Patton
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Medieval English Alabasters and Jacobean Iconography: Some Singular Works

Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015
In this paper some items made in alabaster will be analyzed in order to review the iconography of the Apostle St. James the Greater. Most of these artworks have been kept in religious institutions or Spanish collections but they were made in England ...
Fernando Pérez Suescun
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Skin and bones: correlating the osteological and artefactual evidence [PDF]

, 2003
The aim of this text is to review the osteological evidence from Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval York for the retrieval and working of skins and hides, and to cross-correlate that evidence with the data obtained from studies of leather artefacts ...
O'Connor, T.P.
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Guibert of Gembloux’ De destructione monasterii Gemblacensis. Literary legacy and issues of authorship against the backdrop of the ‘decline’ of traditional monasticism [PDF]

, 2016
The Benedictine Guibert of Gembloux is mostly known as the last secretary of the renowned Renish visionary Hildegard of Bingen. However, he also left behind a rich literary legacy that sheds light on the world of a traditional monk during the central ...
Moens, Sara
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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Estructuras militares y logísticas en la Corona de Castilla durante el siglo XIV

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2019
Durante el siglo XIV comienzan a producirse en la corona de Castilla una serie de cambios y transformaciones profundas en sus estructuras organizativas que conducen a un incremento de los recursos fiscales, logísticos y militares disponibles.
Jonatan Romero Pérez
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