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Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]

open access: yesAdv Mater
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
von Contzen E   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

"Die Etymologiae des Isidor von Sevilla als Fachtext" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
For a long time, Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae have been not been read for their own sake; instead, they have for the most part been exploited for details on linguistic issues and Realia. This article deals with the Etymologiae as a technical text and
Fögen, Thorsten
core   +6 more sources

Innovating Knowledge: Isidore's Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period

open access: yes
The project studied the transmission, reception, and appropriation of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Early Middle Ages.
Evina Steinova
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Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiae be associated with ...
Steinova, Evina, Evina Steinova
core   +2 more sources

Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2023., 2023
This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023
This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law‐books, concomitant texts and ethnically framed legal pluralism on the fringes of post‐Carolingian Europe: northern Italy and Catalonia around 1000

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022
Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
wiley   +1 more source

The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts.
Evina Steinova, Steinova, E.
core   +2 more sources

Annotation of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in Its Early Medieval Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article provides an overview of the annotated pre-1200 manuscripts of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville and discusses the nature and character of the annotation of this work.
Steinova, Evina, Evina Steinova
core   +1 more source

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