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COLLECTIVE BURIAL RESEARCHED ON BEREZAN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF THE ISLAND

open access: yesArchaeology and Early History of Ukraine, 2023
In the Middle ages, Berezan Island had an important place on the legendary route «from the Varangians to the Greeks». Direct and indirect evidence about the island can be found in the Old Rus, Byzantine, Scandinavian and Arabic medieval sources ...
D. Bondarenko   +3 more
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The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and ‘the edification of the simple’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is a persistent view that Old English texts were mostly written to be read or heard by people with no knowledge of Latin, or little understanding of it, especially the laity.
Gittos, Helen
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John of Garland’s De triumphis Ecclesiae: a new critical edition with introduction and translation. Martin Hall [book review] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Jane Hawkes and Meg Boulton, eds, All Roads Lead to Rome: The Creation, Context and Transmission of the Codex Amiatinus Jessica Hodgkinson Catherine E. Karkov, Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia Erik Wade Charles C.
Buck, Andrew
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The Later Medieval English Urban Household [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Home is one of the most emotive words in any language but our experience of being at home is historically and culturally specific. This article reviews a range of recent scholarship on the later medieval English urban household in the disciplines of ...
Sarah Rees Jones   +29 more
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Islam, Merchants, and Capitalism: Fifty-Five Years in the Socioeconomic History of the Medieval Islamic World

open access: yesCapitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 2023
:“Islam, Merchants, and Capitalism” draws attention to the missing link between early and central medieval Islamic socioeconomic history (ca. 650–1250) and the history of capitalism. This intertext essay starts from reassessing the work of French Marxist
Lorenzo M. Bondioli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Muslim slaves and freedmen in medieval Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The study of slavery in medieval Portugal has focused almost exclusively on the status and fate of the sub-Saharan Africans who started to arrive in the kingdom from 1441onwards. The work of A. C. de C.
Soyer, Francois
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Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500)

open access: yesRural History, 2023
This article surveys a range of work on the later medieval English countryside published since 2000, and offers some predictions and suggestions about future research. It shows that the field of ‘rural history’ has rarely been closely defined, and indeed
C. Briggs
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Legal Pluralism from History to Theory and Back: Otto von Gierke, Santi Romano, and Francesco Calasso on Medieval Institutions

open access: yesLaw and History Review, 2023
This paper considers the historical contexts in which theories of legal pluralism grew and developed between the final third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
Emanuele Conte
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fifty Years of Early Medieval History

open access: yesEarly Medieval England and its Neighbours
This article reflects on the phrase ‘early medieval’ as applied to European history between the end of Roman political rule in the West and some indeterminate point in the tenth or eleventh centuries.
Julia M Smith
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass
The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has ...
D. Livingston
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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