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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 119, Issue 1, Page 1-39, March 2021., 2021 Abstract A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Monastic records and the Dissolution: a Tudor revolution in the archives? [PDF]
, 2016 Administrative reform in the 1530s amounted, in Professor Geoffrey Elton’s words, to a ‘Tudor revolution in government’. The Dissolution of the monasteries and the confiscation of their assets played a major part in this.
Harding, Vanessa
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Understanding Scotland's medieval cartularies [PDF]
The Innes Review, 2019 The medieval cartulary is well known as a major source for documents. This article takes Scotland as a case study for examining how the understanding of medieval cartularies has been shaped by those works extensively used by researchers to access cartularies and their texts – in a Scottish context this is principally the antiquarian publications and ...
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Intelligent by design : the manuscripts of Walter of Whittlesey, monk of Peterborough [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines two important fourteenth-century manuscripts containing historical and other texts from Peterborough Abbey, both made for a monk named Walter of Whittlesey (Add. MS. 37958 and Add. MS. 47170).
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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Criminocorpus, 2015 From the example of Indre-et-Loire, this article examines the traces left by the gallows in the archival repositories of the French departments. If in the studied territory the ancient places of performance and exhibition have greatly changed the ...
Fabrice Mauclair
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Epistolary Documents in High-Medieval History Writing [PDF]
, 2017 This article focuses on the way history-writers in the reign of King Henry II (King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, d. 1189) quoted documents in their histories.
Bainton, Henry
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Interpreting Monastic Cartularies in Northwest Europe, 900-1200: Thirty Years of Scholarship
Studia Historica. Historia MedievalSince the publication of Les cartulaires in 1993, the study of cartularies has evolved in two main directions: as part of a broader documentary culture and studying regional or textual patterns using digital tools and postmodern approaches.
Robert Berkhofer
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City portrait, civic body, and commercial printing in sixteenth-century Ghent [PDF]
, 2015 This article discusses a woodcut series with an elaborate iconographic representation of the Flemish city of Ghent, printed in 1524 by Pieter de Keysere.
Buylaert, Frederik +2 more
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Monks and Knights in Medieval Galicia. The Example of the Benedictines of Toxos Outos in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the Benedictine monks of San Justo and Pastor de Toxos Outos and the local military aristocracy of the archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela between the twelfth and the thirteenth ...
Renzi, Francesco
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