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Slaves without slavery: the instability of servile explotation in the Burgundian kingdom
En este artículo se analiza la esclavitud en el reino burgundio. Más precisamente, se propone que a pesar de las evidencias acerca de la existencia de un importante número de esclavos, no es apropiado sostener la tesis de la pervivencia de un régimen ...
Sarachu, Pablo
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The Uncertain Kingdom: British People
A short film directed by LAB KY MO. The Uncertain Kingdom began with the idea for a short film anthology that would offer filmmakers an opportunity to express their feelings about the end of a tumultuous decade and their hopes for the next one.
Mo, Lab Ky, Uncertain Kingdom
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ABSTRACT This article will examine the representation of religion in Anna Seghers’ radio play Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431 (1937) and Bertolt Brecht's subsequent adaptation of this text for the stage (1952). While religiosity is central to the identity of the medieval heroine, Seghers chooses to communicate this feature to modern ...
Cordula Böcking
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Abstract This essay examines the information‐gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved ...
CHARLES R. KEENAN
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Representative Assemblies in Early Modern European State‐Building: Evidence from Four Experiences
The article reassesses the role played by parliaments and other representative structures in the European state‐building processes. It points to a need of going beyond the traditional antagonist conception of the relationships between rulers and social forces rooted in comparative historical political science, substituting it with a theory grounded in ...
Francesco Battegazzorre
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Abstract This study explores the correlation between synchronic constructional variation shown by ditransitive verbs in Late Latin and (possible) diachronic developments, investigating the reasons why such developments did or did not occur throughout the history of this language.
Chiara Fedriani, Maria Napoli
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Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose
Abstract This article reconsiders the presence of foreigners in the crew of Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose in light of recent archaeological investigations of human remains from the wreck. Through an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on archaeological investigation, the artefacts found on board the Mary Rose and historical documents, this study ...
SAMANTHA NELSON, CATHERINE FLETCHER
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Patronage, Devotion and Gender Roles in Burgundian Court Art [PDF]
peer reviewedReview of Pearson's book Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530 and the exhibition and related catalogue, Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, held in Mechelen in ...
L'Estrange, Elizabeth; id_orcid +1 more
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Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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Slaves without slavery: the instability of servile exploitation in the Burgundian kingdom [PDF]
En este artículo se analiza la esclavitud en el reino burgundio. Más precisamente, se propone que a pesar de las evidencias acerca de la existencia de un importante número de esclavos, no es apropiado sostener la tesis de la pervivencia de un régimen ...
Sarachu, Pablo
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