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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 337-386, August 2024.The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth +1 more
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Cultural contacts and ethnic origins in Viking Age Wales and northern Britain: the case of Albanus, Britain's first inhabitant and Scottish ancestor [PDF]
, 2015 Albanus, an eponymous ancestor for the kingdom of Alba, provides an example of the extent to which the creation of an ethnic identity was accompanied by new ideas about origins, which replaced previous accounts.
Evans, Nicholas J.
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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, 2015 Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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The ‘Zakonik’ of Tsar Dušan: A Socio-Political Study [PDF]
, 1982 This feature "ЛѢТОПИСЬ" ('Chronicle') reports on recent events in the field of Early Slavic studies, e.g., celebrations, conferences, symposia, announcements of forthcoming colloquia, and past study groups, etc.On November 22, 1980, in Oxford, England, a
Du Feu, Veronica +2 more
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
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The Life of Aleksandr Men\u27: Hagiography in the Making
, 1999 Hagiography is not an extinct genre in Russian literature, even though many believe that it was important in the history of early Russian literature but became irrelevant as Russian literature entered its modem period.
Wehrle, Janet M.
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Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might
, 2011 Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source ...
Fee, Christopher R.
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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 Papavarnavas C.
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