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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 142-156, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
Hannah Skoda
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 598-628, November 2023., 2023 The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. Typically, the charter has either been understood as evidence of dispute settlement or to establish facts about Eadgifu that are otherwise unattested.
Jonathan Tickle
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History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 251-271, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
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Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 220-251, May 2023., 2023 This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining the Latin spelling of charter scribes in relation to the following factors: time, the distinction between the formulaic and non‐formulaic parts of the document, the scribe’s domicile, the scribe’s professional status, and the document type ...
Timo Korkiakangas
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Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023 This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 636-652, May 2023., 2023 Abstract The notion of ‘Christian Europe’ has returned with a vengeance in recent times. It figures prominently in the political rhetoric of conservative nationalists, who link appeals to Europe's Christian heritage and identity to avowedly illiberal political projects.
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Mental Maps of Eastern Europe: States, Mentalities, Modernisation
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 372-388, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Eastern Europe has been the object of orientalising discourses portraying it as a region defined by problematic statehood, underdevelopment, and nationalist‐religious warmongering. These discourses have produced 19th‐century mental maps of Europe contrasting a perceived ‘core’ European area ending with the Frankish Empire's eastern border and ...
Mihai Varga
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 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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Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 358-376, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The fifteenth‐century Italian humanists applied their ideas on translation and textual scholarship not only to classical texts, but also to Scripture. One problem they encountered was the rendering of biblical passages in their patristic translations.
Annet den Haan
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Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe*
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 1623-1639, November 2021., 2021 Abstract In this article, we argue that an analysis of the conflict around the nature and limits of European integration that arose between Catholic and Protestant Christian Democrats in the post‐war era can shed new light on the expansionary dynamics that gradually came to characterize the project of European integration.
Josef Hien, Fabio Wolkenstein
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