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Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Hist Med
Coomans J   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

WITHDRAWN: Redefining the timing and circumstances of cat domestication, their dispersal trajectories, and the extirpation of European wildcats

open access: yes
Doherty S   +45 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter examines book burning as a form of purification, designed to protect readers and listeners from inaccurate or downright misleading material, during the early Byzantine period. Throughout the fourth and fifth centuries, when Christianity was struggling to define its theology more closely, every official condemnation was followed by ritual ...
Judith Herrin
exaly   +3 more sources

An Early Hebrew Manuscript from Byzantium

Zutot, 2002
Very little is known about Hebrew book-making techniques and scripts in the Byzantine world before the thirteenth century. This is due principally to the lack of early dated Hebrew books and the paucity of datable ones from this area. The earliest dated and explicitly localised Byzantine manuscript known to us is a marriage contract (ketubbah), written
openaire   +2 more sources

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