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Caxton's Afterlife in Manuscript (c.1475‐c.1500)
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 274-292, April 2026.Abstract At least thirty‐five manuscript copies of Caxton's prints have been found so far. This article explores the implications of such manuscript copies of Caxton's prints and, interrupting the linear history of the book, considers Caxton's appeal beyond print in manuscript.
Aditi Nafde
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 70-100, February 2026.The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Beyond Europe, beyond the Renaissance, beyond the Vernacular
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2019 This contribution is the response piece to a larger dialogue of three articles that form the second issue of JOLCEL. The other contributions are “From the Epistolae et Evangelia (c.
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Polemischer M. Radvila's Brief und seine literarische Umgebung
Literatūra (Vilnius), 1973 Dieser Aufsatz hat zum Ziel, das von P. Vergerios im 1556 herausgegebene Buch „Duae epistolae“ näher zu untersuchen. Es werden hier bibliographische und Inhaltsangaben angeführt, Übersetzungen genannt, die der Verfasser der Beilagen erklärt.
Marcelinas Ročka
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Tabula, 2020 In the second half of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century the Frankapani of Krk, Senj, and Modruš were at the peak of their power.
Ivan Jurković
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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Circe de Clásicos y Modernos, 2009 Con este trabajo trataremos de demostrar el considerable valor de las cartas de Plinio el Joven como fuente para el conocimiento conceptual y arquitectónico de las uillae romanas analizando detenidamente sus Epistolae y comprobando su constatación ...
Alejandro Fornell Muñoz
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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