Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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The genealogy of the king of Scots as charter and panegyric [PDF]
When we think of genealogies in medieval Scotland our minds might turn at once to Gaelic, the Celtic language that was spoken in the Middle Ages from the southern tip of Ireland to the northernmost coast of Scotland. This is not unnatural.
Broun, Dauvit
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Remedying the obsolescence of digitised surveys of medieval sources : 'Narrative Sources' and 'Diplomata Belgica' [PDF]
Deploige Jeroen, Callens Bert, Demonty Philippe, De Tré Guy. Remedying the obsolescence of digitised surveys of medieval sources. Narrative Sources and Diplomata Belgica. In: Bulletin de la Commission royale d'histoire. Académie royale de Belgique.
Callens, Bert +3 more
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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The Bullary as a New Type of Cartulary: The Example of Becerro III of San Millán de la Cogolla
Following the famous miscellaneous volume of 1993 dedicated to the study of cartularies, part of the historiographical attention on these manuscripts has focused on their typological diversity. This study aims to advance research in this specific area by
Leticia Agúndez San Miguel
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: two marginal developments of < eo > in Old and Middle English [PDF]
'Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: two marginal developments of eo in Old and Middle English' uses the new possibilities for linguistic research afforded by the Dictionary of Old English Corpus to help show phonological developments in Old and Middle ...
Hall, Alaric
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]
This article is the result of examining the witnesses to some 600 episcopal acta. Despite the unequal incidence of survival from one diocese to another and the difficulty of identifying those men who had no surname, it is possible to draw some ...
Bateson, Cosmo Innes, Norman F. Shead
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Um Cartulário Bracarense do Século XIV: o “Livro das Cadeias” [PDF]
The Liber Fidei is undoubtedly the best known medieval cartulary in the Cathedral of Braga, particularly because of its juridical, diplomatic and historical importance.
Maria Cristina Almeida e Cunha
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